Joe Caps

No, the How to Marry a Millionaire is not an eXTRA at the start. It is the onscreen Overture that is part of the actual film itself.

Simon Howson

Whatever. My point is it is included on the DVD. Unlike my old pan and scan VHS tape.

Ken Koc

Whatever happened to John Fowles THE MAGUS with Anthony Quinn, Candace Bergen, Michael Caine and Anna Karina? It was released by Fox in 1968 and directed by Guy Green. I've never seen it in any video format, nor on cable.

Ken

Dave B Ferris

As Crawdaddy mentioned, I too am still waiting for 'The
Gunfighter'. In addition, I was hoping Fox might
release 'The Tall Men' (Clark Gable, Robert Ryan;
directed by Raoul Walsh).

Also, in the category of films aired on FMC but
still unavailable on DVD, I would like to see
a release of "Slattery's Hurricane".

David_Blackwell

Definitely a nice list. With this news and the news about the Kingdom of Heaven DC, May 23rd is a big day for FOX.

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Gordon McMurphy

Stephen PI

Richard, there is another CinemaScope/4-track Stereo short and I think it is called "Miracle of Stereophonic Sound". It starts with a man standing on a stage in front of the stereophonic speakers. He identifies each one and then introduces the audience to Alfred Newman and the Fox Orchestra. You see Newman speak a few instructions to the orchestra and then they play a well known classical piece. I saw this at Fox many years ago and feel that it should have gone on "The Robe" dvd. I would love to have this as it is one of the rare occasions on film that you see and hear Newman speak.

Steve Pickard

Doug Bull

A close friend of mine owns a 2 reel early Cinemascope 35mm short, made at the time, to promote THE EGYPTIAN.(yes it has faded over the years)
If ever THE EGYPTIAN gets a release then it would be great if they would include that paticular short.

I myself once owned several early Fox 35mm Cinemascope Travel and Sporting shorts, so it would be nice also if FOX included some of them on any upcoming Classic Movie DVDs.

Regarding the HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE Overture, at the time, some Theater Managers or Projectionists removed it from the print in order to cut back the running time of the movie or for whatever reason was in their head.
I came across this while working in the industry back in the fifties.
Several prints of HTMAM were returned from the Theaters to Fox minus the Overture.

Simon Howson

Intresting stuff re: CinemaScope shorts, and the removal of the HTMM overture. My pet theory is if Warner owned all that material then they would put together some of the early films and release a CinemaScope themed box. I'm sure there is a reasonable amount of interest in the original CinemaScope technology - especially the original 2.55:1, system with magnetic sound. Surely Fox have heaps of materials just sitting there doing nothing that they could actually make some money out of.

I recently watched Preminger's In Harms Way, Paramount put an original featurette on the disc, and I was surprised that the featurette itself had been shot in anamorphic - it looked like a light weight camera using Bausch & Lomb adapters (lots of weird distortions when panning). I guess this featurette was shown in cinemas to promote the coming film, I was very happy to see Paramount include it.

Joe Caps

Doug bull,
I don't thnink that Fox has that short promoting the Egyptian you describe.

Robert Crawford

I just added Back Door to Hell, Guns at Batasi and You're in the Navy Now to the list. Also, I'm waiting on confirmation about special editions for The Longest Day, Patton and Tora!Tora!Tora! which I suspect are nothing, but re-releases for those three titles.





Crawdaddy

G.W. McLintock: Camille, you're on your own.

John Hodson

Aptly, you can add Roger Corman's The St. Valentine's Day Massacre to the list also.

So many films, so little time...