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Old 02-10-2006, 09:21 AM   #1 of 101
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It's not a bad list, but of course, somebody's favorites are not among them. For me it's "The Gunfighter", but at least "Yellow Sky" is coming out.
  • 100 Rifles
  • Back Door to Hell
  • Compulsion
  • The Culpepper Cattle Company
  • Decision Before Dawn
  • Guns at Batasi
  • The Immortal Sergeant
  • The Last Wagon
  • The Longest Day 2-disc SE
  • Murder, Inc.
  • Patton 2-disc SE
  • The Proud Ones
  • The Seven-Ups
  • These Thousand Hills
  • Tora!Tora!Tora! 2-disc SE
  • Yellow Sky
  • You're in the Navy NOw




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Old 02-10-2006, 09:42 AM   #2 of 101
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Thanks Robert!

Some nice titles there! Especially happy about The Seven-Ups, Yellow Sky and Compulsion.



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Old 02-10-2006, 10:06 AM   #3 of 101
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THE SEVEN-UPS features one of the greatest car chases I've seen.
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Old 02-10-2006, 10:09 AM   #4 of 101
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All good films, all good westerns.

Decision Before Dawn is not the best of the Boetticher - Scott collaborations, but it's still an excellent backlot western with Scott really stretching his emotional range.

I hope there will be some decent extras in the series this time. Why are westerns always shortchanged in the supplement department?

I also wish Fox would issue The Gunfighter, Garden of Evil, and The Hanging Tree on DVD. If they can be released in region 2, why not region 1?
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Old 02-10-2006, 10:10 AM   #5 of 101
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Awesome!!...The Seven-ups , Yellow Sky , and The Last Wagon are must buys for me..Sweet!!..caught the last one on TCM a ways back..really enjoyed it.
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Old 02-10-2006, 10:18 AM   #6 of 101
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YOU'RE IN THE NAVY NOW (1951) is also being released, and DECISION BEFORE DAWN has nothing to do with Randolph Scott (DECISION AT SUNSET?). It's a terrific war film with Oscar Wener, Richard Basehart, and Gary Merrill.
Fox rules at being the best studio at bringing out dvds of films making their homevideo debuts. Only COMPULSION, THE IMMORTAL SERGEANT, and THE SEVEN-UPS were on VHS.



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Old 02-10-2006, 10:24 AM   #7 of 101
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Oops, I was thinking of Decision At Sundown (1957), which is Columbia. My mistake.
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Old 02-10-2006, 10:25 AM   #8 of 101
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Warner's got The Hanging Tree covered I believe.
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Old 02-10-2006, 02:00 PM   #9 of 101
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I was unfamiliar with most of these films so I just ran each name through IMDB and these are the films I am definitely going to purchase :

Compulsion
Decision Before Dawn
The Immortal Sergeant
The Last Wagon
The Proud Ones
Yellow Sky


I am particulary excited about Decision Before Dawn, which sounds really interesting.
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Old 02-10-2006, 02:44 PM   #10 of 101
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Fox Movie Channel has shown several of these films the last year or so, therefore releasing them to dvd isn't any great surprise.




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