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07-23-2007, 11:08 PM
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WB Announces BURT LANCASTER Signature Collection
According to DVD Savant WB has announced "The Flame and the Arrow" "His Majesty O'Keefe" "Jim Thorpe All American" "Soth Sea Woman" and "Executive Action" in a Burt Lancaster Signature Collection on Oct 23rd!!!
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07-24-2007, 12:00 AM
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Re: WB Announces BURT LANCASTER Signature Collection
YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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07-24-2007, 12:28 AM
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Re: WB Announces BURT LANCASTER Signature Collection
I'm disappointed that Twilight's Last Gleaming isn't included. The last Warner HTF chat suggested that it would be. Aside from The Flame and the Arrow, it seems a rather lackluster set.
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07-24-2007, 01:25 AM
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Re: WB Announces BURT LANCASTER Signature Collection
perhaps they are saving TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING for a different box set? Maybe a Robert Aldrich collection (ALL THE MARBLES, LEGEND OF LYLAH CLARE, ANGRY HILL)?
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07-24-2007, 07:35 AM
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Re: WB Announces BURT LANCASTER Signature Collection
South Sea Woman is an absolute hoot- imagine Burt and Chuck Connors fighting over Virginia Mayo as war wages in the Pacific- yes, it's that kind of movie. I haven't seen it since I saw it on the Late Show as a kid, so it will be a treat. Executive Action was one of the first "JFK assassination conspiracy" films, released just as actual Congressional hearings were going on, plus I believe it's Robert Ryan's last film. The two color adventure films will complement the already- out The Crimson Pirate. I wonder what extras will be offered- does anyone know?
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07-24-2007, 09:59 AM
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Re: WB Announces BURT LANCASTER Signature Collection
The trouble with DVD collections of a star, director or genre is that only films owned by the studio or company issuing them can be released. We've had several such collections already by Warners, and most have brought together several excellent-to-satisfying films (though I've yet to pick the absolute majority of them myself - dammit!).
Both this and the Barbara Stanwyck set, however, show a severe drop in quality (of the films themselves) as Warners really seem to have scraped the bottom of their vaults to release what are, for the most part, lackluster - or, at best, inessential - vehicles featuring these two great stars. Mind you, Columbia and Universal did the same with last year's Boris Karloff Collections...
As others have commented, Lancaster's TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING (1976) is yet to be released - and many more of Stanwyck's - so, one would have hoped that the selection of titles for either set had been done more judiciously! Luckily, though, the discs will be available individually - so I can still purchase THE FLAME AND THE ARROW (1950; I've acquired and watched a DivX copy of this one only recently!) and EXECUTIVE ACTION (1973; which I recall liking quite a bit, but whose VHS copy taped off local TV I had subsequently erased) from the Lancaster Collection and EXECUTIVE SUITE (1954) from Stanwyck's...
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07-24-2007, 01:26 PM
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Re: WB Announces BURT LANCASTER Signature Collection
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Originally Posted by Mario Gauci
Both this and the Barbara Stanwyck set, however, show a severe drop in quality (of the films themselves) as Warners really seem to have scraped the bottom of their vaults to release what are, for the most part, lackluster - or, at best, inessential - vehicles featuring these two great stars. Mind you, Columbia and Universal did the same with last year's Boris Karloff Collections...
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I disagree there - I could not be happier about seeing some rarer films released, including some that have never made it to home video before. I think ANNIE OAKLEY is as essential a Stanwyck film as EXECUTIVE SUITE, ditto the superior soaper MY REPUTATION. The latter is not well-known perharps, not having been on home video before, but certainly not lackluster or run-of-the-mill in any way. What about EAST SIDE WEST SIDE - a superficial film for sure but talk about star-studded! The Lancaster set strikes me as excellent and diversified - JIM THORPE being a really fine biopic for one and HIS MAJESTY O'KEEFE striking me as superior to FLAME AND THE ARROW. SOUTH SEA WOMAN is a hoot - a definite change of pace - and I am glad to see it in this collection. No masterpieces, but wonderfully entertaining, each and every one. 
To each his own I guess - to me, these sets are much more interesting than those that are just full of well-known and acclaimed titles. Go figure!
DVD wish list: The Accused (48), Three Comrades (38), Margie (46), I'll Get By (50), The Constant Nymph (43), The Voice of the Turtle (47), The Barretts of Wimpole Street (34), Her Twelve Men (54), The Lost Moment (47), I Walk Alone (48), The Glass Menagerie (50), These Three (36), The Bride Wore Red (37), The Best Things in Life Are Free (56), Midnight Lace (60), Knock on Wood (53), Private Worlds (35), The Rat Race (60), Ramona (36), Lizzie (57), Every Girl Should Be Married (48), Remember the Night (40), Easy to Love (53), Born to Be Bad (50), Backfire (50), About Mrs. Leslie (54), It's a Great Feeling (49), Three Sailors and a Girl (53), Let's Be Happy (57), You Came Along (45), The Unguarded Moment (56), The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (50), Athena (54), Johnny Guitar (54), All My Sons (48), The Purple Mask (55), Tin Pan Alley (40), The Girl from Missouri (34), The Affairs of Susan (45), Thousands Cheer (43), Pitfall (48), You Were Meant for Me (48), Music for Millions (44), I Love Trouble (48) ...
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07-24-2007, 01:39 PM
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Re: WB Announces BURT LANCASTER Signature Collection
Come on WB, you have been sitting on "Twilight's Last Gleaming" for TOO LONG!!!!! Let's get it OUT THE DOOR!!! I don't see a reason for sitting on it any longer. 
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07-24-2007, 02:22 PM
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Re: WB Announces BURT LANCASTER Signature Collection
Any word on the details/perks on the Lancaster boxset?
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