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01-30-2008, 03:24 PM
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Will we ever see decent transfers of Hitchcock's British years?
Will we ever see any decent transfers of Hitchcock's British years? (excluding The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes-which exist from Critereon)
There are many significant films from this period in his career. These exist in pirated or Public Domain versions which are sub-standard. Films like The Man Who Knew Too Much (The 1934 version), Young and Innocent, Sabotage, Secret Agent etc. When will we (here in the USA) get some of these? These are all classic films which i'm sure some company can profit from-with decent transfers.
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01-30-2008, 03:39 PM
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Re: Will we ever see decent transfers of Hitchcock's British years?
They keep churning out so-called PD sets, but yes, we definitely need to have restored early Hitchcock here in R1. Maybe Criterion will put a box out one day...
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01-30-2008, 04:01 PM
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Re: Will we ever see decent transfers of Hitchcock's British years?
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01-30-2008, 04:06 PM
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Re: Will we ever see decent transfers of Hitchcock's British years?
Perhaps Criterion could do an Eclipse box set of "British Era Hitchcock" or something similar.
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01-30-2008, 04:08 PM
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Re: Will we ever see decent transfers of Hitchcock's British years?
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Perhaps Criterion could do an Eclipse box set of "British Era Hitchcock" or something similar.
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01-30-2008, 04:16 PM
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Re: Will we ever see decent transfers of Hitchcock's British years?
Since Lionsgate put out a 5-disc set earlier last year (all official gorgeous transfers), they probably have the rights to the rest of the StudioCanal-owned films. Their set has Murder!, The Ring, The Manxman, The Skin Game, and Rich and Strange. The rest of the SC films are Champagne, The Farmer's Wife, Blackmail, and Number Seventeen. So, they could do another 5-film set (the fifth being the silent version of Blackmail).
Criterion's two releases are Carlton/Granada properties (The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes). The other films owned by Granada are The Lodger, Downhill, Waltzes from Vienna, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Sabotage, Secret Agent, and Young and Innocent. The Lodger is showing up on MGM's HD channel soon, so it's possible they have the rights to the rest of the Granada films. Except for The Lodger, if Criterion had the rights, they would probably be best off doing an Eclipse set.
Ownership of The Pleasure Garden, Easy Virtue, and Juno and the Paycock seems really fuzzy.
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01-30-2008, 04:22 PM
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Re: Will we ever see decent transfers of Hitchcock's British years?
Yeah I have The Lodger set to DVR on MGM-HD! Can't wait.
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01-30-2008, 04:26 PM
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Re: Will we ever see decent transfers of Hitchcock's British years?
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Since Lionsgate put out a 5-disc set earlier last year (all official gorgeous transfers), they probably have the rights to the rest of the StudioCanal-owned films. Their set has Murder!, The Ring, The Manxman, The Skin Game, and Rich and Strange. The rest of the SC films are Champagne, The Farmer's Wife, Blackmail, and Number Seventeen. So, they could do another 5-film set (the fifth being the silent version of Blackmail).
Criterion's two releases are Carlton/Granada properties (The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes). The other films owned by Granada are The Lodger, Downhill, Waltzes from Vienna, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Sabotage, Secret Agent, and Young and Innocent. The Lodger is showing up on MGM's HD channel soon, so it's possible they have the rights to the rest of the Granada films. Except for The Lodger, if Criterion had the rights, they would probably be best off doing an Eclipse set.
Ownership of The Pleasure Garden, Easy Virtue, and Juno and the Paycock seems really fuzzy.
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That's great to know. Thanks!
I could see them maybe doing a full Criterion release of The Man Who Knew Too Much.
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01-30-2008, 04:54 PM
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Re: Will we ever see decent transfers of Hitchcock's British years?
Granada own the R2 UK rights to 'The Pleasure Garden'; it's part of this upcoming Network box set, all of the titles therein licensed from Granada.
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01-30-2008, 05:12 PM
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