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Re: Fox announce 'The Clark Gable Collection Volume 1' in August

I can't believe you two guys are still going back and forth on this issue.




Crawdaddy

Re: Fox announce 'The Clark Gable Collection Volume 1' in August

i know, it's like totally old.

Re: Fox announce 'The Clark Gable Collection Volume 1' in August

Yeah, like, totally. Funny thing, conversation.

Re: Fox announce 'The Clark Gable Collection Volume 1' in August

Some artwork on this upcoming boxset.

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=61420



Crawdaddy

Re: Fox announce 'The Clark Gable Collection Volume 1' in August

It doesn't look like it's 'Volume 1'...

Re: Fox announce 'The Clark Gable Collection Volume 1' in August

I don't think Gable did enough films for Fox that will allow them to do another volume.




Crawdaddy

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Nice artwork - it seems to be improving for classic movies lately

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Nice portrait of Gable on that box --- I don't think I've ever seen that one before. Wonder if they're working on a Tyrone Power group. Now there's a star they could easily do multiple volumes on ...

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Fox is really going all out emulating Warner Home Video's various styles. It's not a direct rip-off, but......it's awful close.

CALL OF THE WILD is a very good film, but the other two are Gable in his waning years. It's a shame that Fox seems to go by who is in a movie in making their marketing decisions, rather than actually WATCHING them.

Re: Fox announce 'The Clark Gable Collection Volume 1' in August

Maybe, he was in his waning years, but The Tall Men is one of my favorite Gable films and is perhaps his best western. Also, having Robert Ryan and Jane Russell doesn't hurt it.




Crawdaddy

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that's a real nice portrait of him!!!

Re: Fox announce 'The Clark Gable Collection Volume 1' in August

Beautiful looking set!

Re: Fox announce 'The Clark Gable Collection Volume 1' in August

I'll put this set on the back burner, as I'm sure Fox will do a price drop just as they did with the Marilyn Monroe Diamond collections a few years ago. I've become less tolerant the past few years of price gouging and certainly don't feel any responsibility to show 'support' for classic films being released by overpaying for them.

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Great cover art, can't wait to get it.
Fox, what about a Rita Hayworth Collection? It clould include Blood and Sand, My Gal Sal and Tales of Manhattan. I think a lot of movie fanatics are craving for those releases.

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As far as I can see the 3 titles in Fox's Gable set (volume 1?) are the ONLY 3 Fox titles that Gable made! The majority of his titles are MGM, so Warners could conceivably release almost 7 or 8 box sets of Gable's work.

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I totally agree with Rafael on MY GAL SAL , as it's one of my favourites.

Anything with the beautiful Rita Hayworth is worth it's weight in gold.

Re: Fox announce 'The Clark Gable Collection Volume 1' in August

I just want to show FOX some love and say... they've really improved. I mean, Warner Bros definitely owns more truly excellent *classic* movies, and their prices are better... but... I'm actually enjoying FOX's presentation lately...*more* than Warner's! I know, blasphemy. But when I open up a Warner dvd and see ...no insert...and often, not even full-colour disc art... and then I open up a FOX dvd and there's a booklet with an informative essay, and 4 lobby cards... I get excited. I'm not even a huge Betty Grable fan (well, I haven't seen her in anything except Pigskin Parade) but I bought that box, partly 'cause the packaging was just so tempting. I'm a sucker for purty artwork and extras. Love, love, love lobby cards!

So, bravo FOX for not only emulating Warner's treatment of classic films, but for going that extra distance and even being a little bit better. In some respects. For the moment. If you look at it a certain way.

Don't kill me.

P.S. I also love the fact that the FOX execs didn't go, "oh we won't bother releasing these Clark Gable movies because they're not considered his BEST or most famous...so they probably wouldn't make enough money, so forget it". They released 'em anyway. Whereas Warner seems to have this attitude of being, well, too picky. I get the impression they dismiss a lot of titles, 'cause they're a little more obscure. Maybe that's the downside to them owning such a huuuuuuge movie library. Studios like FOX are more likely to release b-movie musicals. And I like that. I wanna see them all. And I think just about every film deserves to be preserved on DVD instead of deteriorating and going unseen by future generations. But I despair of Warner plumbing the depths of their vaults... I hope I'm wrong.
But seriously, would they have released "Daddy Long Legs" if they owned it instead of FOX? More likely it would be ignored like the less successful/more obscure Fred Astaire movies they *do* own ("Yolanda & The Thief", etc)

Now you're gonna tell me to be patient. Okay, I'll try. But I hate waiting years and years for movies to make it to DVD. Although I appreciate it takes time to restore and whatnot.

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I cringed a bit when I had to cough up 50.00 ( cdn. ) for just three films but I'm always going to be a sucker for Clark Gable, you usually cannot go wrong. After watching The Tall Men and Soldier Of Fortune ( both in 2:55 ) I will say that overall they looked very nice, if you are looking forward to these two titles Fox did a great job transfering them to dvd. After viewing the HD DVD version of Sahara previously that is a quite a compliment, this through a front projector in case anyone is wondering.