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Classic films restored lovingly for DVD

Especially glad to hear about Cavalcade (33).

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Thank you Karine.
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Thanks indeed. Amazing what a change in personnel at a home video division can accomplish. I think I'll suggest to Mr. Ashton that he might want to release Kazan's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" since they can't get "Viva Zapata" out.
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Fox has lots of classics still to release and I have full faith that they will come. In the mean time, my top 10 most wanted films from them are:

-Springtime in the Rockies
-A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
-Come to the Stable
-Woman's World
-Three Blind Mice
-The Left Hand of God
-Tales of Manhattan
-My Cousin Rachel
-Footlight Serenade
-Ramona
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Yes, they should start a box set series "Fox in the 50's: The CinemaScope Years". Lots of films still to release.
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Originally Posted by Eric Vedowski
Thanks indeed. Amazing what a change in personnel at a home video division can accomplish. I think I'll suggest to Mr. Ashton that he might want to release Kazan's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" since they can't get "Viva Zapata" out.
That title also has some legal issues that have prevented a dvd release.
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Thanks for the info. Many of us were wondering what the hold up was.
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It's a shame that the studio has yet to apply the same standard of care to its classic TV titles. There are LOTS of series in the Fox vaults from the 50s-70s are awaiting release. Are the same people in charge of releasing Fox films on DVD also responsible for TV releases? Someone must know!
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It's a sad commentary that there has to be a marketing impetus (a Tom Cruise movie) to bring out a terrific movie like Fritz Lang's MAN HUNT, but I notice that WB is bringing out an obscure TV movie called THE PLOT TO KILL HITLER, and I would hope that Sony would also bring out the flawed but fascinating THE NIGHT OF THE GENERALS with Peter O'Toole. O'Toole also starred in a TV adaptation of ROGUE MALE, the original source material for MAN HUNT.
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It's great to get positive confirmation on "Cavalcade" and "Man Hunt". And the fact that they do care about getting "Viva Zapata!" out. And also, its nice to hear they really do care at Fox about their classic catalog. Overall, a very positive and reassuring article

Now if they could just update their website a bit more often...
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The Fox movies I want are not their great classics but some of their routine, journeyman movies, like A Certain Smile, April Love, Fräulein and The Sweet Ride.
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Originally Posted by Robin9
The Fox movies I want are not their great classics but some of their routine, journeyman movies, like A Certain Smile, April Love, Fräulein and The Sweet Ride.

No classics on my list either:

BENEATH THE 12-MILE REEF
THE EGYPTIAN
THE RAINS OF RANCHIPUR
THE LEFT HAND OF GOD
RIO CONCHOS
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Originally Posted by Eric Vedowski
Thanks indeed. Amazing what a change in personnel at a home video division can accomplish. I think I'll suggest to Mr. Ashton ...

Agree wholeheartedly. Sometimes it just takes getting the right people in the right spots. Richard Ashton is not a household name yet among classic buffs the way George Feltenstein is (and deservedly so), but he and Schawn Belston have worked very hard to enable Fox to consistently release top notch product and produce some really great surprises along the way.

If I were to petition for more titles I'd offer up:

MEANEST MAN IN THE WORLD (Jack Benny)
BRASHER DOUBLOON (yes, I know rights issues)
MICHAEL SHAYNE Vol 2 (2 more Lloyd Nolan films to get out; never on home video)

and, for my wife, who asks me monthly if these are out yet:

MR. BELEVEDERE films.
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Originally Posted by Corey
Fox has lots of classics still to release and I have full faith that they will come. In the mean time, my top 10 most wanted films from them are:

-Springtime in the Rockies
-A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
-Come to the Stable
-Woman's World
-Three Blind Mice
-The Left Hand of God
-Tales of Manhattan
-My Cousin Rachel
-Footlight Serenade
-Ramona

Add to these The House of Rothschild, Sunnyside Up and Lloyds of London.
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I am hoping for:

Armored command
China gate
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Fox's devotion to their classics really shows and I am so grateful to the personnel responsible for all the truly rare, often never previously available titles now available thanks to their splendid efforts. More amazing surprises all the time and very ambitious ones at that. A Murnau/Borzage boxset? Who would have ever thought. I have been buying more Fox products than ever this year and looking forward to more!

This very positive article convinces me we will see a lot more of our "wants" on the market.

My preference goes mainly to musicals and my top wants from Fox are the following:

Sun Valley Serenade (41)
Margie (46)
Centennial Summer (46)
The Best Things in Life Are Free (56)
I'll Get By (50)
Ramona (36)
Tin Pan Alley (40)
Three Little Girls in Blue (46)
Golden Girl (51)

I also hope they continue to distribute the MGM films as well so that we can eventually see These Three (36), Not as a Stranger (55), the Danny Kaye Goldwyn films and many more on DVD.
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CHINA GATE is owned by LionsGate, and I believe that ARMORED COMMAND is an Allied Artists film now controlled by WB.....both excellent candidates for dvd.
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It is wonderful that there are people in place who care about the classics and continue to release such great products. I have preordered the Murnau/Borzage set and can't wait to see good quality prints of those films.

My wish list would include Ten North Frederick with Gary Cooper along with Call Her Savage and Hoopla; the last films that Clara Bow made. She is sadly underrepresented in the dvd market.
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My wish list would include Ten North Frederick with Gary Cooper

Oh yes, I would love to have that one on DVD too!!!!!
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More classics:

All the young men-Alan Ladd
the deep six- Alan Ladd.
Paratrooper- Alan Ladd.
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If memory serves (please forgive me if it doesn't) I recall a post from Mr. Epstein which implied that HTF was really close to securing a chat with Fox but the backlash over the Patton Blu-Ray disc caused them to back out.

I hope that Mr. Ashton and his colleagues reconsider and agree to a chat. I've always felt these chats were excellent free publicity & market research for the studios and also a source for generating a large amount of goodwill.

Of course there's no substitute for a respectful hand signed letter sent to the studio and I've written Steve Feldstein and Schawn Belston in the past thanking them for their efforts. I'll send one to Mr. Ashton to thank him as well.
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Of course there's no substitute for a respectful hand signed letter sent to the studio and I've written Steve Feldstein and Schawn Belston in the past thanking them for their efforts. I'll send one to Mr. Ashton to as well.

That's a classy gesture. I am acutely aware of why I never thought of it...
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My top Fox...sorted by year...not including Cavalcade and Man Hunt

Zoo in Budapest 1933
Lloyd's of London 1936
Wilson 1944
Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A 1945
Bell for Adano, A 1945
Cluny Brown 1946
Brasher Doubloon, The 1947
Sitting Pretty 1948
Cry of the City 1948
It Happens Every Spring 1949
Everybody Does It 1949
Three Came Home 1950
Man Who Cheated Himself, The 1950
No Highway In The Sky 1951
13th Letter, The 1951
5 Fingers 1952
Viva Zapata! 1952
Deadline - U.S.A. 1952
Left Hand of God, The 1955
Hatful of Rain, A 1957
Plunder Road 1957
Wild River 1960
Sons and Lovers 1960
Kremlin Letter, The 1970
Made for Each Other 1971
Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, The 1972
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If memory serves (please forgive me if it doesn't) I recall a post from Mr. Epstein which implied that HTF was really close to securing a chat with Fox but the backlash over the Patton Blu-Ray disc caused them to back out.
I could be wrong but I think you're thinking of Paramount and The Fugitive: Season Two- Volume One music replacement situation (when someone gave out the e-mail address of a Paramount employee and people sent profanity laden e-mails because they're tough... when they're at their computer ).
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I could be wrong but I think you're thinking of Paramount and The Fugitive: Season Two- Volume One music replacement situation (when someone gave out the e-mail address of a Paramount employee and people sent profanity laden e-mails because they're tough... when they're at their computer ).

Hi Travis, you could be right, the names were never really filled it. My post was based on posts earlier this year that established that a chat with Fox was under discussion. Soon after that the Patton mushroom cloud happened and all talk of a Fox chat stopped. Mr. Epstein's post (somewhere within the HD forum) followed afterwards.

You're right, the acts of some thoughtless people towards CBS/P was beyond rude and would have destroyed any possibility of a chat with them as well. If there was ever a talk of a CBS/P chat I missed it. It would be surprising though since they never did give a straight answer about the whole Fugitive mess.
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I am very happy with Fox efforts and it's so fine there are yet so many classics in their vaults waiting for a release...best of all they are still into classics.
So some of my most wanted:

From the 30's

State Fair
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Clive of India
Ladies in Love
Under two Flags
Ramona
Lloyds of London
Sing Baby Sing
Banjo in my knees
A Message to Garcia
Sally, Irene and Mary
Wake Up and Live
Love Under Fire
You can`t Have Everything
This is My Affair
Thin Ice
Suez
Seventh Heaven
Three Blind Mice
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Swanee River
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Wife, Husband and Friend
Stanley and Livingstone

From the 40's

Star Dust
Tin Pan Alley
Four Sons
The Great Profile
Remember the Day
Song of the Island
My Gal Sal
Chad Hanna
Tales of Manhattan
Springtime in the Rockies
Iceland
Footlight Serenade
Belle Star
China Girl
The Magnificent Dope
Rings on her Fingers
The Pied Piper
Coney Island
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Irish Eyes are Smiling
A Bell for Adano
Claudia and David
Diamond Horseshoe
Three Little Girls in Blue
Margie
Centennial Summer
A Royal Scandal
Clunny Brown
Sweet and Low Down
That Lady in Ermine
Give My Regards to Broadway
Sentimental Journey
I wonder whos kissing her now
Sitting Pretty
Cry of the City
The Fan
You Were Meant for Me
The Foxes of Harrow
Come to the Stable
The Iron Curtain
Slattery`s Hurricane
Mother Wore Tights
When My Baby Smiles at Me
Forever Amber
Oh you Beautufil Girl
Father was a Fullback
Everybody Does it
You're my Everything



From the 50's

American Guerrilla in the Philippines
I'll Get By
The 13th Letter
No Highway in the Sky
The Jackpot
5 Fingers
Meet Me After the Show
Two Flags West
Anne of the Indies
The Model and the Marriage Broker
Take Care of my Little Girl
Viva Zapata!
My Cousin Rachel
The President's Lady
The I don't Care Girl
Inferno
The Egyptian
A Woman's World
Untamed
The Best Things in Life are Free
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What a great article, however it confirms what I already knew about Fox's products.
I am working my way through the GREAT Tyrone Power box and the mini-documentaries are wonderful, with interesting guests and smart commentary. The level of care given to more obscure films like LOVE IS NEWS is very high.
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There's a great DVD from Image Entertainment "20th Century Fox: The First 50 Years". Hosted & narrated by the late James Coburn (written & directed by Kevin Burns), chock full of so many great clips. It's been out for a few years & is quite cheap.
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There's a great DVD from Image Entertainment "20th Century Fox: The First 50 Years". Hosted & narrated by the late James Coburn (written & directed by Kevin Burns), chock full of so many great clips. It's been out for a few years & is quite cheap.
That is a great dvd about the early history of Fox.




Crawdaddy
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The latest Q&A from MoviesUnlimited mentions the following:

Sources at Fox have confirmed there will definitely be another Betty Grable collection As for your other, fine suggestions, we can tell you that there’s buzz from the studio about Tobacco Road, with Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney, and directed by John Ford, getting a separate release (it was previously available on the deluxe Ford At Fox set that has been discontinued).

There’s also consideration being given to the Philadelphia-set Centennial Summer with Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain and Linda Darnell, a musical uncharacteristically helmed by Otto Preminger; and Woman’s World, a 1954 all-star comedy in which auto mogul Clifton Webb tries to decide who will win a plum spot in his company based on the behavior of their wives (played by Lauren Bacall, June Allyson and Arlene Dahl).
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