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post #61 of 257
11/23/09 at 10:52am

The Legend Of Billie Jean (1985)

Starring Helen Slater

 

The Fuller Brush Girl (1950)

Starring Lucille Ball

Where The Boys Are '84
Starring Lisa Hartman

 

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post #62 of 257
11/23/09 at 12:00pm

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II'd love to see a five pack of these WWII films:  Anthony Mann's THE HEROES OF TELEMARK, Peter Glenville's ME AND THE COLONEL, Carol Reed's THE KEY, Anatole Litvak's THE NIGHT OF THE GENERALS, and Carl Foreman's THE VICTORS.  All but THE VICTORS have already been released on R2.  Hell, it would be worth releasing them one at a time (on "Martini Movies"?) just to get them out there.

Not a bad idea. War films usually sell well, a boxset would be great. Here's what we could have based on votes (Film Noir included)

Columbia Pictures War Classics I - The Heroes of Telemark, The Victors, Eight Iron Men, Counter-Attack, The Cockleshell Heroes

Columbia Pictures War Classics II - The Key, The Night of the Generals, None Shall Escape, The Juggler, The Mountain Road

Columbia Pictures War Classics III - Me and the Colonel, Mr. Winkle Goes to War, The Best of Enemies, The Red Beret, All the Young Men


Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics III - Knock on Any Door, The Reckless Moment, Human Desire, Tight Spot, Johnny O'Clock

Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics IV - Escape in the Fog, Blind Spot, Framed, Convicted, Between Midnight and Dawn

Edited by MLamarre - 11/24/09 at 6:36am
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post #63 of 257
11/23/09 at 12:26pm
Thread Starter 
I would buy those sets immediately. :)
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post #64 of 257
11/24/09 at 7:44am
Also, if Sony still controls, THE GRAVY TRAIN (aka THE DION BROTHERS).

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Would love to see VIRTUE, starring Carole Lombard, which has already been mentioned here. Also, any other Lombard titles controlled by Sony.  The more pre-Codes, the merrier.

Also, from the '70s...WHITE LINE FEVER and REMEMBER MY NAME, please.

CITY OF HOPE and THE MUSIC OF CHANCE--my laserdiscs were Columbia/TriStar...don't know if they are still controlled by Sony.

Another plug for THE STONE KILLER and HARD TIMES in its OAR again.


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post #65 of 257
12/1/09 at 8:16am
Thread Starter 
Women's Prison is the first title to be erased from the wishlist. Hope others will follow next year. :) Keep up the good work, Sony.
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post #66 of 257
12/1/09 at 9:02pm
Great news.

Digging deeper, there is enough war titles for a possible 4th volume...

Columbia Pictures War Classics IV - Counter-Espionage, Q Planes, U-Boat 29, Destroyer, Reveille with Beverly
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post #67 of 257
12/2/09 at 7:55am
TOO MANY HUSBANDS from the 1940s should also be elminated from the list. It's already out as part of Sony's Icons Of Screwball Comedy collection.
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post #68 of 257
12/2/09 at 11:08pm


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Originally Posted by MLamarre View Post

Great news.

Digging deeper, there is enough war titles for a possible 4th volume...

Columbia Pictures War Classics IV - Counter-Espionage, Q Planes, U-Boat 29, Destroyer, Reveille with Beverly
 

Most of those we no longer have the rights to. Also, REVEILLE WITH BEVERLY would be a bad fit, seeing as how it's a musical with Ann Miller and Frank Sinatra.

Mike S.

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post #69 of 257
12/3/09 at 6:37am

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Most of those we no longer have the rights to. Also, REVEILLE WITH BEVERLY would be a bad fit, seeing as how it's a musical with Ann Miller and Frank Sinatra.

Mike S.
 

I suppose you are right about BEVERLY. I imagine it's the two Brit films (PLANES, U-BOAT) you no longer have the rights to? That aside, it would still be great to have COUNTER-ESPIONAGE and DESTROYER.
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post #70 of 257
12/3/09 at 8:56am
I am convinced that FROM HERE TO ETERNITY was originally shown in it's premiere engagement(1953) in NYC at the Capitol Theatre in 'Widescreen and Stereophonic Sound'.  This probably means an OAR of 1:85.   Not only do the ads of the period state this but the NYT Critic mentions that the picture didn't need the widescreen at all...

The two Columbia Classic pictures I look forward to also have to do with WAR...

Carl Forman's YOUNG WINSTON in its original UK Roadshow version as well as his much maligned and cut THE VICTORS in its full 175 minute version with overture etc.
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post #71 of 257
12/3/09 at 1:48pm

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I am convinced that FROM HERE TO ETERNITY was originally shown in it's premiere engagement(1953) in NYC at the Capitol Theatre in 'Widescreen and Stereophonic Sound'.  This probably means an OAR of 1:85.   Not only do the ads of the period state this but the NYT Critic mentions that the picture didn't need the widescreen at all...


It was.  But, I'm pretty certain that this was one of the few "transition titles"... ie. a film that was shot for 1.37, but made it into the widescreen season at the movies.  WAR OF THE WORLDS, THUNDER BAY, 5000 FINGERS OF DR. T, IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE and JULIUS CAESAR are examples of these type films.

Whether a film was shot for widescreen or not during that era depends on the shooting rather than the release date.
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post #72 of 257
12/3/09 at 2:02pm
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TOO MANY HUSBANDS from the 1940s should also be elminated from the list. It's already out as part of Sony's Icons Of Screwball Comedy collection.

Thanks for that info. I even own both Screwball volumes.


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Originally Posted by MLamarre

I suppose you are right about BEVERLY. I imagine it's the two Brit films (PLANES, U-BOAT) you no longer have the rights to? That aside, it would still be great to have COUNTER-ESPIONAGE and DESTROYER.

Added the three non-Brit films to the wishlist.

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post #73 of 257
12/7/09 at 9:44pm
Since it's always worth mentioning... how about some "Capra at Columbia" Sets with Frank Capra's late 1920's-1930's films - TCM has run many of them a couple of times aready and are running most of them this month.
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post #74 of 257
12/8/09 at 4:54am
Thread Starter 

As a side note. The following Columbia/Sony sets are currently on sale (till the 12/22) on Amazon:

  • Icons of Sci-Fi: Toho Collection $ 13,49
  • Budd Boetticher Collection (Tall T / Decision at Sundown / Buchanan Rides Alone / Ride Lonesome / Comanche Station) $ 24,49
  • Icons of Horror: Hammer Films (2-disc) (The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb / The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll / Scream of Fear / The Gorgon) $ 10,99
  • The Premiere Frank Capra Collection (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington / It Happened One Night / You Can't Take It with You / Mr. Deeds Goes to Town / American Madness / Frank Capra's American Dream) $ 24,99
  • The William Castle Film Collection (13 Frightened Girls / 13 Ghosts / Homicidal / Strait-Jacket / The Old Dark House / Mr. Sardonicus / The Tingler / Zotz!) $ 35,99
  • The Cary Grant Box Set (Holiday / Only Angels Have Wings / The Talk of the Town / His Girl Friday / The Awful Truth) $ 21,49
  • The Samuel Fuller Film Collection (It Happened in Hollywood / Adventure in Sahara / Power of the Press / The Crimson Kimono / Shockproof / Scandal Sheet / Underworld U.S.A.) $ 39,99
  • Stanley Kramer Film Collection (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner / Ship of Fools / The Member of the Wedding / The Wild One / The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T) $ 24,49
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post #75 of 257
12/11/09 at 4:48pm
Death of a Salesman 1951
I Love Trouble
M 1951
The Last Angry Man
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
Hamlet 1969
The Fortune
Man on a String
Yesterday's Enemy


Edited by BillWatkins - 12/12/09 at 8:36am
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post #76 of 257
12/14/09 at 7:18am


 

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COLUMBIA CARTOON CLASSICS!- featuring Screen Gems - Krazy Kat, Scrappy, Color Rhapsody series and The Fox and Crow shorts!
A complete collection of UPA's innovative and groundbreaking JOLLY FROLICS series!
MR. MAGOO - The Columbia Pictures theatrical cartoons: 1950-1959 (+1)

 


I'd like to add my interest to these. If Sony needs a marketing angle, perhaps they could be bundled together a la Universal's Woody Woodpecker and Friends sets as Mr Magoo and Friends (10 Magoos per disc, plus 15 or so others).

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post #77 of 257
12/14/09 at 2:15pm
DC Comics (National Periotical Publication) Had a FOX & THE CROW comic for years! :)
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post #78 of 257
12/14/09 at 3:39pm
Thread Starter 
Does Sony/Columbia own enough pre-code titles - aside from the Capra titles - that could make a pre-code boxed set?

Edited by Marcel H. - 12/14/09 at 4:07pm
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post #79 of 257
12/14/09 at 10:07pm


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Does Sony/Columbia own enough pre-code titles - aside from the Capra titles - that could make a pre-code boxed set?
 

There aren't many, at least compared to what is still in the vaults at Warner, MGM and Fox.  A few unreleased Columbia pre-codes (other than the Capra titles) that come to mind are:

Holiday (1930)
A Man's Castle ((1933)
Shopworn (1932)
Ten Cents a Dance (1931)
Three Wise Girls (1932)
Virtue (1932)

I'm not sure there are many beyond these that would be considered worthy of a box set.  Obviously, the Stanwyck/Capra titles are far and away the most important pre-codes in Columbia's catalog.  Here's hoping Sony releases them as promised in 2010.
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post #80 of 257
12/15/09 at 11:01am
Knock on any door (1949)
Human Desire (1954)
Porgy and Bess (1959)
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post #81 of 257
12/15/09 at 2:59pm
Picnic reissued in Widescreen.  Been looking everywhere for a copy to complete my Columbia Classics banner collection!
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post #82 of 257
12/16/09 at 5:06am
I've just bought "The Camp On Blood Island" & "The Damned", they look very good, will probably buy "Yesterdays Enemy"  after Christmas (this is in the UK).
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post #83 of 257
12/16/09 at 7:32am
Good choices, all. I am surprised, however, that no one mentioned the absolutely hilarious 1967 film, WHO'S MINDING THE MINT?  Or the 1971 Oscar-winning documentary THE HELLSTROM CHRONICLE. Or the very powerful Vietnam War drama DON'T CRY, IT'S ONLY THUNDER. None of these was even released to laser disc -- they were VHS only.
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post #84 of 257
12/17/09 at 4:31pm
Has anyone mentioned PEPE?
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post #85 of 257
12/17/09 at 5:29pm


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Has anyone mentioned PEPE?

And it needs to be the roadshow version, with intermissionl, the general release version cuts out some of the cameo stars.  And once again the roadshow version of Lost Horizon (1973).  A very interesting, but bizarre film.
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post #86 of 257
12/17/09 at 9:58pm
 Would love a nice release of Penny Serenade that rescues it from PD hell.
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post #87 of 257
12/20/09 at 4:00pm
This may be a bit off-topic, but a suggestion nonetheless:

I think Sony should ensure it's marketing department updates the primary poster image on IMDb.com for all of their catalog releases. When most people Google a film/actor/director, the IMDb page is usually the first search result. If Joe Blow who doesn't follow DVD releases finds a movie he's never seen with a favorite actor of his, he may think it hasn't been released on DVD or may be less inclined to pursue it if he doesn't see the DVD cover art on the page. Especially if it's an older film and there is only the original poster art, VHS cover art or (worst of all) no picture at all.

A good example of this is The Buttercup Chain, released in the last wave of Martini Movies. It's IMDb page not only has no picture at all, it doesn't have an active link to 'Buy it at Amazon'. Exact same situation for The Crimson Kimono, one of the highlights of the Sam Fuller Collection.
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post #88 of 257
12/21/09 at 7:43am
Here's a suggestion which I wouldn't take as priority but would be a welcomed filler release between catalog titldes... why not a Bogart set in the same vein as the Cary Grant box from a few years back with all of the Columbia titles like Sahara, Dead Reckoning, Knock On Any Door, Tokyo Joe, In A Lonely Place, Sirocco and The Harder They Fall in one place for those of us who haven't dipped into these waters? Some of these titles don't necessarily merit revisiting but a few could benefit from improved transfers or just better mastering and would be nice to collect in an economical set comprising all of the above. Maybe even tack on a few extras for incentive and a inviting price tag.

Btw, has anything been said of the early Stanwyck's; Are there forthcoming plans for these?
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post #89 of 257
12/21/09 at 8:04am
Thread Starter 
A Bogart bundle - even as a complete repackage - sounds like a good idea since the individual releases might have reached the break even point long ago and some of them are already OOP.

So, a perfect Bogart collection would look like this:


Sahara
Dead Reckoning
Tokyo Joe
Knock on Any Door - plus an individual release for those that don't want to buy the whole set for this single title
Sirocco

The Caine Mutiny
The Harder They Fall

In A LonelyPlace is already slated for the 2nd Noir set and therefore I left it out.

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post #90 of 257
12/21/09 at 11:03am
I agree with both previous posts.  This would be a fast buy and I would not even cry about a double dip this time.  It would also be great if there was short documentary on Bogart's Columbia Years.  I know that most films were through his production company, but I would love to hear about how he got along with Uncle Harry.
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