Did Olive Films license a number of titles from Paramount? - Page 3  

I'm interested in WUSA

I wonder if these titles will have English subtitles, As far as I know, Legend films has not included any subtitles on the films licensed by Paramount (Rhubarb, Houdini, Mandingo etc.) I simply hope Olive will not follow the same policy. I live in Istanbul, my native language is not English, I usually don't understand the plot when the actors speak fast or in some accent, subtitles in English really helps me a alot. And this need is not only for me or the others who do speak other languages, but also for the people hearing impaired.

Olive Films, please add subtitles for this releases.

The films I am interested in having are these ones:

Hurry Sundown (1967), Promise Her Anything (1965), Sands of the Kalahari (1965), Harlow (1965), Crack in the World (1965), Where Love Has Gone (1964), Escape from Zahrain (1962), Summer and Smoke (1961), The Savage Innocents (1960), Appointment with Danger (1951), Dark City (1950), Union Station (1950), Rope of Sand (1949).

I was surprised to read that SANDS OF THE KALAHARI was on that list.  My understanding was that the film's rights reverted back to Joseph E. Levine, whose films went to Canal Plus, but if this is not the case, glad to hear it.

And please, no fake stereo mixes please.  If you're going to, please transfer the mono from the optical tracks and not a mixdown from someone's stereo remix.  Levels are often distorted in those things.

Isn't the UA program terrible? I mean, the Warner and Universal program have their faults, but I've heard nothing but awful about the UA one.
And now that we know about Harry... we want!

Off the subject, but yeah it is.  Hopefully this only because of their financial problems and when a new owner is found, it will be better.  I was highly disappointed in their transfers, non-anamorphic and just plain lousy source material, let alone their title selection (I know one man's milk is another man's butter).

I am so impressed with the title line-up that Olive Films has.  A lot of the titles I was not even sure we would see a DVD release and now they will be pressed DVD's and from HD transfers.  Could not ask for anything more.  With this and the Blu-ray of The Sound Of Music coming late this year, I have a lot to look forward too.

Thanks for the input. I agree about all the titles Olive has access to- especially SKIDOO!

Can't wait (though I hope there is no double-dipping with regards to DVD and BR releases)

Go Olive!

That's wonderful news! I'll get all the pre 60 movies in the catalog.

Here are other Paramount titles I would love to have in my collection (Olive, please take note of those, in case of future licensing deals):

- Samson and Delilah (1949)
- Alias Nick Beal (I don't know if this now is controlled by Paramount or Universal) (1949)
- The File on Thelma Jordan (if it is not released by Criterion, as rumoured) (1949)
- Let's Dance (1950)
- No Man of Her Own (1950)
- September Affair (1950)
- The Mating Season (1950)
- Something to Live for (1952)
- Somebody Loves me (1952)
- The Turning Point (1952)
- Here Come the Girls (1953)
- Little Boy Lost (1953)
- Forever Female (1953)
- Strategic Air Command (1955)
- Lucy Gallant (1955)
- The Vagabond King (1956)
- The Joker is Wild (1957)

With those movies my Paramount library is complete. 

Let's also put on that wish list:  COME BLOW YOUR HORN.

My Paramount Pictures wish is Marlon Brando's ONE EYED JACKS...

I imagine we all have some Paramount movies we want on DVD. In addition to those already listed, I would love The Trap and The Hangman plus several of the co-productions Paramount made with Dino Di Laurentiis in the 1950s, for example Five Branded Women.

Will it happen? Only if we get our money out and buy this first set from Olive.

 Where is the elusive  LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER?    I'm flabbergasted that it's not on this list either.

Where is it? It's on VHS in my obsolete VHS collection. I'd love to have this on DVD too. Mind you, it's far too early to be flabbergasted. Olive have only just started to work on Paramount movies. This is, I hope, merely their first run of Paramount movies.  

It would be nice if Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950) were picked up; Alan Ladd appeared in it a year before Appointment with Danger.  One of a string of post-WWII intrigue films from the major studios, Captain Carey, U.S.A. would likely be forgotten by now if not for a seemingly incidental song (originally in Italian) written for the film, which would become the first Oscar-winning song ever from a non-musical film, and go on to become very famous in its own right--"Mona Lisa".  Some sources incorrectly claim Nat King Cole's famous English-language version (recorded later in 1950) was the original; others say it was sung in the movie by an "unnamed troubadour".  IMDb lists a David Leonard in the credits as "Blind Musician", but without seeing the film it's hard to say if he originated "Mona Lisa" or not.

If this initial slate of releases sells well for Olive Films, my Paramount-licensed wish list would include:

* MONTE WALSH (1970)
* Double Feature: THE COLOSSUS OF NEW YORK (1958) / SPACE CHILDREN (1958)
* THE BLISS OF MRS. BLOSSOM (1968)
* A BOY TEN FEET TALL (1963, a.k.a. SAMMY GOING SOUTH)
* DR. TERRORS HOUSE OF HORRORS (1965) 
* DARKER THAN AMBER (1970)
* BLOOD & ROSES (1961)
* FRAULEIN DOKTOR (1969)
* WILLARD (1973)
* UNMAN, WITTERING & ZIGO (1971)
* I WALK ALONE (1948)
* THE FILE ON THELMA JORDON (1950)
* NO MAN OF HER OWN (1950)
* THE ATOMIC CITY (1952)
* HELL'S ISLAND (1955)
* ONLY WHEN I LARF (1968)
* GUNN (1967)
* THE SLENDER THREAD (1965)
* MAN-TRAP (1961)
* GATOR BAIT (1976)
* PROJECT X (1968)
* SHANKS (1974)
* THE SWINGER (1966)
* INNOCENT BYSTANDERS (1973)
* TALES THAT WITNESS MADNESS (1973)
* MAN ON A SWING (1974)
* WHERE'S JACK? (1969)
* MARACAIBO (1958)
* SECRET OF THE INCAS (1954)
* SAMSON & DELILAH (1949)
* ARNOLD (1973)

I like your list, Peter.

One of my holy grails that I've wanted for a long time is  I WALK ALONE (1948)

I have a decent VHS copy from a TCM airing. 

I walk alone would also be on my list. It is one of my most wanted titles ever. The point is that I think this movie now belongs to Universal, doesn't it?
Edited by RafaelPires - 3/2/10 at 7:08am

I would LOVE to see Secret of the Incas in SOME home video format!

Doug

I was sorry there was only one Western in the first batch.
These are the Paramount Westerns I would love Olive Films to release.

FLAMING FEATHER
DENVER & THE RIO GRANDE
WARPATH
PASSAGE WEST
THE EAGLE & THE HAWK
PONY EXPRESS
RUN FOR COVER
THE HANGMAN
THE JAYHAWKERS
THUNDER IN THE SUN
THE SAVAGE
THE VANQUISHED

These wish lists are nice, we all like to do them. But remember that if the initial slate of titles don't do well, any possibility of a second batch of licensed Paramount titles are nil. There have been a lot of complaints lately about the lack of pressed catalogue titles on the market. Now's a chance for us to put our money where our mouths are. While there are several titles I'm really excited about (SUMMER AND SMOKE, HARLOW, MY FAVORITE SPY, DARK CITY), there are several titles I'm only marginally interested in (SUCH GOOD FRIENDS, ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH) that I'll purchase anyway in support of the program.

I'm assuming that's the reason Legend didn't do a second slate of Paramount titles, because sales were disappointing.

I kind of wonder if Criterion is planning on releasing this title and perhaps a decent copy of One-Eyed Jacks.

Unfortunately, Peter's list has a lot more films that I want than Olive's actual list (why is Willard (1973) still missing on disc?)....but I'll support them as best I can in hopes of encouraging more.

All I can say is that I will buy everything pre 1960 that Olive ever releases.

WATERLOO (1970) and both versions of THE BUCCANEER (1938 & 1958) would be great to have as well.
Edited by MLamarre - 3/4/10 at 4:45am

It's probably not clear to everyone here, but the Paramount films that Olive is releasing come from a list that was put together and shopped around by Paramount.  A title such as WILLARD is missing because Paramount didn't make it available on the aforementioned list.

Can't wait . Any firm release date or price yet?

That's interesting. I wonder if that means these are all new transfers that were already made by their asset management department that the home video side simply never got around to releasing?

Paramount controls films such as SORRY, WRONG NUMBER and THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS (p.d. film, but Paramount had the elements for an "official" release) that were copyrighted by Hal Wallis Productions, even though they come before the cutoff date separating the Universal-owned Paramounts from the later films that Paramount controls. I would assume that I WALK ALONE, also a Wallis-copyrighted film, remains with Paramount.

It would make sense if, titles copyrighted by Wallis Production like Affairs of Susan and The Searching Wind hadn`t been included in the package sold to Universal. But it may be not the case of I Walk Alone.

Whoever owns it, that's one of the few titles that I'd fork over list price for the archive DVD (I Walk Alone).  I guess I'm fortunate ($$'s) that my movie un-released list is very short.