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post #1 of 33
11/16/11 at 2:17pm
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  • The Buccaneer (1938) – Fredric March, Walter Brennan, Akim Tamiroff, Anthony Quinn, dir. by Cecil B. Demille

  • Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950) – Alan Ladd, Wanda Hendrix, Francis Lederer, Joseph Calleia

  • The Lawless (1950) – Macdonald Carey, Gail Russell, dir. Joseph Losey

  • No Man of Her Own (1950) – Barbara Stanwyck

  • Silver City (1951) – Edmond O’Brien, Yvonne De Carlo, Richard Arlen, Barry Fitzgerald, Gladys George

  • Warpath (1951) – Edmond O’Brien, Dean Jagger, Forrest Tucker, Harry Carey Jr., Polly Bergen, Wallace Ford

  • Denver and the Rio Grande (1952) – Edmond O’Brein, Sterling Hayden, Dean Jagger, J. Carrol Naish, Zasu Pitts

  • My Son John (1952) – Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, Dean Jagger, Robert Walker, dir. by Leo McCarey

  • The Savage (1952) – Charlton Heston

  • Something to Live For (1952) – Joan Fontaine, Ray Milland, Teresa Wright

  • The Turning Point (1952) – William Holden, Edmond O’Brien, Alexis Smith

  • Pony Express (1953) – Charlton Heston, Rhonda Fleming, Jan Sterling, Forrest Tucker

  • Run for Cover (1955) – James Cagney, Viceca Lindfors, John Derek, Jean Hersholt, Ernest Borgnine, dir. by Nicholas Ray

  • The Proud and the Profane (1956) – William Holden, Deborah Kerr, Thelma Ritter

  • The Buccaneer (1958) – Yul Brynner, Claire Bloom, Charles Boyer, Inger Stevens, dir. Anthony Quinn

  • The Geisha Boy (1958) – Jerry Lewis

  • Rock-a-Bye-Baby (1958) – Jerry Lewis

  • The Jayhawkers (1959) – Jeff Chandler, Fess Parker

  • The Hangman (1959) – Robert Taylor, Tina Louise, Fess Parker, Jack Lord, dir. Michael Curtiz

  • The Trap (1959) – Richard Widmark, Lee J. Cobb, Tina Louise, Earl Holliman, Lorne Greene

  • The Savage Innocents (1960) – Anthony Quinn, Peter O’Toole

  • Man-Trap (1961) – Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Stella Stevens

  • Too Late Blues (1961) – Bobby Darin, Stella Stevens

  • It's Only Money (1962) – Jerry Lewis

  • Who's Got the Action (1962) – Dean Martin, Lana Turner, Eddie Albert, Walter Matthau, Paul Ford

  • Come Blow Your Horn (1963) – Frank Sinatra, Lee J. Cobb

  • Who's Minding the Store (1963) – Jerry Lewis

  • Boeing Boeing (1965) – Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis

  • The Slender Thread (1965) – Sidney Poitier, Anne Bancroft, Telly Savalas

  • Assault on the Queen (1966) – Frank Sinatra, Virna Lisi, Anthony Franciosa, Richard Conte

  • The Night of the Grizzly (1966) – Clint Walker, Martha Hyer, Keenan Wynn, Jack Elam

  • The Spirit is Willing (1967) – Sid Caesar, Vera Miles


Some of these have been issued sometime ago elsewhere outside USA such as an Exclusive deal with a major chain store for the Jerry Lewis titles(not Boeing Boeing, though).
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There are a couple of former stage shows amongst them in film versions: COME BLOW YOUR HORN, &, BOEING BOEING. Both of these were presented on the stage in Australia. This play is French origin and said to be the most performed French play around the world. 
 
A pretty good collection of unseen films as far as I am concerned but it is a pity that Olive Films is a little high in their prices. Paramount must be happy or lazy(meaning not doing it themselves) with the deal.
 
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post #2 of 33
11/16/11 at 3:04pm

Several titles I will buy from them in 2012.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crawdaddy

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post #3 of 33
11/16/11 at 3:06pm
Night of The Grizzly...yeah!
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post #4 of 33
11/16/11 at 3:13pm

Several interesting titles in the announced list above. After having a quick glance at the list, interested in the films The Hangman (1959) (Jack Lord in the cast) and The Slender Thread (1965).


Edited by WaveCrest - 11/16/11 at 3:31pm
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post #5 of 33
11/16/11 at 3:26pm
Some really good films on this list . I hope we see them all . I wonder what type of release schedule they are thinking of ?
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post #6 of 33
11/16/11 at 3:28pm
I'll be buying quite a few of those titles, and quite definitely the two Tina Louise and the two Stella Stevens movies.

Boeing Boeing I remember as very funny indeed. Captain Carey I've never seen but always wanted to because the song Mona Lisa comes from it. My Son John is the ultimate Red Scare movie.
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post #7 of 33
11/16/11 at 3:50pm
Here's confirmation: http://www.classicflix.com/olive-classics-coming-wave-a-1099.html
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post #8 of 33
11/16/11 at 4:39pm
32 films in 11 months? That's a big jump in output of them, I hope they can handle it. The films are great so I can't wait.
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post #9 of 33
11/16/11 at 4:57pm
Great to see such a large release schedule.

The release of The Savage Innocents has been held in suspense for a while, and was originally part of the first wave.

I've heard a tentative Spring release has been planned, but I've gotten slightly impatient on that one.
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post #10 of 33
11/16/11 at 5:34pm
Assault On A Queen, great stuff!
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post #11 of 33
11/16/11 at 5:48pm
Great news for we fans of catalog titles but -sigh- seeing as how De Mille's The Buccaneer (both versions) is on the schedule, I can't help but wonder if his Samson And Delilah will ever see the light of day.
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post #12 of 33
11/16/11 at 5:53pm

I wonder if these titles will come under a 100th Paramount anniversary banner from Olive.  I see about 8 I will be ordering for sure and another 6 on the fence.  Some of the titles I have wanted for a long time.  I still think Samson and Delilah will be out from Paramount themselves as a Blu-ray.

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post #13 of 33
11/16/11 at 5:55pm
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Originally Posted by Thomas T View Post

Great news for we fans of catalog titles but -sigh- seeing as how De Mille's The Buccaneer (both versions) is on the schedule, I can't help but wonder if his Samson And Delilah will ever see the light of day.

I'd think that Paramount would want to release that themselves. Roll on a stonking looking Blu-ray. The film is a lot more fun than The Ten Commendments..& that temple scene at the end, I don't think they could improve on that now.
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post #14 of 33
11/16/11 at 6:02pm
Many great titles, though it is, sensibly I suppose, smaller than the initial unconfirmed list that was posted earlier. These releases only go up to '67 and I notice the announcement is through ClassicFlix. Is the absence of post-60s films on this list because ClassicFlix has no interest in them? I was really hoping to see 1984'S FIRSTBORN, which was part of the initial list sourced from IMDb credits.
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post #15 of 33
11/16/11 at 6:08pm
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These releases only go up to '67 and I notice the announcement is through ClassicFlix. Is the absence of post-60s films on this list because ClassicFlix has no interest in them? I was really hoping to see 1984'S FIRSTBORN, which was part of the initial list sourced from IMDb credits.

ClassicFlix doesn't stock films that aren't part of the "classic" era. Their cut off is, I believe, 1970 and on so they wouldn't list a film like Firstborn. The list is for their customers only so they only list the films they will stock.
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post #16 of 33
11/16/11 at 6:48pm
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ClassicFlix doesn't stock films that aren't part of the "classic" era. Their cut off is, I believe, 1970 and on so they wouldn't list a film like Firstborn. The list is for their customers only so they only list the films they will stock.

Yes, I understand that, which is exactly why I wondered if this is the complete list. I know ClassicFlix's philosophy and noticed that the announcement was from them.

I have good friends with close connections to the Olive folks so I'll see if I can squeeze some more info out of them.
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post #17 of 33
11/16/11 at 8:36pm
Some very interesting films and a number of titles I want, but I will be pleasantly surprised if Olive actually releases a third of the films on that list.
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post #18 of 33
11/16/11 at 10:37pm
Jon is right that there are some post-1970s titles that aren't included due to Classicflix trying to keep their rental program in a specific "classic" era, cutting off anything made after 1969. The list provided earlier by Harry Lime in the Olive Films tread shows those post-1969 titles.
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post #19 of 33
11/16/11 at 11:40pm
Still disappointed that the folks at Paramount and Olive continue to over look such gems as The Rat Race(1960), The Pleasure of His Company (1961), My Six Loves (1963), Love with the Proper Stranger (1963), All the Way Home (1963), Wild is the Wind (1957), Ash Wednesday (1973), and Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977).
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post #20 of 33
11/17/11 at 8:15am
Hopefully, some of these will see BRD (and Olive won't have any trouble licensing Mona Lisa). Remember Olive, I'm still looking for The Mating Season, Secret of the Incas, and more Bob Hope. Merry Christmas to you too.
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post #21 of 33
11/17/11 at 9:06am
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Still disappointed that the folks at Paramount and Olive continue to over look such gems as The Rat Race(1960), The Pleasure of His Company (1961), My Six Loves (1963), Love with the Proper Stranger (1963), All the Way Home (1963), Wild is the Wind (1957), Ash Wednesday (1973), and Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977).

Paramount predicates what is available to Olive. I'd imagine if Olive were offered LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR or LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER, for instance, they'd jump at it. Music licensing issues are what seem to be keeping GOODBAR off DVD and Blu.
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post #22 of 33
11/17/11 at 9:50am
Here's some hopping Paramount gives to Olive Films:

304

700

311

298

390

390

390

308

390

700

700

700

450
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post #23 of 33
11/17/11 at 10:56am
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Lovely posters, Feliz but there is a problem. Many of those titles won't be considered by Olive Films because they won't be offered them. Why? Because some of the choice titles, such as The Fleet's In & Incendiary Blonde amongst others don't belong to Paramount/Viacom but rather NBC Universal. Those two I single out I have been wanting on DVD for years and I have never seen Hutton's Blonde in its original Technicolor. 

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post #24 of 33
11/17/11 at 1:40pm
Thanks for the help. hope universal release some of them.
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post #25 of 33
11/17/11 at 3:26pm
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Thanks Feliz. Only happy to inform if I have information. Universal has so much they could issue and as far as their Paramount holdings go(and they are not all in good shape) I saw so much when they were first released to TV in my country when I was a kid with the old MCA opening logo & fanfare. Gulliver's Travels was in that package then, but, of course, could only be screened in b&w along with other color titles. The interesting fact of the prints then shown in Australia was that most had a black line down the frame about 20-25% in. Never found the answer to this problem and there were many cue marks also, sometimes every five mins that indicates, in this case, they were used elsewhere first and they were US ad breaks. Very annoying. Those lines I have not seen for years on a pre-1948 print in any media and the MCA logo is long gone. We got these often as midday movies which I could only see when the school was closed or Sunday evenings such as the likes of Gulliver, Palm Beach Story as I remember it. I have memories in the early 1960s seeing If I Had a Million on a Monday midday during the summer school break on a day they buried my dad's mom. But I did know this fact and was away in the country with my other grandmother and other family in the country and came back that morning. I watch this with my cousin that time and never saw it gain except for one sequence with Charles Laughton. 

 

Another fact is that I never saw the earliest films of Paramount Talkies or those of other major studios at that time(below 1932) although they were in the packages. So it has been recent DVDs that have filled the gap for some titles where they exist. I don't know why the TV stations here did not show them. If I never get DVDs or Blus of many major older titles then at least I have seen many of them when I was starting to get interested in films and music. Having some wartime local music magazines on austerity poor paper my dad bought at that time helped me learn about wartime musicals from the major US companies that reviewed at the time in that paper. That I now own many of them on DVD was something more than I would ever had hoped for and I guess their preservation was only been possible because of the demands of early TV.

 

That's my story and I am sticking to it!!!!!

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post #26 of 33
12/30/11 at 4:27pm
When are the titles listed in the first post going to be released? I'm impatient!
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post #27 of 33
12/30/11 at 7:31pm
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Originally Posted by Jon Hertzberg View Post


Paramount predicates what is available to Olive. I'd imagine if Olive were offered LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR or LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER, for instance, they'd jump at it. Music licensing issues are what seem to be keeping GOODBAR off DVD and Blu.


Watch for Goodbar from Criterion this coming year.  Shout wanted it and Paramount said no and not for music right issues. 
 

 

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post #28 of 33
12/30/11 at 7:42pm
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Thanks for the help. hope universal release some of them.


Most of the sound Paramount films made before December 1, 1949 belong to Universal.  MCA purchased the titles (around 700 titles) from a cash strapped Paramount in the early 50's to sell to local stations in movie packages.  As time went own MCA merged with Universal and that's why NBC/Universal owns them.  There were some titles such as The Buccaneer (1938), Sorry Wrong Number, Samson and Delilah, Miracle at Morgan's Creek, Rope of Sand, Red, Hot, and Blue and a dozen or so more that were made before 1951 that stayed with Paramount for various reasons, with the main one being they were still in release to theatres at the time and making money.  As far as The Buccaneer is concerned, they kept that due to DeMille's interest in a remake. 
 

 

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post #29 of 33
12/31/11 at 5:30am
The original sale happened in 1958. Here's a link to the story as reported in Billboard:
http://books.google.com/books?id=PyEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA6&dq=mca+buys+paramount&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ew7_ToG6Naj40gHDlYWQDw&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=mca%20buys%20paramount&f=false
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post #30 of 33
12/31/11 at 12:55pm



 

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Originally Posted by Eric Vedowski View Post

The original sale happened in 1958. Here's a link to the story as reported in Billboard:
http://books.google.com/books?id=PyEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA6&dq=mca+buys+paramount&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ew7_ToG6Naj40gHDlYWQDw&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=mca%20buys%20paramount&f=false


Your right it was in early 58 and not the early 50's that MCA purchased the 750 sound titles from Paramount.  Paramount had previously sold their cartoons and shorts, and I suspect that the date stuck with me.

 

On an interesting side note about the sale of those titles, theatre owners across the country, especially the owners of drive-ins and second run double features, tried to buy the films and set up a company for the titles.  The reasoning is that they did not want the titles to go to television.  After the lost that battle, they booked as many titles as possible before they were sold to local stations to prove that there was life left in the older titles. 
 

 

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