Universal focus on back catalog in 2003 (1 Viewer)

[Skoobooz]

THE MONEY PIT?!?! Yes!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Jeff_HR]

Send Me No Flowers & The Thrill Of It All

It is about time we get some more Doris Day films on DVD!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Rain]

Casual Sex / Cold Comfort Farm 2-Pack

WTF?
Are they together on the same disc or are they 2 separate discs just packaged together. I would definitely prefer the latter as I've been waiting for Cold Comfort Farm for ages, but have no desire to own the other.

 

[Thomas T]

Looks like Universal is trying to give a little something for everyone. Definite buys: The Thrill Of It All, Countess From Hong Kong and Man's Favorite Sport/Strange Bedfellows though I would have preferred the other Rock Hudson/Gina Lollobrigida pairing, Come September to Bedfellows.
Still, keep them coming Universal. Your choices are inconsistent in quality but if you throw enough out there, there are bound to be a goody or two.

 

[Gavin_L]

awesome news, can't wait for some of these great movies to be released. Sixteen Candles been one on my list for a long time
also thanks for the update about the feb. slate, i'll be picking up the money pit

 

[Eugene Esterly]

The Money Pit? I will pick up a copy of The Money Pit on DVD but only if Universal releases the movie in its OAR.

 

[Patrick McCart]

I hope Universal makes sure The Countess From Hong Kong is pretty good in quality...I don't think it has been on video in the original 2.35:1 ratio ever.

If Image or Kino releases a collection of Keystones, it would make the first time 100% of a director's films have been on DVD in one year.

 

[Dave Mack]

Langella Dracula, '79 please....

 

[oscar_merkx]

I second the '79 Dracula version

 

[Paul_Scott]

I'll third Dracula.

 

[Martin Jeeves]

Any date known yet for the "Streets Of Fire" Collector's Edition?
Please sign the petition: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/sf01/petition-sign.html?
Thanks,

 

[Jim_K]

I had to resurrect this thread.
So what's everyone's opinion on Universals big catalog title output so far?
I have to say that apart from the Anthony Mann westerns & (what might be a bogus report) the rumored Scarface SE I'm somewhat underwhelmed by their choices.
I'm especially irritated by their lack of Classic Horror titles. It looks like another wasted Halloween DVD season from Universal. :frowning:

 

[Gordon McMurphy]

There have been some good releases - but those mainly being their own new editions of the Image titles like Andromeda Strain and Fahrenheit 451. And even if there is a SE of Scarface, it's still a re-release, albeit an essential one, and the new edition of Animal House doesn't look like much cop.
Univeral have a veritable klondike of great films in their library, and they just seem to be pissing in the wind.
Anything to tide me over: uh, Don Siegel's amazing existential cult classic, Charley Varrick, maybe?
Universal started so well in the early DVD days, what happened? :frowning:
Gordy

 

[Jim_K]

While I did upgrade with Andromeda Strain & Midnight Run I would much rather have had some never-released titles instead.
Scarface really needs an upgrade but the recent Internet rumors might pan out to be BS.

 

[oscar_merkx]

so Gordy what is so special about Charley Varrick ?

 

[Jon Robertson]

I might have posted this already, but all the W.C. Fields, Douglas Sirk, Josef von Sternberg and Preston Sturges films that you can get hold of please!

Charley Varrick is a great little crime picture from the 70s, and another one that should be given a new lease of life on DVD.

 

[Gordon McMurphy]

so Gordy what is so special about Charley Varrick ?

In a word: Walter Matthau. Superb, uncharacteristic performance by Matthau in Charley Varrick. Joe Don Baker personifies nastiness and the whole film is just filled with that raw power that only a master filmmaker like Siegel could bring to those types of movies. It's just so clever and quirky. Enigmatic ending, naturally - it is a Siegel picture!
I have a 1.85:1 MAR (from 2.40:1 Panavision) VHS taped from a 1999 BBC 2 broadcast.
Very hard to find on VHS and I don't believe there was ever a Laserdisc, so a DVD edition is, in my opinion, long over due for this film. It's Don Siegel - one of the few Siegel films not on DVD. And one of his very best - dare I say it: better than Dirty Harry.
Gordy

 

[Brook K]

What Jon said - Sturges, Von Sternberg, Sirk, and W.C. Fields.

 

[Craig: Mclaren]

I have been pretty impressed by Universal's Alfred Hitchcock collection which was just released. Some interesting extras on there. Any chance of the 60's "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" Tv series coming to DVD in complete seasons or is that another Universal TV show with music clearance problems!!!

 

[Brandon Conway]

I have been pretty impressed by Universal's Alfred Hitchcock collection which was just released. Some interesting extras on there.

Not to burst your bubble, but the Universal Hitchcock titles were all released by 2Q 2001. Two years ago is not what I consider "just released."