What are some of your taped treasures never on video? (1 Viewer)

[JeffMc]

Both were on video. SGE Home Video and MGM-UA, respectively.

 

[Jon Martin]

FORTRESS was released in July on Warner Home Video. Amazon has it in stock for $12.

I remember it as well, watched it many times. Been meaning to pick it up.

 

[Lyle_JP]

Wow! Either that was a completely stealth release, or I was on good drugs that week. Either way, it has been ordered now.

Oh yeah, I remembered a few things I taped off TV that I prize:

* The Disneyland 25th Anniversary Special
* The 4-hour cut of Needful Things

 

[Jeff_HR]

I like films about airplanes & I have an OTA WS taping of "Fate is the Hunter".

 

[Jon Martin]

What were the complaints? I've never seen the film.

 

[Erik Johansson]

Louis: "Is MAN ON THE ROOF the only foreign film ever that was an official sequel to an American major released film(1973's THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN).?"

Well, it's based on the book, which was part of a series of ten novels. There was a swedish film from the sixties, "Roseanna", so that would make "The laughing policeman" a foreign sequel to a swedish film... They are continuing to churn out Beck-movies here in Sweden, over twenty (also in the making, I think) movies, mostly TV/Direct-to-Video. Don't ask me about them though, I haven't bothered with them.
Sorry for veering the thread off course. I don't have any actual taped treasure...

 

[Louis Letizia]

So we have a celluloid VICTOR/VICTORIA. LP is an American sequel of a Swedish film pretending to be American!? ...or something like that. Thanks for the trivia-I live for this stuff!

MAN ON THE ROOF had its own unique style. A great movie.

 

[BrianRi]

Dragnet 1967--pilot for the upcoming color series
Freud--directed by John Huston, starring Montgomery Clift
Myrt and Marge--Three Stooges in early supporting roles
I Was A Communist For The FBI--starring Frank Lovejoy
My Son John--anti-commie classic, Robert Walker's last film
Lenny Bruce: Swear To Tell The Truth--documentary, narrated by Robert DeNiro
Three's A Crowd and The Chaser--silent movies starring and directed by Harry Langdon
The Old Fashioned Way, Tillie and Gus, The Man on the Flying Trapeze, Poppy--W.C. Fields movies
The Unholy Three--Tod Browning/Lon Chaney movie
Peach O' Reno and This Is Africa--Wheeler and Woolsey, quite risque for their time
The Party Crashers--last film for both Bobby Driscoll and Frances Farmer
It Ain't Hay--Abbott and Costello
Batman--every episode of the Adam West tv show!

 

[Jacqui]

The 1955 musical of Our Town. Frank Sinatra was the stage manager, Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint played George Gibbs and Emily Webb. Newman and Saint also sing a duet called 'The Impatient Years'. The quality isn't fantastic, but considering it is nowhere to be found these days, it doesn't really matter.

 

[Roger Rollins]

Here are a few I don't think ever made it to VHS or LASER, certainly not DVD, that I have recorded off the air:

PARAMOUNT ON PARADE
HOLLYWOOD CAVALCADE
INCENDIARY BLONDE
SING, BABY, SING
THE THRILL OF BRAZIL
YOU CAN'T RUN AWAY FROM IT
SWANEE RIVER
THE GREAT AMERICAN BROADCAST
GEORGE WHITE SCANDALS OF 1934
GEORGE WHITE SCANDALS OF 1935
GOOD MORNING, MISS DOVE
KENTUCKY
DIXIE
WAKE UP AND LIVE
THANKS A MILLION

 

[Jeffrey:K]

At the time (March 1978) HBO never explained its decision to pull GOING PLACES from its schedule. It was Pauline Kael, in her review of the film which appeared later that year, who claimed that HBO had gotten complaints about the content of the film. I take her word for it.

(Possible Spoilers below)

GOING PLACES is the US title of the 1974 French film LES VALSEUSES. It’s about the testosterone-fuelled adventures of a pair of twentysomething men (Gerard Depardieu, Patrick Dawaere) who wander about committing petty crimes, bedding women, and generally shocking the bourgeoisie. The film has a very countercultural vibe and was a big, if controversial, hit in France in its day.
What people found shocking about the film was its raunchy sexuality, combined with an anarchic spirit and what some would call misogyny (though that point is debatable, I think). In one episode the two men, who cavort throughout the film like overgrown adolescents, are joined in their travels by a young woman; when she turns out to be frigid (in a threesome sex scene) they treat her abusively. In another, they pick up a sixteen-year-old runaway virgin (Isabelle Huppert) and deflower her. In yet another episode, they pick up an older woman (Jeanne Moreau), just released from prison, and bed her; after which she commits suicide by discharging a pistol in her vagina.

I’m not really being fair to the film by describing these scenes out of context, and certainly I haven’t communicated the light, comic tone that prevails throughout much of it, but I’m just trying to give you an idea of why some people found the film disturbing (even in France, I’m told) back in the 1970s. By today’s standards a lot of the material in the film may seem tame, and the film is never more explicit than what an R rating can safely encompass. (I don’t think the film was ever rated by the MPAA, though.)

By the way it’s a great film, and is available on a good Region 1 DVD from Anchor Bay.

 

[Harry-N]

NIGHT OF THE COMET
TV series: CHINA BEACH

Harry

 

[JeffMc]

Released by CBS-Fox Video.

 

[Harry-N]

Yeah, but never on DVD. I forgot about the VHS release since I never bought it.

Harry

 

[Karl R]

According to IMB/Amazon.com these treasures (as well as a few "guilty pleasures") are not available on DVD (in R1) nor were released on VHS (NTSC):

The Art of Love (Jewison, 1965)
Cluny Brown (Lubitsch, 1946)
The Great Garrick (Whale, 1937)
Hold Back the Dawn (Leisen, 1941)
Holy Matrimony (Stahl, 1943)
Love is a Ball (Swift, 1963)
The Mating Season (Leisen, 1951)
Merry Andrew (Kidd, 1958)
Knock on Wood (Panana/Frank, 1954)
Schtonk! (Dietl, 1992)
Some Kind of a Nut (Kanin, 1969)
The Suspect (R. Siodmak, 1944)
The Unsuspected (Curtiz, 1947)
Will Rogers' USA (1972)

 

[JeffMc]

That's cool, but this thread is about movies that have never had any form of video release at all.

 

[Mike DB]

"Hearts of Darkness" HBO Documentary. It's in Super VHS off HBO but still doesn't come near DVD quality.

"Heart of Hot Shots", a hilarious spoof of Hearts of Darkness and Apocalypse Now.

"Special Bulletin", TV movie shot on video to look like a real live newscast covering a terrorist act on the US.

"The Godfather Saga" Coppola's re-cut of parts 1 and 2 placing events in chronological order with many different scenes and edits. (The uncensored version as shown on cable)


"Contract on Cherry Street" great cops vs. mobsters flick starring Sinatra

"Hennessy" with Rod Steiger

"Salvador Dali, a soft Self Portrait" documentary

*****If anyone is aware of any of these out on DVD, please advise!*****

 

[JeffMc]

Four of these films already had VHS releases. I'm done trying to salvage the original point of this thread. I don't think anyone really needs another "not on DVD" thread, but if that's what this has become, have fun guys! I'm done here.

 

[walter o]

OOPS! Double post.

 

[walter o]

I have couple of Sophia Loren films I taped off cable years ago, like PRIEST'S WIFE, THE VOYAGE, as well as those taped stage plays for HBO in the early days like SHERLOCK HOLMES with Frank Langella and WAIT UNTIL DARK with Stacy Keach and Katherine Ross, and ROBBER'S BRIDEGROOM with Marjoe Gortner. (the last two I accidently erased years ago though.)