Your Twilight Time/MGM wishlist? (1 Viewer)

[Matt Hough]

What about the 1965 MGM John Sturges film The Satan Bug? Is there any chance that Twilight Time could release this on Blu-Ray? I would love to get this movie on Blu-Ray! The MOD DVD is not good. I would be happy with just a good anamorphic DVD release if they wouldn't want to do Blu-Ray. Anyone have any information about whether there are any plans by Twilight , MGMt, or some other company like Criterion or Shout to release The Satan Bug on a good Blu-Ray or a good anamorphic widescreen DVD or MOD?

Thanks!

Robert

I reviewed that MGM MOD of The Satan Bug. As I recall, it was anamorphic, but the video had been derived from a laserdisc master that was woefully pale and loaded with interlaced artifacts. It was barely watchable but I thought a step up from the laserdisc.

I just looked the review up, and I recalled correctly. The review can be found here.

 

[trajan]

Even though GREAT ESCAPE and MAGNIFIENT SEVEN were classics,I can't believe how bad HALLELUJAH TRAIL and SATAN BUG turned out. Sorry, but neither film would be missed by me on bluray..

 

[Keith Cobby]

As I have posted before, I would buy The Satan Bug and The Hallelujah Trail. More John Sturges, Anne Francis, Lee Remick and large format films on blu-ray please.

 

[davidHartzog]

I liked Satan Bug, but there are plenty of other films more deserving of bluray treatment.

 

[Stephen_J_H]

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension, with isolated Michael Boddicker score.

 

[Richard--W]

Rudolph Mate's film noir masterpiece D.O.A. (United Artists, 1950) is in need of a hi-def scan. The extensive nighttime location photography in San Francisco would be an experience to experience on blu-ray. A savvy commentary would also be in order.

 

[davidHartzog]

Lewis Gilbert's The Seventh Dawn, with William Holden at his best. A sadly neglected, if not prophetic film set in 60s SE Asia.

 

[ROclockCK]

It seems the owners have zero interest in allowing any sort of release.

That was the case with The Wayward Bus too I believe. But I guess Steinbeck's estate finally relented, or at least looked the other way when Fox allowed TT to run with their limited edition Blu-ray. Perhaps the paltry 3000 number simply flew under their legal radar.

So the situation with some of these chronic holdouts can change. I mean, at this late date in the useful life of the celluloid in their possession, would any owner of a previously MIA property flatly refuse some kind of limited, collector-targeted HD showcase? If nothing else, to rekindle interest in the title? Or perhaps just film posterity?

I bet many of these holdouts simply need to hear an enthusiastic and convincing 'meta' pitch.

 

[Moe Dickstein]

You've got to ask Bob Furmanek for the story, because I don't recall the specifics, but the owner of that one is like some sort of company that doesn't really do films or has no interest in a different sense than what you're talking about, it's like they acquired the film in a poker game and they own a series of lube shops (that's not it but its not with a studio or someone against the release for creative reasons)

 

[Google Withers]

As many of the Frankenheimer titles as possible particularly the Train with Frankenheimer's commentary

 

[LouA]

I'd like to see MGM/George Pal's Time Machine, and Tom Thumb released on Bluray by Twilight Time . Also some of the Columbia exploitation films like the Bill Haley and "Twist" Movies, and the Mantle and Maris film "Safe At Home" . Lastly , 30 Foot Bride Of Candy Rock , Lou Costello's final screen perfomance .

 

[Matt Hough]

I'd like to see MGM/George Pal's Time Machine, and Tom Thumb released on Bluray by Twilight Time . Also some of the Columbia exploitation films like the Bill Haley and "Twist" Movies, and the Mantle and Maris film "Safe At Home" . Lastly , 30 Foot Bride Of Candy Rock , Lou Costello's final screen perfomance .

The Time Machine and Tom Thumb are part of the MGM legacy that Warner Bros. controls, and I can't see them offering either to Twilight Time. However, both would be prime candidates for Warners' own Warner Archive Blu-ray series. I wish both would happen, particularly the former.

 

[JoeDoakes]

Rudolph Mate's film noir masterpiece D.O.A. (United Artists, 1950) is in need of a hi-def scan. The extensive nighttime location photography in San Francisco would be an experience to experience on blu-ray. A savvy commentary would also be in order.

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Isn't that film public domain? If so, I would think that something like the Film Noir Foundation would be the only real bet.

 

[Didier R]

As many of the Frankenheimer titles as possible particularly the Train with Frankenheimer's commentary

+ gazillion

 

[JoeDoakes]

How about Tom Sawyer. I'd really like to see it released on blu.

 

[Jon Hertzberg]

COPS AND ROBBERS.

 

[ahollis]

I would really enjoy if Twilight released Hallelujah Trail. The DVD was horrible and need a good transfer and release.

 

[RolandL]

I would really enjoy if Twilight released Hallelujah Trail. The DVD was horrible and need a good transfer and release.

I would only be interested if it was the full 2.76 Ultra Panavision AR like Mad World.

 

[Paul Rossen]

I would only be interested if it was the full 2.76 Ultra Panavision AR like Mad World.

And of course with all the Roadshow trappings with Overture, Entr'acte and Exit music intact. A great Elmer Bernstein score!

 

[ROclockCK]

Whoa! According to this piece MGM/UA fans will be getting 2 titles per month from TT in 2014!