Your top 10 "Fantasy" DVDs that will never come out (bootlegs don't count) (1 Viewer)

1. The complete Woodstock 1969 (all existing footage & audio)
2. The complete Live Aid (all footage & audio from Australia, RFK Stadium & Wembley)
3. Every Beatles & Rolling Stones promo videos
4. The 4 hour version of Dazed & Confused
5. The complete Playboy After Dark
6. The complete Midnight Special
7. Carol For Another Christmas (Rod Serling Christmas special made for UNICEF)
8. Billion Dollar Brain
9. the pilot for the TV version of Catch-22 starring Richard Dreyfuss
10. the director's cut of Vanishing Point that hasn't been seen since the first screening (According to barry Newman it went from an art film to a B-movie).

Producer's cut of Halloween 6 :star:

1. Song of the South
2. MisFits of Science (complete)
3. LadaLi
4. Mirror World of Yoko Ono (uncut) it's terrible, but it cracks me up)
5. Star Wars Trilogy (Original Cuts)
6. "Droids" TV Show
7. The New Twilight Zone (CBS)

The complete original cut of THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (please God, let it be lanquishing in somebody's garage someplace, on the verge of being discovered)

THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL (for camp value only)

SONG OF THE SOUTH

THE STAR WARS TRILOGY (unaltered)(counts as 3)

THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO - The Complete Series

ROALD DAHL'S 'WAY OUT' - The Complete Series

VERTIGO (anamorphic)

PSYCHO (anamorphic, along with a full-frame transfer since it was shown that way more often than not)


...I think that's 10. I'm sure there are many more I'll think of later.

1. complete "Night Flight" series

2. complete Stanley Kubrick collection with Kubrick commentary

3. complete Alfred Hitchcock collection with Hitchcock commentary

4. complete Woody Allen collection with Allen commentary

5. uncut Lang's Metropolis with all missing scenes

6. uncut Blue Velvet with all missing scenes


will add more as I think of them

Double Indemnity with gas chamber ending

Song of the South

Up in Arms

Coal Black and the Sebben Dwarfs

Dial M for Murder (3D)

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (with the missing Burt Lancaster gas station scene)

From Russia With Love (with the missing line of dialogue at the end)

The Compleat Beatles

Suspicion (with the mailbox ending)

The Godfather and Godfather part 2 with the deleted scenes edited back in as in the chronological cut, but without the chronological changes

WKRP in Cincinnati complete series.

1. View from Pompeys Head - great 1955 scope drama from Fox with Dana Wynter and Richard Egan- soundtrack CD came out a couple of years ago. This is based on a nove. and there are rights problems.
2. South Pacific - the uncut version - current film is missing 16 minutes.
3. That 70s Show - fell in love with this show when it went into syndication this past year - great show.
4. Prince of Foxes - 1949 Fox Film - tyrone Power film takes place in middle ages. Fox shot the entire movie on location in Italy. Fantastic film with great score by Alfred Newman. Shown on cable from old master made from bad 16mm print with terrible sound. Would love a restoration of this film.
5. The Warner Brothers Delmer Davis Soap operas - great series of glossy soapers made at Warners starting with A Summer Place and continuing with Susan Slade, Rome adventure
Parrish, Youngblood Hawke
6. Doris Day musicals - Warners has no interest in releasing anymore of these - they own allof them including Tea for two, On Moonlight Bay, By the lIght of the Silvery Moon, starlift (hasn't been on tv in thirty years),Lucky Me, lullaby of Broadway, Jumbo, Love Me or Leave Me
7. Fox fifties scope musicals - Mardi gras, April Love, Thebest Things in Life Are Free
8. Fox Susan Hayward movies - David and Bathsheba, Untamed, With a Song in my Heart, Soldier of Fortune, Garden of Evil
9. Some Disney live action films - toby Tyler, darby O Gill, In search of the Castaways, Summer Magic, Third Man on the Mountain, One and only Genuine Original Family Band
10. Warners spectacles - Helen of Toy is on the way, but no Silver Chalice, Land of the Pharoahs, king Richard and the Crusaders, Young Bess, Raintree County(in the uncut vesion showing on TCM), Ryans Daughter.

10. Star Wars Episodes IV, V and VI Special Editions and Original Cuts.

9. Star Wars Episodes IV, V and VI Special Editions and Original Cuts.

8. Star Wars Episodes IV, V and VI Special Editions and Original Cuts.

7. Star Wars Episodes IV, V and VI Special Editions and Original Cuts.

6. Star Wars Episodes IV, V and VI Special Editions and Original Cuts.

5. Star Wars Episodes IV, V and VI Special Editions and Original Cuts.

4. Star Wars Episodes IV, V and VI Special Editions and Original Cuts.

3. Star Wars Episodes IV, V and VI Special Editions and Original Cuts.

2. Star Wars Episodes IV, V and VI Special Editions and Original Cuts.

1. Uncut version of George Lucas being strung up by his toes and lashed with Jar-Jar's ears.

Twin Peaks : Fire Walk With Me (with all the deleted scenes)
Blue Velvet (with the lost footage)
David Lynch's Hotel Room and On The Air
Get A Life (complete series)
The Tick (animated complete series)
Brady Bunch (complete series)
Leave It To Beaver (complete series)

and now for the way out fantasies...
Josie And The Pussycats (with Rachael Leigh Cook nude scenes)
and every Nick Cave and Afghan Whigs concert.

-King of The Hill
-Kafka(region 1)
-Producer's Cut of Halloween 6
-Original Star Wars Trilogy (Theatrical Cuts)
-Miami Vice-Complete Series
-Blade Runner:SE
-Blue Velvet(with lost footage)
-Alien 3irector's Cut(letting Fincher go back and shoot the scenes he originally wanted to)

I think it's safe to say that a lot of these will come out eventually.

Dune, the 4 hour version that some say played on Japanese planes
Twice Upon A Time, the uncut version
The Point, who knows, maybe this will be released one day

I agree. A lot of the selected titles will hit DVD at some point. For example, I have no idea why anyone would think there's no chance we'd EVER get an anamorphic Psycho and/or Vertigo.

And even some that sound like pure fantasy aren't. Just because Kubrick and Hitchcock are dead doesn't mean we can't get commentaries for their films - after all, there's a Walt Disney commentary on Snow White. Heck, I even think Song of the South will come out eventually...

Every TV Commercial Ever Made Mega-Set
XXX Theatrical Shorts and Trailers
Theatrical non-movie trailers from 1920's thru 2000's (rolling stock ads, policy trailers, etc) all in original aspect ratio and sound format
Archive of 7-11 security camera footage from 1970s
Complete music videos played on MTV during its first 2 years
TV Station Sign-off collection (including films of "Star Spangled Banner")
Sears product demo film loops (1970s- before TV/VCR combos existed, they'd show these on portable rear-projection units)
Memories Of Videodisc- CED videodisc made for employees of the RCA pressing plant right before it closed
Cartrivision system operations tape- came with 1972 Cartrivision VCR system showing how to use it
The Complete Nixon Tapes (audio- with still photos)

Yeah, George, it would be great to see the additional
scenes put back into the Godfather films, and in
chronological order. I would double dip for that.

Hey Adam- I think #2-9 on your list will come true.
Lucas will milk his cash cow by releasing the versions
of the films that everybody wants after we buy the
versions we don't want (just a hunch). #1 on your
list should happen if he doesn't release the versions
of the films that the mass audience wants.

two words:


EL TOPO.

Thought of some more:

Fast-food and retail employee training films and videos.

Replica of the 1981 Sears Catalog Laserdisc that was sent out to registered player owners (most of them rotted from what I've heard)

Replicas of all direct-to-video (non-movie) MCA DiscoVision titles, complete with DVD-sized reprints of the boxes and jackets the discs came in, with DiscoVision labels printed on the discs.

"Listen": the 35mm theatrical Dolby Stereo demonstration film

1- Shatner's retooled version of Star Trek 5- The Final Frontier.

2- The Wizard of Speed and Time, in a final Director's Cut form.

3- The Magnificant Ambersons, fully restored. (Yeah right)

4- Supernova, restored Walter Hill Director's Cut. Would probably run slightly over 2 hours 10 minutes (45 minutes were cut).

5- Original cut of Eraserhead, with the 20+ lost minutes restored.

6- original 2.5 hour cut of THX-1138.

7- Wim Wender's Until the End of the World, 6 hour "Trilogy" version.

8- Alien 3, a new cut with Fincher's involvment, including new (though limited) reshoots and new ADR sessions for the cut scenes already put back into the film.

9- A super-special edition of THE BLACK HOLE, with the two known completed deleted scenes (Talk of Christmas, Collapsing Catwalk) available in the film via seemless branching.

10- A Richard Donner recut of Superman 2, with effects completed for the new scenes.

11- The Day After, Widescreen, Uncut.

12- (personal guilty wish)- Tron, with the two deleted scenes (Love Scene, Afterwards) restored, with new ADR from Boxleitner and score from Wendy Carlos to cover the missing audio. Those scenes should NEVER have been cut.