Best Picture Nominees (1940's) on Blu (1 Viewer)

The films I know of on Blue are in bold; NOT on DVD in Italics.

1940
All This, and Heaven Too
Foreign Correspondent
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Dictator
Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman
The Letter
The Long Voyage Home
Our Town
The Philadelphia Story
*Rebecca

1941

Blossoms In the Dust
Citizen Kane
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Hold Back the Dawn
*How Green Was My Valley
The Little Foxes
The Maltese Falcon
One Foot in Heaven
Sergeant York
Suspicion

1942

Forty-Ninth Parallel
Kings Row
The Magnificent Ambersons
*Mrs. Miniver
The Pied Piper
The Pride of the Yankees
Random Harvest
The Talk of the Town
Wake Island
Yankee Doodle Dandy

1943
*Casablanca (1942)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Heaven Can Wait
The Human Comedy
In Which We Serve
Madame Curie
The More the Merrier
The Ox-Bow Incident
The Song of Bernadette
Watch on the Rhine

1944
Double Indemnity
Gaslight
*Going My Way
Since You Went Away
Wilson

1945
Anchors Aweigh
The Bells of St. Mary's
*The Lost Weekend (Region B)
Mildred Pierce
Spellbound

1946
*The Best Years of Our Lives
Henry V (1944)
It's a Wonderful Life
The Razor's Edge
The Yearling

1947
The Bishop's Wife
Crossfire
*Gentleman's Agreement
Great Expectations (1946)
Miracle on 34th Street

1948
*Hamlet
Johnny Belinda
The Red Shoes
The Snake Pit
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1949
*All the King's Men
Battleground
The Heiress
A Letter to Three Wives
Twelve O'Clock High


Correct me if I'm wrong on any of these.

Twelve O'Clock High is on BD. A Letter to Three Wives coming out in the coming weeks. The Bishop's Wife announced for November. Great Expectations out in UK. It's a Wonderful Life is out. Double Indemnity is out. The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Dictator and How Green was my Valley are out. So is Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Spellbound and The Red Shoes.

DOUBLE INDEMNITY is out in Region B and is supposed to be coming in Region A.

Bells Of St. Mary's should be coming to Blu from Olive in the near future.Miracle On 34th St is on Blu.And you might want to double check your info on Casablanca. Has anyone heard of this coming out?

Robert Crawford said:

Twelve O'Clock High is on BD. A Letter to Three Wives coming out in the coming weeks. The Bishop's Wife announced for November. Great Expectations out in UK. It's a Wonderful Life is out. Double Indemnity is out. The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Dictator and How Green was my Valley are out. So is Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Spellbound and The Red Shoes.

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Thanks for these updates. I have reviewed for this site the Blu-rays of The Great Dictator, How Green Was My Valley, Spellbound, The Red Shoes, and Miracle on 34th Street. I would have done Twelve O'clock High and The Grapes of Wrath if Fox had sent them to me.

In addition to those titles others have listed -
Henry VHamlet

are also on blu in the UK

Hmmm, I'll have so major updating to do tomorrow!

There are R2 DVDs of "Hold back the dawn" in France, Spain and Italy at least.

Who has the rights to For Whom The Bells Toll, it's the 70th anniversary and i am surprised it hasn't been released yet, if it's Paramount then the surprise is less because they seemingly do not care about catalog releases, i'd love to buy the 168 minute restored edition of the film, does anyone know what the 2 missing minutes are, i looked on IMDB and they didn't say.

It might be out in Italy from Universal, not sure, another site mentions it.

FoxyMulder said:

Who has the rights to For Whom The Bells Toll, it's the 70th anniversary and i am surprised it hasn't been released yet, if it's Paramount then the surprise is less because they seemingly do not care about catalog releases, i'd love to buy the 168 minute restored edition of the film, does anyone know what the 2 missing minutes are, i looked on IMDB and they didn't say.

It might be out in Italy from Universal, not sure, another site mentions it.

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Well, you can stop blaming Paramount as Universal owns the video rights. As to the missing two minutes, more doesn't necessarily means better so I'll stick with the version I've grown to love over the years.

Robert Crawford said:

Well, you can stop blaming Paramount as Universal owns the video rights. As to the missing two minutes, more doesn't necessarily means better so I'll stick with the version I've grown to love over the years.

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I mentioned that film because it was on ITV today over here, it's not that i want the two minutes although if originally released at 170 minutes then it would be nice, what i'd like to know is why they couldn't find those two minutes when they restored the film and what those two minutes are.

FoxyMulder said:

I mentioned that film because it was on ITV today over here, it's not that i want the two minutes although if originally released at 170 minutes then it would be nice, what i'd like to know is why they couldn't find those two minutes when they restored the film and what those two minutes are.

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From what I know, they were flashed back scenes and were cut right after the premiere so I doubt they have survived over the many years.