WARNER: Ball of Fire, Dead End, Little Foxes (1 Viewer)

williampl7@aol.com · Mar 25, 2014

http://classicflix.com/WARNER-Ball-of-Fire-Dead-End-Little-Foxes-Time-Machine-Blu-an-31027.html

JoHud · Mar 25, 2014

Those won't be blu-ray, only reissued as DVDs. Classicflix only has DVDs up for preorder. You may have been confused since the same announcement mentioned the blu-ray of The Time Machine.

classicmovieguy · Mar 25, 2014

Yes these are reissues of the older, now OOP DVDs. This is part of Warner's licensing deal with the Goldwyn library.

williampl7@aol.com · Mar 26, 2014

Whoops! Sorry about that.

williampl7@aol.com · Mar 26, 2014

I must admit, a Blu-ray release of Dead End did sound too good to be true. Again, sorry for the mix-up.

classicmovieguy · Mar 26, 2014

Blu-rays of "Ball of Fire" and "Little Foxes" would have been sweet too.

Ed Lachmann · Mar 27, 2014

WB continues to live in the last century while pretending that blu-ray doesn't exist. Wish they'd loan out their library to someone who cares.

bujaki · Mar 27, 2014

One Hawks comedy (arguably one of his best); two Wyler classics (3 including Wuthering Heights). Why acquire the Goldwyn titles to treat them with such off-handed disrespect. Except for The Best Years of Our Lives, all other titles have gone the way of DVD or MOD releases.
Toland's B&W cinematography in BD makes one's mouth water, and all we get is low resolution DVD.
For shame, WB! For shame!

JoHud · Mar 27, 2014

The Goldwyn company controls the prints and transfers. Don't blame WB if the Goldwyn company hasn't bothered updating its transfers.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have these in HD and these are pretty major Goldwyn titles, but I'm not sure if there are even any better transfers available for them to use. Chances are these will be the same transfers MGM used for their DVD.

bujaki said:
all other titles have gone the way of DVD or MOD releases.

None of them are MOD so far. All of the Goldwyn titles available through the Warner Archive are pressed.

Forgot about those Eddie Cantors last year. Would've preferred those pressed, but not a huge deal.

Matt Hough · Mar 27, 2014

They did do Hans Christian Andersen, too.

Brandon Conway · Mar 27, 2014

bujaki said:
Why acquire the Goldwyn titles to treat them with such off-handed disrespect. Except for The Best Years of Our Lives, all other titles have gone the way of DVD or MOD releases.

Not true. Guys and Dolls (1955), Has Christian Andersen (1952) and The Bishop's Wife (1947) also got Blu-ray releases.

Brandon Conway · Mar 27, 2014

And to be honest, the only other title on the list of licensed films that screams out to me as being more widely known that may sell well on Blu-ray is The Pride of the Yankees (1942).

bujaki · Mar 27, 2014

Oops, my mistake! And I even own Hans Christian Andersen and Guys and Dolls! Still they are not in the same league as the ones coming up. I do agree about Pride of the Yankees. It always chokes me up.
And sorry: by MOD I meant Archive, whether pressed or burned DVD, instead of the Archive BDs they've been releasing.

classicmovieguy · Mar 27, 2014

I'd love to see "Enchantment" make it to Blu-ray one day, but won't hold my breath...

bujaki · Mar 27, 2014

Lovely film, Enchantment. Had never noticed its literary origins. Quite a pedigree.

classicmovieguy · Mar 28, 2014

It's a neglected gem in my book. One of the great performances from Teresa Wright.

JoHud · Mar 28, 2014

There's a fair amount of gems that never even made it to DVD still part of the Goldwyn library. At the very least I hope they eventually end up in the Warner Archive. We got a couple Danny Kayes that were DVD debuts so there's some hope.

ajabrams · Mar 28, 2014

The rest of the Eddie Cantors!!!

David Weicker · Mar 28, 2014

ajabrams said:
The rest of the Eddie Cantors!!!

Actually, a box set of the six Goldwyn Cantors would be welcome

Rodney · Jul 13, 2014

I am glad that people have the ability to get these, but I was really hoping for a Blu-Ray remaster of Ball of Fire.

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