atfree
Senior HTF Member
From "The Film Detective"...... http://www.homemediamagazine.com/news/new-indie-distributor-focuses-public-domain-titles-34245
Those were my sentiments exactly when I saw it at a Jennifer Jones festival at the Norton Simon Museum a few years back. What a snoozer!AnthonyClarke said:I watched 'Beat the Devil' only two nights ago.
What a crock! Much as I love Bogie, this is really scraping the barrel .. just an opportunity for Bogie, his friend Peter Lorre and John Ford to take a mates' holiday together.
Mind you, anything with the lovely Gina Lollobrigida in it can't be all bad ...
Reeediculous. This is a great film with a wonderful script by Huston and Truman Capote. Unfortunately, when released and today, it is such an idiosyncratic film that most people don't get it. One really has to have an appreciation for the ridiculous to like it (to me, although the subject matter is different, the humor is very similar in many ways to the Albert Brooks film Modern Romance). Hopefully, the quality on this will be good and I can retire my p.d. dvd sourced from the old Sony VHS.AnthonyClarke said:I watched 'Beat the Devil' only two nights ago.
What a crock! Much as I love Bogie, this is really scraping the barrel .. just an opportunity for Bogie, his friend Peter Lorre and John Ford to take a mates' holiday together.
Mind you, anything with the lovely Gina Lollobrigida in it can't be all bad ...
Difference of opinion as this film didn't float his boat. I will buy this BD if the PQ is decent enough.JoeDoakes said:Reeediculous. This is a great film with a wonderful script by Huston and Truman Capote. Unfortunately, when released and today, it is such an idiosyncratic film that most people don't get it. One really has to have an appreciation for the ridiculous to like it (to me, although the subject matter is different, the humor is very similar in many ways to the Albert Brooks film Modern Romance). Hopefully, the quality on this will be good and I can retire my p.d. dvd sourced from the old Sony VHS.
Yes, previously they were known as The Film Chest / HD Cinema Classics. They've already released the following PD title BDs to varying degree of quality: Carnival Magic (1981), Dementia 13 (1963), Kansas City Confidential (1952), Poor Pretty Eddie (1975), The Red House (1947), Second Chorus (1940), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), The Stranger (1946), Suddenly (1954), The Terror (1963), and Zaat (1971).Mark-P said:So I take it that The Film Detective is a public domain company that is branching into Blu-ray? While these PD titles will be welcomed in HD, I don't hold out a whole lot of hope that the elements will be very good. Still it's better than nothing at all.