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Don't forget about Mamie and Vampira in Zugsmith's Sex Kittens Go To College!

Las Vegas Shakedown is on dvd from Something Weird Video.

Do you mean twenty minutes in each movie or twenty minutes with all three movies combined?

Where is this column located?

Yeah, I can't believe The Sea Wolf has never been released, and I've never even heard any rumblings about the possibility. Wassup wit' dat???

It's about freakin' time. Jeez!

Wow, thanks for taking the time to put that list together!

Nice list. I'm looking forward to seeing THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY, which has been out-of-print for a loooooong time. Also the Cantor movies.

GRAND CENTRAL MURDER's script was written by Peter Ruric (real name George Sims; also wrote pulp stories as Paul Cain), the same guy who wrote the classic Karloff/Lugosi film THE BLACK CAT.

There's a trailer for THREE BAD SISTERS on the dvd-r, "CRIME WAVE USA GANGSTERAMA SHOW" from Something Weird video. Has a great pulpy, melodramatic feel.

Edgar Bergan and Charlie McCarthy were in a number of movies, although I don't know that I'd say those movies were "about ventriloquism".

The Great Gabbo (1929)--stars Erich von Stoheim

Good idea. Maybe they can package it as "HAL ROACH COMEDY ALL-STARS", or something like that.

MY SON JOHN (1952): The best anti-Commie film ever!!!!!!!!!!

MY SON JOHN (1952): Anti-Commie flick starring Robert (STRANGERS ON A TRAIN) Walker, and directed by Leo (GOING MY WAY) McCarey. Walker's last film. HANDS UP (1926): Best film of forgotten comedian Raymond Griffith.

SCCTM brings back memories. In the early eighties, when I was about ten years old, Tom Hatten used to play it on his "Family Film Festival" on KTLA.

Just having a bit of fun, although I probably should have waited 'till April Fool's Day.

Well, why not? (I suppose some joker will answer, "Well, why?")

John, I think you've got a good point, although to me, Garfield's acting style occupies an interesting place in film history. He's kind of a bridge between the older, presentational styles of Bogart, Cagney, and Robinson, and the method-type acting style of Brando, Clift, and James Dean...

Maybe not enough for another Gangster collection, but certainly plenty of titles for another Warners Tough Guys collection, featuring Cagney, Robinson and Bogart in gritty urban settings. Cagney: Sinner's Holiday, Blonde Crazy, Taxi!, The Crowd Roars, Winner Take All, Hard To Handle, Jimmy...

Yes!!! This project has been in the works for a couple of years and is now finally ready to be released. http://groups.google.com/group/alt.movies.silent/browse_thread/thread/465f1972ab806007# http://www.flickeralley.com/fat_chaplin_01.html

Add me as another potential customer for any Wheeler and Woolsey or Eddie Cantor releases. Or any of Clark and McCullough's RKO short subjects, though I don't know if Warner owns them.

Eddie Brandt's Saturday Matinee in North Hollywood, CA, also has a number of archive titles to rent. From what I remember from flipping through the titles, there were about sixty, and they seemed to be from the first few waves of releases.

I like it. Very nice work!

Donald Deschner's THE FILMS OF W.C. FIELDS (1966) lists it as 90 minutes. Deschner only provides a synopsis and vintage reviews, so there are no comments about different running times.

By the way, buying The Joker Is Wild does not violate copyright laws. Selling it does. However, discussing bootlegs is against the rules here at HTF, so there's a chance this thread will be deleted, anyway.

Jim, Regarding "SING SING", I find myself sitting on the horns of an interesting dilemma (ouch!). IMDB does indeed list it as being released on December 24, 1932. (What a great movie to get you into the Christmas spirit!) Yet Allmovie.com lists it as 1933. Book-wise, LEONARD MALTIN'S CLASSIC...

I don't know how I forgot BEAST OF THE CITY, a great pre-code film with an incredibly (and literally) explosive ending. Available from Warner Archives. 20,000 YEARS IN SING SING was released in 1933. TWO SECONDS is another favorite of mine. Don't think I'd call it a gangster film, though, even...

I don't think you'll find much out there for that particular year. THE OVERLOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA: THE GANGSTER FILM lists NIGHT AFTER NIGHT as a gangster film, which is availabel on Universal's Mae West set. The movie is pretty dead until Mae arrives on the scene, mostly due to the star, George...

I really like your post. Balanced and relistic, and not quick to jump to conclusions. In fact, you don't jump to any conclusions, which is even better. You don't theorize, hypothesize, or make an assumption that would cause a thread-wide panic.