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2nd copy of French The Virgin Queen also no play. Clearly a bad batch that needs sending back and remaking! Very frustrating.

Yes, I was very disappointed with the disc. Also it’s been shown on tv a few times and no version has ever been what I’d call top notch.

Could Disney taking over Fox be the reason the first movie released under the Twentieth Century Studios banner, The Call of the Wild, be more of a Disney animation than an action movie about a remarkable dog?

Circle of Deception , a rather good WW2 thriller from 1960, had a showing on UK tv last week. Unfortunately it was full screen. I contacted the channel who told me it was sourced from a 16mm print as it is yet another lost film.

Agreed with the snore verdict. No excitement, very little of Berlin, no tension, just lots of jaw jaw in offices. The opening scenes made me hope for something good, a Cold War thriller along the lines of the later Quiller Memorandum that made such good use of its Berlin locations. But once the...

Though I think Fall of The Roman Empire was as spectacular especially the scenes set in the amazing Forum set. Pity the movie flopped. It had everything one expects from an epic, and was far superior to the attempted remake Gladiator.

Can someone tell me why Disney felt they had to remove the name Fox from the company name? Officially it was “because the name Fox has become toxic because of Murdoch,“ but that surely shouldn’t kill the reputation of a wonderful and long standing studio. What’s next? Disney buying Miramax so...

Just taken delivery of Night People. Superb transfer though again I’m always disappointed by a Cinemascope film that doesn’t use the Newman extension music on the Fox logo. The film is really slow with the action taking place chiefly inside if action is the right word as it’s a very talky movie...

Oklahoma was nearly made in Cinemascope 55, the strange format used for Carousel and The King and I then abandoned. It was the first film shot using Todd AO but few theatres were set up to show movies using the format so they filmed it in 35mm at the same time. There was a film Sinatra started...

The Big Gamble had a showing on UK tv last night. Unfortunately it wasn’t a Cinemascope print and not a very good transfer. One of Zanuck’s vehicles to make a star of Juliette Greco his mistress and protégée at the time, 1960. I adored her and she passed this week at the ripe old age of 98...

I‘m sure the Todd Ao screen in London wasn’t curved. Don’t recall any of the 70mm movie presentations being on a curved screen, giant one yes, but only Cinerama screen was curved.

So you have never seen it in Todd Ao on a giant screen? If true you’ve never seen it in all it’s glory.

Not sure this I correct as I saw the movie the week it opened In the west end of London at the Dominion Theatre and it ran over four hours. When put out later on the Rank circuit it was cut by almost an hour so they could get three showings a day in!

Land of the Pharoahs had a beautiful transfer shown on UK tv last year, but I’m dying to see an HD restoration of Helen of Troy which is a movie I’ve always loved. I’m amazed at which movies get restored and which don’t. I wonder who decides that some of the rubbish comedies that get upgraded...

And Mankiewicz intended to release two films Cleopatra and Caesar and Cleopatra and Anthony, but the scandal of the Taylor Burton love affair derailed that as Burton would hardly appear in the first film and not get together with Taylor until the second. But reading about the missing material...

Watched Story of Ruth last week, though not on Blu Ray. Not a bad movie though very much in the 60s Biblical epic style. Would be great to see it polished up in HD!

Just dug out my two Blu Rays. The French release by Sidonis could have used the same transfer as TT as it’s rather good, though not quite as awesome as the one broadcast on tv. The Scandinavian release in comparison is a disgrace. Just found a TT copy on amazon for the bargain price of $236...

TT Blu Rays that are out of print are very expensive to get hold of. And as I said the transfer shown on French tv last year was gorgeous anyway so I’ll make do with that until a cheap TT copy turns up. If one ever does. i still think The Comancheros will take some beating though.

From my point of view the best Blu Ray of 20th Century Fox Cinemascope movie I have in my collection is the R1 release of The Comancheros, which simply looks gorgeous. This is followed by the French Tender Is The Night, The Long Hot Summer, and the beautiful Black and White The Innocents. Any...

Just watched Stopover Tokyo from 1957 and typical of many of the movies Fox made during this period, colourful Cinemascope travelogues. Robert Wagner at his most wooden stars in a plot about Edmond O’Brian wanting to assassinate the Cultural Commissioner and disrupt Japanese American relations...

My request was for Blu Rays releases. The list you quote is of the titles of the movies and what and where DVDs have been released, or which have had no release at all.

Does anybody have a comprehensive list of 20th Century Fox Cinemascope movies with the Cinemascope ident available on Blu Ray, no matter where, USA, UK, Spain, France, Japan, anywhere?

Any good? Always liked Gregory Peck. Worked with him on movie he made in England in 1969. Really nice man.

Anybody know anything about the Gregory Peck movie Night People? It’s poster says 20th Century Fox Cinemascope Picture but isn’t in any of the lists I’ve seen of that catalo.

But is i But on Blu Ray?

A movie I worked on in 1976 The Message has seen no proper widescreen release anywhere yet it is billed on Blu Ray as HD but is pan and scan.

You’re lucky. I searched it on my iTunes in France and again on UK site and both show up as Full screen with a black and white trailer! Where did you get yours?

The Virgin Queen on iTunes is ghastly full screen.

DeLuxe quality could differ as it was sometimes processed by Technicolor sometimes by other labs used to Eastman Color which was never as rich.

I understand your reasoning about copyright but my point is why if these films exist in decent transfers somewhere are they not available on disc? Seems crazy to me. I’d buy a copy of The Virgin Queen and The Story of Ruth in an instant on Blu Ray. how many here wouldn’t? Disney are destroying...