Isn't it about time for The African Queen? (1 Viewer)

[Adam_S]

haggai's right, brain fart, should be kibosh
I've no idea why I said kibbutz, maybe I'd eaten too much at Canters that night and had yiddishy words on the brain.

 

[Jacqui]

It's been available in Australia for years. My father purchased it for me a long time ago.

 

[Mike Frezon]

How does the copyright system work that another company can import an R1 NTSC copy of The African Queen into the U.S. without Paramount's approval?

 

[Michael Rogers]

My guess is that Paramount only possesses domestic rights to this film which was not originally made by Paramount Pictures.

 

[seanOhara]

Very tempting, but I think I'll wait for DVD Beaver or a similar site to review it.

 

[Yumbo]

Nice Asian text on front cover.

 

[LarryH]

Believe it or not, I think the term you had in mind is kibosh.

Google this to find an interesting article on worldwidewords.org.

 

[Bonnie*F]

Personally would love to get ahold of African Queen - it's one of the lower numbers on my want list. Translation: it's been there a long time. The only one that's been on the list longer is Forbidden Planet and oh, look! Next week!
So it's a matter of time. Hopefully Paramount is not waiting for the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray format is settle itself into one or the other before releasing it.

 

[Paul_Nyman]

Well Bill Hunt never responded to my email months ago about the films restoration status. It's still listed along with The Jazz Singer as the last two AFI Top 100 Films unavailable on DVD too.

link to old AFI film list: http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/top100dvd.html

I was hoping for some progress all these years. Oh well!

 

[Egbert Souse]

Does anyone know if this great film will ever be released on DVD?Almost every other Bogart film has been released,but not this one,One of his best,and Katherine Hepburns best,IMO.Just curious.

 

[Charles H]

Back in 1961, James Coburn and Glynis Johns filmed a pilot for a series to be based on THE AFRICAN QUEEN that was aired on "The Dick Powell Theater." It was called SAFARI. There were also rumors of a remake in the late sixties to star Lee Marvin and Doris Day. It would be nice if Paramount took the initiative to record a commentary involving the participation of Theodore Bikel and Peter Viertal.

 

[Thomas T]

Charles, there was a TV movie remake of African Queen with Warren Oates and Mariette Hartley.

Paramount seems uninterested in its catalogue of older films. However, since they have apparently licensed Lindsay Anderson's If and Billy Wilder's Ace In The Hole to Criterion, is it too much too hope for that they'll also license African Queen to them, also?

 

[Corey]

A Criterion version of The African Queen would be marvelous. I know it would just be packed with extras.

 

[DanFe]

I bought mine on a Region 2 Japanese release about 3 years ago. It's this one:

http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%82%A2%E3...4760720&sr=8-3

Don't remember it costing 3990 yen, though, more like 2500 yen. Most have been on sale.

 

[Adam_S]

I just hope Paramount does better with providing quality elements to Criterion than they did to Anchor Bay (Quiet Man etc, they weren't allowed access to materials to produce new transfers and had make due with the old tape transfers)

 

[Patrick McCart]

Paramount licensed the Republic library to Lionsgate, not Anchor Bay.

 

[Mark Edward Heuck]

The problem is compounded now because since Lionsgate has taken over for Artisan in handling the Republic library, they're not much interested in improved transfers. While LIVE NUDE GIRLS did get a new 16x9 presentation, and a similar treatment is promised for THE MONSTER SQUAD, Lionsgate reissued FREEWAY in the same non-anamorphic transfer from the old disc, and Charlton Heston's JULIUS CAESAR, a scope film, is still panscanned in its new DVD release.

 

[Vincent-P]

Are you sure Freeway is non-anamorphic? The disc isn't out yet, but the back cover on DVDEmpire shows it being 16x9 enhanced.

 

[Mark Edward Heuck]

This is the first I've heard of the disc being anamorphic; everything else I had read suggested it was merely a repackaging of the old disc.

 

[Joel Vardy]

Another year has passed with no word. By far, the most anticipated unreleased title for me. I believe someone once said that this will be the 'last' of the AFI list to be released -- which leaves the Jazz Singer ('27) yet to be released next... any word on that title?

Joel