Kino-Lorber Insider Announcement Thread (Read Guidelines Post #3) (11 Viewers)

[bujaki]

I may have missed, or forgotten, the Aspect Ratio information on the release of There's Always Tomorrow. The DVD release was in the wrong AR. Will the BD be in the correct widescreen aspect ratio, as was the European DVD release?

 

[Robert Crawford]

I may have missed, or forgotten, the Aspect Ratio information on the release of There's Always Tomorrow. The DVD release was in the wrong AR. Will the BD be in the correct widescreen aspect ratio, as was the European DVD release?

It's 1.85 ratio.

 

[Thomas T]

I must have missed any previous announcement on All I Desire and There's Always Tomorrow! While I'm definitely upgrading to blu rays on those two, I'm keeping the R2 Eureka TAT DVD for the hour long Douglas Sirk documentary and the 40 page booklet accompanying the disc.

 

[Barnduke98]

I can wait Carole Lombard another film 1933 film. I thought did you say Kino Lorber Have one horror 1930s The Secret of blue room Or The Mystery of Edwin Drood Between They Say Awhile Back and Maybe Will Happen?

 

[Corn Pop]

Question: Has anyone at Kino Lorber considered releasing the 1956 comedy The Green Man? This is my favorite comedy of all-time. It's perfect. Screenplay by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. I would love to see a proper blu-ray release with audio commentary and special features, similar to what Kino Lorber did with their release last year of the Alec Guinness film The Man in the White Suit.

The Green Man (1956) ⭐ 7.1 | Comedy, Crime

1h 20m | Not Rated

www.imdb.com

 

[TheSteig]

I hope for Secret of the Blue Room and The Cheat, I hope KL has those !

 

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Coming August 18th!

Wake Island (1942)
• NEW Audio Commentary by Filmmaker/Historian Steve Mitchell and Combat Films: American Realism Author Steven Jay Rubin
• Theatrical Trailer
• Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
• Optional English Subtitles

B&W 88 Minutes 1.37:1 Not Rated
They fought their way to glory! From John Farrow, the acclaimed director of Five Came Back, Calcutta, The Big Clock, Night Has a Thousand Eyes and Plunder of the Sun, comes this thrilling World War II classic starring Brian Donlevy (The Great McGinty), Robert Preston (Beau Geste), Macdonald Carey (Shadow of a Doubt), Albert Dekker (Dr. Cyclops) and William Bendix (Lifeboat). The first realistic American film made about World War II, this hard-hitting drama is based on the incredible true story of a handful of U.S. Marines holding out against an overwhelming Japanese air, land and sea assault and battling their way to glory and into the pages of history. Wake Island received Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor (Bendix) and Original Screenplay (W. R. Burnett, Frank Butler).

Red Ball Express (1952)
• NEW Audio Commentary by Filmmaker/Historian Steve Mitchell and Combat Films: American Realism Author Steven Jay Rubin
• Trailers
• Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
• Optional English Subtitles

B&W 83 Minutes 1.37:1 Not Rated
From Budd Boetticher, the legendary director of Bullfighter and the Lady, Horizons West, The Killer Is Loose, 7 Men from Now and Comanche Station, comes this action-packed World War II classic starring Jeff Chandler (Man in the Shadow), Alex Nicol (The Sleeping City), Charles Drake (No Name on the Bullet) and screen great Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field). During the height of the war, General Patton’s Third Army is in desperate need of supplies after a successful invasion of Paris. An elite military truck force is established to deliver goods to the soldiers. Members of this platoon must not only withstand minefields and Nazi resistance, they must also learn to overcome their personal and racial prejudices towards one another. Red Ball Express is a gripping, powerful action-thriller based on true events. Hugh O’Brian (Ambush Bay) and Jack Kelly (Young Billy Young) lead the strong supporting cast.

Raid on Rommel (1971)
• NEW Audio Commentary by Filmmaker/Historian Steve Mitchell and Combat Films: American Realism Author Steven Jay Rubin
• Theatrical Trailer
• Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
• Optional English Subtitles

Color 99 Minutes 2.35:1 Not Rated
From Henry Hathaway, the outstanding director of The Shepherd of the Hills, The House on 92nd Street, Kiss of Death, Rawhide, 23 Paces to Baker Street and True Grit, comes this explosive WWII action-adventure starring screen legend Richard Burton (Where Eagles Dare) as a British intelligence officer who leads a daring attack on the German shore defenses at Tobruk. Infiltrating a German POW convoy, Captain Foster (Burton) learns that the commandos he hoped to link up with have been almost completely wiped out and the prisoners belong to a British medical unit. Aided by MacKenzie (John Colicos, Phobia), one of the surviving commandos, Foster whips the ragtag band of POWs into a fighting force—only to stumble into an unexpected meeting with the infamous Desert Fox, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (Wolfgang Preiss, The Train). Co-starring Karl-Otto Alberty (Kelly's Heroes).

 

[Kino Lorber Insider]

I missed the news about Wake Island.

Is Ladybug Ladybug still happening? It was announced last summer.

Wake Island and many of these others were confirmed with the update, you didn't miss anything.

LB LB is coming soon.

 

[Kino Lorber Insider]

I must have missed any previous announcement on All I Desire and There's Always Tomorrow! While I'm definitely upgrading to blu rays on those two, I'm keeping the R2 Eureka TAT DVD for the hour long Douglas Sirk documentary and the 40 page booklet accompanying the disc.

And you didn't miss anything either. These were just confirmed.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Coming August 18th!

Wake Island (1942)
• NEW Audio Commentary by Filmmaker/Historian Steve Mitchell and Combat Films: American Realism Author Steven Jay Rubin
• Theatrical Trailer
• Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
• Optional English Subtitles

B&W 88 Minutes 1.37:1 Not Rated
They fought their way to glory! From John Farrow, the acclaimed director of Five Came Back, Calcutta, The Big Clock, Night Has a Thousand Eyes and Plunder of the Sun, comes this thrilling World War II classic starring Brian Donlevy (The Great McGinty), Robert Preston (Beau Geste), Macdonald Carey (Shadow of a Doubt), Albert Dekker (Dr. Cyclops) and William Bendix (Lifeboat). The first realistic American film made about World War II, this hard-hitting drama is based on the incredible true story of a handful of U.S. Marines holding out against an overwhelming Japanese air, land and sea assault and battling their way to glory and into the pages of history. Wake Island received Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor (Bendix) and Original Screenplay (W. R. Burnett, Frank Butler).

Red Ball Express (1952)
• NEW Audio Commentary by Filmmaker/Historian Steve Mitchell and Combat Films: American Realism Author Steven Jay Rubin
• Trailers
• Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
• Optional English Subtitles

B&W 83 Minutes 1.37:1 Not Rated
From Budd Boetticher, the legendary director of Bullfighter and the Lady, Horizons West, The Killer Is Loose, 7 Men from Now and Comanche Station, comes this action-packed World War II classic starring Jeff Chandler (Man in the Shadow), Alex Nicol (The Sleeping City), Charles Drake (No Name on the Bullet) and screen great Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field). During the height of the war, General Patton’s Third Army is in desperate need of supplies after a successful invasion of Paris. An elite military truck force is established to deliver goods to the soldiers. Members of this platoon must not only withstand minefields and Nazi resistance, they must also learn to overcome their personal and racial prejudices towards one another. Red Ball Express is a gripping, powerful action-thriller based on true events. Hugh O’Brian (Ambush Bay) and Jack Kelly (Young Billy Young) lead the strong supporting cast.

Raid on Rommel (1971)
• NEW Audio Commentary by Filmmaker/Historian Steve Mitchell and Combat Films: American Realism Author Steven Jay Rubin
• Theatrical Trailer
• Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
• Optional English Subtitles

Color 99 Minutes 2.35:1 Not Rated
From Henry Hathaway, the outstanding director of The Shepherd of the Hills, The House on 92nd Street, Kiss of Death, Rawhide, 23 Paces to Baker Street and True Grit, comes this explosive WWII action-adventure starring screen legend Richard Burton (Where Eagles Dare) as a British intelligence officer who leads a daring attack on the German shore defenses at Tobruk. Infiltrating a German POW convoy, Captain Foster (Burton) learns that the commandos he hoped to link up with have been almost completely wiped out and the prisoners belong to a British medical unit. Aided by MacKenzie (John Colicos, Phobia), one of the surviving commandos, Foster whips the ragtag band of POWs into a fighting force—only to stumble into an unexpected meeting with the infamous Desert Fox, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (Wolfgang Preiss, The Train). Co-starring Karl-Otto Alberty (Kelly's Heroes).

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Kino, you're making me a very happy man. Great job! By the way, I love those audio commentaries by Mitchell and Rubin.

 

[Kino Lorber Insider]

I may have missed, or forgotten, the Aspect Ratio information on the release of There's Always Tomorrow. The DVD release was in the wrong AR. Will the BD be in the correct widescreen aspect ratio, as was the European DVD release?

It's 1.85 ratio.

Our release will be 1.85:1

 

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Question: Has anyone at Kino Lorber considered releasing the 1956 comedy The Green Man? This is my favorite comedy of all-time. It's perfect. Screenplay by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. I would love to see a proper blu-ray release with audio commentary and special features, similar to what Kino Lorber did with their release last year of the Alec Guinness film The Man in the White Suit.

No.

 

[Barnduke98]

QUestion: WHen COnsidered come out HOrror 1930s THe Secret of the BLue Room Gloria Stuart and The Mystery Of Edwin Drood Kino LOrber anything confirm yet?

 

[battlebeast]

I had a feeling WAKE ISLAND was coming! I
Mentioned it a while ago, “I wonder if WAKE ISLAND is coming?”

and I was right!

TENDER MERCIES and WAKE ISLAND in August! Woot!

VERY HAPPY MR. INSIDER!!

 

[Robin9]

Question: Has anyone at Kino Lorber considered releasing the 1956 comedy The Green Man? This is my favorite comedy of all-time. It's perfect. Screenplay by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. I would love to see a proper blu-ray release with audio commentary and special features, similar to what Kino Lorber did with their release last year of the Alec Guinness film The Man in the White Suit.

The Green Man (1956) ⭐ 7.1 | Comedy, Crime

1h 20m | Not Rated

www.imdb.com

It's just been released on Blu-ray in the U. K.

 

[Randy Korstick]

Great news on Wake Island and Red Ball Express. Finally one of the Jeff Chandler titles I want. Now bring on Away all Boats, Yankee Pasha, Yankee Buccaneer and War Arrow.

 

[dana martin]

I'm really surprised that they didn't take the Doug Sirk / Barbara Stanwyck pictures and roll them in with something else and make a second volume of Barbara Stanwyck collection

 

[Corn Pop]

No.

Thank you for the quick answer. I’ve looked up the Studio Canal blu-Ray since my initial question, and I may have to get a region-free blu-Ray player to enjoy that one.

It's just been released on Blu-ray in the U. K.

Thank you. The only problem is that it is region B and it doesn’t have an audio commentary. But otherwise it sounds great.

 

[Thomas T]

I'm really surprised that they didn't take the Doug Sirk / Barbara Stanwyck pictures and roll them in with something else and make a second volume of Barbara Stanwyck collection

Or a Douglas Sirk box set along with Written On The Wind, A Time To Love And A Time To Die, Interlude and Battle Hymn, none of which have received a R1 blu ray release.

 

[ahollis]

Thank you for the quick answer. I’ve looked up the Studio Canal blu-Ray since my initial question, and I may have to get a region-free blu-Ray player to enjoy that one.

Thank you. The only problem is that it is region B and it doesn’t have an audio commentary. But otherwise it sounds great.

You will never regret the decision to to go Region free. It’s like a breath of fresh air.