Directors Obscure films that you would love to see on DVD. (1 Viewer)

[Jay E]

By obscure, I mean films that no one talks about at this forum or anywhere else. Films that you think no one else would know or care about. Personaly, I am restricting this to English Language films as Foreign films would give me too many choices. As it is, there are too many to name so I'll just pick 10 at random:
Dirty Little Billy
Fine Madness, A
Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The
Incident, The
Island of Terror
Joe
Melody
Straight Time
Torture Chamber of Dr Sadism
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[george kaplan]

Well lots of obscure movies to the general public are discussed here. The following are movies I want on dvd that follow your definition of obscure, in that I can't recall them ever being mentioned in a thread here, although I'm sure lots of members have heard of the movies.
The Long, Long Trailer
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mosby's Marauders
Third Man on the Mountain
Night Train to Munich
The Paleface
Houseboat
A Guide for the Married Man
Man's Favorite Sport
Up in Arms
The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
The Reluctant Astronaut
The Shakiest Gun in the West
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Fun with Dick & Jane
Sorry, Wrong Number
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The Chipmunk Adventure
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[JonZ]

Nowhere
Fugazi Documentary(Dont know the name of it, but tey play it on Sundance Channel, which just got the boot from my cable company

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The Gods Must be Crazy
Quest for Fire

 

[Peter Mazur]

"Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin" (The 3-D animated film)
"Rock & Rule"
And another vote for "Fun with Dick & Jane"
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[Jay E]

George
I have 5 of your films on Laser:
The Long, Long Trailer
Houseboat
The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
The Reluctant Astronaut
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
I love the title song of The Guide for the Married Man by the "Turtles". Even though I've never seen the film, I would buy the DVD just to hear that.

 

[Jeff_A]

First and foremost The Fearless Vampire Killers.

Others I was thinking of the other day:
Imitation Of Life (1934)
A Letter To Three Wives (1949)
Shenandoah (1965)
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)
Also, George Kaplan's list reminded me of the classic Don Knotts movies. I would love to see these released on DVD.

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Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)?
[Edited last by Jeff Amaris on October 11, 2001 at 05:30 PM]

 

[Steve Christou]

Obscure or forgotten films I'd like to see on DVD include...
The Skull (1965)
Dr.Terrors House of Horrors (1965)
Night of the Demon (1958)
House of Usher (1960)
Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
The Raven (1963)
Masque of the Red Death (1964)
And many Hammer Horror classics too many to mention.

 

[george kaplan]

George
I have 5 of your films on Laser:
The Long, Long Trailer
Houseboat
The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
The Reluctant Astronaut
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

I envy you. Of those 5, I only have the Long, Long Trailer on ld (my wife and I watch it each year on Valentine's Day).
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[Alex Spindler]

The Swarm!
The Deadly Bees!
oh, and The Boneyard. Silly to the extreme, but any horror movie with Phyllis Diller and this cover can't be too bad!
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[Mikel_Cooperman]

Night of the Comet
Damnation Alley
Cant By Me Love
Just One of the Guys

 

[RicP]

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

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[Kevin Leonard]

The Thin Blue Line
Gates of Heaven
A Brief History of Time
Three of the best documentaries I've ever seen, and they're all directed by the same guy, Errol Morris. If you're feeling a bit adventurous, I highly recommend you go out and buy or rent his latest film, Mr. Death. A great piece of work.
Oh, and I'll throw in another vote for Fearless Vampire Killers. But ONLY if it's Polanski's original cut.
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[Dome Vongvises]

Three of the best documentaries I've ever seen, and they're all directed by the same guy, Errol Morris.

The Thin Blue Line I'll admit is an extremely well-made documentary, but I fail to see what the big deal is. I can't help but think it's an overglorified episode of Unsolved Mysteries with its dramatic reenactments and use of film score. Somebody care to educate me

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Oh, for my choice of obscure film titles
Toby and the Koala Bear
Dot and the Kangaroo
Dot and Santa Clause
Dot and Joey
All three films are pioneers in the cartoon/live action hybrid. And this all coming from a guy that loves blood and guts like The Godfather and Scarface.
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[SteveGon]

The Reflecting Skin - if you like David Lynch's films, you like this.
Men with Guns - didn't anyone else see this John Sayles film? Shoot! This was filmed in Spanish...
Santa Sangre - Alejandro Jodorowsky at his hallucinatory best.
The Ninth Configuration - not so much obscure as underrated. I can't believe you guys [apparently] haven't seen this...
Voyager - stars Sam Shepard and Julie Delphy. This is an adaptation of Max Frisch's novel Homo Faber.
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[Bill McA]

House of Usher (1960)
Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

Both are currently available on MGM DVD!
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[Brook K]

Sante Sangre
Superfly - ok, maybe it's not obscure but I haven't seen it discussed much and it's the one blaxploitation classic not on DVD.
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
Gates of Heaven
To Be Or Not To Be
Miracle At Morgan Creek
Hail The Conquering Hero
The Wind (1927)
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[KeithH]

This will probably never come to DVD, but I would like to see Something for Joey, the made-for-TV movie of John Cappelletti winning the 1973 Heisman Trophy at Penn State for his brother, Joey, who was dying of leukemia. The movie aired on TV many years ago and is never on anymore. I am a Penn State grad. and passed up the chance to get the movie on videotape when I was in State College last fall. When I went back there in February, the one store that had it was sold out and said they would not be getting it again.

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[John Besse]

Duck Tails - Treasure of the lost lamp
Bedazzled (original version)
A Futurama and Family Guy Box set
Song of the South
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