OLD MOVIE TITLES I WOULD LIKE TO SEE ON BLU RAY (1 Viewer)

[M90GM]

My Top Ten?

Just a long list - biased toward technical elements which "expand" on blu ray (i.e. Scope & stereo) for a large format home cinema - I am lucky to have a Cinemascope screen. (2.40).

At the outset we are all grateful to WA for many amazing DVD releases (including many second feature noirs) and extraordinary Blu Rays (from GWTW, Oz to West Was Won, Quo Vadis, and the many musicals including "B's" like Deep in Heart & Hit the Deck).
My list is not really one of favorites but rather a list of "logical" OPTIONS based on critical success &/or at box office.

The most obvious three, I have no doubt, await technical options to be resolved
RAINTREE, RYAN, SOCIETY
then
Interrupted Melody*, Student Prince, Love Me or Leave Me, Rose Marie (*award winning scope/color musicals)

Annie Get Your Gun, Great Caruso, & Showboat (4:3 musicals) & Million Dollar Mermaid, Neptune's Daughter Scaramouche, King Solomon's Mines, Ivanhoe, Mogambo, Long Long Trailer & Cinemascope Stereo - Knights Round Table (1st MGM scope) Quentin Durward, Cimarron.
Then
Blackboard Jungle, Something of Value, Escape Fort Bravo (stereo), Somebody Up There likes Me, Friendly Persuasion, - all largely successful "star" films
And old " out of style " classics that are far better (i.e. more successful box office & awards) options than many "old" blu rays available from 2nd tier labels - Maytime, Blossoms in the Dust, Gaslight, Great Waltz, Random Harvest, Waterloo Bridge, Boom Town, Bad & Beautiful, For Me and my Gal, Great Ziegfeld, Captain's Courageous, Camille, Escape, Mortal Storm, Valley of Decision - "MGM quality" star box office hits .

Those who anxiously wait The Cyclops will laugh at these titles which research must show have no appeal to the buyers of today. But then - I have every movie I want on DVD and have to be satisfied with that!! Thanks Warner Archive for your generosity!!

 

[StarDestroyer52]

Sadie Thompson(1928)
Four Horsemen of the Apocalyse(1921)
Robin Hood(1922)
The Cameraman
It(1927)
The Wind(1928)
Hell's Angels
The remaining Busby Berkeley musicals
Astaire-Rogers musicals
The Thin Man series
A Fugitive on a Chain Gang
She Done Him Wrong
I'm No Angel
Laurel and Hardy films
1930s W.C. Fields
The Story of Temple Drake
Gunga Din
Advise and Consent
The Alamo
Ball of Fire
Captain Blood
Five Graves to Cairo
Mister Roberts
Sergeant Rutledge
A Night at the Opera
Clash by Night
Rancho Notorious

 

[AnthonyClarke]

I'd love Criterion to reissue their Lubitsch box set but this time in Blu ray .. those wonderful Jeanette MacDonald musicals with Maurice Chevalier and Jack Buchanan.

 

[Dick]

Sadie Thompson(1928)
Four Horsemen of the Apocalyse(1921)
Robin Hood(1922)
The Cameraman
It(1927)
The Wind(1928)
Hell's Angels
The remaining Busby Berkeley musicals
Astaire-Rogers musicals
The Thin Man series
A Fugitive on a Chain Gang
She Done Him Wrong
I'm No Angel
Laurel and Hardy films
1930s W.C. Fields
The Story of Temple Drake
Gunga Din
Advise and Consent
The Alamo
Ball of Fire
Captain Blood
Five Graves to Cairo
Mister Roberts
Sergeant Rutledge
A Night at the Opera
Clash by Night
Rancho Notorious

Warner Bros. has been typically mum, since the year Blu-ray was introduced, regarding its silent classics. GREED, THE WIND, THE CROWD....damn! We want these!!

 

[Matt Hough]

We got a beautiful transfer of Love Me or Leave Me last year, and I have enjoyed it several times since buying it.

 

[JohnMor]

We got a beautiful transfer of Love Me or Leave Me last year, and I have enjoyed it several times since buying it.

As have I. I keep hoping The Pajama Game will make it to blu as well.

 

[StarDestroyer52]

Warner Bros. has been typically mum, since the year Blu-ray was introduced, regarding its silent classics. GREED, THE WIND, THE CROWD....damn! We want these!!

Kevin Brownlow, when interviewed at the SF Silent Film Festival earlier this year, lamented the fact they haven't put out the restorations. Its very annoying that Warner won't release them or allow someone like Criterion to put them out.

https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/interview-kevin-brownlow/

 

[cinemiracle]

BLACK TIGHTS - it was brilliant when I saw it 70 mm on a 62 ft wide curved screen. The current dvd is rather poor in quality.

 

[DP 70]

I saw Black Tights in 70mm on the Cinerama screen in Bradford years ago the print was pink
but 6 track stereo sounded great.

 

[Dick]

Kevin Brownlow, when interviewed at the SF Silent Film Festival earlier this year, lamented the fact they haven't put out the restorations. Its very annoying that Warner won't release them or allow someone like Criterion to put them out.

https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/interview-kevin-brownlow/

I just sent a message to WBHE that included a link to this article and highlighted that specific paragraph. Can't hurt, and the more of us who write to them, the better. This sort of campaign CAN work.

 

[Mysto]

No surprise on some of my wants if you visit the 30's & 40's mystery series thread.
The Thin Man series
Charlie Chan series
but also...
Astaire & Rogers series

many others but that's a start

 

[Alan Tully]

A wants list thread, that's a good idea

I'm thinking of the films I saw on TV in the late fifties & early sixties that cemented my love of films. This is not a moan, as I have great looking Blu-rays of many of those films, more of a: Pease sir, I want some more.

Here's ten:

Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
Beau Geste ((1939) I think this has had a Blu-ray release in Australia, & I have a nice looking HD transfer that I recorded off air.
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Northwest Passage (1940) I'm thinking this is not very likely, as I understand the elements are in a bit of a state.
Boom Town (1940)
The Ghost Breakers (1940)
All That Money Can Buy (aka The Devil & Daniel Webster 1941). A masterpiece.
The Road To Utopia (1945) & nach, I want the others as well.
The Big Sky (1952)
Scaramouche (1952).

 

[Dick]

A wants list thread, that's a good idea

I'm thinking of the films I saw on TV in the late fifties & early sixties that cemented my love of films. This is not a moan, as I have great looking Blu-rays of many of those films, more of a: Pease sir, I want some more.

Here's ten:

Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
Beau Geste ((1939) I think this has had a Blu-ray release in Australia, & I have a nice looking HD transfer that I recorded off air.
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Northwest Passage (1940) I'm thinking this is not very likely, as I understand the elements are in a bit of a state.
Boom Town (1940)
The Ghost Breakers (1940)
All That Money Can Buy (aka The Devil & Daniel Webster 1941). A masterpiece.
The Road To Utopia (1945) & nach, I want the others as well.
The Big Sky (1952)
Scaramouche (1952).

I would love to own any of the titles in your list.

FYI: re: NORTHWEST PASSAGE, the movie actually only covers the first half of Kenneth Roberts' novel. That was a wise choice. The second half of the book is a slow and surprisingly unengaging (as Roberts -- from my state of Maine -- was a dynamic writer) slog that leads basically nowhere...the passage is never found, and the characters are essentially no longer part of the adventurous events that ended where the movie did. I would love to see a filmization of Robert's Arundel and Rabble In Arms, which covered the Revolutionary War from the perspective of Maine and Portsmouth, NH characters in great and fascinating detail. I highly recommend reading those books.

 

[Garysb]

How about the Gable /Tracy movies
San Francisco
Test Pilot
Boom Town

Gable/Harlow

The Secret Six
Red Dust
China Seas
Saratoga
Wife Versus Secretary
Hold Your Man

Ah for the days of Warner Bros. Signature Collections

 

[Rick Thompson]

As have I. I keep hoping The Pajama Game will make it to blu as well.

And its running mate, Damn Yankees.

 

[RICK BOND]

Oliver Twist (1948) David Lean's version. This year is the films 70th Anniversary. Criterion released the dvd years ago. I have it. But why NO Bluray ??? The Best version ever with GREAT acting performances. There is a French Bluray, but it's over priced, and I never saw a review on it. Anyone ??

 

[Ed Lachmann]

Warner Bros. has been typically mum, since the year Blu-ray was introduced, regarding its silent classics. GREED, THE WIND, THE CROWD....damn! We want these!!

Don't forget the other silent masterpieces already restored by Kevin Brownlow and Photoplay: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg and the elusive Greed. And want them we most certainly do!

 

[StarDestroyer52]

Don't forget the other silent masterpieces already restored by Kevin Brownlow and Photoplay: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg and the elusive Greed. And want them we most certainly do!

Especially Greed and Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. It's a major crime that these films aren't on BluRay. I also forgot to state A Woman of Affairs which is one of Garbo's best and has a very young Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

 

[cinemiracle]

I would love to see a bluray release of THE YELLOW ROLLS ROYCE. It was a very popular movie where I worked. Superb cast and unforgettable music.

 

[Matt Hough]

I would love to see a bluray release of THE YELLOW ROLLS ROYCE. It was a very popular movie where I worked. Superb cast and unforgettable music.

I second that. It's another movie I saw at Radio City Music Hall during our bi-annual trips to NYC for shopping, sightseeing, and theater, and though I don't watch my DVD that often, I'd love to have it on Blu-ray with its distinguished cast looking their best.

"Forget Domani"!