Possible Warner director boxes for 2005 (1 Viewer)

[John Hodson]

Yup; the Peckinpah set should be The Wild Bunch SE, Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid SE, Ride The High Country, The Ballad of Cable Hogue and if we're really good, Warners may revisit The Getaway as an SE.

 

[Dorian Gray]

Count me in for some Fritz Lang, Anthony Mann and Nicholas Ray boxsets !

I would add Robert Aldrich too :
- The Legend of Lylah Clare (MGM)
- The Angry Hills (MGM ?)
- Whatever Happened to Baby Jane S.E. (WB)
- The Dirty Dozen S.E. (MGM) with accurate aspect ratio (NOT 2.20:1 as the recent R2 release)
- ... All the Marbles (MGM)

And Samuel Fuller :
- I Shot Jesse James (I know Warner owns the rights)
- The Steel Helmet (?)
- Park Row (?)
- Run of the Arrow (RKO)
- Verboten! (RKO)
- Merrill's Marauders (WB)
- The Big Red One - Reconstruction

 

[Jeff Swearingen]

again...I'm all for wish lists but I'd love for someone to go through and compile a list of those Warner box sets that we KNOW are in production or have been officially announced. I don't want to spend all year anticipating a box set that was never planned to be made - it was bad enough when my David Lean set never materialized by MGM even though it was announced.

I'd do it myself - but I can't tell from some of these posts which ones are just "gee, don't you think it would be great if..." box sets!

So far the posts in this thread that I can ascertain are "in production" or "announced" or "in the works" are:

Sam Peckinpah
John Ford/John Wayne
James Dean

plus I remember seeing a James Cagney box set posted somewhere, but I'm not sure if this was a "what a great idea" or "Warner's working on this one"

 

[Derek Estes]

I Love Director collections, I few I would second (and sometimes expand) are...

Samuel Fuller Collection
I Shot Jesse James
The Baron of Arizona (?) -if they have rights
The Steel Helmet
Run of the Arrow
Verboten
Merrill's Marauders
The Big Red One -reconstruction
*I think Park Row is still a UA title(via MGM soon via Sony). But if Warners does have it I would include it!

Fritz Lang Collection
Fury
Rancho Notorious
Clash by Night
Moonfleet
While the City Sleeps
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

John Ford / John Wayne Collection
Stagecoach
The Long Voyage Home
They Were Expendable SE
Fort Apache
3 Godfathers
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon -repackage for set
The Searchers 50th Anniversary 2 Disc SE
The Wings of Eagles

John Ford Signature Collection
Flesh
The Lost Patrol
The Informer
Mary of Scotland
The Plough and the Stars
The Fugitive
Wagon Master- possibly include Ford directed episodes of Wagon Train TV Show based on this film!
Mogambo
Mister Roberts
The Rising of The Moon
Sergeant Rutledge
Cheyenne Autumn
and lastly..
7 Women -IMO a forgotten Masterpiece

Nicholas Ray Collection
They Live By Night
Born to be Bad
On Dangerous Ground
The Lusty Men
Rebel without a Cause 50th anniversary 2 Disc SE
Party Girl
Wind Across the Everglades

Vincente Minnelli-The Musicals
Cabin in the Sky
I Dood It
Ziegfeld Follies
Yolanda and the Thief
The Pirate
An American in Paris 2 Disc SE
Kismet
Gigi 2 Disc SE

Vincente Minnelli-The Dramas
The Clock
Undercurrent
Madame Bovery
The Cobweb
Lust for Life
Tea and Sympathy
Some Came Running 2 Disc SE
Home from the Hill
Two Weeks in Another Town
The Sandpiper

Elia Kazan Collection
A Streetcar Named Desire 2 Disc SE
A Face in the Crowd
America, America SE
Baby-Doll
Splendor in the Grass SE
The Arrangement

Raoul Walsh Signature Collection
The Strawberry Blonde
Manpower
They Died with Their Boots On
Desperate Journey
Gentleman Jim
The Man I Love
Colorado Territory
Captain Horatio Hornblower
The Naked and the Dead
Band of Angels
Pursued-if they can get the rights back

Anthony Mann Collection
Desperate
Border Incident
Side Street
Devil's Doorway
The Tall Target
The Naked Spur SE

Warners has been delivering GOLD, in the the past 2 years and I can't wait to see what they have in store for us in the future. I am sure most (if not all) of these titles are going to be released in one form or another, and I really wouldn't mind if they were broken into different sets. Lately, the sets have been genre based, not director, and that might make certain titles easier to market. I would love to see a Classic Westerns set, so I would not complain if any of these films were packaged that way.
-Derek

 

[Anthony Thorne]

Jeff - Warner mentioned both a Busby Berkely box and a Val Lewton box in an earlier HTF chat (both I think due in 2005). You've got the others that are near certain on your list. Unless I'm wrong, that's the 'announced' boxes in total for now. For what it's worth, Blue Underground has box sets due out in 2005 for some giallo titles, the Spanish 'Blind Dead' series, a series of crime films by Enzo Castellari, and they're thinking of doing a David Hamilton set. Grab those with whatever boxes Criterion does next year and you'll have plenty to tide you over while Warner carts more goodies from out of the vault.

 

[AlexHL]

Great lists, Derek! Just goes to show how much still needs to be released. I would especially love to see more of Nicholas Ray on DVD. His output is woefully MIA for the most part.

 

[MarcoBiscotti]

Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be included in the upcoming Peckinpah set?

 

[John Hodson]

Marco, a couple of posts up I said:



I don't think I will be too far out.

 

[Eric Peterson]

I would most definitely purchase Minelli, Kazan, Peckinpah, Ford, & Berkley boxsets and would strongly consider the others. A couple more that I came up with would include mainly re-issues or new SEs for those who don't have the current discs???.

Howard Hawks
The Big Sleep
Bringing Up Baby (2 Disc SE)
Red River
Rio Bravo
To Have & Have Not
The Thing
Sergeant York (Who Owns This???)

John Huston
The Maltese Falcon (New 2 Disc SE???)
The Asphalt Jungle
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (2 Disc SE)
Key Largo

Michael Curtiz
The Adventures of Robin Hood (2 Disc SE)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (2 Disc SE)
Casablanca (2 Disc SE)
Angels With Dirty Faces (New 2 Disc SE)
Mildred Pierce
Captain Blood (NEW)

 

[DouglasBr]

Eric,

Your post leads me to wonder (off the Director topic, I know) whether Warner would do a Bogie collection, and make more 2-disc SEs out of previously released titles (Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep), since they're doing that with The Philadelphia Story. As much as I like these movies, I've held off buying them for fear that SEs of them were in the offing (kinda lame reason, I know).

 

[John Hodson]

Douglas; I think it's highly likely that Warners will return to at least The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep with SEs of both. Not sure if they'll roll out the red carpet for Key Largo, though they might (you never know).

The current DVD of To Have and Have Not is a relatvely recent release and is just fine as it is.