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Yeah, I'm looking forward to this blind buy. If anybody is interested in seeing a more modern story-telling regarding the main storyline then you should see "Free State of Jones".
 

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I will definitely be buying this disc. It's been one of those films very difficult to see. In my days - decades ago - of frequenting re-run houses, Tap Roots never got a showing.
 

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Yeah, I'm looking forward to this blind buy. If anybody is interested in seeing a more modern story-telling regarding the main storyline then you should see "Free State of Jones".
Free State is a better film, by a wide margin. Having received less than stellar reviews back in ‘48, Tap Roots virtually disappeared.

I saw it when I purchased a Kodachrome reduction print in the late ‘60s. That was a methodology for striking 16mm for a short period. Contrast had a tendency to bloom, but one had color.

I’m hoping that this is a quality job from Universal, as I’ve only seen the film in chrome, and it’s the work of the great Winton Hoch.
 

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Free State is a better film, by a wide margin. Having received less than stellar reviews back in ‘48, Tap Roots virtually disappeared.

I saw it when I purchased a Kodachrome reduction print in the late ‘60s. That was a methodology for striking 16mm for a short period. Contrast had a tendency to bloom, but one had color.

I’m hoping that this is a quality job from Universal, as I’ve only seen the film in chrome, and it’s the work of the great Winton Hoch.
Right, this BD release came out of nowhere as the release date is next Tuesday.
 

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Looks like the release date has been pushed back. Amazon has it as temporarily out of stock (actually it was never in stock) and it's "backordered" everywhere else.
 

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What a strange release for TAP ROOTS is; from Kino. It seems to have been announced and shortly after, released on Blu ray with little fanfare. I noticed the copyright date on the sleeve said 1958, which I assumed was a misprint, but when viewing the film, the copyright was indeed listed as 1958. It was a Walter Wanger production done through Universal-International. Usually the Wanger films are in public domain since they didn’t renew copyrights, such as TULSA (1949). TAP ROOTS (first released theatrically in 1948) is a barebones release with no trailer, commentary or anything other than the movie itself. I wonder if Universal was able to copyright it during its reissue theatrical release which I think was around 1958.

Not a great film, but I think it may be the finest Technicolor transfer from Universal of all their forties films thus released. For that alone, I am happy I bought it. It has a decent cast, Van Heflin, Susan Hayward, Boris Karloff, Julie London, and Ward Bond and like I said, the color alone makes it worthwhile for me.
 
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What a strange release for TAP ROOTS is; from Kino. It seems to have been announced and shortly after, released on Blu ray with little fanfare . . . . . .

Not a great film, but I think it may be the finest Technicolor transfer from Universal of all their forties films thus released. For that alone, I am happy I bought it. It has a decent cast, Van Heflin, Susan Hayward, Boris Karloff, Julie London, and Ward Bond and like I said, the color alone makes it worthwhile for me.
I agree with this, having watched the disc last night. I'm very pleased to have this one in my collection.
 

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