Universal Films I'd Kill to Have on DVD (1 Viewer)

[Brian PB]

My Most-Coveted Universal Titles Begging for DVD Release:

W.C. Fields: It's a Gift (1934/Norman Z. McLeod) and The Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935/Clyde Bruckman)
Abel Gance: Napoleon (1927)
Howard Hawks: Scarface (1932)
Mathieu Kassovitz: La Haine/Hate (1995)
Emir Kusturica: Black Cat, White Cat (1998)
Mike Leigh: Secrets and Lies (1995) and Life is Sweet (1990)
Mitchell Leisen: Midnight (1939), Easy Living (1937), and Remember the Night (1940)
Marx Brothers: Animal Crackers (1930), Monkey Business (1931), Horse Feathers (1932), and Duck Soup (1933)--previous releases OOP
Leo McCarey: Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) and Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Preston Sturges: The Palm Beach Story (1942), The Great McGinty (1940), Hail the Conquering Hero (1944), and Christmas in July (1940)
Erich von Stroheim: The Wedding March (1928)
Lars von Trier: The Kingdom (1994)
Billy Wilder: Double Indemnity (1944)--Previous Image release is long OOP.

Anyone "in-the-know" with any information on these titles?

Thanks.

[Post edited 4/15/03]

 

[Peter M Fitzgerald]

I second the motion for:

IT'S A GIFT
SCARFACE
EASY LIVING
REMEMBER THE NIGHT
MIDNIGHT
THE GREAT MCGINTY
CHRISTMAS IN JULY
THE PALM BEACH STORY
HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO
DOUBLE INDEMNITY

--and would add:

MURDER HE SAYS (1945)
PETER IBBETSON (1935)
IMITATION OF LIFE (1934)
THE ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1933)
MURDERS IN THE ZOO (1933)
TERROR ABOARD (1933)
MURDER BY THE CLOCK (1931)
SUPERNATURAL (1933)
THE BLACK CAT (1934)
THE RAVEN (1935)
MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (1932)
THE INVISIBLE RAY (1935)
DR. CYCLOPS (1940)
TOWER OF LONDON (1939)
BLACK FRIDAY (1940)
THE MAN-MADE MONSTER (1941)
THE INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS (1939)
THE PHANTOM LADY (1944)
THE BIG CLOCK (1948)
MINISTRY OF FEAR (1944)
CRISS CROSS (1949)
THIS GUN FOR HIRE (1942)
THE GLASS KEY (1942)
THE BLUE DAHLIA (1946)
RIDE THE PINK HORSE (1947)
NAKED ALIBI (1954)
DARK MIRROR (1946)
THE SUSPECT (1944)
WOMAN IN HIDING (1949)
THE UNGUARDED MOMENT (1956)
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957)
REVENGE OF THE CREATURE (1955)
THE CREATURE WALKS AMONG US (1957)
TARANTULA (1955)
THE DEADLY MANTIS (1957)
CULT OF THE COBRA (1955)
THE LAND UNKNOWN (1957)
THE MONOLITH MONSTERS (1957)
MONSTER ON THE CAMPUS (1958)
THE MOLE PEOPLE (1956)
BRIDES OF DRACULA (1960)
CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF (1961)
THE NIGHT WALKER (1964)
LET'S KILL UNCLE (1966)
GAMBIT (1966)
ARABESQUE (1966)
MIRAGE (1965)
THE LIST OF ADRIAN MESSENGER (1963)
CHARLY VARRICK (1973)
COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT (1969)
Reissue: WEREWOLF OF LONDON (1935)
Reissue: DRACULA'S DAUGHTER (1936)
Reissue: SON OF FRANKENSTEIN (1939)
Reissue: SON OF DRACULA (1943)
Reissue: GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN (1942)
Reissue: FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN (1943)
Reissue: HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1944)
Reissue: HOUSE OF DRACULA (1945)
Reissue: THIS ISLAND EARTH (1955)

Thank you for your time.

 

[Thomas Kolla]

House of Dracula
House of Horrors
Black Friday
Night Monster
Inner Sanctum series
Captive Wild series
Brides of Dracula
Curse of the Werewolf
Night Creatures
The Evil of Frankenstein
The Phantom of the Opera (Herbert Lom)
Paranoic
SSSSSSSSSSSS
Nightmare
The Projected Man
Island of Terror
Eye of the Cat
Night Gallery series
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf

 

[Joe Caps]

Would love to have
Flower Drum Song
Sign of the Pagan
A Time ot love and a Time to Die - widescreen, stereo
this Earth is Mine - widescreen stereo
Back Street - Susan Hayward
Magnificent Obsession - Rock Hudson
all the old Demille films
the Uninvited
All of the Deanna Durbin musicals
the Boys from Syracuse
Tammy and the Bachelor

 

[Derek M Germano]

Put me down for all of the above, but these in particular:

THE UNINVITED
THE BLACK CAT
THE RAVEN
THE INVISIBLE RAY
BLACK FRIDAY
TOWER OF LONDON
THE PALM BEACH STORY
THE GREAT MCGINTY
MURDER HE SAYS
REVENGE OF THE CREATURE
THE CREATURE WALKS AMONG US
BRIDES OF DRACULA
CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF
THE ISLAND OF LOST SOULS
MURDERS IN THE ZOO
THIS GUN FOR HIRE
THE GLASS KEY
MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION
THE LIST OF ADRIAN MESSENGER
COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT
and THIS ISLAND EARTH restored to its full Technicolor glory.

 

[Patrick McCart]

I'd like to see more Paramount comedies and musicals (like W.C. Fields and Marx Bros.) mainly.

Universal has a gold mine of classic cinema that is hardly touched upon.

And a full special edition of Napoleon would be wonderful. Have the 5 1/2 hour cut from England, both the Coppola and Davis scores, plus the Kevin Brownlow documentary on Abel Gance... I'd pay any price to get this film on DVD.

 

[Mikel_Cooperman]

How about the delayed Special Editions of 16 Candles and Breakfast Club???????

 

[Jodee]

I want:

Casper
Cry-Baby (supposed to be released in June, but now MIA?)
Heiress, The
King of the Hill (1993, Soderbergh)
Lost Highway
Schindler's List
Sugar Town (1999, Allison Anders)



Isn't Mike Leigh's "Secrets & Lies" a Fox film?

 

[Jesse Skeen]

PUFNSTUF! They put this on VHS but quickly went out of print, probably because everyone like me was waiting for the DVD! (Plus the VHS was 'formatted to fit your screen').
Glad SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND is coming though!

 

[Jae E]

Would love to see these:

Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
Duck Soup (1933)
Island of Lost Souls (1933)
The Black Cat (1934)
The Raven (1935)
The Cat and the Canary (1939)
Tower of London (1939)
Hold That Ghost (1941)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Ministry of Fear (1944)
The Uninvited (1944)
House of Dracula (1945)
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
The Big Clock (1948)
Criss Cross (1949)
Revenge of the Creature (1955)
Tarantula (1955)
This Island Earth (1955)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Brides of Dracula (1960)
Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
Captain Clegg (1962, aka Night Creatures)
The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
Mirage (1965)
Arabesque (1966)
Hands of the Ripper (1971)
Charley Varrick (1973)
The Seven-Percent Solution (1976)
Into the Night (1985)
Twins of Evil (1971)

 

[Bob Engleman]

Any word on release of the following:

1.Belarus File
2.Black Shield of Falworth, The
3.To Hell and Back

Bob Engleman

 

[AaronChauncey]

D.C. Cab

This was re-released on VHS under the Favorites banner, so I hold out hope fgor this on DVD, even basebones. Please please please.

 

[Patrick McCart]

BTW, Paramount still owns The Wedding March. Universal got all pre-August 1948 sound films through EMKA Ltd.

 

[Cees Alons]

Those titles won't make it to our All-Studios Films we want on DVD list, unless you post it here:

New 'Movies Wanted On DVD' Poll.

That is, of course, if they're not already in it!


Cees