Want more "older, unreleased" stuff on DVD? (1 Viewer)

[JamesSmith]

Are there any people here who would rather have more older, unreleased, lost tv films and movies to come out on DVD? Rather than some current stuff?

I really, really want to see more tv shows, tv movies and films that I haven't seen since I was a child and was only shown once or twice on television, and than mysteriously vanished?

Anybody feel this way?

I want the sixties version of "The Perils of Pauline" to come out on DVD. It was stupid mindless fun, but I liked that. This is the Pat Boone version.

I want some early seventies movies like "The Enormous Egg," that was narrated by Ed McMahon and only shown twice on NBC.

I want to see the two Miss PIckerell tv movies that was shown by NBC, and again disappeared.

Does anybody else have those yearnings?

James Smith

 

[Brian McP]

Always James -- but as they say in show business "will it make a buck?" That's what governs what makes it to disc and what doesn't.

The manufacture on demand system is most likely the only way to go with this specialised product and as most retail of physical media starts to dry up -- the demographic for this physical media is most likely an older one so I think this sales model will also go out of fashion in the years to come.

Also the clearances -- the music, the people in the shows (and their estates) -- a nightmare and very expensive. Also the cost of music per second is unbelievable. If Pat Boone is in this show, he is sure to have sung some old song -- the studio would have to clear that or have it hacked out of the episode (just pray that that show wasn't made by Paramount) -- some shows have to be a sure fire hit on home video/streaming/downloads before any studio will budget a cent upfront to have it go out in any form these days.

This is the worst case scenario -- on the bright side, there are some companies who do all this work and in the long run, having this show back in circulation is a great success, now and many years down the track -- don't give up hope yet.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Are you talking about DVD or Blu-ray?

 

[cineMANIAC]

I want them released on Blu-ray. Save the DVDs for shot-on-video TV shows.

 

[Sam Posten]

I want them released on Blu-ray. Save the DVDs for shot-on-video TV shows.

I think most HTFers would, Luis. The confusion is the OP asked about getting them on DVD but he asked his question in the Bluray forum. So we can either edit the title or move this thread to the DVD sub-forum.

 

[cineMANIAC]

I think most HTFers would, Luis. The confusion is the OP asked about getting them on DVD but he asked his question in the Bluray forum. So we can either edit the title or move this thread to the DVD sub-forum.

Thanks, Sam.

 

[Martin_Teller]

Every third thread on here is someone asking "where's this older, unreleased film?" so I'm pretty sure that yes, there are other people who feel that way.

 

[Sam Posten]

The 'problem' of repeat questions and new threads is not unique to HTF. =)
Nor is the frustration long time users experience when it seems that search fields and scanning more than the first few posts are beyond the ken of new users.
It's par for the course.

The question becomes do we want to be the kind of place that encourages new users to blossom past their initial posts or frighten them away by grumbling? Clearly the first. And James isn't even a new user, with over 800 posts he's a veritable regular. His post doesn't even qualify for such grumbling. We've all got our pet peeves and missing favorites, it's just as frustrating NOT seeing them come to home video as it is to see the lists trotted out all the time. The good news is that the lists get smaller every day, especially with digital distribution which wipes out a LOT of the stumbling blocks for these films which will sell in smaller volumes. If folks like him didn't publicly ask for them the studios would just throw up their hands and say "what's the point"?

 

[Ed Lachmann]

Yes, if folks like those posting here didn't ask for things like, say, that wonderful blu-ray of CAVALCADE during the Fox classics poll of a few years back, would it have ever happened? I really wonder. Maybe if folks just continue to hammer away at beloved titles like RAINTREE COUNTY or PORGY AND BESS, they just might come to pass. At least we hope so.

 

[JamesSmith]

Guys I apologize for putting this in the wrong forum. If any moderator wants to move this into tv or movies that's fine with me.JamesIf you don't ask, you may not receive.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Guys I apologize for putting this in the wrong forum. If any moderator wants to move this into tv or movies that's fine with me.JamesIf you don't ask, you may not receive.

James,

Are you talking about wanting these titles on DVD or Bluray?

 

[Brad Vautrinot]

I surely do want older stuff released on Blu-ray. Here's a partial list. Some may be already in the works:

3000 Miles To Graceland
A Fish Called Wanda
The Abyss
Alamo, The
Arsenic and Old Lace
Angels With Dirty Faces
Bad Day At Black Rock
Big Sleep, The
Billy Budd
Blade: The Complete Series
Blithe Spirit
Brotherhood Of The Wolf
Beau Geste - (1939)
Black Sunday (1977)
Boys Town (1938)
Cell, The
Company Of Wolves, The
Cotton Club, The
Call Northside 777 - (1948)
Charlie Chan - All Of Them
Complete Thin Man Collection, The
Dust Devil - The Final Cut
Dark Passage
Dillinger
Dead of Winter (1987)
Dead Reckoning (1947)
Desperate Hours, The (1955)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Eye Of The Needle
Extreme Prejudice in (OAR) (1987)
Furies, The (1950)
Farewell To The King
Far Country, The
Ghost and the Darkness, The
General's Daughter, The
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Gunga Din (1939)
Hombre
Hawaii
High and the Mighty, The (1954)
High Sierra (1941)
In Harm's Way
Innocent Blood (OAR) (1992)
Key Largo (1948)
Last Embrace
Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, The (1972)
Lifeboat
Lost Highway (1997)
Mister Roberts
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The
Magnificent Ambersons, The
Macao
Money Pit, The
Naked Street, The (1955)
Night and the City (1950)
Open Range
Our Town (1940)
Ox-Bow Incident, The - (1943)
Panic Room
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Proof of Life (2000)
Pickup on South Street - (1953)
Public Enemy, The (Original Uncut Version) - (1931)
Reflecting Skin, The
Ryan's Daughter
Silver Bullet
The Seventh Dawn
Sea Hawk, The
Sons Of Katie Elder
Sahara (1943)
Screamers (1995)
Simple Plan, A (1998)
Sniper (1993)
Strange Days (1995)
Summer Rental (1985)
Summer School (1987)
Them! (1954)
The Thing From Another World (1951)
To Have and Have Not
Two Jakes, The
True Lies
Valdez is Coming
Wake Island (1942)
Winchester ’73
Woman in the Window, The
White Heat
X-Files Series
Year of the Dragon (1985)
Zardoz (1974)

B.

 

[JamesSmith]

James, Are you talking about wanting these titles on DVD or Bluray?

Just getting them out on digital period. DVD, I guessJames

 

[DeWilson]

Eventually Library titles - and I'd go as far as guessing several on one disc - will end up on Blu-Ray...the studios will eventually exploit what has gone before again.

But as for stuff not even released on VHS, let alone DVD or DVD-MOD that's the unknown.