Warner Bros Archive Wish List 2022 and Beyond!! (1 Viewer)

[Capt D McMars]

the heart is a lonely hunter needs a dvd rerelease will be great.

why not go straight to BD? Harold and Maude went BD and 4K!!!

 

[Capt D McMars]

More want list on BD or 4K which ever comes to fruition, I'm good!!!

 

[Dick]

All on Blu-ray--

Warner Bros library:

Popeye: The 1930s Vol. 1
Safe in Hell
Blackmail ('39)
The Strawberry Blonde
Gentleman Jim
The Beast with Five Fingers
Three Strangers
Deep Valley
Life with Father
The Crimson Pirate
The Charge at Feather River (3D Blu)
The Phantom of the Rue Morgue (3D Blu)
The Bounty Hunter (3D Blu)
The Command (3D Blu)
Land of the Pharaohs
Around the World in Eighty Days ('56)
Rampage ('63)
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold
Once Upon a Time in America: Extended Director's Cut (Blu-ray re-issue)

RKO Library:

The Great Man Votes
Five Came Back
Stranger on the Third Floor
I Walked with a Zombie
The 7th Victim
Sinbad the Sailor ('47)
I Remember Mama
The Threat ('49)
Double feature: Bodyguard / Follow Me Quietly
Double feature: The Clay Pigeon / Armored Car Robbery
His Kind of Woman
The Whip Hand
The Big Sky
The Narrow Margin ('52)
Split Second ('53)
Second Chance (3D Blu)
Dangerous Mission (3D Blu)
Son of Sinbad (3D Blu)
Slightly Scarlet

MGM library:

Tex Avery (the rest of his MGM cartoons)
The Captain & The Kids: Complete Cartoon Collection (+ bonus shorts: 'Jitterbug Follies' & 'Wanted: No Master')
Greed (theatrical cut & reconstructed versions)
The Crowd
Freaks
Tarzan the Ape Man
Tarzan and His Mate
Tarzan Escapes
Devil-Doll
Mark of the Vampire
On Borrowed Time
Picture of Dorian Gray (already released on Blu-ray, my bad)
Stars in My Crown
Westward the Women
The Tall Target
Scaramouche
Arena (3D Blu)
The Badlanders
Tarzan the Magnificent
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold
Captain Sindbad
She ('65)
The Wild, Wild Planet
Sitting Target ('72)
The Outfit ('73)

Allied Artists library:

William Castle double feature: Macabre / The House on Haunted Hill
Attack of the 50 Ft Woman
Three the Hard Way

Lorimar library:

The Stranger Within
The Last Dinosaur

Great choices, Peter! I concur with about 90% of these. You managed to fill in all the titles I inadvertantly left off my initial list.

 

[Dick]

some additional titles form the Want list...

Don't know how NAKED JUNGLE became a WAC title, but it is pretty firmly a Paramount property.

 

[RMajidi]

how about these titles?

Todd, The World According to Garp was released by WAC on Blu some time ago. I know, coz I bought it. I imagine it’s still available for purchase.

Also, The Naked Jungle is available on Blu from your personal favourite, Imprint . It’s in serviceable shape too.

 

[Dick]

Todd, The World According to Garp was released by WAC on Blu some time ago. I know, coz I bought it. I imagine it’s still available for purchase.

Also, The Naked Jungle is available on Blu from your personal favourite, Imprint . It’s in serviceable shape too.

"Serviceable shape" is not a term that inspires confidence for an expensive purchase...

 

[Alan Tully]

I'm starting to doubt if those two lovely epics, Land Of The Pharaohs & Helen Of Troy will ever be released, but I have been suckered into thinking that I'll have Scaramouche before too long, what with those other Technicolor swashbucklers getting a WAC release.

 

[RMajidi]

"Serviceable shape" is not a term that inspires confidence for an expensive purchase...

Rick, to be clear, I wasn’t trying to inspire confidence, just giving an honest appraisal in alerting Todd to its current availability, as he posted it among his wished-for Blu rays.

I’m happy with the disc from Imprint, and I think the factored shipping charges is what might make it relatively expensive in your neck of the woods - a reality also for many of us non-US based film buffs when ordering product from the US.

So I’m not trying to drum up business for Imprint, nor trying to dissuade buyers - merely sharing info to help fellow members weigh for themselves.

As you mentioned earlier, The Naked Jungle is a Paramount title, so no point dwelling on it further in this thread.

 

[Robin9]

The other one I'd like is YOLANDA AND THE THIEF because each of the Minnelli's they've done has been a revelation.

Ah, yes! The stunning and vivacious Lucille Bremer!

How about Minnelli's missing melodrama The Cobweb with a star studded cast including three people I like a lot: Richard Widmark, Charles Boyer and Adele Jergens . . .

. . . . plus a couple I don't like very much but tactfully will not name!

 

[Capt D McMars]

Todd, The World According to Garp was released by WAC on Blu some time ago. I know, coz I bought it. I imagine it’s still available for purchase.

Also, The Naked Jungle is available on Blu from your personal favourite, Imprint . It’s in serviceable shape too.

OoooooooooPs, thanks!!! I was primarily hoping for a US Domestic version. I'vebought some imprint titles, they have not bowled me over. I'll wait...

 

[RICK BOND]

I'm starting to doubt if those two lovely epics, Land Of The Pharaohs & Helen Of Troy will ever be released, but I have been suckered into thinking that I'll have Scaramouche before too long, what with those other Technicolor swashbucklers getting a WAC release.

Land of the Pharaohs and Helen of Troy have been on top of my Bluray wish list forever. I have them both on Digital SD in Widescreen on Movies Anywhere. Not in HD but they are watchable. Better than nothing for now.

 

[Capt D McMars]

Land of the Pharaohs and Helen of Troy have been on top of my Bluray wish list forever. I have them both on Digital SD in Widescreen on Movies Anywhere. Not in HD but they are watchable. Better than nothing for now.

Agreed but dang it, both of these titles were big earners for the studio...The Egyptian 1954 is still MIA. I di buy the French edition, it is much better than the DVD but, if the studio or another company like Kino, Arrow or Crtierion did it, I know it would finally look the way it should. With a cast like Jean Simmons, Peter Ustinov, Edmund Purdom, Victor Mature, Gene Tierney....come on!!!

 

[Powell&Pressburger]

One title I always forget to mention is Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitters Dead

The DVD transfer is crap, needs a whole new HD scan. My fear is if it gets licensed out we will end up getting a dated transfer.

 

[tsodcollector]

One title I always forget to mention is Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitters Dead

The DVD transfer is crap, needs a whole new HD scan. My fear is if it gets licensed out we will end up getting a dated transfer.

maybe shout factory might looked into this 90's family/teen classic.

 

[Will Krupp]

Agreed but dang it, both of these titles were big earners for the studio...The Egyptian 1954 is still MIA. I di buy the French edition, it is much better than the DVD but, if the studio or another company like Kino, Arrow or Crtierion did it, I know it would finally look the way it should. With a cast like Jean Simmons, Peter Ustinov, Edmund Purdom, Victor Mature, Gene Tierney....come on!!!

When I missed out on the Twilight Time, I bought the French edition as well. It looks good but be warned that it's from a PAL master and runs 4% faster than it should (not to mention that the French have the irritating habit of printing their spines from bottom to top so French releases always stick out like a sore thumb on your shelf, lol)

 

[Garysb]

Don't know how NAKED JUNGLE became a WAC title, but it is pretty firmly a Paramount property.

A few years ago Paramount and Warner Bros. had a deal where Warner Bros released most Paramount titles. At that time "Naked Jungle" which had been out of print became available as a Warner Archive release. When the deal ended all the Paramount pictures released by the Archive were removed. It was at this time we got double features on WHV such as Ben Hur/The Ten Commandments and Casablanca/African Queen

 

[Dick]

A few years ago Paramount and Warner Bros. had a deal where Warner Bros released most Paramount titles. At that time "Naked Jungle" which had been out of print became available as a Warner Archive release. When the deal ended all the Paramount pictures released by the Archive were removed. It was at this time we got double features on WHV such as Ben Hur/The Ten Commandments and Casablanca/African Queen

Thank for that info. Makes sense.

 

[Capt D McMars]

Don't know how NAKED JUNGLE became a WAC title, but it is pretty firmly a Paramount property.

It was released under WB but only on dvd, Imprint did pretty much a HD unpgrade but not a real restoration....for the price nice to have but would really love to get a full restoration edition!!

 

[Capt D McMars]

It was released under WB with the older print, no love...but only on dvd. Imprint did pretty much a HD unpgrade but not a real restoration....for the price nice to have but would really love to get a full restoration edition!!

 

[Capt D McMars]

Todd, The World According to Garp was released by WAC on Blu some time ago. I know, coz I bought it. I imagine it’s still available for purchase.

Also, The Naked Jungle is available on Blu from your personal favourite, Imprint . It’s in serviceable shape too.

Agreed, I do have the Imprint edition but it's way too dark in places and it looks more like an HD Bump than any real upgrade, it's mile better than the dvd but that said, I'd much rather have the real deal with WAC. Much closer to the OCN, right?