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Arthur Powell

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Put this into the "likely will never happen" category, but I would love to see an HD remaster of the 1930s Van Beuren reissue version of the Chaplin Mutual comedies. Yes, I know, the Chaplin Mutuals are available in a nicely restored blu-ray set with the films uncropped, reinstated footage and title cards (with mostly correct wording and fonts), etc. Yet, the Van Beuren versions accomplish something very remarkable with the films - they treat them as hilarious comedies and not art house masterpieces. The jazzy scores, as compiled by Gene Rodemich and Winston Sharples, work beautifully with the films and never lag in the least. Plus, you can hear such greats as Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and Joe Venuti in the band. As much as I would love to see this happen, I'm afraid these versions are likely consigned to mediocre quality PD releases and Youtube uploads, but I can always dream.
 
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I'd love to see The Strange Woman be given a high quality Blu-ray disc. The film stars Hedy Lamarr and George Sanders and is directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. The film was originally released by United Artistes and possibly that means it's now owned by MGM. I wonder if Kino Lorber could ask MGM about this movie.
 

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The Census Taker (1984) with Garrett Morris and Meredith MacRae - Amazon shows it had a VHS release, but there’s no evidence of a DVD or BD.

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These would do nicely (on Blu-ray, not necessarily 4K):

Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)
Murder by the Clock (1931)
Terror Aboard (1933)
Zoo in Budapest (1933)
The Witching Hour (1934)
Diamond Jim (1935)
Professor Beware (1938)
Blackmail (1939)
On Borrowed Time (1939)
Q Planes, aka Clouds Over Europe (1939)
Ladies in Retirement (1941)
Wagons Roll at Night (1941)
The Remarkable Andrew (1942)
The Cheaters (1945)
The Man in Half Moon Street (1945)
The Unseen (1945)
Three Strangers (1946)
Deep Valley (1947)
The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947)
Fear in the Night (1947, restored)
Canon City (1948)
Everybody Does It (1949)
Slattery's Hurricane (1949)
The Threat (1949)
Champagne for Caesar (1950)
The Elusive Pimpernel (1950)
The Last Holiday (1950)
Mister 880 (1950)
Bird of Paradise (1951)
Crosswinds (1951)
Fourteen Hours (1951)
The Last Outpost (1951)
The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951)
The Scarf (1951)
The Whip Hand (1951)
The Charge at Feather River (1953, 3D)
Fair Wind to Java (1953)
Split Second (1953)
Tropic Zone (1953)
The Twonky (1953)
Dangerous Mission (1954, 3D)
Father Brown, aka The Detective (1954)
The Raid (1954)
War Paint (1954)
Geordie, aka Wee Geordie (1955)
Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955)
Hell's Island (1955)
Bandido! (1956)
Run for the Sun (1956)
Slightly Scarlet (1956, restored)
Back from the Dead (1957)
Kronos (1957)
Cattle Empire (1958)
Live Fast, Die Young (1958)
The Lost Missile (1958)
Space Master X-7 (1958)
Girls Town (1959)
Alakazam the Great (1960)
College Confidential (1960)
First Spaceship on Venus (1960)
The Human Vapor (1960)
Secret of the Telegian (1960)
Ship of Monsters (1960)
Tarzan the Magnificent (1960)
A Touch of Larceny (1960)
The Giant of Metropolis (1961)
Goliath and the Vampires (1961)
House of Mystery (1961)
The Man in the Back Seat (1961)
The Day Mars Invaded Earth (1962)
Gorath (1962)
Hand of Death (1962)
Planets Against Us (1962)
Captain Sindbad (1963)
The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon (1963)
My Son, the Hero (1963)
Rampage (1963)
Sammy Going South, aka A Boy Ten Feet Tall (1963)
Minnesota Clay (1964)
No Survivors, Please (1964)
The Troublemaker (1964)
Beloved Invaders: The Ventures (1965)
Mission Bloody Mary (1965)
The Wild, Wild Planet (1965)
From the Orient with Fury (1965)
Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (1966)
The Liquidator (1966)
The Magic Serpent (1966)
Planet of the Female Invaders (1966)
Ringo and His Golden Pistol (1966)
Special Mission Lady Chaplin (1966)
Superargo vs Diabolicus (1966)
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966)
Where the Spies Are (1966)
Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (1966)
Danger Route (1967)
The Double Man (1967)
Gunn (1967)
Hate for Hate (1967)
Island of the Doomed, aka Man Eater of Hydra (1967)
Jack and the Witch (1967)
The Love-Ins (1967)
Mission Stardust (1967)
Operation Kid Brother (1967)
Hammerhead (1968)
Only When I Larf (1968)
Run, Man, Run (1968)
They Ran for Their Lives (1968)
The Five-Man Army (1969)
Fraulein Doktor (1969)
Hell's Belles (1969)
Night of the Serpent, aka Nest of Vipers (1969)
Tepepa (1969)
Where's Jack? (1969)
Darker Than Amber (1970)
No Blade of Grass (1970)
On the Comet (1970)
Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971)
Fool's Parade (1971)
Melody (1971)
The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972)
To Kill a Clown (1972)
Mean Frank and Crazy Tony (1973)
The Outfit (1973)
The Stranger and the Gunfighter (1974)
Three the Hard Way (1974)
The Oily Maniac (1976)
The Savage Bees (1976, TV Movie)
The Battle Wizard (1977)
Mannaja, aka A Man Called Blade (1977)
Spectre (1977, TV Movie)
Telefon (1977)
Night of the Juggler (1980)
Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All (1982, TV Movie)
Fantasy Mission Force (1983)
Penitentiary III (1987)
The Icicle Thief (1989)
Volare, Volare (1991)
Red Rock West (1993)
Past Tense (1994)
Witch Hunt (1994, TV Movie)
Shall We Dance? (1996)
Diamond Men (2000)
Dinner Rush (2000)

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Doesn't seem like enough titles. Can't you come up with some more? :)
 

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I'd love to see The Strange Woman be given a high quality Blu-ray disc. The film stars Hedy Lamarr and George Sanders and is directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. The film was originally released by United Artistes and possibly that means it's now owned by MGM. I wonder if Kino Lorber could ask MGM about this movie.

It's likely in the Public Domain. I have a double-feature DVD from All-Day Entertainment, in which it appears with another Ulmer film, Moon Over Harlem, which is definitely P.D.

I just noticed that The Strange Woman has also had a DVD from Alpha, which is a dead giveaway that it's in the Public Domain.

Unless someone has ownership of the OCN or other strong elements to do a restoration, I doubt that anyone would try to spend the money to clean it up enough to release on BD.
 

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Abandon Ship
All of Me
All the Little Animals
Amazing Grace
The Best of Times
The Boy Who Could Fly
Call Northside 777
Club Paradise
Crawlspace (super-creepy 1972 TV-movie starring Arthur Kennedy and Teresa Wright)
The Cruel Sea
Champagne for Caesar
Doing Time on Maple Drive (1992 TV-movie drama with an early serious role for Jim Carrey)
Drunken Angel
Encino Man
The Erskineville Kings
Finnegan Begin Again (wonderful TV-movie starring Robert Preston and Mary Tyler Moore)
Hammers Under the Anvil
I Know Where I’m Going!
The Last Flight
The Luzhin Defense
The Merry Gentleman
Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day
Passionada
Sentimental Journey
Slightly Scarlet
Splash (not exactly forgotten but where is it)
Stuck On You
Sunshine State
Tol’able David
Two Family House
Yolanda and the Thief

And several hundred more
 

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Might I put forward two films made by the late esteemed director & waspish restaurant critic...Michael Winner. He made some dodgy films late in his career, but a lot of his sixties stuff is great, anyway:

The Jokers (1967). A caper movie about stealing the Crown Jewels from The Tower Of London, starring Oliver Reed & Michael Crawford as brothers. It's really good, but...the plot involves the brothers pretending to be the IRA & setting off some (harmless) explosions in London. The problem there is that a few years later the IRA really did start a bombing campaign in London, so understandably the film got buried, & never shown on TV again...but fine now (& good & forgotten, so it fills the brief).

I'll Never Forget What's 'isname (1967). Starring Oliver Reed with Orson Welles. I think it's Winners best film, not much of a plot - an advertising film director decides to leave the advertising world & get a more honest job...it doesn't work out. Anchor Bay released a very good DVD some years back, with a great commentary by Winner (he's very good as he never stops talking - I understand he also did a commentary for The Jokers, but Anchor Bay couldn't release the DVD because of a music clearance problem), I'd have thought that we'd have a Blu-ray by now. Both films are very sixties, but fair enough, they were made in the sixties.

Both from Universal.
 
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I'd love to see a Blu-ray of the 1986 Raul Julia film Florida Straits. The film was last seen on home video on VHS during the rental era. I used to own a copy back in the early 90's and I think there was an Orion Pictures logo on it IIRC - so, MGM? The film has been ignored by studios and boutiques alike in the high-def era so far. Far worse films have been given deluxe treatment in HD
 

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I would like to see the following “forgotten” films released on blu ray:

Animal Farm ‘54
Sanctuary ‘61 -Tony Richardson;
The Victors ‘63 - Carl Foreman;
Seance on a Wet Afternoon’64;
The Flim Flam Man ‘67;
A Guide for the Married Man ‘67;
The Fixer ‘68 - John Frankenheimer;
Last Summer ‘69 - Frank Perry;
The Devils ‘71 - Ken Russell;
Play it as it Lays ‘72- Frank Perry (again)
 

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I would like to see the following “forgotten” films released on blu ray:

Animal Farm ‘54
Sanctuary ‘61 -Tony Richardson;
The Victors ‘63 - Carl Foreman;
Seance on a Wet Afternoon’64;
The Flim Flam Man ‘67;
A Guide for the Married Man ‘67;
The Fixer ‘68 - John Frankenheimer;
Last Summer ‘69 - Frank Perry;
The Devils ‘71 - Ken Russell;
Play it as it Lays ‘72- Frank Perry (again)
Seance on a Wet Afternoon is available on Blu-ray disc in the U.K.

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i don't think this is widely available in any other region as blu-ray release other than Germany.
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i have the DVD release from HK publisher though... it seems the disc is suffering from oxidization as playback problem occurs.​
 

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There's a film I saw way back in the mid-fifties (I was 5 or 6), I saw it in the most grubby cinema in the world in Portobello Road (West London), it was known locally as The Bug Hole (or The Bug Hutch), a lot of the seats were missing & it had benches. Looking it up, I see that it opened in 1910, & I don't think a penny was spent on it since. It was closed for decades & then totally gutted & reborn as the trendy, Electric Cinema Club, & it's still going today. Anyway, the film that's haunted me all these years was on a tramp steamer, & I remembered a couple of the actors, Broderick Crawford & John Ireland so I was able to look it up & it's...Cargo To Capetown (Columbia 1950), I'm not bothered about a Blu-ray, a decent DVD would do (come on Sony, you'd sell at least seven copies).
 
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Siege Of The Saxons (1963)

When Jason & The Argonauts went on general release in the UK, the support feature was Siege Of The Saxons, & very enjoyable it was too (it was always a double-bill in those fare off days, you never went to see just on movie). It seemed a big film at the time, but it's really quite a cheap film, shot at Hammer's Bray Studios, using some of their sets & padded out at the end with battle shots from The Black Knight (1954). Starring Ronald Lewis as a sort of Robin Hood character & the lovely Janette Scott, & there's King Arthur & Merlin all mixed up in the story, & the film is very enjoyable. Years ago it used to show up on UK TV quite often (SD but looking fine). I don't think it's ever been released on any home format, but it would be great to have it on DVD or Blu-ray & then I can recreate the great double bill that I saw when I was 12 (& I think I saw it three or four times that week).
 
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Siege Of The Saxons (1963)

When Jason & The Argonauts went on general release in the UK, the support feature was Siege Of The Saxons, & very enjoyable it was too (it was always a double-bill in those fare off days, you never went to see just on movie). It seemed a big film at the time, but it's really quite a cheap film, shot at Hammer's Bray Studios, using some of their sets & padded out at the end with battle shots from The Black Knight (1954). Starring Ronald Lewis as a sort of Robin Hood character & the lovely Janette Scott, & there's King Arthur & Merlin all mixed up in the story, & the film is very enjoyable. Years ago it used to show up on UK TV quite often (SD but looking fine). I don't think it's ever been released on any home format, but it would be great to have it on DVD or Blu-ray & then I can recreate the great double bill that I saw when I was 12 (& I think I saw it three or four times that week).
Nice, it would be a fun one to reminisce -
 

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