Which unannounced "must have" titles are missing from your collection? (1 Viewer)

[nousername]

This year is looking to be a great year for my DVD collection. The Star Wars OT has just been announced, and Schindler's List and City Lights are just around the corner.

However, several "must have" unannounced titles are still missing from my collection, and it appears that it will remain that way for quite some time. These are:

King Kong (the original)
Suspicion
Dial M for Murder
September 11

As far as I know, no dates have been announced yet for any of the above. (Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, please!)

Anyway, what unannounced "must have" titles are missing from your collection?

 

[StevenFC]

Well, I'm pretty sure there's already some threads about this, but I'll bite.

Here's a few:


Call Northside 777 (1948)
Easter Parade (1948)
Ziegfeld Follies (1946)
Angel and the Badman (1947)
Body Snatcher, The (1945)
Sergeant York (1941)
Return of Frank James, The (1940)
Pardon Us (1931)
Public Enemy, The (1931)
Tale of Two Cities, A (1935)
Top Hat (1935)
'G' Men (1935)
Pardon Us (1931)
Each Dawn I Die (1939)
Stranger, The (1946)
Yearling, The (1946)
General, The (1927)
Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Quo Vadis? (1951)
Fort Apache (1948)
Pinocchio (1940)
Torrid Zone (1940)
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)
Forty-Ninth Parallel (1941)
Tobacco Road (1941)
Mortal Storm, The (1940)
Kiss of Death (1947)
No Highway in the Sky (1951)

I could make this list much much longer. Needless to say the chances of getting everything I want are slim and none. And slim just left town as they say.

 

[Kevin_Lodge]

Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

Both these movies are available on DVD already.

 

[svenge]

Star Wars O-OT (duh)

 

[Casey Trowbridg]

Well believe it or not now that Star Wars is coming, the things at the very top of my list are WrestleMania's I-XIV on DVD.

I'm not a real film historian so I can't think of anything off the top of my head that isn't already out, but I can think of some stuff that is already out that I'd like to have redone, but that's a different question.

 

[nousername]

Isn't Pinocchio 1940 on DVD already?

I was thinking more of titles that have never been released on DVD. I know the original King Kong has been available for quite some time in other regions, but AFAIK, it hasn't been officially announced yet for Region 1 (or at least, no official release date has been set yet).

This also disqualifies movies that are already available but long overdue for re-release (example: Titanic, which is currently not enhanced for 16:9 widescreen TVs).

 

[nousername]

Speaking of Pinocchio, I just thought of another Disney title that has not been announced yet (as far as I know): Bambi (1942).

Any others?

 

[Mark Anthony]

Battle of The Buldge, Warner
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, Warner
Dial M for Murder, Warner
Dodge City, Warner
Don Juan, Warner
Bad Day at Black Rock, Warner
Fistfull of Dynamite, MGM
El Cid, Miramax
Fall of the Roman Empire, Miramax
Major Dundee, Columbia (Longer version please!)

M

 

[Scott Weinberg]

The Incredible Shrinking Man

 

[george kaplan]

Well many of my must have titles are still in my collection in the form of laser discs.

My top 30 'must have', that I don't have at all (with no sign of showing up soon), in no particular order:

Night Train to Munich
Captain Blood
Passage to Marseille
Action in the North Atlantic
The Prisoner of Zenda
White Heat
Bringing Up Baby
Ninotchka
Christmas in Connecticut
Foul Play
Up in Arms
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Silver Streak
High Anxiety
Holiday
It's A Gift
Hail the Conquering Hero
The Palm Beach Story
The Great McGinty
We're No Angels (Bogart)
Safety Last
Bad Day at Black Rock
Random Harvest
Easter Parade
Top Hat
Out of the Past
Dial M for Murder
This Gun for Hire
The Blue Dahlia
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

 

[Chuck L]

Two titles off the top of my head:

Waterloo Bridge

Caged-which is still awaiting to be released in ANY FORMAT in the home market. Totally uncalled for.

 

[Jim_K]

I'm probably forgetting some but here are my most wanted

Bad Day at Black Rock
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Beau Geste (1939)
The Black Cat (1934)
The Black Swan
The Body Snatcher (1945)
Brides of Dracula
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Broken Arrow (1950)
Broken Lance
Captain Blood
Charley Varrick
The Counterfeit Traitor
The Curse of the Werewolf
Dial M For Murder
Duck You Sucker
The Enemy Below
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Foreign Correspondent
Forty-Ninth Parallel
Freaks
Gojira (1954)
The Great McGinty
Gunga Din
Harakiri
Hondo
The Innocents
Island of Lost Souls
Jubal
King Kong
Little Caesar
Lonely are the Brave
Major Dundee
Man of the West
A Matter of Life and Death
Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General
Mothra
The Naked Spur
The Palm Beach Story
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Point Blank
The Public Enemy
Quick Change
Ride the High Country
The Roaring Twenties
Samurai Assassin
The Sea Hawk
The Set-Up
Seven Men From Now
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
The Steel Helmet
Stray Dog
The Sugarland Express
Suspicion
Sword of Doom
The Tall T
The Cat People
Twins of Evil
Ugetsu
Village of the Damned (1960)
White Heat
The Yakuza

 

[Anthony Neilson]

BIGGER THAN LIFE
BRINGING UP BABY
THE DEVILS
THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE
THE GENERAL (JOHN BOORMAN)
THE HILL
THE HIT
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN
THE INNOCENTS
THE LONG DAY CLOSES
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
MAGIC
NAKED
THE OFFENCE
REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE
YEAR OF THE DRAGON

You probably already know this, but various rumours have cited the following for release in 2004 -

BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (almost definite)
KING KONG
PAT GARRET AND BILLY THE KID (as part of Peckinpah collection ?)
HIGH ANXIETY (as part of Mel Brooks collection)

Fox's upcoming Noir collection may address some of these as well.
And isn't STRAY DOG either out or coming soon from Criterion ?

Also, FWIW, these are available in R2 UK -

SUSPICION (one of Universal's Hitchcock discs)
A FISTFUL OF DYNAMITE (bare-bones, MGM)
WITCHFINDER GENERAL (with doc)
BRINGING UP BABY (as part of Cary Grant collection)
TWINS OF EVIL
HOLIDAY

So - with the exception of WG - all should appear in R1 soon.

 

[JonZ]

Giant Robo
Millennium sets
Batman Animated Series

If were including re-issues, Id like to see:

The Wild Bunch
Dead Presidents
Nixon
Born On The Fourth Of July
Natural Born Killers
The Rocketeer
Showgirls
Conan The Barbarian Theatrical Version
Jacobs Ladder
Last Emperor
Bound
Drugstore Cowboy
Bugsy

...for starters

 

[David Von Pein]

Some interesting lists in this thread.
May I be allowed to add.........

 

[David Von Pein]

Plus.........

"The Web" (1947)(Vincent Price)

"American Hot Wax" (1978)

"John F. Kennedy -- Years Of Lightning/Day Of Drums" (1964)

"Cry Terror" (1958)(Rod Steiger / Inger Stevens--A classic!)

"The Wrong Man" (1956)(Hitchcock)

"Strangers When We Meet" (1960)(Kirk Douglas / Kim Novak)

"The Flight" (1988)(AKA: The Taking Of Flight 847)(TVM)

 

[Angelo.M]

Raise the Red Lantern
The Double Life of Veronique
Map of the Human Heart

and

Ju Dou (which exists on DVD, but needs a redo)
The Last Emperor (ditto)

 

[Ken Martinez]

The African Queen
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)
Bambi
Cinderella
That Darn Cat! (1965)
Dial M For Murder
Georgy Girl
Magnificent Obsession
The Mole People
The Public Enemy

 

[Jerry R Colvin]

StevenFC, The Yearling is already available on DVD....

 

[Brook K]

Just to name a few...

The Crowd
The Wind
Berlin Alexanderplatz
The Conformist
Simon Of The Desert
Week-End
Bigger Than Life
Forty Guns
The Bandwagon
Footlight Parade
Never Give A Sucker An Even Break
The Great McGinty
Hail The Conquering Hero
The Devil Is A Woman
Autumn Tale
Letter From An Unknown Woman
Tarnished Angels
Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia
Record Of A Living Being/I Live In Fear
Ugetsu