dx23

From dvdtimes.co.uk:

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=60431

dollfins1

correct me if i'm wrong but this looks like a repackaging of several of the films and bonus disc from the previous marilyn monroe diamond collections. might be worth it for someone who doesn't already own the dc's.

darkshadowdog

I don't own these already so ill proboly pick up the set.

Cameron

Marilyn Monroe: The Diamond Collection, Vol. 1
- Bus Stop (1956)
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
- How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
- Seven Year Itch, The (1955)
- There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
- Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days (2001)
+ Something's Got to Give (1962)

Marilyn Monroe: The Diamond Collection, Vol. 2
- Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
- Let's Make Love (1960)
- Monkey Business (1952)
- Niagara (1953)
- River of No Return (1954)

fliggil

so no word of any special new transfers or extras or anything? i've had DC vol. 1 for a while and vol. 2 has been in my queue for a while. hopefully this set is just repackaged for the sake of repackaging.

Zvbxrpl

Someone from SONY or UNIVERSAL must have gotten a marketing gig at FOX.

What a waste. I'm getting so tired of reissues that just take up space on store shelves, while hundreds of great titles languish in the respective studio's vaults.

...and like we really need to think of Marilyn Monroe's 80th birthday.....Big friggin' deal.

I have these films already. Give us something new....

They must think it's like putting a new cover on the KELLOGG'S CORN FLAKES box. The poison that has infected so many studios are these marketing people who don't know and don't care about the films. They might as well be selling peanut butter.

ARRRRGH!

Amel

They could've have at least used a different box cover. This one looks like one of those cheap sets you get for $10 bucks at a drugstore.

I'll stick to my Diamond Collections.

illennium

Kind of like Marilyn Monroe.

wildeny

R2 will celebrate the same thing by releasing a Best of Marilyn box set (only three films + Final days) on June 5.

DVD Times said the new release of The Seven Year Itch has
Will the R1 release (May 30) get the same things?

slop101

I would also like to know if this new dvd of 7YI is an upgrade compared to the old one.

Does it have a new transfer, the documentaries detailed above? Anyone know?

ernestrp

Ugliest cover art I ever saw.

slop101

It ain't that bad - actually it's an improvement over the last cover.

So it comes out in less than a week and no one know what extras are on it?

souvenir

The new "Seven Year Itch" dvd is full frame. I was looking at getting it from the recent B2G1F Fox sales and noticed all the sites had it listed as full frame. Just a warning to those thinking about getting it.

rennervision

I'm confused about the whole "80th anniversary" thing. The 1950s weren't that long ago.

JesseCuster8

I really hope that the full-frame listing is a mistake. It seems like we've gotten beyond the point where that should be happening and so far I think Fox's Cinema-Classics collection, double-dips aside, are wonderful and really rival Warner Brother's special editions. I could care less what the box looks like, that 7 Year Itch cover is aces and I'll bet all the other ones in the set are using original cover art.

Oh, and I believe the 80th anniversary is Marilyn Monroe's 80th birthday.

slop101

That would be hillarious, since the front cover says "Cinemascope" at the bottom.

Living Dead

Some sites frequently mislabel older films as full-frame. It's most likely a mistake.

kingtopher

I think the cover art looks pretty nice actually. There's much, much worse out there. If you really think its the worst cover art you've ever seen, you should go browse around Amazon.com for a while.

cinephan

This is for her 80th birthday.

David Rayner

I recently bought the Region 2 DVD of River of no Return, because it's in widescreen and has now replaced my old pan and scan VHS video version of some years back. They are selling all the Marilyn Monroe 80th birthday titles separately and in box sets at my local HMV store. I thought the DVD had rather a plain cover, a cut out image of MM on a white background, but when I got it home and unwrapped it, I found that the insert card in the DVD case had a different cover design in full colour on the reverse. You just pull it out, turn it around and slide it back in again and hey presto, you have a different cover. I don't know if this applies to all the Region 2 releases in this series, but it definitely applies to River of no Return.

By the way, all the other CinemaScope titles in the series, such as How to Marry a Millionaire; The Seven Year Itch; Bus Stop and Let's Make Love, are all presented in either 2.55:1 or 2.35:1 aspect ratio, depending on how early a CinemaScope film they are. I'm not a Marilyn Monroe fan and only bought River of no Return because I was always a big Tommy Rettig fan and he looks great in this, filmed in Canada in 1953, only a year or so before he started work on Lassie.

gcbma

Has anyone actually seen this 2006 R1 release of the "Seven Year Itch"? The BBC review (http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2006/06/1...d_review.shtml) of the 2006 R2 2-disc release says it contains a commentary by Billy Wilder biographer Kevin Lally, but I can't verify anywhere that the 2006 R1 release also has it. If not, will Fox eventually be releasing the comprehensive R2 version in R1 anytime soon?