Doctor Gonzo

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment paints the town diamond white
By now nearly all of us have the titles we want that are in this set, but it's still a nice one if ya got the money - $374.99 @ amazon.

see picture at bottom.

The details:

with the release of the Twentieth Century Fox 75th Anniversary Gift Set, a 75-film, three-volume set, highlighting a remarkable, rich and unparalleled heritage of classic films, Academy AwardŽ winners and box office smashes. Each of the three volumes cover 25 years of the studio’s legacy along with an exclusive hard cover book detailing the historic filmmaking of some of the greatest movie stars and directors from yesterday and today.

The massive DVD set features a variety of genres and some of the finest films of all time from South Pacific to Star Wars, Alien to Avatar and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes to The Devil Wears Prada. Among its 46 Academy AwardŽ-winning features, the collection highlights seven Best Picture winners including How Green Was My Valley, All About Eve, The Sound of Music, Patton, The French Connection, Slumdog Millionaire and the DVD debut of Cavalcade.

Twentieth Century Fox 75th Anniversary: Volume One (1935-1960) ● Cavalcade
● Steamboat Around the Bend
● The Little Princess
● The Grapes of Wrath
● Blood and Sand
● How Green Was My Valley
● The Ox-Bow Incident
● The Song of Bernadette
● Laura
● Gentlemen’s Agreement
● Miracle on 34th Street
● Twelve O’Clock High
● All About Eve
● The Day the Earth Stood Still
● Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
● The Robe
● The Seven Year Itch
● The King and I
● Love Me Tender
● An Affair to Remember
● South Pacific
● The Diary of Anne Frank

Twentieth Century Fox 75th Anniversary: Volume Two (1961-1985) ● The Hustler
● The Longest Day
● Cleopatra
● Zorba the Greek
● The Sound of Music
● Fantastic Voyage
● The Sand Pebbles
● Planet of the Apes
● Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
● Hello, Dolly!
● M*A*S*H
● Patton
● The French Connection
● The Poseidon Adventure
● Phantom of the Paradise
● Young Frankenstein
● The Rocky Horror Picture Show
● The Omen
● Star Wars
● Alien
● All That Jazz
● Norma Rae
● Cocoon

Twentieth Century Fox 75th Anniversary: Volume Three (1986-2010) ● Raising Arizona
● Wall Street
● Big
● Die Hard
● Working Girl
● Home Alone
● The Last of the Mohicans
● Mrs. Doubtfire
● Speed
● Waiting to Exhale
● The Crucible
● Independence Day
● The Full Monty
● There’s Something About Mary
● Boys Don’t Cry
● Cast Away
● X-Men
● Moulin Rouge
● Ice Age
● Minority Report
● Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
● Sideways
● Mr. and Mrs. Smith
● Walk the Line
● The Devil Wears Prada
● Little Miss Sunshine
● Night at the Museum
● Juno
● Slumdog Millionaire
● Avatar

Corey31

I doubt it will ever hit that price point. Most of these films are not the ones you see at Big Lots and go for $3 each. The price point works out to $5 a film which is probably around the asking price of most of these if not lower then what they normally go for.

This looks like a very nice set but I always wonder the market for sets like this. Collecting a studios films is a good idea in theory but with the varied genres I find it odd that there is a large amount of people that enjoy musicals like South Pacific and Moulin Rouge, popcorn blockbusters like Speed, critical acclaimed dramas like Boys Don't Cry and alien horror films like Alien.

Before anyone replies to me, I'm sure people like that do exist. I, myself, enjoy a varied genre of films. I'm just wondering beyond a small group of people who would pay $400 for a collection of films that is so varied.

adrenaline78

agree with joe.. It looks like an amazing set.. but I already own much of it.

bboisvert

Nice looking set but nothing that I'm personally interested in owning...

Ash Ketchum

I've seen the overwhelming majority of titles on Volumes one and two and most on Vol. 3, but there are very few I'd want to own.

I would break these sets up differently, by genre/subject, etc. Here's the kind of thing I'd propose to Fox, if I were an employee there, with some duplication among categories, until the final categories are determined.

Early Technicolor:
RAMONA (1936)
DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK (1939)
HOLLYWOOD CAVALCADE (1939)
JESSE JAMES (1939)
THE LITTLE PRINCESS
THE BLUE BIRD (1940)
CHAD HANNA (1940)
BLOOD AND SAND (1941)
THE BLACK SWAN (1942)
THE GANG'S ALL HERE (1943)
MY FRIEND FLICKA (1943)

Americana
STEAMBOAT ROUND THE BEND (and other Will Rogers movies)
KENTUCKY
YOUNG MR. LINCOLN
MARYLAND
SWANEE RIVER
CHAD HANNA
HOME IN INDIANA
STATE FAIR
MARGIE
I'D CLIMB THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN

Musicals:
ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND
TIN PAN ALLEY
DOWN ARGENTINE WAY
THAT NIGHT IN RIO
SUN VALLEY SERENADE
WEEKEND IN HAVANA
CONEY ISLAND
GREENWICH VILLAGE
PIN-UP GIRL
STORMY WEATHER
THE KING AND I
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
...a bunch of others

Social Comment:
THE GRAPES OF WRATH
WILSON
GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT
THE SNAKE PIT
APARTMENT FOR PEGGY
PINKY
NO WAY OUT
PEOPLE WILL TALK
VIVA ZAPATA
A HATFUL OF RAIN
WILD RIVER

A set of bonafide classics
YOUNG MR. LINCOLN
THE GRAPES OF WRATH
HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN
JANE EYRE
MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET
ALL ABOUT EVE
THE GUNFIGHTER
PEYTON PLACE

Westerns
JESSE JAMES
THE RETURN OF FRANK JAMES
WESTERN UNION
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE
YELLOW SKY
BROKEN ARROW
THE GUNFIGHTER
GARDEN OF EVIL
BROKEN LANCE
FORTY GUNS
RUN OF THE ARROW
WARLOCK

War/Spy
THE HOUSE ON 92ND STREET
TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH
THE HALLS OF MONTEZUMA
FIVE FINGERS
DECISION BEFORE DAWN
THE FROGMEN
DESTINATION GOBI
CHINA GATE
THE YOUNG LIONS
THE LONGEST DAY

Crime/Noir
I WAKE UP SCREAMING
HANGOVER SQUARE
LAURA
CALL NORTHSIDE 777
CRY OF THE CITY
KISS OF DEATH
THIEVES' HIGHWAY
NIGHT AND THE CITY
WHIRLPOOL
WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS
HOUSE OF BAMBOO

Epics/Spectacles
SUEZ
THE RAINS CAME
CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE
FOREVER AMBER
PRINCE OF FOXES
THE BLACK ROSE
THE ROBE
DEMETRIUS AND THE GLADIATORS
PRINCE VALIANT
THE EGYPTIAN
DESIREE
CLEOPATRA

Horror/Sci-fi
THE LODGER
THE FLY
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
THE LOST WORLD
FANTASTIC VOYAGE
ONE MILLION YEARS BC
PLANET OF THE APES

Not to mention Shirley Temple and Marilyn Monroe box sets.

Just some ideas...

Pizza

This is one of those sets that's a vanity release for the studio. No one will buy it due to price and/or owning most of the content and it'll be heavily discounted down the road.

davidh777

Agreed. It looks great on the shelf and would be great per-film value in the gold box, but people don't collect according to studio, and those interested in this kind of thing would have too many of the movies already.

Boba Fett

The latter films in Volume 3 feature some very questionable choices.

X-Men over X2?
Mr. and Mrs. Smith?
Ice Age?

No...
Predator?
Fight Club?
Road to Perdition?
Borat?

JerryKILL

Well, Cavalcade would be nice to have to complete my "Best Pictures" collection, but I'll be damned if I pluck down that much money for just one title. Hopefully they will release it separately one day...

GoldenWheels

Reminds me of the UA Prestige Collection. At least that thing (albeit more expensive) has the awesome case.

Hendersonfan

That was the first thing I thought of too. I hope they do release it!

smurr05

NAH-