So which movies still need to hit DVD?

[icondude]

Death Wish 3
Siege of Firebase Gloria
Platoon Leader

[chesola]

Originally posted by brizz
Three Days of the Condor (1976)

This has been out for quite a while.

[Hammer99]

The W.C. Fields catalog.

[CPS_ Adventures]

Some among the many:

Blade Runner SE
Emperor of the North
Charley Varrick
Heaven Help Us
Six Pack
Day of the Locust
Greed
Fall of the Roman Empire
Each Dawn I Die
Hell's Heroes
Magnificent Ambersons
Mr. Billion
If....
These are the Damned
The Shuttered Room

[talemyn]

. . . <cough> Name Of The Rose <cough>, <cough> . . .

[sinbad75]

No particular order, but MOST anticipated (and Hoped for!)

Major Dundee
The Naked Jungle
55 Days at Peking
The Agony and the Ecstasy
El Cid
Darby O’Gill and the Little People
In Search of the Castaways
Hoppity Goes to Town
King Kong
Son of Kong
Mighty Joe Young
Bambi
Cinderella
Song of the South
So Dear To My Heart
Casanova’s Big Night
Alias Jesse James
Beau James
That Certain Feeling
The Iron Petticoat
Here Come the Girls
Off Limits
Nothing But the Truth
Cat and the Canary
My Favorite Spy
Master of the World
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde

[Hendrik]

...umm... the original The Cat And The Canary (1927) is available on an image DVD...

...the 1978 version is also available on DVD...

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[mikewendt]

Robert Rodriguez's Roadracers

[madmoose]

trapped in paradise~!

[Hendrik]

(...and - at the risk of sounding like an "elitist" - El Cid and The Fall Of The Roman Empire and 55 Days At Peking (and Circus World as well) have been available on French R2/PAL DVDs for some time now...)

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[baracine]

Originally posted by Hendrik
...umm... the original The Cat And The Canary (1927) is available on an image DVD...

...the 1978 version is also available on DVD...

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The guy obviously meant the Bob Hope version (1938?).

[baracine]

Originally posted by Hendrik
(...and - at the risk of sounding like an "elitist" - El Cid and The Fall Of The Roman Empire and 55 Days At Peking (and Circus World as well) have been available on French R2/PAL DVDs for some time now...)

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Have you seen them? What do they look like? How's the transfer?!

[Hendrik]

Originally posted by baracine
The guy obviously meant the Bob Hope version (1938?).

...really?... where did he say that?...

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[Hendrik]

Originally posted by baracine
Have you seen them? What do they look like? How's the transfer?!

...have owned the first two... excellent anamorphic transfers in correct AR, original directional stereophonic sound, 'forced' subs when playing the English version...

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[profbobo]

Originally posted by talemyn
. . . <cough> Name Of The Rose <cough>, <cough> . . .

YES! I would also really like to see Fearless Vampire Killers on DVD.

[baracine]

Originally posted by Hendrik
...have owned the first two... excellent anamorphic transfers in correct AR, original directional stereophonic sound, 'forced' subs when playing the English version...

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... DIRECTIONAL stereo sound?! My favourite! Wow, oh, wow!

About The Cat and the Canary, having seen both the 1927 version and the 1939 Bob Hope version, I can say that the latter is a perfect bookend to its "sequel", The Ghost Breakers (1940), one of my all-time chiller-horror favourites, worth owning on DVD if only for the drop-dead gorgeous black and white photography and the amazing production values. (See my post on the SCARIEST movie thread, in Movie Talk, on this page http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...5&pagenumber=4 ).

[EskimoJoe]

I believe that were are overlooking a little dandy entitled:

Terminator 2

[Hendrik]

Originally posted by baracine
... DIRECTIONAL stereo sound?! My favourite! Wow, oh, wow!

...with "directional" I - of course !!! - mean that the dialog 'moves' on the screen with the actors - as used to be the case for ALL *w*i*d*e*screen movies up to and including at least Ryan's Daughter - compared to later widescreen movies that have virtually all dialog coming from center stage, whereas the sound effects are in DIRECTIONAL stereo... or hadn't you noticed... ?...

(Note: I should perhaps explain that I am a seventy-year-old codger, who actually saw many of the earlier widescreen movies -- including El Cid & The Fall Of The Roman Empire (and, e.g., The Robe, and How To Marry A Millionaire, and Oklahoma!, and West Side Story, and It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, and My Fair Lady, and War And Peace, and 2001--A Space Odyssey, and Ryan's Daughter, and... -- when said movies were brand NEW and when (exception made of The Robe and HTMAM) 70mm copies were shown - as a matter of course - on HUGE screens in really BIG theaters - Cinerama, anyone? - in such cities as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Paris and London...)

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[planet_jake]

Originally posted by theneobez
Eight Days a Week
Awesome movie, I really wish it were on DVD.

Another vote for Eight Days A Week! (I still have the Video Poster in My Dorm Room!)

Also: (AMONG MANY MANY OTHERS)

Safety Last 1923

The Big Parade 1925

Greed 1925

Un Chien Andalou 1928 (Short Subject)

The Crowd 1928

Animal Crackers 1930

Monkey Business 1931

Duck Soup 1933

King Kong 1933

A Night at the Opera 1935

Bringing Up Baby 1938

The Magnificent Ambersons 1942

The Black Swan 1942 (FOX STUDIO CLASSICS PLEASE !?!?)

The Picture Of Dorian Gray 1945

A Night in Casablanca 1946

The African Queen 1951

I Vitelloni 1953

Love In The City 1953

La Dolce Vita 1960

Jules et Jim 1961

Boccaccio ’70 1962

The Clowns [TV] 1970

THX-1138 1971

Pat Garret And Billy The Kid 1973

Fellini’s Casanova 1976

Ginger And Fred 1986

Voice Of The Moon 1990

Eight Days A Week 1997 (There is no reason for a film this new,
and this cool not to be on DVD yet Warner Bros.)

[cloudnin]

These for a start (R1):

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...618577-3732867

[baracine]

Originally posted by Hendrik
...with "directional" I - of course !!! - mean that the dialog 'moves' on the screen with the actors - as used to be the case for ALL *w*i*d*e*screen movies up to and including at least Ryan's Daughter - compared to later widescreen movies that have virtually all dialog coming from center stage, whereas the sound effects are in DIRECTIONAL stereo... or hadn't you noticed... ?...

(Note: I should perhaps explain that I am a seventy-year-old codger, who actually saw many of the earlier widescreen movies -- including El Cid & The Fall Of The Roman Empire (and, e.g., The Robe, and How To Marry A Millionaire, and Oklahoma!, and West Side Story, and It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, and My Fair Lady, and War And Peace, and 2001--A Space Odyssey, and Ryan's Daughter, and... -- when said movies were brand NEW and when (exception made of The Robe and HTMAM) 70mm copies were shown - as a matter of course - on HUGE screens in really BIG theaters - Cinerama, anyone? - in such cities as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Paris and London...)

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Hendryk, Hendryk, I was not being sarcastic. I was being serious... about my joy, anyway! I am just as much an old codger as you are and I do remember most of the movies you mention for having seen them on the big screen and I have studied directional sound. The reason I am astonished is that a lot of those films have only been available so far on laserdiscs which offer mostly very basic surround sound and the only DVDs of recent memory - correct me if I'm wrong - that have actually preserved the directional sound mix are The Robe and Demetrius and the Gladiators (both 4.0 but oh! so effective). BTW, I almost travelled to LA last september for their Cinerama and 3D celebration... but reason prevailed! I plan on opening a little Mom and Pop Cinerama theatre when I retire. (OK, now I'm joking.)

I was sincerely expressing joy that when The Fall of the Roman Empire and El Cid do come to region 1 DVD, they will have directional sound. I can't wait. And maybe it will also be the case for Helen of Troy (1955, CinamaScope) when it comes out on April 27, 2004.

[baracine]

Originally posted by cloudnin
These for a start (R1):
La Jetée

cloudnin, La Jetée has been available on DVD since 2000 on a collection of shorts called Short 2 Dreams from Warner Brothers, along with nine other short subjects of lesser importance by different directors. The "Short" series is a kind of continuing series of magazine-format DVDs.

[baracine]

Originally posted by planet_jake
King Kong 1933

Please don't think me a monster but I once saw a colourized version of King Kong (1933) on TV and I was so impressed by the colorist's artwork (despite my general dislike for the process) that I almost wish a DVD edition could come out with the colour option. Is this sacrilegous? My reasoning is that the original is limited in its ability to convey realism and that, as long as it depicts a movie dream world, it might as well be a colorful one. The colours gave extra depth to the jungle and night scenes and a very pleasant hue to the New York scenes.

I also saw on TV a restored and colourized version of the original Wages of fear done under the supervision of the director's daughter from colour photographs of the filming and I liked that as well. True, there were mostly only seven basic colours: yellow-pink for the skin tones, white for the characters' clothes and teeth, grey for the dust of the road and on their clothes, yellow-brown for the rocks, blue for the sky, brown-black for the petroleum and red for the flames. I thought it worked in a kind of stylized comic-book fashion.

[Keith123]

I may have missed it, but I didn't see anyone yet list:

Samson and Delilah (1949)

The Three Stooges Meet Hercules (1962)

And like a few other people, I want King Kong (1933)

[baracine]

Originally posted by Hendrik
...with "directional" I - of course !!! - mean that the dialog 'moves' on the screen with the actors - as used to be the case for ALL *w*i*d*e*screen movies ?...

Well, what do you know! I justed popped Cleopatra in the home theatre and it is directional! I will try tomorrow with My Fair Lady and West Side Story and see what happens. I guess I was too awed by the transfer to notice before...