MGM Releases & Re-releases for July 2007
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MGM Releases & Re-releases for July 2007
From thedigitalbits.com rumor Mill:
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/rumormill.html#041607
7/10 - Kansas City Confidential (1952), The Stranger (1946), The Woman in the Window (1944), A Bullet for Joey (1950), Stopover Tokyo (1957), Sea Wife (1957), Seven Thieves (1960), Rally Round the Flag, Boys (1958), The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955), the Joan Collins Collection (includes Stopover Tokyo, Sea Wife, The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, Seven Thieves and Rally Round the Flag, Boys) and the MGM Movie Legends Collection: Frankie & Annette ($39.98 - includes Beach Blanket Bingo, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini, Beach Party, Bikini Beach, Fireball 500, Thunder Alley, Muscle Beach Party and Ski Party)
7/17 - Red Dawn: Collector's Edition, The Happy Hooker Trilogy (The Happy Hooker, The Happy Hooker Goes to Hollywood and The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington) and 80s double features ($19.98 each) including Teen Witch/Heavenly Kid, Class/Secret Admirer, Desperately Seeking Susan/Something Wild, Fatal Beauty/Running Scared, The Sure Thing/Valley Girl, Johnny B. Good/Youngblood, Once Bitten/Vampire's Kiss and The Flamingo Kid/Last American Virgin
7/24 - Perfect Creature, The Hills Have Eyes 2, Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring, Raise the Red Lantern, the MGM Movie Legends Collection: Frank Sinatra ($39.98 - includes The Manchurian Candidate, Guys and Dolls, The Pride and the Passion, Hole in the Head and Kings Go Forth) and the MGM Movie Legends Collection: Elvis Presley ($39.98 - includes Clambake, Frankie and Johnny, Follow That Dream and Kid Galahad)
7/31 - Firehouse Dog, Tintorera (1977) and Blue Water, White Death
7/17 - Red Dawn: Collector's Edition, The Happy Hooker Trilogy (The Happy Hooker, The Happy Hooker Goes to Hollywood and The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington) and 80s double features ($19.98 each) including Teen Witch/Heavenly Kid, Class/Secret Admirer, Desperately Seeking Susan/Something Wild, Fatal Beauty/Running Scared, The Sure Thing/Valley Girl, Johnny B. Good/Youngblood, Once Bitten/Vampire's Kiss and The Flamingo Kid/Last American Virgin
7/24 - Perfect Creature, The Hills Have Eyes 2, Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring, Raise the Red Lantern, the MGM Movie Legends Collection: Frank Sinatra ($39.98 - includes The Manchurian Candidate, Guys and Dolls, The Pride and the Passion, Hole in the Head and Kings Go Forth) and the MGM Movie Legends Collection: Elvis Presley ($39.98 - includes Clambake, Frankie and Johnny, Follow That Dream and Kid Galahad)
7/31 - Firehouse Dog, Tintorera (1977) and Blue Water, White Death
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Wow, I did not expect to see Raise the Lantern in the list. That is great news especially with The Stranger, Kansas City Confidential, The Woman in the Window, and Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring also on deck.
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The Red Dawn: CE may be of interest if they remaster it. Also, I'm especially curious as to what they plan for Raise the Red Lantern since the previous release was a travesty.
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One has a feeling that these MGM re-releases are just SONY rehashing older titles !!
Will Jean De Florette / Manon be anamorphic this time around ??
The same goes for Red Dawn ??
Considering that SONY are STILL RELEASING NON-ANAMORPHIC MGM titles (like Solarbabies (sure - a crap title - but 2.35:1 4x3 transfers in 2007 !!??!!) I can't see them doing much to improve on their prior releases.
Will Jean De Florette / Manon be anamorphic this time around ??
The same goes for Red Dawn ??
Considering that SONY are STILL RELEASING NON-ANAMORPHIC MGM titles (like Solarbabies (sure - a crap title - but 2.35:1 4x3 transfers in 2007 !!??!!) I can't see them doing much to improve on their prior releases.
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Blue Water, White Death....never thought I'd see this get released. Hopefully they will get the aspect ratio right, should be wide, very wide, as it was apparently shown in Cinerama theaters.
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Very curious about Raise the Red Lantern. I'm not anticipating them having the same transfer as the nice-looking ERA remaster, but who knows... Maybe we'll be surprised.
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Looking forward to seeing 'Blue Water, White Death.' Only time I've ever seen it was late night on some UHF station nearly 20 years ago. Anyone have any idea what shark movie is coming out around that time that MGM is clearly trying to capitalize on? I looked on IMDB but didn't see anything.
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One has a feeling that these MGM re-releases are just SONY rehashing older titles !!
No Usual Suspects.
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Originally Posted by droidguy1119
I don't. Maybe a feeling that these MGM re-releases are just FOX rehashing older titles though.
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Fox has control now, except for the Bond films up to and including Casino Royale IIRC.
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Originally Posted by cfloyd3
I have been wanting to see Kansas City Confidential for quite awhile this is great news.
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The Stranger along with 3 other releases are going on the new MGM Film Noir banner. From dvdtimes.co.uk:
Cover art for the releases here:
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=64732
MGM Film Noir in July
Fox and MGM Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of four classic black-and-white film noir crime dramas on 10th July 2007. One of the most critically acclaimed noir films of all time, director Fritz Lang tells the story of a bored middle-aged professor who becomes tragically obsessed with the portrait of a woman in a shop window in The Woman In The Window, available for the first time on Region 1 DVD and starring film noir legend Edward G. Robinson (Double Indemnity, House of Strangers) and Joan Bennett (She Wanted A Millionaire, Mississippi Gambler). Also available for the first time on R1 DVD, A Bullet For Joey finds Robinson as a Canadian inspector involved in a classic game of cat and mouse with a deported American gangster (George Raft, Ocean’s Eleven, Some Like It Hot), unlocking a web of mystery from behind the Iron Curtain. Director and star Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil) plays a man hiding a dangerous secret in a small Connecticut town whose past may be exposed by an investigator (Robinson) from the War Crimes Commission in The Stranger. Exposing the bullet-scarred face of a brutal city’s underworld, Kansas City Confidential stars screen siren Coleen Gray (Kiss of Death, Nightmare Alley), classic movie villain Lee Van Cleef (The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, For A Few Dollars More) and John Payne (The Razor’s Edge, Miracle on 34th Street) as an out of luck ex GI framed for a robbery who must follow the clues to prove his innocence.
Retail is $19.98 SRP each. There are no extras.
Fox and MGM Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of four classic black-and-white film noir crime dramas on 10th July 2007. One of the most critically acclaimed noir films of all time, director Fritz Lang tells the story of a bored middle-aged professor who becomes tragically obsessed with the portrait of a woman in a shop window in The Woman In The Window, available for the first time on Region 1 DVD and starring film noir legend Edward G. Robinson (Double Indemnity, House of Strangers) and Joan Bennett (She Wanted A Millionaire, Mississippi Gambler). Also available for the first time on R1 DVD, A Bullet For Joey finds Robinson as a Canadian inspector involved in a classic game of cat and mouse with a deported American gangster (George Raft, Ocean’s Eleven, Some Like It Hot), unlocking a web of mystery from behind the Iron Curtain. Director and star Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil) plays a man hiding a dangerous secret in a small Connecticut town whose past may be exposed by an investigator (Robinson) from the War Crimes Commission in The Stranger. Exposing the bullet-scarred face of a brutal city’s underworld, Kansas City Confidential stars screen siren Coleen Gray (Kiss of Death, Nightmare Alley), classic movie villain Lee Van Cleef (The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, For A Few Dollars More) and John Payne (The Razor’s Edge, Miracle on 34th Street) as an out of luck ex GI framed for a robbery who must follow the clues to prove his innocence.
Retail is $19.98 SRP each. There are no extras.
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=64732
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Hooray for "Raise the Red Lantern" - the current DVD release is truly a travesty. "The Stranger", "Woman in the Window" and "Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring" are all must buys for me.
Assuming they get decent transfers.
Assuming they get decent transfers.
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Very excited about the film noir titles. Hopefully the Stranger will look better than all the PD transfers that are floating around. I'll keep my fingers crossed that this will be the start of a new line rather than four standalone titles. Too bad about not having any extras, but I do love the cover art.
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From dvdtimes.co.uk:
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=64733
Red Dawn CE (R1) in July
Fox and MGM Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of Red Dawn (Collector’s Edition) on 17th July 2007 priced at $19.98 SRP. At the height of the Cold War, a small Rocky Mountain town is invaded by Soviet forces and a group of high school students-turned-refugees fight for their family, friends and country in this film directed by acclaimed screenwriter John Milius (Apocalypse Now, Dirty Harry). The first film to be released with a PG-13 rating by the MPAA Red Dawn stars Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Jennifer Grey and Harry Dean Stanton.
Disc One:
Widescreen Feature Film
English and French Stereo
Spanish Mono
French and Spanish subtitles
Carnage Counter – Keeps a running tally of violent acts including deaths, bodily injuries and shots fired.
Disc Two:
Red Dawn Rising – A retrospective look at the making of the film.
Building The Red Menace – What it took to create “World War III”.
Military Training – Explores the extensive training the actors had to go undergo to become convincing guerrilla fighters.
WWIII Comes To Town – Featurette that travels back to Las Vegas, New Mexico to interview locals and extras about what happened when Red Dawn turned their hometown into the fictional town of Calumet, Colorado and the centre of WWIII.
Fox and MGM Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of Red Dawn (Collector’s Edition) on 17th July 2007 priced at $19.98 SRP. At the height of the Cold War, a small Rocky Mountain town is invaded by Soviet forces and a group of high school students-turned-refugees fight for their family, friends and country in this film directed by acclaimed screenwriter John Milius (Apocalypse Now, Dirty Harry). The first film to be released with a PG-13 rating by the MPAA Red Dawn stars Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Jennifer Grey and Harry Dean Stanton.
Disc One:
Widescreen Feature Film
English and French Stereo
Spanish Mono
French and Spanish subtitles
Carnage Counter – Keeps a running tally of violent acts including deaths, bodily injuries and shots fired.
Disc Two:
Red Dawn Rising – A retrospective look at the making of the film.
Building The Red Menace – What it took to create “World War III”.
Military Training – Explores the extensive training the actors had to go undergo to become convincing guerrilla fighters.
WWIII Comes To Town – Featurette that travels back to Las Vegas, New Mexico to interview locals and extras about what happened when Red Dawn turned their hometown into the fictional town of Calumet, Colorado and the centre of WWIII.
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=64733