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#27
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How are some of these movies barely registering in the vote??
I beg everyone, even if you don't know what they are, please vote for Midnight (1939) and The Uninvited (1944). These are pretty much the last two VHS tapes in my collection.
I could find reason to vote for nearly half of the movies on that list. I don't understand how movies starring Cary Grant, Bogart, Clark Gable or Jimmy Stewart or directed by Orson Welles haven't been released. Let alone how they're mostly all behind Pure Luck starring Martin Short and Danny Glover.
My final vote tally:
The Mortal Storm
African Queen
The Uninvited
Song of the South
Greed
Vivacious Lady
The Magnificent Ambersons
Johnny Guitar
Mr. Lucky
Last of Mrs. Cheyney
House of Dark Shadows
Canterville Ghost
Red Dust
Midnight
I beg everyone, even if you don't know what they are, please vote for Midnight (1939) and The Uninvited (1944). These are pretty much the last two VHS tapes in my collection.
I could find reason to vote for nearly half of the movies on that list. I don't understand how movies starring Cary Grant, Bogart, Clark Gable or Jimmy Stewart or directed by Orson Welles haven't been released. Let alone how they're mostly all behind Pure Luck starring Martin Short and Danny Glover.
My final vote tally:
The Mortal Storm
African Queen
The Uninvited
Song of the South
Greed
Vivacious Lady
The Magnificent Ambersons
Johnny Guitar
Mr. Lucky
Last of Mrs. Cheyney
House of Dark Shadows
Canterville Ghost
Red Dust
Midnight
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Originally Posted by wilky61
Not entirely true. By the time the auctions end, those $12 strating bids for Notorious/Spellbound average about $55 and Rebecca fetches anywhere from $75-100 or more. Trust me. I've been keeping an eye on them for an opportunity for a cheap buy. If you can direct me to somewhere that I could purchase them for the prices you suggest, please do. 
I do appreciate your argument, though, that never-released films deserve the nod before OOP-films.

I do appreciate your argument, though, that never-released films deserve the nod before OOP-films.
All that being said, bring on African Queen first!
#29
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The Picture of Dorian Gray is worthy of a DVD release. I just hope the studio remasters it. When I viewed this film on TCM a few years ago it looked horrible.
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^ Thanks, I was actually about to click Edit to change Universal to Warner Bros. when I read your post...just dug up the Warner exexutives interview with HTF back in February, which read, "[WARNER] We have finally found good elements on AMBERSONS, and plan to release both AMBERSONS and JOURNEY [Journey into Fear] in 2008." Have they pushed it back further than '08?
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Originally Posted by PopcornTreeCt
Letter from an Unknown Woman
There's an excellent UK disc of Letter, released by Second Sight. Extras are slim, with only a video essay on the film (which is interesting), but I can't imagine an R1 release looking any better. It'd be a good reason to go multi-regional, if you haven't already.
IMO, Magnificent Ambersons will only look acceptable when Warner gets around to it here in R1-land. The R2 is, at best, a stop-gap.
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Popcorn,
There's an excellent UK disc of Letter, released by Second Sight. Extras are slim, with only a video essay on the film (which is interesting), but I can't imagine an R1 release looking any better. It'd be a good reason to go multi-regional, if you haven't already.
IMO, Magnificent Ambersons will only look acceptable when Warner gets around to it here in R1-land. The R2 is, at best, a stop-gap.
There's an excellent UK disc of Letter, released by Second Sight. Extras are slim, with only a video essay on the film (which is interesting), but I can't imagine an R1 release looking any better. It'd be a good reason to go multi-regional, if you haven't already.
IMO, Magnificent Ambersons will only look acceptable when Warner gets around to it here in R1-land. The R2 is, at best, a stop-gap.
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Truly appreciate the link. But frankly, I'm disappointed by the selections on the list. I have very nice Criterion DVDs of Rebecca and Notorious that were already released, despite whether or not they're currently in print. They are or were available. I'm still waiting for some classics that have not yet been released EVER by a major DVD label: film noir classics like "Blue Dahlia" and "Glass Key" (both Alan Ladd/Veronica Lake vehicles) not to mention a few comedies like "Cat and the Canary" and "My Favorite Brunette" (both Bob Hope vehicles).




