The only positive thing to come out of the sad event of Paul Newman passing away is if they would FINALLY make his films that are not yet on DVD available in this format. I nominate The Prize (1963), one of the most perfect Hitchcock clones ever devised.



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Can I place a request for the Newman-directed The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds? Puhlease.

or RACHEL RACHEL.

Sometimes a Great Notion (1971) and WUSA (1970) are the two I've been waiting for...

oh dear...expect this thread to be flooded with 50 plus geeks.

I humbly request some sort of, any sort of upgrade of The Hudsucker Proxy. The disc doesn't even have a trailer. That, a remaster, deleted scenes, and a new featurette would be solid work in my book.

Another Paul Newman/The Prize tribute:

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Warner Bros have said that The Prize is on its way to DVD. Was supposed to be this year, but probably early next year.

As for Sometimes a Great Notion, well with Universal in charge, I can't see much hope for it.

I would also like to see Until They Sail, The Rack and the Helen Morgan Story out on DVD. But that is fairly unlikely.

How about a 'Color of Money' upgrade. All we have now is a shitty non anamorphic extra free version,.

i was just looking into getting this, but 0 extras and non-anny? i mean this was his only Oscar winner. let's get after it!

I would also like on DVD:

Quintet
Adventures of a Young Man
The Silver Chalice

Quintet is in Fox's Altman collection; not available seperately so far, but the set is hardly expensive and is almost worth the price for Quintet alone.

Thanks. I'll have to look for it

Aventures of a Young Man is available in Fox's Hemingway Classics Collection.

I know that Newman hated his performance in the film, but I'd like to see The Silver Chalice on DVD. It was featured briefly on the recent Warner Brothers documentary and the deliberately unreal look of the film seemed really interesting.

I read that he only disliked the look of his legs in the film - apparently too scrawny for a tunic - even though he looked fine in a towel in The Prize. The Silver Chalice also has a fine "biblical" score by Franz Waxman,.

Boy I'm missing alot of his

Another vote for "Sometimes a Great Notion"

Another one not on dvd is the 1960's WWII military comedy The Secret War Of Harry Frigg