The Upcoming Classics Thread. UPDATED; Warner & Fox/MGM R2, Friedkin's Cruising...

[John Hodson]

Originally Posted by haineshisway

I've got some other news, too, DVD release-wise, but gosh, let's just wait for the "official" announcement.

What *is* this all about? Honest question - I'm puzzled. You posted what amounted to a rumour that FDS was coming; no release date, little detail, so that's all it amounted to - another rumour, and a rumour that was going round other fora. But thank you for contributing.

Few jumped up and down with glee, but then, since it's been firmed up, few have also jumped up and down - go through the pages and pages of this thread. That's how it is. If you've got other news, including the FDS extras, please, why not pass it on - some people may even jump up and down.

[John Hodson]

Cribbed from the DVD Tak forum:

For September release - FILM NOIR-DARK SIDE OF HOLLYWOOD (Kino) Sudden Fear, The Long Night, Hangmen Also Die, Railroaded, and Behind Locked Doors

...and they also claim to have a date for that Forbidden Planet 2 Disc SE (Oct. 3) and Mutiny on the Bounty 2 Disc SE (1962) (Oct. 10)

Outside out remit, but someone here will surely be happy to learn that Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Box 2 is coming Oct. 17, and BBC/Warners is releasing a DVD of The Shooting Party the same day.

[jackal]

A-ha! Alfred Hitchcock Presents: season 2. Lovely! And by October, I might just have finished getting through the 40-odd episodes in season one.

[haineshisway]

Originally Posted by John Hodson

What *is* this all about? Honest question - I'm puzzled. You posted what amounted to a rumour that FDS was coming; no release date, little detail, so that's all it amounted to - another rumour, and a rumour that was going round other fora. But thank you for contributing.

Few jumped up and down with glee, but then, since it's been firmed up, few have also jumped up and down - go through the pages and pages of this thread. That's how it is. If you've got other news, including the FDS extras, please, why not pass it on - some people may even jump up and down.

John and others: Here's all you ever need to know about my posts - I don't do rumors. I would never post a rumor. I post only things that are factual, things I've been told by people who are working on the DVDs, and things which they say are okay to post.

I've noticed that there is little jumping up and down now that it's officially announced. Studios do come to realize that all these people who are crying, begging, drooling for a particular release like Flower Drum Song, are really about ten people on different forums - even though different forums, usually the same ten people, like Mr. Joecaps. And when the announcement if finally made, all that really happens is the ten people go "GREAT" and then carp about something. It's funny, but it's always the same. Less of that goes on here, which is why I like here better than 'there'.

[hitch_fan]

Originally Posted by haineshisway

I've got some other news, too, DVD release-wise, but gosh, let's just wait for the "official" announcement.

The suspense is killing me. Are you about to tell us that Sony/Columbia has seen the light and is going to release a big boxset of Boetticher/Scott westerns?
Otherwise don't bother .

Mutiny on the Bounty 2 Disc SE (1962) (Oct. 10)

Excellent. This is the release I'm looking forward to the most, together with The Naked Spur.

[haineshisway]

Hitch, I wish for the Boetticher's as much as you. I keep asking - I keep hearing squat. I, too, am very excited for Mutiny - a film I saw many times during its reserved seat engagement. Hopefully it will be as good as Grand Prix, transfer-wise. And Naked Spur - I'm hoping for a great transfer on that, too, and not for a brown mess like the VHS.

[John Hodson]

Originally Posted by John Hodson

...and they also claim to have a date for that Forbidden Planet 2 Disc SE (Oct. 3)

So much for that. From the HTF:

Originally Posted by FrankXS

USA Today had a short snippet in Life section that Warners would release two different versions of Forbidden Planet, one for about $28 the other for about $60. This will be mid-November.

Looks like another 'Ultimate Collectors Edition' is on the way.

[John Hodson]

Network has updated its forthcoming page and there some tasty looking goodies on the way: September 4 sees The Uncanny and Countess Dracula SE, September 18 sees SEs for The Medusa Touch and (huzzaah!) Things to Come.

And on September 25, Leslie Woodhead's 1969 documentary The Stones in The Park

Nice!

[John Hodson]

DVD Times has added more Fox titles to the September slate:

House of the Damned - $14.98 SRP - A perfect romantic getaway turns into a hellish nightmare in this suspense-filled thriller! Architect Scott Campbell (Ron Foster) and his wife Nancy (Merry Anders) join another couple, Joseph and Loy Schiller (Richard Crane and Erika Peters), for what promises to be a pleasant stay at an empty castle set on a secluded California hillside. Soon, however, tension mounts as terrifying things begin happening: A group of ghoulish circus performers who once inhabited the castle become increasingly hostile towards their “guests,” turning their mini-vacation into a life-and-death challenge of wits!

A barebones release, this flipper-disc contains the film in 2.35:1 Anamorphic Widescreen on one side and 1.33:1 Full Frame on the other. English Stereo and Mono audio tracks are provided along with French and Spanish subtitles.

Night Train to Paris - $14.98 SRP - This gripping thriller stars Leslie Nielson as former American O.S.S. Agent Alan Holiday, now living in London and caught in a web of intrigue, murder and deceit! When a beautiful woman (Alizia Gur) visits him one New Year’s Eve, claiming to be a friend of his old boss, Jules Lemoine (Hugh Latimer) he is convinced to smuggle a tape recording containing defence information to Paris on Lemoine’s behalf. But all is not as it seems, and when Lemoine is murdered, Holiday realizes that a deadly enemy has staged a terrible ruse…one in which he has taken part, and may not survive!

A barebones release, this flipper-disc contains the film in 1.66:1 Anamorphic Widescreen on one side and 1.33:1 Full Frame on the other. English Stereo and Mono audio tracks are provided along with French and Spanish subtitles.

Also arriving on 5th September priced at $14.98 SRP each are two titles plucked from the recent Mel Brooks Collection and released separately - Robin Hood: Men in Tights and To Be or Not To Be.

[Narshty]

For the Alan Clarke completists, Network is bringing out Billy The Kid and the Green Baize Vampire on 7th August. It's £12.99 and, as far as I know, is the first ever home video release of the film anywhere in the world.

[kanedaa]

Originally Posted by John Hodson

As reported at DVD Times:

Universal Studios Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of Flower Drum Song (Special Edition) for 7th November 2006 priced at $29.98 SRP. This sixties Rodgers and Hammerstein musical directed by Henry Koster tells the story of a Chinese woman and her father who illegally enter San Francisco to marry her fiancé, only while there she falls in love with another man and the American way of life.

Presented in 2.35:1 Anamorphic Widescreen with English DD2.0 Stereo audio and optional English SDH, French and Spanish subtitles, extras are TBC.

A slither of additional info from Universal - Universal’s promotional text outlines this as a Special Edition with an all-new,
digitally remastered picture and 5.1 surround sound audio plus never-before-seen bonus materials and collectible packaging.

[haineshisway]

Quick, someone alert Mr. Joecaps that he once again jumped all over a studio based on erroneous information from a website. And the alert the others who did the same.

[haineshisway]

Oh, someone, John, anyone, go over there and put those people out of their misery. As I said over a month ago, there are extras (it's a SE for God's sake) - I know people who are involved - there's a commentary track, interviews (I presume within documentaries), etc. Don't these people ever google?

[anephric]

Originally Posted by Narshty

For the Alan Clarke completists, Network is bringing out Billy The Kid and the Green Baize Vampire on 7th August. It's £12.99 and, as far as I know, is the first ever home video release of the film anywhere in the world.

Excellent stuff - the jingle for that ("Billy the Kid... and the Green Baize VAMPIRE!!!") has haunted my waking dreams for, oooh, a decade and a half.

[John Hodson]

Be a bit remiss if I didn't mention this here, apologies for quoting myself from the 'Optimum' thread:

Originally Posted by John Hodson

Blimey; just up at the Optimum website:

For August release: The Blue Lamp

For September release: Billy Liar, The Doctor Who Boxset, The Graham Greene Boxset (Fallen Idol, The Third Man, Brighton Rock), Peter Sellers Collection (Heavens Above, I'm Alright Jack, Two Way Stretch, The Very best of Peter Sellers), Tony Hancock Double Bill, The Wicker Man SE

For October release: The Green Man, Hammer Ultimate Boxset

For November release: The War Box Set (Cross of Iron, The Wooden Horse, They Who Dare), The War Box Set (The Colditz Story, The Cruel Sea, The Dam Busters), The War Box Set (I Was Monty's Double, The Colditz Story, Went The Day Well)

EDIT: added - The Ealing Ultimate Box Set, no detail, but coming September.

[CinéKarine]

Just saw this on the DVD Savant page, sure it will be of interest to the horror fans on this forum:

A Sony pictures postcard promises eleven Karloff films for Halloween....
(no other details)

[Frank Maher]

Found an extra report on DVD Maniacs re the above, they got it from dvddrive-in.com:

"It has just been confirmed that Sony will release a DVD box set in October called "Icons of Horror Collection: Boris Karloff." The set will include the following Karloff Columbia titles: THE BLACK ROOM, THE MAN THEY COULD NOT HANG, BEFORE I HANG and THE BOOGIE MAN WILL GET YOU. No exact date yet, and no retail price yet, but we’ll report more details as soon as they come in."

Sony were to release several Columbia Karloff titles for Halloween last year but I don't recall seeing them anywhere. I suspect these were held back and might make up the rest of the eleven.

[CinéKarine]

From www.dvdaficionado.com

Charlie Chan, Volume 2 - Cinema Classics Collection
- Charlie Chan's Secret (1936)
- Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936)
- Charlie Chan at the Race Track (1936)
- Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936)
Release date: Oct-10-2006

[John Hodson]

A bit of a hotch-potch of classics coming: Universal is sneaking Doris Day's The Ballad of Josie out into R2 at the end of the month, while there's a raft of titles from DDHE: Life in Emergency Ward 10, which spawned a long running TV series, has just been released, as has tough Brit gangster film No Orchids for Miss Blandish, Compton Bennett's The Years Between and The Silver Darlings. Coming soon are Aleaxander Korda's Conquest of the Air (Aug. 14), Arthur Askey is Charley's Aunt (Aug. 14), and the same date brings Roy Boulting's Fame is The Spur, and Charles Barton's Louisiana Hayride.

[Summerisle]

Originally Posted by John Hodson

As for Rawhide it's coming, (but I don't keep a record of TV stuff in the first post being ever so slightly out of our remit)

Sorry should have made clear: it's the movie starring Tyrone Power and Susan Hayward.