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Humor Risk (1921) This was the first (but never released) Marx Brothers film, and is listed by the Internet Movie Database as lost. The print may have been accidentally thrown away when left in the screening box overnight, or Groucho may have intentionally burnt the negative after a particularly bad premiere screening. (Groucho attempted to destroy their 1929 film, The Cocoanuts, but the studio stopped him - The Cocoanuts would turn out to be a smash hit.) Message was edited by: CelluloidKid

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Then there is "Great Day"!! "Great Day" is one of those mystery productions that was started and shut down before its completion. The film was very close to completion, but the studio, and Joan, supposedly didn't like what they were seeing. They mutually decided to go into major rewrites to save the film with the plan to go back to shooting with the newly revised script by the following year, in 1931. It never happened and "Great Day," was never released. However, there seems to be a much bigger story to the movie that never was. Tantalizing references to "Great Day" are out there, but anyone researching it finds there are many dead ends. It's as if someone had tried to erase its existence. And there's a very good reason for that - someone did. Production started in the fall of 1930, but after around 8 weeks of shooting, the film was scrapped at considerable cost to the studio ($280,000 according to Joan and US), largely due to Joan's extreme unhappiness with her southern belle performance ("I just can't talk baby talk," Joan told LB Mayer after viewing the rushes, which she thought were "God-awful.") "Great Day" began as a Vincent Youmans musical purchased by M-G-M to be tailored to Joan Crawford's talents. The 1929 show had not been a success on Broadway, lasting only twenty-nine performances. But its songs (with lyrics by Billy Rose and Edward Eliscu) had been memorable. They included the title tune, another called "Without A Song", and lastly, one of the all-time standards, "More Than You Know." It was the popularity of the music that encouraged MGM to buy the rights for the film version. Another effort was made to make the film in 1934, this time starring Jeanette MacDonald, but this also fell through. For years, "Great Day" was referred to only briefly, if at all, in Joan's filmographies. One of the strangest facts surrounding the film was that all MGM production records for this "A" feature had disappeared, yet, records for many other uncompleted movies had survived. Why?

I don't know if I'm giving double info ...but here it goes; unreleased low-budget feature film completed in 1994. Created to secure copyright to the property, the producers never intended it for release ? although the director and other creators were not informed of this fact. It was produced by Roger Corman (famous for his low-budget productions) and Bernd Eichinger (who also produced another Fantastic Four movie in 2005). The film was based on the popular comic book by Marvel Comics and featured the origin of the Fantastic Four and their first battle with the evil Doctor Doom and a mysterious Mole Man-like creature.

The Pied Piper of Cleveland: A Day in the Life of a Famous Disc Jockey American musical documentary film produced in the fall of 1955 documenting the career of disc jockey Bill Randle. Arthur Cohen directed the film, which was produced by Bill Randle himself. Included in the film was live footage shot at several live shows at local high schools and auditoriums on and around October 20, 1955. Performers featured included Elvis Presley, Bill Haley and His Comets, Pat Boone, LaVern Baker, Roy Hamilton, Johnnie Ray and others. This was the first film Presley ever appeared in, and is the "movie short" referred to by Randle when he introduced Presley on his first national TV appearance on The Dorsey Brothers Stage Show in early 1956. It was Bill Haley's second film appearance after his group appeared in the 1954 short film, Round Up of Rhythm. The original forty-eight minute film was supposed to be cut down to a twenty minute "short" for national distribution, but never made it that far. As of 2005, 50 years after its was produced, the movie remains unreleased. There is some dispute over whether or not this film actually exists, although it was shown publicly, albeit only once in Cleveland, and excerpts were also aired on a Cleveland television station in 1956. According to music historian Jim Dawson, Randle, before his death, sold the rights to the film to PolyGram, although it has been reported that Universal Studios has the negatives of the film in its vaults.

Also there is "Uncle Tom's Fairy Tales" (1968) Directed by Penelope Spheeris and starring Richard Pryor. It was never released as it was an unfinished product. The only known negative of the film was said to have been shredded by Pryor after a disagreement with his wife at the time However in June 2005, scenes from the film appeared in a retrospective while Pryor was being honored by the Directors Guild of America. In August 2005, Pryor and his wife and attorney-in-fact, Jennifer Lee-Pryor, filed a lawsuit against Spheeris and Pryor's own daughter, Rain. The suit claims that Spheeris and Pryor's daughter conspired to take the surviving film from his home sometime in the mid-1980s. According to the suit, he contacted Spheeris after the tribute. She allegedly revealed she had given the footage to the Academy Film Archive of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and intended to give the film to Rain. Pryor died in December 2005 but the suit is still currently pending.

The "Other" "Infamous " unfinished film is: The Day the Clown Cried This unfinished and unreleased 1972 film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis. It is based on a book of the same name by Joan O'Brien, who had co-written the original script with Charles Denton ten years prior. Based upon the controversy, it has become somewhat infamous among film historians and movie buffs for a film that has never officially been released. fIt's a film about Nazi concentration camps directed by Jerry Lewis. Some bits of behind-the-scenes-footage have been found, as well as production stills. But that is it! Look this film up on the internet!! It is "VERY" interesting!! Also there is: "I Love Lucy", a feature film version of the popular sitcom which combined three episodes with new scenes added. MGM demanded the film be shelved because they felt it would diminish interest in "The Long, Long Trailer". After one test screening, the film was shelved and forgotten.

Dark Blood (circa 1993) about a character named Boy (played by River Phoenix). Boy is a widower who lives as a hermit on a nuclear testing site, waiting for the end of the world while making dolls that he believed had magical powers. Boy ends up helping a couple (played by Jonathan Pryce and Judy Davis) when their car breaks down as they are traveling through the desert. Dark Blood was written by Jim Barton and directed by George Sluizer. Dark Blood was never completed due to the death of River Phoenix in 1993. The crew was 11 days shy of completing production. After Phoenix's death, his mother was sued because of loss of expenses, as the film had to be abandoned. As of late, what was finished of the film is owned entirely by director George Sluizer (also known for the movie The Vanishing). He has hinted that he intends to use it as footage in a documentary about River's life. Recently, some raw footage of River Phoenix in Dark Blood has shown up on YouTube. This is the last released footage of River Phoenix, and the only part of the film made public, and can be viewed!

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The Criterion Collection I Own: The Blob Traffic Brazil Beauty and The Beast Naked Lunch Short Cuts The Royal Tenenbaums Carnival of Souls Diabolique Armageddon I love 'Criterion" there a little pricy but worth the money! I know to some it's a bad film, but the "Criterion" "Armageddon" film cut is about 3 hrs, which is interersting sicnce it expands ont he film but adds more character development & less action!! Steve Nick's bought the film rights to "Beauty and The Beast" & this is 1 reason it's in the "Criterion" film library & has been restored!

Also dsclassic: "Armageddon" was released in the Criterion Collection Spine #40, "The Blob - Criterion Collection (1958)" & Carnival of Souls (1962)!!! Message was edited by: CelluloidKid

Power to the people who punish bad cinema!!!!!!!

I'm not a big Gary Cooper fan, but the 1 film I would love to see which out of print on VHS, & heard a rumor it may come to DVD in 2008 is the film: "Today We Live" from MGM in 1933! 1933. Directed by Howard Hawks, 115 minutes. Joan stars as "Diana Boyce-Smith," a young, wealthy, playgirl Englishwoman during WWI. (This is her first film with future husband Franchot Tone, whom she would marry in 1935; her only film with Gary Cooper; and her first of three films with Robert Young.) The film was based on a story by William Faulkner that didn't include any women, so a few changes had to be made!

Alfred Hitchcock's rough cut of The Paradine Case ran close to 3 hours. But David O. Selznick trimmed the film into 132 minutes and finally to 114 minutes. The released DVD versions of The Paradine Case only have 114 minutes.

Here is more notes about the films selected: Library of Congress Picks 25 More Films By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Posted: 2007-12-27 13:10:54 Filed Under: Movie News "The Naked City," 1948, filmed on actual locations in New York; this movie won Oscars for best photography and editing. It was a gritty crime film combining slices of several stories. "In a Lonely Place," 1950, a scathing Hollywood satire with Humphrey Bogart playing a screenwriter, brilliant at his craft yet prone to living with his fists. "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," 1977, an intelligent sci-fi film in which the climactic scene is set at Devil's Tower National Monument in Wyoming. "Back to the Future," 1985, explored the possibilities of special effects when a man stranded in 1955 by a time machine must not only find a way home, but also teach his father how to become a man, repair the space/time continuum and save his family from being erased from existence. All while fighting off the advances of his then-teenage mother.

Listed as having the "Longest Film Title" by Guinness World Records, who list the full title of the film is: "Un Fatto Di Sangue Nel Commune Di Sculiana Fra Due Uomini Per Causa Di Una Vedova Si Sospetano Moventi Politici. Amore-Morte-Shimmy. Lugano Belle. Tarantelle. Tarallucci ? Vino." The English language title was simply "Revenge".!!! Message was edited by: CelluloidKid

Virna Lisi (b September 8, 1937) is a Cannes and C?sar awards-winning Italian film actress! Lisi began her film career in her teens, in 1953. Cast more for her stunning looks than her talent, her early films included La Donna del Giorno (1956), Eva (1962), and the Italian-made spectacle Romolo e Remo (1961). The pert and sexy star also made a decorative dent in Hollywood comedy as a tempting blue-eyed blonde starring opposite Jack Lemmon in How to Murder Your Wife (1965), and appearing with Tony Curtis in Not with My Wife, You Don't! (1966). Confined to glamour roles, she returned to Europe within a few years, but fared little better in such mediocre movies as Arabella (1967). In Europe she starred in films such as La Ragazza e il Generale, co-starring with Rod Steiger, and two films with Anthony Quinn, The Secret of Santa Vittoria, directed by Stanley Kramer, and the war drama The 25th Hour.

"Something's Got to Give" Something's Got to Give is one of the most notorious unfinished films in Hollywood history. The light bedroom comedy, a remake of My Favorite Wife, was produced in 1962 by a then-floundering 20th Century Fox. The film paired the studio's most bankable star of the 1950s ? Marilyn Monroe ? with Dean Martin and Cyd Charisse. With a troubled star and belligerent director, George Cukor, causing delays on a daily basis the film quickly descended into a costly debacle. The death of Marilyn Monroe resulted in the film's cancellation, and the film's rushes were shelved. On June 1, 1962 Monroe, Martin and Wally Cox shot a scene in the courtyard set. The day marked Monroe's 36th birthday, though the studio didn't even buy a cake. Monroe's stand-in, Evelyn Moriarty, bought a seven dollar sheet cake at the Los Angeles Farmer's Market. A studio illustrator drew a cartoon of a nude Monroe holding a towel which read "Happy Birthday Suit". This was to be used as a birthday card, the cast and crew signed it. The cast attempted to celebrate when Marilyn arrived; however Cukor blew up and insisted they wait until 6 pm because, he "wanted to get a full day's work out of this woman." It would be Monroe's last day on the set. She left the party with co-star Wally Cox. She borrowed the fur trimmed suit she had worn while filming that day because she was to attend a Muscular Dystrophy fund raiser at Dodger Stadium that evening with her former husband Joe DiMaggio and co-star Dean Martin's young son. Monroe was to be replaced with actress Lee Remick, who was fitted into Monroe's costumes and photographed with Cukor. But Dean Martin had leading lady approval and stated, "No Marilyn, no picture." The project seemingly ended there. Plans to resume filming in October were abandoned when Monroe died on August 5th. Realizing they had thrown $2 million away, Fox decided to re-hire Monroe. They agreed to pay her more than her previous salary of $100,000; however she had to agree to make two more films for Fox. She accepted the offer on the condition that George Cukor be replaced with Jean Negulesco, who had directed her in How to Marry a Millionaire. Fox later produced another version of the script, more closely resembling the original 1940 film. Titled Move Over, Darling and starring Doris Day and James Garner, it was released in December 1963. Nine hours of footage from the film sat in the vaults at 20th Century Fox until 1999, when it was digitally restored by Prometheus Entertainment and reconstructed into a semi-coherent, 32-minute segment for the two-hour documentary, Marilyn: The Final Days. It first aired on American Movie Classics on June 1, 2001, which would have been Monroe's 75th birthday. It is available on DVD.

You "FORGOT" some films were added: (The Library of Congress added 25 more films Dec 27, 2007) Here?s a complete list of the 25 films chosen the National Film Registry in 2007: Back to the Future (1985) Bullitt (1968) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) Dances With Wolves (1990) Days of Heaven (1978) Glimpse of the Garden (1957) Grand Hotel (1932) The House I Live In (1945) In a Lonely Place (1950) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) Mighty Like a Moose (1926) The Naked City (1948) Now, Voyager (1942) Oklahoma! (1955) Our Day (1938) Peege (1972) The Sex Life of the Polyp (1928) The Strong Man (1926) Three Little Pigs (1933) Tol?able David (1921) Tom, Tom the Piper?s Son (1969-71) 12 Angry Men (1957) The Women (1939) Wuthering Heights (1939)

LOL..I'm glad I''m not the only one nutty for this song!! I found it on Itunes, & bought the CD off of Amazon.com. The song is Called: Promises Badly Drawn boy CD: Born in the U.K. Promises I promise you will get old I promised you everything To protect you wherever you go I'll give you this diamond ring Just promise you will remember A promise should last forever Right up to the dying embers Of a fire that burns so slow It's a different day everyday Don't want you to walk alone But how long we carry on When all of these things have gone Just promise you will remember That promises last forever Still after the last dying embers Of a fire that burns so slowly It's a beautiful thing to do Sometimes you just have to walk away Remember I do love you Have courage in what you say And promise you will remember That promises last forever Still after the dying embers The fire that burns so slowly And sometimes you just have to walk away Sometimes you just have to walk away Wishing today was yesterday Yeah, sometimes you just have to walk away

You know it sounds funny but I would like to see Marilyn Monroe's "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" get a really good DVD Treatment, & re-add a cut scene! The Cut Scene is: At least one other number was shot, then cut. In the original theatrical trailer, Jane and Marilyn were shown among dancers, climbing the steps of a slide in a children's playground. The song was a French version of "Two Little Girls from Little Rock". Marilyn and Jane wear the costumes when Tommy Noonan corners them backstage in the French nightclub.

Bedtime Story is a 1964 comedy film made by Pennebaker Productions, The Lankershim Company and Universal Pictures. It was directed by Ralph Levy and produced by Stanley Shapiro with Robert Arthur as executive producer from a screenplay by Stanley Shapiro and Paul Henning. The music score was by Hans J. Salter and the cinematography by Clifford Stine. The film was remade in 1988 as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Steve Martin, Michael Caine and Glenne Headly. This movie, very unfortunately, is out of print. The only "brand new" DVD version of it that you can get is from some outfit out of England that made a pretty crappy copy of it, according to the reviews I read on Amazon UK. And by the way you can buy that version of it cheaper on that website.

Crawford achieved continued success with Letty Lynton (1932), now considered the "lost" Crawford film due to a plagiarism case that forced MGM to withdraw it soon after release. As a result, it has never since been shown theatrically, on television, or made available on VHS/DVD. The film is mostly remembered today because of the Letty Lynton dress, designed by Adrian: a white cotton organdy gown with large mutton sleeves, puffed at the shoulder. It was with this gown that Crawford's broad shoulders began to be accentuated by costume; this would become a trademark for the actress along with, later in her career, emphasized eyebrows and ankle strap shoes. When the Letty Lynton dress was copied by Macy's in 1932, it sold over 500,000 replicas nationwide. This film has been unavailable since a Federal court ruled on 17 January 1936 that the script used by MGM too closely followed the play "Dishonored Lady" by Edward Sheldon without acquiring the rights to this play or giving credit. On 28 July 1939 the 2nd Court of Appeals awarded one-fifth of the net of "Lettie Lyton" to the plaintiffs (Edward Sheldon and Margaret Ayer Barnes) in their plagiarism action against M-G-M, M-G-M Distributing Company, Lowe's Inc. and Culver Exchange Corporation. It was said to be the first copyright decision ever to direct the apportionment of profits on the relative basis as has prevailed in the instance of patent suits wherein a patent has been appropriated. On November 7, 1939 M-G-M petitioned the United States Supreme Court to overturn the Court of Appeals ruling stating that the questions arising in the suit are predicated solely upon the copyright laws of the U.S., and not the patient laws. The M-G-M lawyers charged 8 errors in the decision. The film has since become famous due to its unavailability.

Born in the U.K. Badly Drawn Boy (Artist) "Born In The U.K." sounds like a return to the more basic ballad style that was the structural strengths of "Hour Of Bewilderbeast" and "About A Boy" without sounding at all like a retread of anything he's done before. It's fitting that an album that involves reflecting on the past would bring Badly Drawn Boy back to his strengths. Some of the highlights to this album are: Nothing's Gonna Change Your Mind; simple and epic all at once, the plaintive lyrics swirl gradually into hope and joy as the melody builds effortlessly into a final release. Also, straight from Bruce Springsteen's Born To Run song structure, the title song-Born In The U.K., is full of energy and vibrancy. The nostalgia of past and pride of the present- it shows the power of memory. Some of the other strong songs are Without A Kiss, The Long Way Round, Promises, and Degrees of Separation.

The only Memorable quote for "When Ladies Meet" I know of is: Claire Woodruff: I've discovered it doesn't pay to be capable. Husbands don't approve.