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That plots sounds familiar but cannot recall it!!!! I'll quote, one more time, my very good friend M.L., for another clue Shane?
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You have named quite a few good films...saw Ten North Fredercik quite a while ago...wasn't Suzy Parker also in it?...I too try to only buy dvds...but sometimes, when the movie is so good, and not regularly scheduled anywhere I buy the VHS: i.e.: I did that with "Craig's Wife" (1936) with Roz Russell & John Boles, "Midnight" (1939) Colbert, Barrymore and Ameche; "Death Takes a Holiday" (1934) with Fredric March and Evelyn Venable; "Theodora Goes Wild" (1936) starring Dunne and Melvyn Douglas....
BTW the double dvd edition of Universal's both versions of Imitation of Life, is great...although no bonuses at all!
Why not release both versions of "Magnificent Obsession" that way, or all three versions of "Back Street"???
Why not release the excellent FOX film "The Best of Everything" with Diane Baker, Hope Lange, Martha Hyer, Joan Crawfors, Ameche.....??
Why? Why? Why?
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MovieJoe, we have very similar tastes!!.. I'd Love to have more early Paramounts on DVD like "Design for Living" (couldn't catch it when they scheduled it on TCM!!), "Peter Ibbetson", "The Story Of Temple Drake", "Lives of a Bengal Lancer", "Monte Carlo", "One Hour With You", "Girls About Town", "Island of Lost Souls", etc, etc...
Universal owns those rights....Guys at Universal, pleaseee!!!
I saw Blonde Venus (I bought the vhs three years ago...or got it as a gift)...great picture, The Voodoo dance!! The Gorilla suit! LOVED It...Also bought/or got as gifts Dietrich's "Scarlet Empress", "Desire", "Angel", "Shanghai Express", "Dishonored"....I'd love to have on dvd "Morocco" and "The Devil is a Woman" (they say this last one is fantastic)...
As for "Trouble in Paradise", we feel exactly the same way...Is the copy that has been aired at TCM, of the same quality than Criterion's??...I do not recall it, 'cos I saw that film for the first time here at TCM, and I was so thrilled, that I do not remember details...There must be a better copy than this lousy-exteremely expensive Criterion released...it's too grainy and lacking sharpness and fine detail...just the opposite of Love Me Tonight....I've heard somewhere that the Criterion copy of Scarlet Empress (dvd) was bad in comparision with the quality of Universal's VHS)....have you heard anything about it?
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Forget that last "An"...erase it
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You're just right MovieJoe...the problem must be in the commercial areas of that company (no thinking-brains maybe??). And how can have they announced the release of Laura on DVD, for mid-last year?...and still NOTHING!!!!
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Garden of Evil and Soldier of Fortune (both FOX?)...I saw those ones a very long time ago, on TV (before the Cable TV Era)...both good adventure yarns...one with Gary Cooper and Richard Widmark, and the other with Gable?..
I checked at Amazon and the out-of-print VHS of "Soldier.." is available, second hand, from 40 bucks up!!! too much boy!!...the CD which has the music of Garden of Evil is available too at that web site....
You brought good memories of times gone...when I used to watch those movies as a kid...with lots of commercials....
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No idea at all...for another clue..."The Guardsman"???
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Yes, "I'll Cry Tomorrow" is great...."I want to Live" too!!...There's another (Fox) movie of hers which I'd like to watch again, the 1955 "Untamed" opposite Ty Power...does anybody know where I can get it?
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Upon all that's been said..... I'm eager to watch "Applause"...everything from Mamoulian seems to be at least good!!!: "Love Me Tonight" (a masterpiece), "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (another masterp.), "Silk Stockings" (great musical), "Blood and Sand" (Ty at his best), "We Live Again" (what a wonderful movie with Fredric March and Anna Sten...why not available!!!), "The Mark of Zorro" (again, Ty at his very best), "Golden Boy" (what a movie!!!), "High, Wide and Handsome" (another gem starring the great Irene Dunne and the underrated Randy Scott, not available!!!), "The Gay Desperado" (still waiting on my wish list, they say it's a great film and dvd), "Queen Christina" (Garbo's greatest with Camille & Karenina) , "City Streets" (love to watch it!!!).....what a great director!!!!
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no idea at all...for another clue..."The Man Who Came To Dinner"???
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Yeah, another of her films circulating on a "murky" copy is "Tulsa"...
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It was 1928 or 1929!!!
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Yes definitely...Susan Hayward was on the most beautiful actresses...Upon watching the tests for Scarlett O'Hara, I can only think of her replacing Vivien Leigh in the role...not even Paulette Goddard, being all the beautiful she was....Hayward had a "Southern" quality of beauty....just as Vivien, in spite of being british....
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I remember that the only time I saw Fredric March & Charles Laughton version of 1935 "Les Miserables", was when I borrowed it from Sunnyvale's (California) Public Library....on VHS...and you've got a good point Edge, many people who are nuts about the Musical, would buy it, besides us buffs, 'cos, i.e. my dad, who is nuts about Les Miserables, and has bought all the film versions available on vhs, dvd, all the versions of the musical, which I don't like BTW, 'cos Dad is always listening to those cd's and ended sort of fed up with the music... he has the London Opening, the New York cast, whatever, etc, an absolute fan, and of course he'd buy the dvd edition of the 1935 films.
The same happened to him with "Phantom of the Opera"...he bought the 1943 film, etc, etc....
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Thanks fot the info "J"
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I only knew that Lupita Tovar, who was also the star of the first mexican talkie "Santa", had married the Kohner guya and was the mother of Susan Kohner, featured in the mentioned Imitation of Life and also in Fine Young Cannibals?, ...Lupita Tovar acted in some early other-language talkies shot by amrican studios...such as Universal's Dracula...but also appeared in american films shot in english, like George Melford's florid 1931 "East of Borneo" with Charles Bickford and Rose Hobart, a Universal B picture, set in aome asian selvatic surroundings, which I saw a looonggg time ago at a Cable TV Channel, who used to air a lot of old films, very bad quality copies though, called "Main Street Television" MSTV....."East of Borneo", though surely dated and somewhat funny in a weird way (not on purpose), was anyway a charming little film, I enjoyed it!!!
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No certain idea, but could it be Gene Krupa?
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I have to thank all of you 'cos only here I can share my tastes and be understood by fellow movie buffs....here I have the chance of commenting and sharing opinions, data, etc....these boards are the best!!!
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Thanks for your feedback Muscle...and welcome to the boards!
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But, on the other hand, all the other films metioned on my posts below, are on dvd....
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Thanks for the info about "Applause", I was doubtful to inlcude it in my wish list!!
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Sorry MovieJoe...my last post referring to "Night after Night", "Bachelor Apartment"...those are only, most of them, out of print VHS (some HBO, some early Turner Entertainment editions & others)....none of them available on dvd...And no....these guys do not realize the potential market they've got if they release the dvd editions of those movies!!!
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Yeah MovieJoe I'm a big early 30's fan...just like you... and it feels so well, being here at these boards, 'cos if all of you there in the States, sort of feel "weirdos" when talking with pals about "tastes" in movies... imagine myself, in this country where ther are less tv channels and info about classics...If you don't talk about "The Rock" or stuff like that you're "out"...when you say "a classic", people my age (thirty something) think about The Godfather, The Last Tango in Paris, Alien (1979) Chariots of Fire, 2001....at the very most GWTW or Casablanca or the wizard of OZ!!!
Well pal, I've seen and own both "Grand Hotel" (DVD) and "Dinner At eight" (taped from TCM), and I can say they both have great, splendid Barrymore performance, especially "Dinner.."..but being MGM Super-Productions, it's a whole different stuff to compare the Universal 1933 "Counsellor at Law"...being at that time, a not so powerful studio, such as Paramount or MGM....I imagine Wyler had more freedom to film it...and yes, I was in awe of its pacing (faassstt!!), the bright dialogue and of Barrymore's excellente characterization of a "nouveau rich" lawyer of very humble, jewish, background... probably the son of eastern european immigrants....He gives an EXCELLENT performance...so unforgettable, that I haven't been able to review it with words, at amazon.com, where I usually write them...when the movies ara not avaialable on the market...I review them at us.imdb.com....same owners?... So rent it right now!!!!
Well I don't wanna tell you more...'cos sometimes one has high hopes or great expectations about a film and after watching it, having heard so much appraisal of it, you feel unsatisfied...you expected more!!...that sort of happened to me when I finally saw "Trouble in Paradise"...which is an absolute fave of mine, a gem, love it!!!.... but having read so much during the years...I expected even more from this gem...that didn't happen to me with Love Me Tonight, 'cos I'd read some negative stuff on Steven H. Scheuer's TV Guide edition, from 1984...so, it was different...Well some of the disappointment with "Trouble...", must be due to the grainy not so good quality of Criterion's edition...I definitely expected more!!!
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Edge, for your info, talking about cheapies...Alpha's copy of "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" with Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas, Lizabeth Scott and Van Heflin is almost flawless...being a PD copy....also the VCI Home Video copy of "Angel on My Shoulder" with Muni, Anne Baxter and Claude Rains is good!!!....on the other hand the Alpha copy of "Angel on,.." is just horrible..
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You're right it is a Paramount film, and Universal owns the right of most of the Paramount 1930s goodies...
As for Garbo...some of her films have been scheduled for release on dvd, since early 2003...and still nothing!! (Anna Karenina, Camille, Ninotchka)...Just the same with that "Crown Jewel" that is RKO's "Bringing Up Baby" it MUST BE ON DVD!!!!....well Paramount's "Midnight" (1939) too....My brother and I would be buying both of them, the first ones!!!