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Hi, I am not sure about the regulations about posting the code here. Personally, I don't see any problem, but who knows what the legal things involved will say? I've sent you a PM, and if you can send me the code by PM I would appreciate it! Thanks, filmlover

Edge, maybe they are trying to tie into Valentine's Day or something.

They will probably honor the original discount if you had bought it then. My complaint is that I waited too long. On the plus side, by joining I also get 20% off the members price on one item. So, if I have it figured right, the members price is currently $215.98, subtract the 20% discount (about $43), bringing it down to $172.98, subtract with the $50 certificate when I get it and end up at $122.98. So, down from $299 to $122 is pretty good. Hmm, now if only people can give me gifts cards for Christmas early...

On February 5th, Universal is going to release "Imitation of Life: Two-Movie Special Edition", containing the 1934 and 1959 versions.

Re: Ford at Fox...Arrgghh! B&N just dropped their discount overnight from 30% to 20%. And I had just signed up with a new membership so I could get the members discount price of about $187 (now it is up to $215.98, with thier non-member price being $239.98), plus if they do have that 15% off certificate that would bring it down further, plus I've used my accumulated American Express points to get a $50 B&N gift certificate. That would have brought it down to about $112. Now it will be more. Bloody heck!!!! (Amazon still has it for about $207.)

Great catch. That's a bargain on the Glamour Collections. Amazon is sometimes so hard to fid the links to certain sales. You look at a screen one moment and see a listing, go back to the same screen a few seconds later an they have rotated that sale link with some other. I was able to see that they also have the James Stewart Hollywood Colelction at $28.49, down from $59.98, and The Marlon Brando 4-Movie Collection at $13.49, down from $26.98.

Fedya, I remember that! Wasn't that by Diana Ross and the Supremes?

Jayo, good suggestion. They may have already done someting like this but I am open to them doing it again. I would add the following films: "Blues in the Night" for the title song "Here Come the Waves" for "Accentuate the Positive"

mr6666, per the thread title, I think he/she is looking for little-seen movies. The ones you listed are well-known classics.

THE JAZZ SINGER I just finished watching the three DVDs, so here is my review of the set: Included in the set are terrific reproductions of the film's souvenir program, a Vitaphone program, a JS herald, and a telegram from Al Jolson to Jack Warner, plus 10 behind-the-scenes photocards. One thing that had been previously described as being in the set was reproductions of the lobby cards. This is incorrect, there are no lobby card repros; however, there is a nice reproduction of the poster art on the case that holds the three DVDs. And speaking of the three DVDs, here is what is on them: DVD 1 - A beautifully restored print of The Jazz Singer, with overture and exit music sections added back on. The commentary by Ron Hutchinson and Vince Giordano is quite informative. Following the film is a short excerpt from something, featuring Jolson perfroming three songs in "A Plantation Act." There are then a few WB shorts in which Jolson makes an appearance. Then the classic cartoon, I Love to SInga. A Lux radio adaptation of "The Jazz Singer" from 1947 follows that. Finally, six trailers for Jolson fils, the most interesting of which is The SInging Kid in which we get to see him to do part of the song, I Love to SInga. DVD 2 - The new documentary, The Dawn of Sound, is very interesting, with lots of clips, but is occasionally dry. However, it is definitely worth seeing to learn more about the development of sound, including learning that D.W. Griffith made a sound introduction of himself before one of his films, years before the JS. Also of enjoyment on this disc are two recently discovered excerpts from the lost film, Gold DIggers of Broadway, show in what looks to be two-strip Technicolor. Several shorts about sound in films follow that. DVD 3 - The third disc is devoted entirely to Vitagraph shorts. There is an error in the enclosed contents booklet, which states there are over 4 hours of Vitagraph shorts. It actually is just over 3 1/2 hours. These feature vaudeville acts, and while some are amusing (the one with George Burns and Gracie Allen being the high point), it is obvious from others what really killed vaudeville. (An interesting aside: In the movie commentary, they mention there are about 400-500 shorts existing, but missing their Vitaphone discs. As they ask, if you happen to have any 16-inch Vitaphone discs, contact them.) Fun things with the The Jazz Singer film: a small part in it is played by Myrna Loy. You can also see William Demarest as a Jolson buddy in the film. Demarest would later appear in The Jolson Story as his friend, so that's a nice "come full-circle" feeling. Oddly enough, neither of the commentors mentions his connection to The Jolson Story. I think this set should be in everybody's collection. It's a great package of the early days of sound.

THE JAZZ SINGER I just got the special 3 DVD box set of The Jazz Singer, and it looks to be another great winner from Warners. I haven't played yet, but am going to do so. (I will get back to you on these.) All in all, another perfect set from WB. Message was edited by: filmlover

This morning (October 20), we have the TCM premiere of TWO Lone Wolf films, "Passport to Suez" and "The Notorious Lone Wolf." The latter features a new actor to the part, Gerald Mohr, who had played Philip Marlowe for several years on radio in the late Forties and early Fifties. He also starred as the Lone Wolf in two more films of the series, The Lone Wolf in Mexico (unfortunately not on TCM's schedule) and The Lone Wolf in London (on next Saturday). The final film of the series will be on next Saturday, too, The :Lone Wolf and the Lady, which starred Ron Randell as the Lone Wolf.

SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: Aug. 2003: James Stewart, Clint Eastwood, Peter O'Toole, Joan Crawford, Fred Astaire, Robert Mitchum, James Cagney, Elizabeth Taylor, Cary Grant, Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Greta Garbo, Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, Katherine Hepburn, Steve McQueen, Gene Kelly, Marlene Dietrich, Gregory Peck, Humphrey Bogart, Judy Garland, Clark Gable, John Wayne, Myrna Loy, Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Bette Davis, Spencer Tracy, Paul Newman, Doris Day, William Holden. August 2004: John Wayne, Barbara Stanwyck, Bob Hope, Debbie Reynolds, Sidney Poitier, Lucille Ball, Katherine Hepburn, Clint Eastwood, Ava Gardner, Henry Fonda, Jean Harlow, Laurence Olivier, Doris Day, Humphrey Bogart, Burt Lancaster, Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor, Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Peter Sellers, James Stewart, Olivia de Havilland, Ginger Rogers, Charles Chaplin, Shirley MacLaine, Claudette Colbert, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Gregory Peck, Esther Williams, Kirk Douglas.

Hi, mongo, Nice salute to Ruby Keeler. One thing I would like to add is that she and Al Jolson had something in common before they ever met, and that is they both entered America through Ellis Island (he in 1894; she in 1917). filmlover

Hi, Vallo, Actually, I already listed this here back on Oct. 2nd. But it is a good reminder. filmlover

Hi, Kyle, I am not sure which other ones may be on there in their entirety, but Living on Love has been there soon after the first Lost & Found series after on TCM. A quick search also finds Go, Johnny Go!

Amazon has a Columbia classics sale, 83 titles: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_5642562_1/105-0355157-7672403?ie=UTF8&docId=1000145181&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=right-1&pf_rd_r=10Y72D5D3Q27PEZ0H1Y1&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=316178301&pf_rd_i=130 Even at 42% off, some of the prices seem a bit high.

I just came across somethng on Amazon that makes the Ford at Fox set look inexpensive. Tying into its 90th anniversary, it's a 90-film, 110-disc set called the United Artists Super Deluxe Gift Set, being released on December 11th. It contains: Disc 1: The Woman In The Window P&S Disc 2: Red River P&S Disc 3: The Barefoot Contessa P&S Disc 4: Marty P&S Disc 5: The Night of the Hunter WS Disc 6: Dance with Me Henry P&S Disc 7: The Killing P&S Disc 8: Moby Dick P&S Disc 9: Twelve Angry Men WS Disc 10: Paths of Glory P&S Disc 11: Witness For The Prosecution WS Disc 12: The Big Country WS Disc 13: The Defiant Ones WS Disc 14: I Want To Live! WS Disc 15: A Hole In The Head WS Disc 16: The Fugitive Kind WS Disc 17: Some Like It Hot WS Disc 1 Disc 18: Some Like It Hot WS Disc 2 Disc 19: The Alamo WS Disc 20: The Apartment WS Disc 21: Elmer Gantry WS Disc 22: Inherit The Wind WS Disc 23: The Magnificent Seven WS Disc 1 Disc 24: The Magnificent Seven WS Disc 2 Disc 25: Judgment at Nuremberg WS Disc 26: The Misfits WS Disc 27: One, Two, Three WS Disc 28: Pocketful of Miracles WS Disc 29: West Side Story Disc 1 Disc 30: Westside Story Disc 2 Disc 31: Birdman of Alcatraz WS Disc 32: Dr. No WS Disc 1 Disc 33: Dr. No WS Disc 2 Disc 34: Manchurian Candidate WS Disc 35: The Miracle Worker WS Disc 36: The Great Escape WS Disc 1 Disc 37: The Great Escape WS Disc 2 Disc 38: I Could Go On Singing WS Disc 39: Irma La Douce WS Disc 40: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World WS Disc 41: Fistful of Dollars WS Disc 1 Disc 42: Fistful of Dollars WS Disc 2 Disc 43: The Pink Panther WS Disc 44: Topkapi WS Disc 45: The Greatest Story Ever Told WS Disc 1 Disc 46: The Greatest Story Ever Told WS Disc 2 Disc 47: The Fortune Cookie WS Disc 48: Persona P&S Disc 49: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly Disc 1 WS Disc 50: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Disc 2 Disc 51: In The Heat of the Night WS Disc 52: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang WS Disc 1 Disc 53: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang WS Disc 2 Disc 54: Hang 'Em High WS Disc 55: Thomas Crown Affair (1968) WS Disc 56: Yours, Mine and Ours P&S Disc 57: Fellini Satyricon WS Disc 58: The Battle of Britain WS Disc 1 Disc 59: The Battle of Britain WS Disc 2 Disc 60: Midnight Cowboy WS Disc 1 Disc 61: Midnight Cowboy WS Disc 2 Disc 62: On Her Majesty's Secret Service WS Disc 1 Disc 63: On Her Majesty's Secret Service WS Disc 2 Disc 64: Fiddler on the Roof WS Disc 1 Disc 65: Fiddler on the Roof WS Disc 2 Disc 66: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex P&S Disc 67: Last Tango In Paris WS Disc 68: Lenny WS Disc 69: The Wilby Conspiracy WS Disc 70: Carrie WS Disc 71: The Missouri Breaks WS Disc 72: The Pink Panther Strikes Again WS Disc 73: Rocky WS Disc 1 Disc 74: Rocky WS Disc 2 Disc 75: Annie Hall P&S Disc 76: A Bridge Too Far WS Disc 1 Disc 77: A Bridge Too Far WS Disc 2 Disc 78: Equus WS Disc 79: New York, New York WS Disc 80: The Spy Who Loved Me WS Disc 1 Disc 81: The Spy Who Loved Me WS Disc 2 Disc 82: Coming Home WS Disc 83: La Cage Aux Folles WS Disc 84: The Last Waltz P&S Disc 85: Manhattan WS Disc 86: Raging Bull WS Disc 1 Disc 87: Raging Bull WS Disc 2 Disc 88: The French Lieutenant's Woman WS Disc 89: Heaven's Gate WS Disc 90: The Secret of the NIMH WS Disc 91: War games WS Disc 92: Red Dawn WS Disc 1 Disc 93: Red Dawn WS Disc 2 Disc 94: The Living Daylights - Disc 1 Disc 95: The Living Daylights - Disc 2 Disc 96: Baby Boom WS Disc 97: Child's Play Disc 98: Rain Man WS Disc 99: Road House WS Disc 100: Goldeneye WS Disc 1 Disc 101: Goldeneye WS Disc 2 Disc 102: Leaving Las Vegas WS Disc 103: Richard III WS Disc 104: The Birdcage WS Disc 105: The Man In The Iron Mask WS Disc 106: No Man's Land WS Disc 107: Bowling for Columbine WS Disc 108: Dark Blue WS Disc 109: Pieces of April WS Disc 110: Hotel Rwanda WS And the price for all this: $869 (street). Amazon will have it for $608.99. Here's a link to it: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6302985277/ref=amb_link_5659182_2/103-3773633-7366266?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=right-2&pf_rd_r=1PJEH1DKYF5T4K3WMG1Q&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=317401101&pf_rd_i=130 And the UA site doesn't list it yet, but shows they will have (at least) three smaller sets of 4 films in each. Barnes and Noble have it listed for $704.68.

With all the discussions we have had about the Ford at Fox set(s), and the anxiousness to get it, I am guessing we will end up calling it the #1 box set of the year at the end of the year. I don't think I even have to wait until then to give it that designation. It seems to have it hands down.

No classics among them but I thought I would briefly mention that Fry's Electronics has a special this weekend on Blu-rays at Buy One Get One Free on 20 titles (so it works out to 50% off) and 2 for $27 on 16 Paramount HD-DVD titles.

Just a head's up on this Saturday's offering of Lone Wolf films. It's easy to know that "Lone Wolf Takes A Chance" is a Lone Wolf film, but the film immediately after it on TCM, "Counter-Espionage" is also a LW film. And it might be a TCM Premiere.

Suprisingly, I sold my copies of these two FOX films on Amazon within one week after I posted them. I think I will be hanging on to my HGWMV previous release, just because it is part of that Fox Studio Collection numbering thing. After buying those $11.99 sets of 3 at Costco, plus some I already had, I am only needing a few more to complete the set. I have most of the ones that are in the Ford Essential collection through the FSC but I will still go for the set.

MissGoddess, I was just about to answer basically the same thing as Edgecliff. The Drums DVD will be a new restoration. Drums Along The Mohawk Feature film with English Stereo or English Mono, Spanish/French Mono and Spanish/French subtitles Commentary by Film Historians Julie Kirgo & Nick Redman Theatrical trailer Still galleries Advertising Lobby cards Studio portraits Behind the scenes Production stills How Green Was My Valley looks to be the same as the previous version: Feature film with English Stereo or English Mono, Spanish/French Mono and Spanish subtitles Commentary by Anna Lee Nathan and Biographer & Film Historian Joseph McBride Backstory: How Green Was My Valley Still gallery Theatrical trailer

It's a hard choice in some ways. Looking at the different sets: John Ford's Silent Epics has Just Pals, The Iron Horse (US and UK versions), Three Bad Men, Four Sons, and Hangman's House $37.49 The Essential John Ford has Drums Along the Mohawk, Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, My Darling Clementine, Becoming John Ford documentary $34.99 John Ford's American Comedies has Up the River, Dr. Bull, Judge Priest, Steamboat Round the Bend, When Willie Comes Marching Home, and What Price Glory $37.49 That leaves: Tobacco Road Wee Willie Winkie Young Mr. Lincoln $35.99 (Criterion) Prisoner on Shark Island $14.99 The World Moves On Pilgrimage / Born Reckless (will be available on a single DVD for $17.99) Four Men and a Prayer Also, it looks like on the Becoming John Ford disc, the documentaries Battle of Midway, December 7th, and Torpedo Squadron are there, too. I wonder if they would be in the Essential John Ford collection? There are a couple of other things that I am guessing are on the same disc that are mentioned as part of the features of the big set: "Ford at Fox Photo Galleries (estimated 29 to be broken out by title) Ford at Fox Movie Poster / lobby card gallery Pressbook Galleries Vintage Programs - The Iron Horse - Four Sons" I know the last two are program reproductions physically in the set, so it makes me wonder about the photo galleries, the movie poster/lobby art gallery, and pressbook galleries. I don't see anything of the galleries in the picture of the set, so I think they will be on the Becoming John Ford documentary disc. http://www.foxclassics.com/fordatfox.php I spotted something odd in the listing for the smaller Essential John Ford collection box set. It mentions it has Allan Dwan's Frontier Marshall, the basis for John Ford's remake, My Darling Clementine. However, there is no mention of that in the big box set. I also wonder if the picture of the discs in the big box is accurate or if they were just a temporary set up. The reason I mention this is because all I see are the silver, no artwork, and I am hoping they are not double sided discs. Like you, I would like that nice artwork they show on some of the individual DVDs. But I am torn because I would also like the films not on DVD. (How odd that Tobacco Road isn't being released individually or Wee Willie Winkie.) Also, I came across a comment that it looks like the big set is missing Men Without Women and The Submarine Patrol, two films he directed at Fox. That seems odd, unless they were in bad shape or lost. I also see that The Brat is missing. And that description a little bit above: "Ford at Fox Photo Galleries (estimated 29 to be broken out by title)" has me wondering. I haven't checked out all his films but when they mention 29, are there other missing films from the set? Anyway, it's a very difficult decision, but if I can get it at the $209.99 price at Amazon, I think I will go for the box set, just so I can get the extra films not on individual DVDs.

Edgecliff, What would be the grand total to buy the three Ford at Fox box sets individually plus the single releases that make up the rest of the set? I don't know if I really need that book, and I am wondering what the difference in price would be? filmlover Message was edited by: filmlover