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Moviebuffer12, there are still a couple
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Following up an earlier post of mine, Costco will be carrying Ford at Fox for $219, and that means during the sale Dec.17-24, the price will be $60 off, bringing it down to a nice $159 (almost half of its street price of $299.).
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Hi, cascabel,
The reason that some of us get concerned by the reappearance of old threads is that we had a very bad experience with a troll on the board who pulled up tons of threads that were three to four years old, totally disrupting all the threads, new and old, which was his intention. I think we are all just a little gun-shy after that.
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Web, got my order from VCI today. Everything well packed. One item backordered. One thing I got I am waiting until Christmas Day to see is the Fractured Flickers DVDs. I enjoyed the show, with Hans Conreid, when I was a kid and hope it still holds up today.
I also got my orders from DVD Planet and deepdiscount today. Combine that with the Ford at Fox big boxset that came yesterday, I may never step forth outside the house again. LOL, I think the only Christmas present I can now give myself this year is a new bookshelf to hold everything.
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Realized that, but thought it looked better to have all the info since it was in the one column from digitalbits and posted today, rather than search all the way through each line and try to recall, "Gee, did we do that one yet or not?" (There are only so many hours in a day.)
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Thanks, DS. Just to make it easy for all here, here is the text from digitalbits.com from Brian Maxwell's announcements:
"AC Comics have updated their release news in its various lines of serial, mystery and detective films on DVD-R. Currently planned for November are Volumes 1, 2, and 3 of TV Classic Detectives, each of which will contain four or five episodes of vintage detective series from the first decades of network television. Examples are Richard Diamond, Private Detective (David Janssen); Markham (Ray Milland); Tightrope (Mike Connors); Peter Gunn (Craig Stevens); Mike Hammer (Darren McGavin); Johnny Staccato (John Cassavetes); and Phillip Marlowe (Philip Carey). Source material for this series is 16mm film prints. Also on the docket is the 1944 Republic serial Perils of the Darkest Jungle. December plans include X the Unknown (1956, with Dean Jagger) and the 1939 Republic serial Dick Tracy's G-Men. January features The Mad Magician (1954, with Vincent Price), a double feature of The Brute Man (1946, with Rondo Hatton) and The Man Who Turned to Stone (1957, with Victor Jory), and TV Classic Detectives Volume 4. February will bring Fiend without a Face (1957, with Marshall Thompson), Diary of a Madman (1962, with Vincent Price), and The Girl Hunters (1963, with Mickey Spillane) while March plans include TV Classic Detectives Volumes 5 and 6, and the 1939 Columbia serial Mandrake the Magician.
Criterion's plans include a release on February 12th of four early sound films from Paramount, all directed by Ernst Lubitsch (The Love Parade [1929], Monte Carlo [1930], The Smiling Lieutenant [1931], and One Hour with You [1932]). The films will be packaged together as Eclipse Series 8: Lubitsch Musicals. Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le fou (1965) is due on February 19th in a two-disc edition.
Fox's An Affair to Remember: 50th Anniversary Edition will arrive on January 15th in a two-disc edition featuring a new digital transfer, commentary by Marni Nixon and film historian Joseph McBride, new featurettes on various cast and crew members, the AMC backstory, and various newsreels, galleries, and trailers. Charlie Chan: Volume 4 will be coming down the pipe on February 12th. Included will be Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938), Charlie Chan in Reno (1939), Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939), and Charlie Chan in City of Darkness (1939). Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (one of the best of all the Chans) will include audio commentary and all the films will have new featurettes, still galleries, restoration comparisons, and trailers. On March 11th, a new film noir wave arrives, including the previously anticipated Black Widow, Daisy Kenyon (not film noir, but whatever, so long as another Joan Crawford title gets released), and Dangerous Crossing.
Grapevine Video's December releases (grapevinevideo.com) include five silent offerings and two sound ones. The silent ones include a double feature starring Glenn Tryon consisting of Barnum Was Right (1929) and Dames Ahoy (1930); the William Boyd/Bessie Love film, Dress Parade (1927); a flapper era film starring Evelyn Brent and Louise Brooks, Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926); early Douglas Fairbanks, The Man from Painted Post (1917); and the Ken Maynard western, Red Raiders (1927). The sound releases are a double bill of two documentaries, The Forgotten Village (1941)/The Quiet One (1948), and a double bill of two Monogram wartime comedies, Horace Takes Over (1942)/The Last Three (1943).
Kino will release a second set of film noir titles that previously were only available individually. No new transfers are involved. Packaged as a box set of five thin cases entitled Film Noir: Volume 2 - Five Classics from the Studio Vault and available on November 20th will be Scarlet Street (1945), Contraband (1940), Strange Impersonation (1947), They Made Me a Fugitive (1947), and The Hitch-Hiker (1953). Coming on December 4th is Ernst Lubitsch's The Doll (1919) combined with the 2006 documentary Lubitsch in Berlin. Lubitsch in Berlin is also the title of a five-disc box set that packages the aforementioned titles along with five other Lubitsch silent titles previously available individually (The Oyster Princess, I Don't Want to Be a Man, Anna Boleyn, Sumurun, and The Wildcat - all from 1919-1921). That set will be available on December 4th also. The Houdini: The Films box set is now penciled in for a March 2008 release (delayed from early October).
MGM is trying to make a big splash for United Artists' 90th anniversary (an 18-month global celebration leading up to the actual 90th anniversary in 2009, being done in conjunction with Panasonic and the American Film Institute), but there's precious little news that goes beyond repackaging previously available titles. Concrete news so far has concentrated on anniversary editions for such post-1960 titles as In the Heat of the Night (40th anniversary, coming on January 15th), Last Tango in Paris (35th, coming in 2008), The Thomas Crown Affair (40th, coming in 2008), and New York, New York (30th, coming on December 4th). Several of these titles already have had good DVD releases and news to date indicates that the new versions merely add a few new supplements or perhaps an enhanced audio track. In the plans too are massive gift sets such as the United Artists 90th Anniversary Prestige Collection Gift Set (90 of UA's most acclaimed films plus an accompanying book of photos and text for each film, but no new transfers - available December 11th) and the United Artists 90th Anniversary Essential Collection Gift Set (a 30-film subset of the Prestige Collection, also due on December 11th). And just in case anybody wants another release of the James Bond films, the James Bond Ultimate Collector's Set (also December 11th) gathers all 21 Bond films together for the first time. I'll get excited if MGM starts to release some pre-1960 UA product on DVD for the first time or gives proper anamorphic transfers to previously released titles. We live in hope. Meanwhile, the latest announcement that's part of the UA tribute is a new special collector's edition of The Apartment (1960) set for February 5th, a release long sought by enthusiasts. Indications are there will be an audio commentary by Bruce Block (film producer, UCLA professor and AFI member), an "Inside The Apartment" documentary, and a "Tribute to Jack Lemmon". What's key, however, would be a new transfer but whether that's the case is unclear at present. In other news, MGM seizes upon the upcoming Will Smith theatrical film I Am Legend as a reason to release the Earlier Vincent Price version from 1964, The Last Man on Earth, on December 4th. The transfer will be widescreen but whether anamorphic or not is unclear so far.
Continuing its emphasis on TV releases rather than classic theatrical product, Paramount will bring us Gunsmoke: The Second Season, Volume One (3 discs) on January 8th. Hawaii Five-0: The Third Season (6 discs) and The Odd Couple: The Third Season (4 discs) are set for January 22nd. Pioneers of Television is a new PBS four-part documentary series that offers a fresh look at TV's first celebrities - available through Paramount on January 29th. March 18th will see the release of The Wild Wild West: The Fourth Season.
Restored Serials' release of the 1934 First Division serial Young Eagles is now available.
Sony has now announced a February 12th release date for The Stanley Kramer Collection, previously delayed from early fall. The titles included are Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, The Wild One, Ship of Fools, and Member of the Wedding. The latter is the only title not previously released on DVD by Sony. Although not explicitly stated, the re-releases likely sport new transfers just as the ones in last year's Frank Capra Premiere Collection did. There will be a significant amount of bonus material created in conjunction with Kramer's widow Karen Sharpe Kramer and the Stanley Kramer estate. The Guess Who's Coming to Dinner title will be a new 40th anniversary edition and it will also be available separately.
Unknown Video (unknownvideo.com) has added a new DVD release to its current offerings. It's Mabel Normand's What Happened to Rosa (1920). Supplements on the disc include the Normand short Hide and Seek (1913), a photo gallery and liner notes. There's also a new musical score by Ben Model.
Warner Bros. will release TCM Archives: Forbidden Hollywood Volume 2 on March 4th. The three-disc set will contain five pre-Code films plus a new documentary, all of which will only be available as part of the set. The films are: The Divorcee (1930) and A Free Soul (1931) - both Norma Shearer titles (the first her Best Actress award performance and the second co-starring Clark Gable and Lionel Barrymore [best Actor award]); Three on a Match (1932, Bette Davis), Female (1933, Ruth Chatterton), and Night Nurse (1931, Clark Gable); and the documentary Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2007). Commentaries will be provided for The Divorcee and Night Nurse. Following one week later on March 11th will be The Warner Bros. Gangster Collection, Volume 3 containing Picture Snatcher (1933), Lady Killer (1933), Smart Money (1931), The Mayor of Hell (1933), Black Legion (1937), and Brother Orchid (1940) - that's four Cagneys, two Bogarts, and two Robinsons. Included as extras are the usual delectable collections of vintage shorts, cartoons and trailers. Interestingly, the latter include I Loved a Woman, Other Men's Women, The Perfect Specimen, The Kennel Murder Case, Crime School, Hell's Kitchen, and It All Came True which may presage future DVD releases. Warners will also dip into its animated catalog in honour of the Oscars with two releases on February 12th. Academy Award Animation Collection - 15 Winners, 26 Nominees will be a three-disc set while Academy Award Animation Collection - 15 Winners will be a single disc release. The winners apparently include all the cartoons so honoured by Oscar during the 1940-1965 period and within Warners' control. Finally, having missed the 40th anniversary, Warners will now release Bonnie and Clyde (1967) as both a 2-disc SE and an Ultimate Collector's Edition (UCE) on March 25th. The SE will contain the newly remastered film, a new in-depth making-of documentary, the History Channel documentary "Love and Death: The Story of Bonnie and Clyde," Warren Beatty wardrobe tests, and deleted scenes. The UCE will add various publicity material reproductions and a 36-page hardcover book. This release will be part of the WB 85th anniversary celebration next year, details for which will be announced in January. Promised are a number of branded collections including new-to-DVD releases, various high definition debuts, and other UCEs.
The Weinstein Company's promised release of El Cid will arrive on January 29th in a 2-disc DVD edition featuring audio commentary, and new featurettes and interviews. A collector's edition (same discs plus a book of stills and historical articles) will also be available.
In High Definition news, MGM's Blu-ray releases of The Battle of Britain and A Bridge Too Far have been delayed (for unspecified "marketing reasons") until 2008, perhaps as part of a Father's Day promotion then. Sony continues to work on Blu-ray releases of three David Lean films (Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, A Passage to India) and The Guns of Navarone. Announcement of the release of the latter two of these four now appears likely in the first quarter of 2008, with the others coming later in the year. Recognizing how important these titles are to many fans, Sony is really hoping to put its best Blu-ray foot forward with them, hence the long delay in bringing them out. Warner Bros. will issue Bonnie and Clyde (1967) on Blu-ray and HD-DVD on March 25th. Otherwise, the lack of announced classic titles in forthcoming HD-DVD or Blu-ray plans is disappointing to say the least. One final note - I somehow missed the release of The Omega Man (1971) in both HD-DVD and Blu-ray by Warner Bros. It appeared on November 27th."
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Wow, it's here! (I kept saying "Wow" a lot as I lifted it out of its box.) It's big, it's heavy, and it is solid. There was padding around the box set which kept it secure. I haven't heard anything rattling inside so it must be tightly packed inside the box set with the book and all.
And this thing, when I say it's big, you can believe me...it's BIG! It looks like it measures 13 inches by 13 inches by about three inches think.
I have absolutely no idea how to store this on the shelves. And did I mention it is heavy? This is something to get by mail becaus you do not want to be standing in some long line at the store lifting this weight the whole time. Word of warning, if you do have shelf space somewhere, do not put it up high because it will probably crush you when you go to lift it doww.
I would love to open this now but as I mentioened earlier this is going under the tree for me. This is one great-looking present. LOL, there is even a silver TCM Seal of Approval on the top left corner of the plastic.
I think I can say without a doubt that this will be the box set of the year. Thhe United Artists set may have 110 or so DVDs, but that one looks to me to be just a pulling together of DVDs from different single DVD releases. This, the Ford at Fox set, is a first-rate, well-designed miracle of a box set. "Pappy" wpuld have been proud.
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Well, I am excited. I just got word that they delivered my box set at home.
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They put the FM feature on the same disc with both the regular release MDC and the preview version of MDC???? Seems like a lot.
When I open the box on Christmas Day,the first thing I will be watching will be Up the River. I want to see Bogart's (AND Tracy's) first feature film.
I read somewhere that a couple of the films in the set are only so-so video quality. Have you checked any yet?
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Thatnks for letting us know about FM. How do you like the art on the individual covers?
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Lone Ranger - The Legend Begins
This is just a short review on this 2-DVD set from Mill Creek to say the Clayton Moore shows are enjoyable enough, but "The Lone Ranger" serial is about as poor quality as you can get. The serial had long been considered lost but turned up in a print with Spanish subtitles a decade or so ago. That is the one used here, and it is truly bad video quality, plus they have enlarged the image to hide the subtitles at the bottom of the print used.
On a scale of 1 to 10: 3. Even at the cheap price of this DVD set, it is isn't worth it. Stay away!
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I know, I don't understand either why Frontier Marshall made it to one of the small sets and not the big one. But even though it hasn't been any of the listings for the big set, maybe it will be there when we get it. Hard to imagine Fox doing one special DVD for the the smaller set. Of course, truth be told, I would rather they had added another Ford film, since there were some that didn't make the set. Even though there is the connection to My Darling Clementine, why put a film on any set of Ford films if it isn't by Ford?
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I think Born Yesterday is a comedy gem, and it's all because of Judy Holliday. She left us much too young.
Did anyone else have the misfortune to see the remake with Melanie Griffith?
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The Fox/MGM box sets special is now on Amazon but it is not as good on DVDPlanet and deepdiscount.come. On the latter two, they have it as two for the price of one, and based on their discount prices (so in other words 50% off whatever discounted price they have already displayed, so that could be 70% off total.
For Amazon, they are just calling it a 50% off sale. That's 50% off of the full retail price. So stick with dvdplanet and deepdiscount (except dvdplanet charges tax) unless you just want to get one item.
For example, the Betty Grable Collection will end up being $21 when you get it and another item from dvdplanet.com or $32 if`you buy it by itself from Amazon. And Amazon only has about 40 titles while there looks to be hundreds of titles from dvdplanet/deepdiscount.
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They might be doing them in order of purchase date.
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First, it surprises me that more than one person is sharing the account. Second, after trying to hijack The TCM Programming Challenge, a very special thread here, yesterday like you tried to do is not the sign of a person who is trying to make nice.
I, for one, will not mourn your leaving...though I suspect you will only be gone for a few hours.
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I've gotten word from B&N that my Ford at Fox set has shipped and I should be getting on Wednesday. Much as I am tempted to open it, if I don't hear any discs rattling loose inside I will be putting it straight away under the tree until Christmas (which is now exactly three weeks away).
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It's weird but I have heard nothing from VCI. After I first sent the order, I could get online and check to see they had received it. But since then, my password no longer works, nothing has been charged to my card, and I have heard nothing from them when I requested a password reset through their system (twice now over several days!).
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Hawkraven, I see you have changed your original post and title a bit.
I think it is wrong to only allow the winners of previous challenges to create the next programming challenge. So I have now created a new challenge.
Whether you think it is fair or not, this is the accepted practice per the rules of the TCM Programming Challenge. I see you have now changed your post to read "Fantasy" programming challenge, but this will only serve to confuse people. The sort of contest you propose has been done many times in different forms in the Trivia thread and that is where you should be doing it, not here in the General Discussion Forum.
Sorry to be hard about this but the real TCM Programming Challenge is a respected contest here in the General Discussions board.
Your thread is only going to cause much confusion here.
I would ask everyone who reads this to please respond only to the legitimate TCM Programming Challenge #8 on these boards, which is currently underway and hosted by hlywdkjk.
Again, hawkraven, I ask you to delete this thread entirely, and start your competition in the Trivia thread!
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Hawkraven, your enthusiasm is to be applauded. HOWEVER, only the winner of the TCM Programming Challenge #8 can start the next Challenge. And #8 is still ongoing.
The TCM Programming Challenge is a competition started by path40a over a year ago, and the winning schedule from each competition is decided by people here on the message boards who qualify for voting. The person whose schedule wins has the honor (and responsibilities) of hosting the next competition.
It truly is a major competition each time we have it. It does not have the casualness of a trivia thread where any person can jump in and start it.
Take a look at the current Challenge and check out the links provided in it to the previous Challenges. You will see how it is done. As stated, the only way to start a new Challenge is by entering a full schedule in the current #8 competition and winning.
It would be best to delete this thread to avoid confusion with the legitimate Challenge.
[b]TCM Programming Challenge #8[/b] - It's Sinful!
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