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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.
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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.
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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
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Hi, Vallo,
Actually, I already listed this here back on Oct. 2nd. But it is a good reminder.
filmlover
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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!
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Amazon has a Columbia classics sale, 83 titles:
Even at 42% off, some of the prices seem a bit high.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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?
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Personally, I enjoy tributes. And I like running several titles of a series together. So, with TCM devoting all their daytime programming to different series throughout November, I am in sheer heaven.
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No date has been set yet, but it has been announced that Bob Hope's "Son of Paleface" is to be released in high-definition from BCI.
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I?d have liked a few more special WB sets because I?m greedy, but I don?t think they have to redeem themselves after a year in which they?ve released:
the Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland set
the Shakespeare Collection
William Powell & Myrna Loy Collection
Popeye the Sailor
Film Noir vol. 4
Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory vol. 2
Lucille Ball Collection
James Cagney Signature Collection
Errol Flynn vol. 2
the remasters of Jailhouse Rock and Viva Las Vegas
World War II Collection vol. 2
John Wayne
Esther Williams
Literary Classics Collection
Doris Day Vol. 2
the remastered Rio Bravo
The Robert Mitchum Signature Collection
And coming up:
Jazz Singer
Looney Tunes vol. 5
Barbara Stanwyck
Burt Lancaster
the That?s Entertainment Trilogy in Blu-ray,
Blade Runner
I?m a happy man.
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Tomorrow, Saturday (Oct.6th), has two more Lone Wolf films, one of which is a TCM Premiere, The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date. LW films will continue showing (2 each time) on Saturday morning for the rest of the month.
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Let's see, what do these things items have in common?
Bewitched
Andy Williams
Donny & Marie
I Married Wyatt Earp with Marie Osmond
Donny's other flicks
Every other Osmond film with Donny & Marie
Anything with the other Osmonds
It's funny, I feel it is staring me in the face but I can't seem to recall.
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Bewitched, Donny & Marie, and now Andy Williams. What is about Turner CLASSIC MOVIES you don't quite comprehend?
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Much as I love the old monster movies, I think The Haunting is perfect for Hallowe'en. If you ever want to scare the bejeebers out of someone on Hallowe'en night, that's the film. I still find it terrifying after these decades. I saw it on TV in the Sixties as a young tyke, staying up very late at night when I wasn't supposed to be, sitting two feet away from the TV so the sound wouldn't wake my father, and stupidly being in the dark at the time. When Julie Harris' character's name is written on the wall, or when she is in bed and the bedroom door is being pushed inward....shudder, I think I slept with the light on for several days after that.
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For the full set, at the price it is at, I am certain it will be a limited pressing. It could end up being like the Hitchcock "Dangerous Women etc." set from Criterion and rise in value. Speaking of Criterion, I think the price will stay pretty high like it has with their Janus salute package.
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On November 15th, there is a daytime showing of eleven Bowery Boys/East Side Kids/ Dead End Kids/etc. films on TCM.
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Actually, no, I don't plan on getting the UNCLE series. I figure I will get my fix of it in November on TCM. Of course, as I said, if it was under my tree, I wouldn't complain.
I don't know what the story is with the Ford at Fox set. I wonder if they will make the Christmas deadline. They seem to be doing a lot of work on it. This link shows some of the nice cover art for the single releases:
http://www.foxclassics.com/fordatfox.php
Since the DVDs are in a binder for the set, it looks like we see that artwork. Too bad.
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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.
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