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Friday, July 21st, 1939

Thursday, July 20th, 1939 And here is an ad running today:

I see Farrell listed for a number of films but I don't see him in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

Regretfully, the following is Region B, but oh what a release!!! Eureka has announced Touch of Evil for Blu-ray. That's great in itself, but look what you get in the limited edition: Touch of Evil: LIMITED EDITION 2 X BLU-RAY ONLY ? Six versions of Welles? film: the 1998 reconstruction; the 1958 preview version rediscovered in the mid-1970s; and the 1958 theatrical version ? each presented in both 1.85:1 and 1.37:1 aspect ratios ? English SDH subtitles on all versions ? A host of extras presented for the first time in the UK ? A lavish 80-PAGE illustrated book containing the words of Orson Welles, and much more Release date: Nov. 14th. They will also be issuing Silent Running the same day.

duplicate post, sorry.

Wed., July 19th, 1939

I don't think we've mentioned this before, but RHI is releasing "Laurel and Hardy - The Essential Collection". This will be a 10-DVD set that will a total of 58 features and shorts. Release date is Oct. 25.

Tuesday, July 18, 1939

Hi, VP, At first, I thought you meant the piece from Hedda's column on July 9th where Gable writes it for that day. Did you see that one? By the way, I have an movie magazine article on Gable and Lombard coming up in the next few weeks. Hope you will like it.

Monday, July 17th, 1939

Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day is Pink Panther Ultimate Collection. List is $199.98. Amazon's price yesterday was $128.99. Today it is on special for $34.99. Here's what you get: Disc 1: The Pink Panther Collector's Edition '64 Feature Film Disc 2: A Shot in The Dark Feature Film Disc 3: Inspector Clouseau Disc 4: The Pink Panther Stikes Again Feature Film Disc 5: Revenge of The Pink Panther Feature Film Disc 6: Trail of The Pink Panther Feature Film Disc 7: Curse of The Pink Panther Feature Film Disc 8: Son of The Pink Panther Feature Film Disc 9: Pink Panther 2006 (SONY) Disc 10: The Pink Panther Cartoon Collection Volume 1 Disc 11: The Pink Panther Cartoon Collection Volume 2 Disc 12: The Pink Panther Cartoon Collection Volume 3 Disc 13: The Pink Panther Cartoon Collection Volume 4 Disc 14: The Pink Panther Cartoon Collection Volume 9 Disc 15: The Pink Panther Cartoon Collection Volume 5 (Ant and the Aardvark) Disc 16: The Pink Panther Cartoon Collection Volume 6 (The Inspector) Disc 17: The Pink Panther Cartoon Collection Volume 7 (The Inspector Volume 2) Disc 18: The Pink Panther Cartoon Collection Volume 8 (Roland and Ratfink) And a book on the Pink Panther

Sunday, July 16th, 1939 Regular articles and ads will return tomorrow. In the meantime, here are some more excerpts from a 1939 movie magazine Notice how they obscure Laughton's face. They didn't want anyone seeing the makeup until they were in the theater

Back on May 5th, I mentioned that Twilight FIlms was releasing The Egyptian on Blu and on DVD. It is now available and the Blu reviews are excellent. The one thing I wanted to mention is that I have discovered is that the DVDs and Blu-rays are limited to a 3,000 print run.

LOL, I held off listing the extras because I thought you didn't care to see them listed. So, in that case, here are the extras for *The Four Feathers*: *BONUS FEATURES:* * Audio commentary by film historian Charles Drazin * New video interview with David Korda, son of director Zoltán Korda * A Day at Denham, a short film from 1939 featuring footage of Zoltán Korda on the set \ of The Four Feathers * Trailer * PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Sragow

New Criterion titles: On DVD and Blu-ray Oct. 11th: The Four Feathers (1939) October 18th: Kuroneko (1968) Eclipse Series 29: Aki Kaurism?ki?s Leningrad Cowboys (DVD only) October 25th Identification of a Woman (1982) Island of Lost Souls (1932)

Saturday, July 15th, 1939

Two terrific foreign films are getting their American release on Blu on Oct. 4th Life is Beautiful Cinema Paradiso

Fri., July 14th, 1939