feaito Posted May 19, 2004 Share Posted May 19, 2004 Again pals..another Kino DVD release of a Wyler little known film...I watched it again last week, and its one of Margaret Sullavan's greatests!! Set in Budapest, just like "The Shop Around The Corner", and it has Frank Morgan too...and Herbert Marshall...she works as an usher in a very luxurious Cinema, and all begins...It's an endearing, sweet, grand human comedy..I loved it all over again. Kino must be praised for their beautiful releases of good copies of these gems (Let's not forget Love Me Tonight). Greatly recommended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flickerknickers Posted May 19, 2004 Share Posted May 19, 2004 Feito, thanks for the great heads-up on "The Good Fairy." I've definitely gotta watch this one. Speaking of Wyler, through Netflix, I received his very early silent/talkie "The Love Trap," and it's a delight! Kino released it. What thrilled me was actually seeing and hearing Laura LaPlante, one of the silent's great femme stars. The first half of the flick is silent. Then suddenly, halfway through, everyone talks. LaPlante was so adorable and had a beautiful voice. Why she stopped making movies just as the talkies began, is a mystery. she certainly sounded better than Gloria Swanson! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feaito Posted May 19, 2004 Author Share Posted May 19, 2004 Yeah you're right about Laura LaPlante...I watched her in my dvd copy of Lonely Wives, and I liked her very much (also Patsy Ruth Miller and Esther Ralston on the film) in it..opposite the great Edward Everett Horton...a wonderful Roan Group Release. Thanks for the feedback on "Love Trap"..'cos I have it on my wish list, and I haven't access to sth. like Netflix in my country. BTW, I also recommend to you the Criterion edition of "The Most Dangerous Game" (1932) with Joel McCrea, Fay Wray and Leslie Banks, The Kino? release of "The Old Dark House" (1932), with Charles Laughton, Gloria Stuart, Lillian Bond, Melvyn Douglas, Raymond Massey, Boris Karloff; and the Roan Groups releases of "Behind Office Doors" with Mary Astor, Robert Ames and Ricardo Cortez (Nice!!); Another one that includes a good copy of Bette Davis's "Of Human Bondage" (1934), plus the cute "Kept Husbands" (1931) with Joel McCrea and Dorothy Mackaill and the grand Helen Twelvetress in "Millie" (1931), also featuring Robert Ames, James Hall and the grandioses LiLyan Tashman & Joan Blondell; and another release that includes wonderful "Bird of Paradise" with Dolores del R?o and Joel McCrea; and "The Lady Refuses" (stiff and somewhat talky), but still worthwhile 'cos it features great Betty Compson, with John Darrow and Gilbert Emery. I also recommend to you "Dixiana" (1930) which features a nice ending in two-strip technicolor with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson...plus Bebe Daniels, Everett Marshall and Wheeler and Woolsey...also the early westerns "Fighting Caravans" with Gary Cooper and Lili Damita (released in cheap edition along "A Farewell To Arms", another goodie) and "The Big Trail" (1930) with John Wayne and pretty Marguerite Churchill. ufffffff!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feaito Posted May 19, 2004 Author Share Posted May 19, 2004 Paty..I forgot to recommend the Warner Home video of Kate Hepburn's "Alice Adams" (1935) and Little Women (1933), which are also great....and so is the release of Vincent Price's 1953 "House of Wax"...'cos it includes 1933 "The Mystery of the Wax Museum"...with a wonderful Glenda Farrell, Fay Wray, Lionel Atwill...can't wait the release of "Island of Lost Souls" (1933) on dvd with Charles Laughton!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feaito Posted May 19, 2004 Author Share Posted May 19, 2004 Paty and others, hope this is useful Also at amazon I've been able to get excellent new and second hand copies of: "Devotion" (1931), a nice drawing-room comedy with Leslie Howard and Ann Harding. "The Silver Horde" (1930), a very entertaining yarn with Joel McCrea, Evelyn Brent, Jean Arthur and Blanche Sweet. "Consolation Marriage" a nice little film with Irene Dunne, Pat O'Brien, Lester Vail, Matt Moore and Myrna Loy "Bachelor Apartment" (1931), a funny early talkie with the great Mae Murray in an extremely funny and "overacted" performance (she only made three talkies), which also features Irene Dunne and Lowell Sherman. "The Animal Kingdom", a great adaptation of Philip Barry's play featuring Ann Harding, Leslie Howard and Myrna Loy. "Night After Night", a great pre-code with George Raft, Constance Cummings, Wynne Gibson, Alison Skipworth and Mae West.} "Arrowsmith" with Helen Hayes and Ronald Colman (excellent!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brackenhe Posted May 19, 2004 Share Posted May 19, 2004 I gots to get me one of those new fangled DVD thingys. It looks like I'm missing a lot of good movies. Dang it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moviejoe79 Posted May 19, 2004 Share Posted May 19, 2004 feaito - are all of the titles you mentioned on DVD? I love "Night After Night" and have only seen it on VHS. If there's a DVD of it out there, I'd love to get my hands on it. I love the scene where Mae West walks into the nightclub, and the hat check girl says "Oh my goodness" about her diamonds, and Mae says "Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie" - classic Mae. Paramount's gotta get on the ball and release boxed sets of her films along with W.C. Fields and the Marx Brothers titles - "It's a Gift" and "Duck Soup" are must haves. I just can't understand it - don't they realize that there's a market out there for these films? And they just leave them sitting there to rot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feaito Posted May 19, 2004 Author Share Posted May 19, 2004 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!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feaito Posted May 19, 2004 Author Share Posted May 19, 2004 But, on the other hand, all the other films metioned on my posts below, are on dvd.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loliteblue Posted May 20, 2004 Share Posted May 20, 2004 A BIG THANK YOU ! Feaito your a pal on these boards were fortunate to have you among us. I'm going to amazon.con i do not care if they are on vhs they are must have's in my collection didn't realize they were even available wow!.....i'm in cinema heaven i'm getting my big bucket of buttered pop corn ready! for an all-nite movie fest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feaito Posted May 20, 2004 Author Share Posted May 20, 2004 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!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brackenhe Posted May 20, 2004 Share Posted May 20, 2004 I think if some of these titles were put on DVD and only sold 20,000 to 50,000 copies it would be worth it. I wouldn't think that the rights to some of these would be that much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edgeciff Posted May 20, 2004 Share Posted May 20, 2004 Re: Feaito's remark about the guys at the studio not realizing market potential of some of their library is so true. In an online discussion with a FOX rep someone suggested the possiblity of a DVD release of the 1935 Charles Laughton film LES MISERABLES. And the guy stated they thought that title would not sell. I have to laugh since so many people now know this title from the long running B'way musical and this title would peak their interest in comparing the play with the classic film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feaito Posted May 20, 2004 Author Share Posted May 20, 2004 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.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moviejoe79 Posted May 20, 2004 Share Posted May 20, 2004 The people at Fox are just stupid to not release "Les Miserables." Just look at all of the other movies that get remade, or are based on musicals, and right away they're released onto DVD. "Chicago" became a hit, and soon followed "Roxie Hart" with Ginger Rogers - "Chicago" is a musical version of this film and story. Another one is "Seabiscuit" - as soon as the movie came out, we saw "The Story of Seabiscuit" with Shirley Temple released right away. It's common sense that people are going to be interested in these movies since they are seeing updated versions of them, so why wouldn't a studio want to capitalize on that? Fox has had their head in the clouds lately anyway with their "classic" releases, so I wouldn't expect them to use common sense and release "Les Miserables." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feaito Posted May 20, 2004 Author Share Posted May 20, 2004 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!!!! An Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feaito Posted May 20, 2004 Author Share Posted May 20, 2004 Forget that last "An"...erase it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feaito Posted June 10, 2004 Author Share Posted June 10, 2004 This one also deserves a 2nd watch...I think Maggie Sullavan shines a bright here as she did in "Shop Around..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edgeciff Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 I just found out this film was adapted for the B'way stage in the early 50s by PRESTON STURGES as the musical MAKE A WISH. Nanette Fabray starred in the Sullivan part. I only know the score (which is quite tuneful) but would have loved to see the musical on B'way. MAKE A WISH is being reissued on CD next month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feaito Posted June 10, 2004 Author Share Posted June 10, 2004 BTW.. Preston Sturges also had "writing credits" in "The Good Fairy", in 1935. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feaito Posted January 10, 2005 Author Share Posted January 10, 2005 Yeah, I did write sth. I'm bringin'it up as I said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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