filmlover Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 I've heard it is a new print but with Universal I've come to learn to doubt everything they put out. I know they are putting a lot of stuff on the second DVD in the the 2-dvd set, but I hope they aren't just slipping those in and keeping the same old, much-too-dark print that has been on the previous DVD release. By the way, why isn't Paramount doing this? Is it because of the addition of the TV movie with Richard Crenna and Samantha Eggar on the second DVD? Tell you the truth, I could do without that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollywood101 Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 > . By the way, why isn't Paramount doing this? > Is it because of the addition of the TV movie with > Richard Crenna and Samantha Eggar on the second DVD? > Tell you the truth, I could do without that. Paramount sold its talkie films, from c1929-1948, to Universal decades ago. The studio owns the films made since then, and whatever earlier silents are still extant in the vaults, but the classica Paras live at Universal City now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markfp2 Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 From what I've read on other forums, it's a newly restored version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzo Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 Let's be thankful that Universal does own the rights: if it were left to Paramount to release its classic back catalog we'd be waiting 'til doomsday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzcutter Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 Mark, Will it have the alternate ending as an extra? Hoping, hoping, hoping,,,, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackBurley Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 "Will it have the alternate ending as an extra?" It's going to have supplemental feature entitled, Shadows of Suspense and the 1973, 75minute TV movie version. There will be audio commentary by film historian Richard Schickel; and a second commentary featuring screenwriter Lem Dobbs and film historian Nick Redman. But I haven't seen any mention of an alternate ending... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted August 3, 2006 Author Share Posted August 3, 2006 Lynn's probably referring to the scene with MacMurray in the gas chamber. I've read that footage is gone forever and only a few stills exists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzcutter Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 Filmlover, On a slightly different topic but connected because it's Wilder, does the alternate open for Sunset Blvd still exist? Hopefully one of these days the alternate ending to Double Indemnity will resurface. Lord knows what is in the vaults at Paramount. Certainly the folks at Paramount have no clue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackBurley Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 I'd always heard that the opening footage to Sunset Boulevard was destroyed, but the storyboard still exists. I never know if "lost" rumors are trustworthy though. Might there be some cannister in someone's attic that no one knows about? Will I ever see Theda Bara in Cleopatra? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted August 3, 2006 Author Share Posted August 3, 2006 Wouldn't be nice if everything was turned over to WB? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzcutter Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 Jack, Re: The original Sunset Blvd open: I saw clips from it in the German documentary on Wilder that TCM ran in June., so I hope that means it still exists somewhere! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzcutter Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 Wouldn't be nice if everything was turned over to WB? >> It would be loverly, indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackBurley Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 "The original Sunset Blvd open: I saw clips from it in the German documentary on Wilder that TCM ran in June., so I hope that means it still exists somewhere!" You give me hope! Now if you'd just get on that Theda Bara issue... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 AAAAKKKK!!! I'm watching "Double Indemnity" on the Sleuth channel. Made in 1973! Terrible! Absolutely awful! Same dialogue, same lines, word for word. It looks like a comedy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinemascope Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 Yeah that's the remake that they included in the new special edition of the original. Always heard it was bloody awful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moviefan2 Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 > "The original Sunset Blvd open: I saw clips from > it in the German documentary on Wilder that TCM ran > in June., so I hope that means it still exists > somewhere!" > > You give me hope! Now if you'd just get on that > Theda Bara issue... I believe it is already on the Sunset Boulevard Special Collector's Edition dvd. This dvd has been out for awhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moviefan2 Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 > Yeah that's the remake that they included in the new > special edition of the original. Always heard it was > bloody awful! It was. I should have purchased the region 4 dvd of the orginial Double Indemnity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moviefan2 Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 > Wouldn't be nice if everything was turned over to WB? > >> > > It would be loverly, indeed. It would be great. I am sure it can be its own separate company based on the fact that they will have to hire thousands more just to restore and find missing materials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackBurley Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 "I believe it is already on the Sunset Boulevard Special Collector's Edition dvd. This dvd has been out for awhile." As I recall it has the storyboard for the original opening, but no actual footage... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinemascope Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 It was. I should have purchased the region 4 dvd of the orginial Double Indemnity. Why R4? I have R2, but only because it comes in the Barbara Stanwyck R2 DVD set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzcutter Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 "I believe it is already on the Sunset Boulevard Special Collector's Edition dvd. This dvd has been out for awhile." As I recall it has the storyboard for the original opening, but no actual footage...>> Jack, I know I saw the footage in the German doc that TCM ran last summer (though it was a few years old). And I believe Cinesage posted that he saw it when the Academy screened Sunset Blvd last summer. But I could be wrong and he could be talking about Double Indemnity. If they really wanted to sell a lot of DVDs of both films, offer the alternates as extras. I know I would be one of the first in line to buy both films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineSage_jr Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 I wrote that the Academy showed a cut sequence from Artie Green's party in which songwriters Jay Livingston and Ray Evans sing a song about life in Hollywood that was cut and replaced by one where the party's attendees sing the pair's Oscar-winning "Buttons and Bows" from THE PALEFACE. As for the original opening to SUNSET BOULEVARD, I also wrote that the DVD bonus section features the establishing shots Billy Wilder made of the ambulance carrying Joe Gillis's body pulling into the County Morgue, and establishing shots of the interior, but none of the actual dramatic footage from the scene in which the dead Gillis and other bodies in the morgue discuss how they met their deaths. The scene, itself, has never turned up, and it's doubtful that it still exist, but one should never say "never." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinemascope Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 The scene, itself, has never turned up, and it's doubtful that it still exist, but one should never say "never." Indeed, never say never again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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