Where are the DVDs?
Submitted by JohnnyW on Wed, 04/20/2005 - 05:07
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- Greed (1925): One of the greatest silent films, based on Frank Norris' novel McTeague. A restored print with stills in place of lost scenes was shown on TCM a few years ago.
- King Kong (1933): Is this the most notable film not yet on DVD? With Peter Jackson's remake coming out at the end of the year, my hope is that the DVD of the original will come out then to cash in on the hoopla.
- The Black Cat (1934): A Boris Karloff horror film that gets highly praised.
- The African Queen (1952): One of my favorite Humphrey Bogart roles, and Kate Hepburn isn't too shabby either. Simply one of the best adventure movies of all time, period.
- The Innocents (1961): Based on Henry James' Turn of the Screw, widely acclaimed as one of the best haunted-house films ever made.
- Ride the High Country (1962): Early Sam Peckinpah western, some critics put it on a par with later The Wild Bunch.
- The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970): One of several good revisionist westerns not on DVD, Jason Robards' role as the title character who survives anything and everything until the twentieth century hits is one of his career highlights. Another Peckinpah.
- Night Moves (1975): An Arthur Penn Neo-Noir, with Gene Hackman as the disillusioned Private Eye, and a very young Melanie Griffith as a runaway he attempts to track down.
- The Missouri Breaks (1976): Another Penn film, this revisionist western features Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando at their surrealistic best(!).
- Nickelodeon (1976): Peter Bogdanovich film about early Hollywood. Stars Ryan O'Neal (who was so great in Bogdanovich's Paper Moon) and Burt Reynolds.
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Films I'm particularly interested in seeing come out on DVD. Most I've seen, but a couple I am really curious about.
(6/26/05) Good News! The Innocents has been scheduled to be released on Sept. 6. No word yet on bonus features.
I saw The Innocents (1961) last year and i have to say i'm also asking "Where is the dvd!!" it is such a great and haunting movie
Aw man, I'm jealous! I'm really looking forward to seeing it...
Johnny Waco
Hah, King Kong and The African Queen are both available on DVD, at least in German.
P.S.: I can't see why people like The Black Cat so much. I found it rather laughable, despite the interesting cast.
Well, I'm not vouching for The Black Cat; some of these I've seen, some I haven't, and that is one I haven't. I'd still like to see it.
Considering The African Queen has an anti-German plot, I find that pretty funny that they can get it, and I can't...
Johnny Waco (who didn't mean to imply that he is anti-German!)
Actually I think that there are two German versions of The African Queen. In the early one (from the early 1950s, so shortly after WWII), the anti-German plot was taken out of it and substitued by sth. else. Later (probably in the 70s) there was finally the other, correct version of it.
As far as I can remember a similar thing happened with Notorious.
P.S.: Did you know that Casablanca was shown in Germany under Hitler, but of course in a modified version. They had taken out several anti-German tendencies. Propaganda minister Goebbels considered it as a great movie.
1922 (who hasn't seen The African Queen yet :( )
Wow, I can't even imagine either The African Queen or Casablanca stripped of anything considered anti-German, considering that was a central part of the plot in both movies. I guess I could see Rick and Elsa simply struggling against some unnamed force, but maybe Goebbels just didn't have the best taste. ;)
Johnny Waco
Yeah, must have been weird movies. I only know that in Notorious the Nazis were substitued by drug dealers.
Sounds relevant to me--I heard the Nazi Youth had problems with kids dropping Acid and showering the SS officers with flowers...;)
Johnny Waco