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New Warner Archive releases
Topic Started: Nov 16 2010, 09:08 AM (3,117 Views)
Frank Hale
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According to the Digital Bits, the Archive has now released almost a thousand catalogue titles, vs about 1,200 on pressed DVD’s over the prior 14 year period.
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They've just released SHOW BOAT 1936, on a real disc, too, not a DVD-R thingy. I guess this means the long-promised boxed set of SHOW BOATS versions 1-3 will no longer come about, darn it.

Other new titles include a bunch of Joan Crawfords and other stuff... Let's see here...

Montana Moon (1930)
Reno (1939)
Public Defender (1931)
Bride Wore Red
Our Blushing Brides
I Live My Life

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There's also a bunch of Cagneys:

The Oklahoma Kid
Here Comes the Navy
Winner Take All

I have read some things that would indicate that the problem with the Show Boat box set was that the two different parts of Warner Home Video (the mainstream releasing group and The Warner Archive) had different opinions on this. The mainstream group didn't think there was enough audience for the set to justify the costs. I suspect Warner Archive decided to release what they could.
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Sales aren't good for anything classic via "mainstream" releases, I don't think... It's mostly boutique sales now, it appears. I don't know how many copies of, say, Hell's Half Acre or City that Never Sleeps Olive films created for Blu-ray, but it can't be more than a few hundred, can it? Will we ever see a second wave of Universal monsters on Blu-ray? The burned-to-disc releases are definitely the way to go, and I'm grateful to have what I've got - the Vitaphone collections, Benchley shorts, and Crime Does Not Pay are hugely popular amongst my crowd. Two dozen Betty Boops on Blu-ray? Amazing to think about and to own. Say what you want, but I'll snap up The Invisible Monster and whatever the other one is (I forget now) if they come to Olive Blu-ray, and we'll love 'em.
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On the Warner Archive Collection podcast for this week (available on iTunes), George Feltenstein states that there are still plans to issue a Blu-Ray set of all 3 Show Boat versions but it may be as much as a year or two away. There are also hints that the 1929 version is coming from Warner Archive in the future.

BTW, the 1950s remake does have some incredibly gorgeous technicolor.
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Yeah, and it's a gutless and crappy sabotage of a significant show too.
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I'm glad to see Public Defender on the list. It's a pulpy thriller that just misses being a terrific picture due to lack of physical action, which it clearly needed. Richard Dix plays a bored playboy who has a secret life as an avenger of crime called The Reckoner. His two sidekicks are Boris Karloff and Paul Hurst!
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Thanks, RR, I'll keep an eye out for that one, once it's available up here.

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Yeah, and it's a gutless and crappy sabotage of a significant show too.
Which version are you referring to?
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The MGM one with Ava Gardner. It takes out everything significant and many of the songs, too.
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Read the book, peeps. One of my all-time favorites.
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I'm grateful to have what I've got - the Vitaphone collections, Benchley shorts, and Crime Does Not Pay are hugely popular amongst my crowd.
I'm hoping for even more shorts. There are still travelogues, assorted mini-musicals & dramas, Passing Parades and Pete Smith Specialities.

They're being generous -- too generous -- with old Hanna Barbara shows, but what I really want is Tex Avery cartoons and perhaps "Tom and Jerry Festival of Fun." Maybe a few of the oddball HB projects, like the Gene Kelly special "Jack and the Beanstalk" and the movie "Rock Odyssey."

Are any Warner/MGM/RKO series still missing? It seems like everybody I've really wanted is accounted for.

If wishes were horses I'd like Universal to come across with the remaining Maria Montez Technicolor epics and maybe "King's Pirate," the 60s remake of "Against All Flags" will Jill St. John in tight pants. And perhaps Columbia will give "The Shadow" a chance on disc.
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I read Show Boat in my teens. I was from a small southern town and it changed my thinking. And that changed my whole life.
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Just announced, Wildcat Bus with Fay Wray (1940) and a Gene Raymond/Ann Southern double feature, She's Got Everything and The Smartest Girl in the World.

I took advantage of the WB Archive Birthday sale (they were practically GIVIN' 'em away!) and my package arrived yesterday: The Bribe, The Unsuspected, You Can't Get Away with Murder, Stranger on the Third Floor, The Horn Blows at Midnight, George Washington Slept Here, The Green Slime, The Verdict (no, not the Paul Newman film), The Merry Widow, and Beast with Five Fingers. Woo-hoo!
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Hit the Deck is the latest addition to the Warner Archive Blu-ray collection: http://www.wbshop.com/product/hit+the+deck+%281955%29+%28bd%29+1000478169.do?sortby=ourPicks&refType=&from=fn

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