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Upcoming DVDs and Blu-rays
Topic Started: Mar 16 2011, 02:08 PM (1,095 Views)
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No big deal; I'll get it anyway, but I wonder why it took them so long to get around to Shanghai Express.
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Besides Betty Boop. Vol. 2, some other stuff coming up that we're interested in, or you might be:

Gene Autry Collection Vol. 3 (Timeless, August: Red River Valley, Saddle Pals, Apache Country, Pack Train)
Two complete TV series from Timeless, MacKenzie's Raiders (with Richard Carlson, and which is missing one "lost" episode) and Harbor Command with Wendell Corey.

Olive in Sept, DVD and Blu-ray

Shack Out on 101
The Americano (Glenn Ford, directed by William Castle)
The Fighting Kentuckian

In Oct., Blu-ray

The Fly (1958) Fox
From Here to Eternity, Sony



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Don't get too excited about The Americano: it's lame even for Castle.
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New from Warner Archive, a boxed set of Powell pictures.

When William Powell signed with Warner Bros., he did more than find a new studio home for his urbane sophistication – it was there he solidified himself as a leading man. Culled from the nine 1931-34 films Powell made at Warner, these four films variously draw on the star’s renowned romantic, comic and sleuthing talents. The Road to Singapore (1931): The roving eye of boozing playboy Powell settles on a blonde (Doris Kenyon) disenchanted with her neglectful husband (Louis Calhern). High Pressure (1931): Powell’s roguish wit is in high gear as he plays a garrulous promoter selling investors on a scheme to make ersatz rubber. Private Detective 62 (1933): Private eye Powell falls for the socialite (Margaret Lindsay) he’s supposed to frame. The Key (1934): In volatile 1920 Dublin, British officer Powell sacrifices his freedom for the woman he loves (Edna Best) and her political-captive husband (Colin Clive). Initial quantities of this release will be traditionally replicated (pressed) in anticipation of high consumer demand.
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More from Sony's Columbia Classics line as three releases are scheduled for November 5th.Following up on the studio's well-received Volume 1, Charley Chase Shorts, Vol. 2 has been announced.The shorts are:​• The Big Squirt (1937)​• Calling All Doctors (1937)​• From Bad to Worse (1937)​• The Grand Hooter (1937)​• His Bridal Fright (1940)​• Many Sappy Returns (1938)​• The Nightshirt Bandit (1938)​• Pie a la Maid (1938)​• The Sap Takes a Wrap (1939)​• Teacher's Pest (1939)​• Time Out for Trouble (1938)​• The Wrong Miss Wright (1937)​

Also out is the Ernie Kovacs comedy Sail a Crooked Ship (1961) which also stars Robert Wagner, Dolores Hart, Carolyn Jones, Ernie Kovacs, Frankie Avalon, Frank Gorshin and Jesse White and the Buck Jones Western Unknown Valley (1933).
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From Fox, a whole mess o' Blu-Rays on Dec. 3:

The Black Swan
Call of the Wild
Carmen Jones
Desk Set
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Jesse James
North to Alaska
The Undefeated
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Notice that JUMBO is arriving on Blu-Ray (It's already on DVD).

A special point of interest is that the film is clearly described -- but not identified by title -- in the book "Confederacy of Dunces." Ignatius J. Reilly seeks it out as a movie he knows he'll despise, yelling erudite abuse at the screen as Doris Day sings a chipper song.

I picked up the DVD when it came out, in part because I saw it as a kid (and remember ads in the Sunday comic section -- how's that for old?) and didn't understand chunks of it. While it doesn't quite deserve Reilly's bellowing contempt, it's no classic.

On the plus side: Doris sings Rodgers & Hart. Jimmy Durante and Martha Raye are better than their material. And the plot is pretty clever for a musical: Durante won't sell Jumbo to a big-time rival. The rival sends his son -- Stephen Boyd -- to infiltrate the show as a roustabout. When not pitting his cynicism against Doris's perky charm, Boyd simply buys up the IOUs Durante leaves behind in every town until his pop can foreclose on the whole operation.

On the minus side: Jumbo is no Lassie, so our title elephant is cut way back. It came out in 1962, too late for the golden age and too early for the blockbuster era, and lacking most of the charm offered by either. It has the slightly disconnected feel of a post-Walt comedy from Disney.

Could go either way: The finale, "Sawdust, Spangles and Dreams" (not by Rodgers & Hart). Durante, Day and Raye have been reduced to a sorry one-wagon medicine show. Boyd turns up and sings to them about the glory of the circus. And he's brought back Jumbo (who his merciless father spent a fortune to acquire, remember). The story stops here, but the movie goes on for several minutes as the four stars (and nobody else) suddenly appear on deliberately surreal sets to sing to the camera, pretend to do circus stunts, become boring clowns and end up waltzing in white as Jumbo lingers in the back, looking embarrassed. Your inner Ignatius will love it.
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Well, if THIS doesn't get you to upgrade to Blu-ray, nothin' will: In January, Shout! Factory will release a BD double feature of THE NEANDERTHAL MAN (1953, with Robert Shayne) and BEAST OF HOLLOW MOUNTAIN (1956, with Guy Madison). No, no, no: really.
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Oh wow. Words cannot express my delight.
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From the Universal Vault series...




Flesh and Fantasy (1943) - Edward G. Robinson, Barbara Stanwyck, Charles Boyer, Robert Cummings, Thomas Mitchell, Betty Field, Charles Winninger, Anna Lee, Dame May Whitty, C. Aubrey Smith


For Love or Money (1963) - Kirk Douglas, Mitzi Gaynor, Gig Young, Thelma Ritter, Julie Newmar, William Bendix, Leslie Parrish, Dick Sargent, William Windom


Little Man, What Now? (1934) - Margaret Sullavan, Douglass Montgomery, Alan Hale


The Thing That Couldn't Die (1958) - William Reynolds, Andra Martin, Jeffrey Stone


You Never Can Tell (1951) - Dick Powell, Peggy Dow, Joyce Holden, Charles Drake
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I liked Little Man, What Now? It's different. The rest, meh.
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