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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays

#1801 Post by DFR » Mon Nov 15, 2021 1:58 pm

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Queen Christina, Sea Hawk, Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond and Air Force plus the aforementioned Lewtons are my wanted still-to-happen upgrades.
The Sea Hawk came out a while ago on Blu-ray.

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#1802 Post by Finch » Mon Nov 15, 2021 2:09 pm

Oooh! That completely slipped past me. Thank you! I don't think they've done Captain Blood yet though?

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#1803 Post by beamish14 » Mon Nov 15, 2021 2:09 pm

Is Greed going to end up in the public domain soon?

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#1804 Post by DFR » Mon Nov 15, 2021 2:22 pm

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Oooh! That completely slipped past me. Thank you! I don't think they've done Captain Blood yet though?
They haven't yet. That one's high on my list too, along with a bunch of other Flynn titles.

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#1805 Post by Finch » Mon Nov 15, 2021 2:26 pm

I think Greed was entered into the public records for copyright purposes in 1925 so three years from now.

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#1806 Post by Noiradelic » Mon Nov 15, 2021 4:32 pm

Top Hat finally?

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#1807 Post by captveg » Tue Nov 16, 2021 3:36 pm

Greed entered the public domain in 2020 (release year + 96).

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#1808 Post by senseabove » Tue Nov 30, 2021 6:46 pm

The next round is starting to trickle in:
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#1809 Post by swo17 » Tue Nov 30, 2021 7:08 pm

Stage Fright!

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#1810 Post by FrauBlucher » Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:41 am


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#1812 Post by Maltic » Fri Dec 10, 2021 6:04 pm

FrauBlucher wrote:
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bluray.com.... Angels with Dirty Faces
Angels with Dirty Faces takes a soft left turn during its final stretch, pushing hard for Rocky's death-bed redemption as Jerry pleads with him to find God mere moments before execution. The reason? Those troubled kids, who still idolize the scrappy outlaw, might not follow in his wavering footsteps. It's a sappy swerve that, while not as jaw-droppingly awful as the one in San Francisco (also released during the Hays Code's infancy, just two years prior), still feels like further melodramatic mistreatment of Cagney's character. (And that angelic coda? Gag me with a spoon.) Even so, it's at least not too terribly unexpected and, as part of an otherwise magnetic film packed with fantastic one-liners, great action, and solid performances, one wrong turn obviously can't sink the ship. But had it been made, say, five years earlier, Angels with Dirty Faces would be an absolute classic of Hollywood's Golden Age.
This type of Code counterfactualism :roll:

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#1813 Post by domino harvey » Fri Dec 10, 2021 6:28 pm

The entire point of the film is that ending

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#1814 Post by captveg » Sat Dec 11, 2021 5:21 am

Shhh. Nobody let him know the ambiguity of the ending.

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#1815 Post by Finch » Mon Dec 13, 2021 8:17 pm

Fury and Mad Love down to $14.40 on Amazon as of this afternoon.

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#1816 Post by Ribs » Thu Dec 23, 2021 6:39 pm

February releases include Gold Diggers of 1933, The Three Musketeers (1948), and Edge of Darkness (1943).

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#1817 Post by swo17 » Thu Dec 23, 2021 7:36 pm

Finally dipping back into the Berkeley box for the most important one!

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#1818 Post by Rayon Vert » Thu Dec 23, 2021 8:40 pm

Yes, great news!

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#1819 Post by FrauBlucher » Thu Dec 23, 2021 9:19 pm

Love that they've been ripping into the Classic Hollywood of late

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#1820 Post by Maltic » Thu Dec 23, 2021 9:50 pm

The other two titles look like a chore tbh

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#1821 Post by Rayon Vert » Thu Dec 23, 2021 10:02 pm

Well that's definitely the case with this one.
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The Three Musketeers (Sidney 1948). Gene Kelly went straight from The Pirate to playing another swashbuckling role here, this time non-musical. The way he romantically pounces on June Allyson is eerily similar to what he did with Judy Garland in the preceding film. His athleticism makes him a good candidate for this type of role, and he shows it in a pretty good extended sword fight scene early in the film. The first half-hour or so threatens some amount of middling fun, but then that dissipates and just becomes this absolutely bland, style-less MGM Technicolor studio slop. An impressive cast, including also Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Angela Lansbury and Vincent Price as Richelieu, are just absolutely wasted – everybody, including Kelly, is lost in this dull snoozefest.

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#1822 Post by Maltic » Thu Dec 23, 2021 10:36 pm

:D

I guess I still want these to exist on BD, though, and you have to admire WAC for being systematic about it

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#1823 Post by domino harvey » Thu Dec 23, 2021 10:40 pm

It looks like they are now going through the Literary Classics and Errol Flynn Adventures sets now that we’ve gotten multiple titles

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#1824 Post by swo17 » Thu Dec 23, 2021 11:18 pm

They've also previously released multiple titles from the Motion Picture Masterpieces literary adaptations collection, but we're still waiting for David Copperfield

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#1825 Post by agnamaracs » Thu Jan 06, 2022 9:29 pm

On "The Extras" podcast, George Feltenstein talks about the forthcoming Song of the Thin Man and Stage Fright and looks back on Warner Archive in 2021.

He also gives details on the forthcoming ("early part of the year") Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm Blu-ray: two discs, letterbox and Smilebox, vintage and new supplements (he calls this release "pretty substantial" in this regard).

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