domino harvey wrote: Sat Apr 16, 2011 11:39 pm Test Pilot This is a strange one, isn't it? The three main characters are so flighty and unlikable and operate in such weird circles around one another that one could get a headache trying to keep everything straight. There's probably something to be said for the film's peculiarity with regards to its prickly characterizations and I can respect the film's aims, but I'm not sure you could get me to ever sit through this one again.
Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays and UHDs
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Test Pilot
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Decoy AKA the worst film in all five pressed Noir sets
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Info from Google/AI:
The "missing scene" in the 1946 film noir Decoy—newly announced for Blu-ray by the Warner Archive Collection (WAC) on November 11, 2026—is an infamous moment of violence where femme fatale Margot Shelby (Jean Gillie) repeatedly runs over her accomplice Jim Vincent (Edward Norris) with a car.
The Original Theatrical Version. In the uncut 1946 release, Margot runs Vincent down with her automobile, then reverses and drives over his body a second and third time.
The Censored TV and DVD Version. In previous home video releases—such as the 2007 Warner Bros. Film Noir Classic Collection DVD—the sequence is truncated so that Margot only hits him once.
Uncut Status. Because previous archival theatrical screenings (such as early 2000s American Cinematheque prints) retained the complete three-pass vehicular murder, film collectors on Blu-ray.com have eagerly awaited whether this new nitrate scan restores the missing footage—though Warner Archive's initial press release lists the same 76-minute runtime and has not yet explicitly confirmed if the trim is back in.
The "missing scene" in the 1946 film noir Decoy—newly announced for Blu-ray by the Warner Archive Collection (WAC) on November 11, 2026—is an infamous moment of violence where femme fatale Margot Shelby (Jean Gillie) repeatedly runs over her accomplice Jim Vincent (Edward Norris) with a car.
The Original Theatrical Version. In the uncut 1946 release, Margot runs Vincent down with her automobile, then reverses and drives over his body a second and third time.
The Censored TV and DVD Version. In previous home video releases—such as the 2007 Warner Bros. Film Noir Classic Collection DVD—the sequence is truncated so that Margot only hits him once.
Uncut Status. Because previous archival theatrical screenings (such as early 2000s American Cinematheque prints) retained the complete three-pass vehicular murder, film collectors on Blu-ray.com have eagerly awaited whether this new nitrate scan restores the missing footage—though Warner Archive's initial press release lists the same 76-minute runtime and has not yet explicitly confirmed if the trim is back in.
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Tea for Two
domino harvey wrote: Sat Nov 19, 2011 12:10 am Tea For Two (David Butler 1950) Lifeless adaptation of No No Nannette that can barely be bothered to move from one static shot of Doris Day to another. Film peaks with its opening framing device, where SZ "Cuddles" Sakall, armed with assorted groceries, disrupts a wacky fifties kid shindig and berates the whippersnappers before launching into the story proper. Disappointingly dry affair thereafter, though, and one that I can scarcely recall even though I just saw it.
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Trying to think of the worst film they could reasonably release as a prediction/way to compete with this real slate. Maybe Cukor’s Romeo and Juliet?
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The Big Store (1941). Two more titles left maybe?
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Till the Clouds Roll by (1946)
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Another public domain film receiving remastering from WA. Another bad movie this round too, I’m sad to say