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Domino, I seem to remember you esteemed Hawaii (1966), and I always thought of getting it because of that, but unfortunately it's not listed, so I assume it's OOP. The Hawaiians is listed, which is possibly the sequel?

Rayon Vert wrote: Mon May 11, 2020 12:20 am Domino, I seem to remember you esteemed Hawaii (1966), and I always thought of getting it because of that, but unfortunately it's not listed, so I assume it's OOP. The Hawaiians is listed, which is possibly the sequel?

It is a sequel. I believe I was excited for the original because it was going to contain the roadshow version from the laserdisc, but it ended up only being in SD and I never even bothered to pick it up. So, I can't vouch either way!

Now I'm grateful there's a French BD of Cutter's Way to fall back on.

And, Domino again, just to let you know looking at the titles I was considering The Keys of the Kingdom and My Cousin Rachel, but then I read your thoughts about them, and I changed my mind. Thanks for saving me $$ in these financially uncertain times!

For those who want it, Cutter's Way is still available on Screen Archives. It doesn't come up right in search so you may have missed it: https://www1.screenarchives.com/title_d ... -WAY-1981/

Welp, you people convinced me to spend more then I have in a while. Probably worth it just for the Yamada films.

Another quickly gone Fox title, the Hot Rock, is also available from Screen Archives for $14.95-- I almost never blind buy these days, but that cast and plot sounded promising. If I hate it I pledge to sell it here for what it cost me instead of milking the suckers on eBay

domino harvey wrote: Mon May 11, 2020 12:01 am I fondly remember teaching excerpts of this to my students to explain how studios initially saw the appeal of 'Scope. That is, I think, where any real interest for anyone here will start and stop. Kind of tempted to pick it up just because no one is ever going to release it again, but it's really not very good!

Negulesco has made three movies I love, so it seemed worth a chance at least, but I didn't even get to use the code since I got my order in quickly, before the email, because I suspected some of the ones I wanted would (and did) sell out quickly...

But also dammit now I want another order with some of these recommendations, especially the ones I put in my cart and trimmed to a wishlist because I hadn't actually heard about them and was already making too big an order but now y'all are recommending them...

Paul Newman's Effects of Gamma Rays is also a must get from this list. Bedazzled which hasn't been mentioned yet is also one of my favorite Donen films.

senseabove wrote: Mon May 11, 2020 12:30 am

domino harvey wrote: Mon May 11, 2020 12:01 am I fondly remember teaching excerpts of this to my students to explain how studios initially saw the appeal of 'Scope. That is, I think, where any real interest for anyone here will start and stop. Kind of tempted to pick it up just because no one is ever going to release it again, but it's really not very good!

Negulesco has made three movies I love, so it seemed worth a chance at least, but I didn't even get to use the code since I got my order in quickly, before the email, because I suspected some of the ones I wanted would (and did) sell out quickly...

But also dammit now I want another order with some of these recommendations, especially the ones I put in my cart and trimmed to a wishlist because I hadn't actually heard about them and was already making too big an order but now y'all are recommending them...

It's a picture post card and Maggie MacNamera is self-consciously being sold as another Audrey Hepburn, which, obviously, has its own amusement. If I end up making a second order, I'll prob bite, since like you, I realize now that I forgot a lot of titles

Also, I can't recommend anyone get it, but Sayonara is listed in the wrong decade on TT's site, if you like me and trying to find things by browsing decades

Gamma Rays has a superior Indicator release, knives

Gerd Oswald's Crime of Passion: also good! I thought I already owned this, but I don't see it. Second order is now inevitable

I don't understand why out of all the Betty Grable movies TT released Mother Wore Tights. Skip it I say. My write-up...

Rayon Vert wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2019 3:47 amMother Wore Tights (W. Lang 1947). I’m picking up the Betty Grable musicals from (quite a while ago) here. Not much narrative-wise here: Betty becomes Dan Dailey’s vaudeville partner, and they have kids and mostly embarrass them. Hard to see why this was such a successful film. Production- and length-wise, it’s definitely one of the more ambitious entries and it’s never awful, but there’s nothing to particularly distinguish it either. I can’t see why it won an award for the music, as the songs struck me on the whole as unmemorable. The numbers themselves are the typical vaudeville-musical stage performances – pretty Technicolor colors, lightly enjoyable in moments (Kokomo, Indiana) but nothing striking either. Grable is starting to age and looks fittingly matronly for the part.

domino harvey wrote: Mon May 11, 2020 12:29 am Another quickly gone Fox title, the Hot Rock, is also available from Screen Archives for $14.95-- I almost never blind buy these days, but that cast and plot sounded promising. If I hate it I pledge to sell it here for what it cost me instead of milking the suckers on eBay

The Hot Rock is great and essential viewing for Soderbergh fans who want to find out what his heist movies have been stealing from.

Browsing through and offering thoughts on lesser-known films I don't think I've ever discussed, for fence sitters hovering over the 'check out' button

Blue Denim: Okay play adaptation that creaks with Importance but has some bright spots. Brandon de Wilde is not that convincing in the lead, though I get why he was cast, and it's impossible to believe Carol Lynley would fuck him. But it is quite a frank movie, if a bit simplistic, in addressing the big verboten A in climactic manner later borrowed wholesale for that Steve McQueen/Natalie Wood movie

From the Terrace: Not great, but worth seeing for being an adaptation of a key text of the era. It's oddly enough a film I reference a lot more than I ever thought I would in my life

And yeah, Mother Wore Tights is an easy pass, agreed Rayon Vert. Isn't there a scene where their little twerp tries to do the Anne Shirley role in Stella Dallas about them performing at his college? Vom

domino harvey wrote: Mon May 11, 2020 12:33 am
Gamma Rays has a superior Indicator release, knives

Oh well, live and learn. Hard to complain over 7 bucks.

Gammy Rays is another one I have also because of the forum recs.

Well, I’ve had Peyton Place, I Want to Live!, and The Return of Frank James sitting in my cart for at least a week, plus I had some money in my PayPal account, so I guess this is some higher power’s way of forcing me to pull the trigger. And here I thought this quarantine was going to reduce my watchlist.

domino harvey wrote: Mon May 11, 2020 12:34 am Gerd Oswald's Crime of Passion: also good! I thought I already owned this, but I don't see it. Second order is now inevitable

This is available on their website but it's not a Twilight Time release--it's Classic Flix

Yep, I just figured to mention it and Merrily We Live since they're even cheaper than the deals on TT titles!

The Narrator Returns wrote: Mon May 11, 2020 12:38 am

domino harvey wrote: Mon May 11, 2020 12:29 am Another quickly gone Fox title, the Hot Rock, is also available from Screen Archives for $14.95-- I almost never blind buy these days, but that cast and plot sounded promising. If I hate it I pledge to sell it here for what it cost me instead of milking the suckers on eBay

The Hot Rock is great and essential viewing for Soderbergh fans who want to find out what his heist movies have been stealing from.

Agreed, I remember it being a really good time, though I don't recall many details about it. I'll probably buy it from you if you don't like it.

Rayon Vert wrote: Mon May 11, 2020 12:11 am Damn, I just ordered Peyton Place today based on the forum's recs, and have just realized I already purchased it a few months back. Shitty memory. Twbb, this is your fault!

I will gladly take responsibility for as many copies of Peyton Place sold as people want to throw on me! Now you at least won't forget to watch it!

Rayon Vert wrote: Mon May 11, 2020 12:11 am Other TT discs listed here I've ordered not so long ago based on this forum's recs (and all still unwatched): My Sister Eileen

This is a picture of you (and me) after you finally watch it

For titles available in the Twilighttimemovies.com sale:

Melvin and Howard is a highest recommendation.
The Hospital is great.
Talk Radio is one of my favorite Oliver Stone films, very underrated.
I just watched the Twilight Time Blu-rays of Walter Hill's Geronimo-An American Legend and Wild Bill and I'd recommend both, especially Wild Bill.

I absolutely did not understand Melvin and Howard, which I thought was intensely, almost acutely annoying. Even the typically wonderful Mary Steenburgen was almost unbearable. Sorry to be a wet blanket, but fair warning to those who might bounce off it as hard as I did!

It's also a Universal title, so highly likely to resurface, unlike the Fox titles

Hope y'all already grabbed Inferno, it's gone from the TT site at least

Just curious: is A Man Called Peter as bad as it looks?

I haven’t seen it but reading the synopsis, man, talk about the role Richard Todd was born to play (apologies to his Not Timothy Leary in the Love-Ins)