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captveg wrote: Thu Jan 27, 2022 8:36 pm The DePatie/Freleng Collection Volume 1 (1965-1972) (BD) (Individual BD releases still available; DVD still available)

Coming April 19:

YOU’RE TELLING ME! (1934) B&W 66 Minutes 1.37:1 Not Rated
Comedy legend W.C. Fields (The Bank Dick) plays an inventor with a taste for drink in You’re Telling Me!, a rough-and-tumble Pre-Code. Having failed to sell his latest invention, Sam Bisbee (Fields) meets Marie Lescaboura (Adrienne Ames, The Death Kiss) on the train back to Crystal Springs, unaware that she is a foreign princess traveling incognito. Deciding to help make her new friend a success, Marie pays a visit to Sam’s hometown where she attempts to turn an uncouth eccentric into the darling of the country club set. Directed by Erle C. Kenton (Island of Lost Souls) and co-starring Joan Marsh (Road to Zanzibar) and Larry “Buster” Crabbe (Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon), this zany gem also features Fields’ uproarious recreation of his classic golfing sketch first performed in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1918.

• Brand New 2K Master
• Wayne and Shuster Take an Affectionate Look at W.C. Fields: Vintage Documentary
• W.C. Fields Trailers
• Optional English Subtitles

MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE (1935) B&W 66 Minutes 1.37:1 Not Rated
Comedy legend W.C. Fields (My Little Chickadee) is Ambrose Wolfinger, a henpecked husband who wants the afternoon off (his first in twenty-five years) to go to a wrestling match, so he tells his boss he must attend his mother-in-law’s funeral. The afternoon soon turns catastrophic. He tries to please a policeman, assist a chauffeur, chase a tire, and ends up getting hit by the body of a wrestler thrown from the ring. Directed by Buster Keaton cohort Clyde Bruckman (The General) with Fields’ uncredited help, Man on the Flying Trapeze is a high-flying act of comedic brilliance. The marvelous cast includes Mary Brian (Running Wild), Kathleen Howard (It’s a Gift), Grady Sutton (The Bank Dick) and Walter Brennan (Rio Bravo).

• Brand New 2K Master
• Wayne and Shuster Take an Affectionate Look at W.C. Fields: Vintage Documentary
• W.C. Fields Trailers
• Optional English Subtitles

YOU CAN’T CHEAT AN HONEST MAN (1939) B&W 79 Minutes 1.37:1 Not Rated
In one of his most immortal roles, comedy legend W.C. Fields (It’s a Gift) plays Larson E. Whipsnade, raconteur and ringmaster of the Circus Giganticus. On the run from the law and on the lam from creditors, Whipsnade pauses only long enough to crack his whiplike wit on the brilliant ventriloquist Edgar Bergen (Fun and Fancy Free) and his wooden pals Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd. Directed by Hollywood great George Marshall (The Ghost Breakers) and co-starring Eddie “Rochester” Anderson (Gone with the Wind) and Constance Moore (Buck Rogers), it’s a three-ring circus of madness, mayhem and Ping-Pong—a side-splitting spectacle any honest man can enjoy. And as Whipsnade’s dear old grandfather used to say: You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man.

• Brand New 2K Master
• NEW Audio Commentary by Filmmaker/Historian Michael Schlesinger
• Theatrical Trailer
• W.C. Fields Trailers
• Optional English Subtitles

captveg wrote: Wed Feb 02, 2022 7:47 pm Per the KL Insider, these BD titles will be going OOP soon, regardless of whether they sell off the remaining stock:

These Blu-rays will be going out of print very soon and will be removed from the WSL Sale:

Becky Sharp
Cover Up
Covered Wagon
Dakota
Daredevils of the Red Circle
Don't Give Up the Ship
Driftwood
El Paso
I, Jane Doe
Last Command
Man Facing Southeast
Man Who Died Twice
Microcosmos
Naked Face
Old Ironsides
Optimists
Papa's Delicate Condition
Pocketful of Miracles
Psychopath
Singing Guns
Strange Adventure
Sunset in the West
Ten Seconds to Hell
Those Daring Young Men in their Jaunty Jalopies
Tiger by the Tail
Trigger, Jr.
Woman's Devotion
You Never Know Women

"The same is true for many DVDs (including all the above titles), but that list is larger, so buy them while you can."

It's worth noting that Microcosmos and Pocketful of Miracles are not actually listed among the WSL sale titles on the KLSC website.

EDIT: KL Insider has stated that Star Slammer was listed by mistake and is not going OOP at this time. Also, Microcosmos is being added the the WSL sale, as is just the BD version of Pocketful of Miracles; the DVD is not going OOP.

Drucker wrote: Wed Feb 02, 2022 9:32 pm I still haven't watched my copy of Becky Sharp but really only bought it for its place in history.

FrauBlucher wrote: Fri Feb 04, 2022 8:27 pm I can't recall, was The Misfits ever discussed by the KLInsider or the notorious Mr. Lime?

Coming Soon on Blu-ray!
Brand New 2K Master!

Murder at the Vanities (1934) Starring Carl Brisson, Victor McLaglen, Jack Oakie, Kitty Carlisle, Gail Patrick & Duke Ellington – Shot by Leo Tover (The Day the Earth Stood Still) – Directed by Mitchell Leisen (Easy Living, Midnight).

Finch wrote: Sun Feb 06, 2022 4:37 pm Putting aside the toxic personalities of Bryan Singer and Kevin Spacey, I think the film hasn't aged well. Even then it struck me as a bit smug and self-satisfied. My wallet is grateful they picked this.

The Night of the Hunter
Sweet Smell of Success
Kiss Me Deadly
12 Angry Men

The Magnificent Seven
The Manchurian Candidate
The Graduate
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Midnight Cowboy

Red Screamer wrote: Sun Feb 06, 2022 8:29 am Leisen can be great but this film struck me as more of a curiosity, with pretty creaky direction and not much in the way of a personal touch. The murder mystery is formulaic while the thing everyone remembers is the campy musical numbers—especially “Sweet Marijuana”—though even they are filmed in a flat revue style.

Finch wrote: Sun Feb 06, 2022 9:51 pmThree of the above will receive Kino UHDs. The top three would have been fantastic, or any two of the three and The Manchurian Candidate as the Sixties title, but it's probably going to be Magnificent Seven or The Graduate (sigh).