Natalie Wood Collection

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Lino · #1 Post by **Lino** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:01 am

From the Digital Bits Rumour page:

Barrie has learned that Warner Home Video has a couple interesting sets coming this summer. The first is a Home Front Collection due in July, and the second is a Natalie Wood Collection for August. (...) The Natalie Wood Collection would include six films: Inside Daisy Clover (1965), Gypsy (1962), Bombers B-52 (1957), Splendor in the Grass (1961), Sex and the Single Girl (1964), and Cash McCall (1959).

#2 Post by **domino harvey** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:06 am

Oh man I've been waiting for Inside Daisy Clover for forever! Excellent news!

justeleblanc · #3 Post by **justeleblanc** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:12 am

domino harvey wrote:Oh man I've been waiting for Inside Daisy Clover for forever! Excellent news!

Ditto. I could also use another dose of Ethel in Gypsy.

HelenLawson · #4 Post by **HelenLawson** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:00 pm

Finally! I'm thrilled about Inside Daisy Clover, Cash McCall and Sex and the Single Girl. Warner's must not own the rights to Love With a Proper Stranger as surely that would've been included. Also would've preferred the glorified fashion show that is Penelope and All The Fine Young Cannibals to Bombers or a reissue of Gypsy, but this collection will tide me over for the time being.

Incidentally, Natalie would've been 70 this year. Interesting to contemplate how her career would've progressed. I imagine a decade toiling in TV miniseries or night time soaps. The 80s was the time of the deglamorized "serious" working actress and any role worth playing went to either Streep, Lange, or Spacek. Although something tells me Natalie would've been brilliant in the Fonda vehicle The Morning After.

Person · #5 Post by **Person** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:22 pm

domino harvey wrote:Oh man I've been waiting for Inside Daisy Clover for forever! Excellent news!

Ditto. There are 2.35:1 clips on You Tube - holy shit, what a strikingly designed and photographed film.

OliverB · #6 Post by **OliverB** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:49 pm

I'm glad I never picked up the original release of Splendor in the Grass, I knew it would be revisited eventually.

HelenLawson · #7 Post by **HelenLawson** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:07 pm

Where the hell is this? We're well into "this summer" and no release date from Warners.

#8 Post by **domino harvey** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:18 pm

Warners decided we'd like some more shit about WWII instead

tavernier · #9 Post by **tavernier** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:29 pm

Finally announced for February 3.

Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Special Features:
Beep Prepared (1961 WB cartoon)
Theatrical trailer

Gypsy (1962)
Special Features:
The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (1961 WB cartoon)
Together Wherever We Go (deleted musical)
You’ll Never Get Away From Me (deleted musical)
Theatrical trailer

Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
Special Features:
Nelly's Folly (1961WB cartoon)
Theatrical trailer

Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
Special Features:
Theatrical trailer

Bombers B-52 (1957)
Special Features:
Boyhood Dayz (1957 WB cartoon)
Theatrical trailer

Cash McCall (1960)
Special Features:
Theatrical trailer
High Note (1961 WB cartoon)

Brainstorm (1983)
Special Features:
Theatrical trailer

#10 Post by **Matt** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 2:25 pm

Wow, they went all out with the extras. No wonder this took so long.

Seriously, not even an interview with Robert Wagner?

#11 Post by **domino harvey** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 3:02 pm

More like "Not even an interview with Christopher Walken?"

HelenLawson · #12 Post by **HelenLawson** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 8:04 pm

Brainstorm?!

Please, there has to be more to this set than just some cartoons? The only Warners' sets I have are the two Joan Crawford ones and the Tennessee Williams collection, but each was brimming with extras. Oy.

#13 Post by **domino harvey** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 8:08 pm

Holy smokes, I didn't even notice Brainstorm was included. The "Here's All We Have Left" Collection

#14 Post by **Jeff** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 12:41 am

Splendor was supposed to be a two-disc special edition. Is Warner's new motto "Fuck it, man. Whatever."?

HypnoHelioStaticStasis · Tue Oct 14, 2008 1:02 am

Seriously, was The Jazz Singer meant to be their last great release? The film that made them what they were becomes for all intents and purposes a way of putting an end to their 'greatness?'

And I'm very excited to finally be able to check out Inside Daisy Clover, barebones or not. Kael's assessment of it, negative as it was, makes me anticipate it all the more.

Lino · #16 Post by **Lino** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 9:30 pm

Those cannot really be the final specs for the Natalie Wood set. Yes, I am in complete denial. Is Warner becoming too big and powerful for its own sake that it's starting to implode already?

#17 Post by **domino harvey** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:08 pm

One cover:

souvenir · #18 Post by **souvenir** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:15 pm

There's this too, which almost makes up for the lack of extras.

HelenLawson · #19 Post by **HelenLawson** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:48 pm

What an odd release. DVD Empire lists 6 six films but only 5 discs...and no mention of Brainstorm.

Lovely cover though.

fiddlesticks · #20 Post by **fiddlesticks** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:14 pm

souvenir wrote:There's this too, which almost makes up for the lack of extras.

I'd guess from that cover that there's only two items in the Natalie Wood Collection. But they're spectacular items.

#21 Post by **domino harvey** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:53 pm

I appreciate you not going for the wood=erection joke

Ashirg · #22 Post by **Ashirg** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:11 am

Looks like Brainstorm is not going to be part of the set and Bombers B-52 and Cash McCall going to be on one disc.

eight_and_a_half · Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:09 am

The lack of extras is surprising given Warner Bros previous track record on these boxed sets. I for one would have thought the repackaged Splendor in the Grass DVD would have at least included some sort of featurette, even if Warren Beatty's participation was unlikely.

Dylan · #24 Post by **Dylan** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 2:02 pm

souvenir wrote:There's this too, which almost makes up for the lack of extras.

Oh, my God! You said it. And this looks like a great set of films all around.

It's Paramount, but I hope Love With the Proper Stranger gets a release, eventually.

#25 Post by **domino harvey** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 4:31 pm

More like Splendor in the Gross
Ah well, my set'll be here tomorrow and at least Daisy Clover looks good

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