The Paul Newman Collection

[Jeff]

From OnVideo:

The Paul Newman Collection Seven-disc set with new-to-DVD "Harper," "The Drowning Pool," "The Left Handed Gun," "Mackintosh Man," "Pocket Money," "Somebody Up There Likes Me" and "The Young Philadelphians"; $59.92. "Harper" will be available separately for $19.97. (Warner).

* Harper(1966)
Commentary by screenwriter William Goldman, introduction by TCM host Robert Osborne.

* Drowning Pool (1975)
Vintage featurette "Harper Days Are Here Again."

* The Left Handed Gun (1958)
Commentary by Penn.

* The Mackintosh Man (1973)
Vintage featurette "John Huston: The Man, the Myth, the Moviemaker."

* Pocket Money (1972)

* Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Commentary by Newman, Robert Loggia, Wise, Martin Scorsese and film historian Richard Schickel.

* The Young Philadelphians (1959)
Commentary by Sherman and film historian Drew Casper.

Scheduled for release on November 14.

[htdm]

The Left Handed Gun (1958)
Commentary by Penn.

Really looking forward to finally seeing this. Is this the first time it's been available in any home video format?

[Gigi M.]

Artwork

[htdm]

nice artwork - those look like keep cases don't, they?

[bjeggert82]

I think, like the Jimmy Stewart Signature Collection released this last Tuesday, when there's one or two films available outside of the boxed set, Warners is going to maintain regular keep cases as a consistency issue.

At least, I hope this is the case... They also did that with the Ronald Regan set, I think.

I'm really hoping that the Humprey Bogart Collection w/ Passage to Marseille and The Maltese Falcon S.E. all have standard armary keep cases. I think thinpak is stupid.

[Floyd]

Does that say Robert Loggia commentary? Count me in on this one.

[Lino]

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[Forrest Taft]

Strange thing, here in Norway all the films except POCKET MONEY have been released individually. They are rather expensive though, about 20 USD a piece. I guess this means these films will get individual releases in other parts of the world as well. Be patient.

[atcolomb]

I would like to see a dvd release of RACHEL, RACHEL (1968) in which he only directs the film, i saw it years ago on vhs video but would be nice to see it on dvd with his commentary!

[Highway 61]

I'm on Ross Macdonald kick and decided to give Harper a try. Aside from Conrad Hall's cinematography (how did he come to shoot so many Newman films anyway?) the movie is nothing special. What caught my interest, however, was how the off-beat humor of the movie undermines the tone of Macdonald's novel, yet when Altman employed a similar sense of humor in The Long Goodbye, it reinforced Chandler's themes. Of course, Harper is a studio picture, and The Long Goodbye is an Altman picture, so it's no mystery why the latter is more powerful. Still, an interesting comparison.