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Also coming in Sept:

Dizzy Dishes (1930)
Bimbo's Initiation (1931)
Boo-Oop-A-Doop (1932)
Betty Boop Limited (1932)
Betty Boop's Bizzy Bee (1932)
Betty Boop's Ups and Downs (1932)
Betty Boop's Museum (1932)
Betty Boop's Big Boss (1933)
Morning, Noon and Night (1933)
Betty Boop's Little Pal(1934)
Betty Boop's Prize Show(1934)
Keep in Style (1934)

That Tam Lin cover is pretty wild. Why couldn't they also have gone the poster route with Plunder Road? It looks like they took the Wayne Morris image from it.

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jonah.77 wrote:When are they going to get to Borzage's Moonrise?

Unfortunately, it's no longer part of the Republic library so - unless Olive go and license it separately - they're not going to. I've Always Loved You, That's My Man and Magnificent Doll should still be on the cards though.

Calvin wrote:

jonah.77 wrote:When are they going to get to Borzage's Moonrise?

Unfortunately, it's no longer part of the Republic library so - unless Olive go and license it separately - they're not going to. I've Always Loved You, That's My Man and Magnificent Doll should still be on the cards though.

I hope these do get released at some point. The myth of Borzage's late career slump - of which Moonrise is commonly seen as the outlier - is in real need of at least a partial overhaul; these are simply gorgeous films. Personally, the idea of I've Always Loved You in high-def is actually more appealing to me than Moonrise, which I like but which has never quite struck me as the major masterpiece most other Borzagians have claimed it as.

Has anyone had playback issues with Letter from an Unknown Woman? My copy arrived the other day with a very small spot of what appeared to be glue on the playing surface. I tried wiping it, but it wouldn't come off. At a certain place in the movie (just after Fontaine leaves her son on the train), the picture becomes pixelated and skips a little.

Normally, I wouldn't think much of this and just request a replacement, but I noticed on DVD Savant's review he mentions having a similar problem with his disc, which actually stopped playing with 10 minutes left. Is this something that is affecting all or at least several discs?

I didn't notice any problems with it during my viewing a couple of weeks ago. Just took a peek at the back of the disc and it's clean.

Same here. Bought mine at the recent ImportCD sale and watched it about a month ago with no problems (or gunk).

Glad to hear it. I'll just send mine back for a replacement.

Looks like William Castle's The Americano and the John Wayne vehicle The Fighting Kentuckian are the latest additions to the September slate.

Shack Out on 101 on DVD and blu on September 24

Huzzah! It's tomato-red, as it should be.

SHACK OUT ON 101!!!! Hallefuckingluyah!!!! This is probably my all time favorite WTF "so bad it's good" cult favorite and I still have my off-air VHS copy (and subsequent DVD-R) from Superstation 17 circa 1982 chock full of all those cheasey products that Turner Broadcasting chased the ad dollar with back in the day.

This film is so fucking weird I don't know where to begin. Is it the three interior sets and the same stretch of beach (Ed Wood had a bigger constuction and location budget!) that comprises the entire geography? The bizarre (although fully professional) lighting which, for example, uses a large colander as a scrim in the kitchen set thus throwing large bright spots over the faces of the cast. Or is it the throughly deranged script, which plays like the result of some paranoid Howard Hughes anti-red "wee small hours of the morning" screenstory jam session on acid.

Unlike most films of this type the cast is top notch: Frank Lovejoy, Terry Moore, Keenan Wynn, Lee Marvin and Whit Bissell. They all have their great moments (even the usually stolid Lovejoy, obviously cast true to type, seems to have fun here) but it's really an ensemble piece and the interactions are priceless. Strangest vibe: the wardrobe for Marvin which seems to pre-channel Bob Denver as Gilligan right down to goofy gob hat! Favorite scene: the "exercise scene" with Marvin/Wynn. Runner-up: Whit Bissel's "psychological breakdown" brought on by Wynn's description of their upcoming deep-sea fishing vacation!!!!!

It's 1955 vintage so I hate to bring up (like hell!) the OAR but if I don't see at least a touch of those fucking colanders at frames top in the kitchen I'm gonna be high pissed!

If Borzage's Moonrise is no longer with Republic/Paramount, then who does own the rights?

Calvin wrote:

jonah.77 wrote:When are they going to get to Borzage's Moonrise?

Unfortunately, it's no longer part of the Republic library so - unless Olive go and license it separately - they're not going to. I've Always Loved You, That's My Man and Magnificent Doll should still be on the cards though.

But it's on Amazon Instant Video and Paramount is listed as the studio/distributor, just like all the other Republic titles.

Just noticed there are Paramount logos on the spines of both Secret Beyond the Door and Cloak and Dagger. What are the chances that Olive might bring us the last remaining Fritz Lang directed film not to be released in Region 1/A, Paramount's You and Me?

Good - so long as there is a transfer they didn't reject.

Olive October releases, VIA HTF

CRY DANGER (Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Restoration funding provided by the Film Noir Foundation.)
BANG! BANG! YOU'RE DEAD!
YOUNG AT HEART
THE BAMBOO SAUCER
WITCHBOARD 2: THE DEVIL'S DOORWAY

HitchcockLang wrote:Just noticed there are Paramount logos on the spines of both Secret Beyond the Door and Cloak and Dagger. What are the chances that Olive might bring us the last remaining Fritz Lang directed film not to be released in Region 1/A, Paramount's You and Me?

None, I think. You and Me is from the era of Paramount-produced films owned by Universal, whose logo appears on the German DVD. (Those other two Langs came to Paramount through the Republic library.)

Jonathan S wrote:

HitchcockLang wrote:Just noticed there are Paramount logos on the spines of both Secret Beyond the Door and Cloak and Dagger. What are the chances that Olive might bring us the last remaining Fritz Lang directed film not to be released in Region 1/A, Paramount's You and Me?

None, I think. You and Me is from the era of Paramount-produced films owned by Universal, whose logo appears on the German DVD. (Those other two Langs came to Paramount through the Republic library.)

Oh well. Thanks for the info. Does Universal have an MOD line? If so, that's probably the most likely candidate for release.

HitchcockLang wrote: Does Universal have an MOD line? If so, that's probably the most likely candidate for release.

Yes, there's a Universal Vault series although many of the later releases seem to be just single-disc reissues of films previously available within bargain pressed sets. (Conversely, Universal has also reissued some of their single MOD editions within 10-movie replicated sets!)

Which Olive titles would people recommend blind buying?

Off the top of my head I'd highly recommend the following:

The Quiet Man
The Sun Shines Bright
Johnny Guitar
High Noon
Force of Evil
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Champion
Pursued
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Bullfighter and the Lady

Most of these are part of the canon so they're pretty safe blind buys.

I thought Body Snatchers and Johnny Guitar had problems? Forgot what, but that's why I held off on them.