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myrnaloyisdope wrote: I'm glad it's seeing the light of day, but am still miffed at the DVD-R (assuming that's how this all goes).

That's basically how I feel about the DVD-R system; glad that some of these movies are finally available, but miffed and PO'd about how it's being approached.

Has anyone ordered Remember the Night? A poster on the IMDb provided this link where someone at a message forum claims that the TCM DVD is an actual DVD and not a DVD-R! Can anyone else verify this? If this is true, then it's fantastic news!

HTF confirms the discs are pressed on Remember the Night!

Here's DVD Savant review.

I'm keen, David, but a little queasy about the "Snowflake" material. How bad is it? This kind of thing can destroy a film for me - even Sullivan's Travels suffers from it. A blind spot of Sturges's ?

What is the point of two studios teaming up for something where you need less people to produce the items than actual dvds?

Deena Durbin Collection (Mad About Music / That Certain Age / Three Smart Girls Grow Up / Because of Him / For the Love of Mary) on April 27

domino harvey wrote:Deena Durbin

Forgotten '70s porn star named for her uncanny resemblance to '40s Universal starlet Deanna Durbin?

Perkins Cobb wrote:

domino harvey wrote:Deena Durbin

Forgotten '70s porn star named for her uncanny resemblance to '40s Universal starlet Deanna Durbin?

Lol that's what I thought

Apparently ClassicFlix.com where I C+Ped that from should be ClassicFlixxx.com

Well, if the Warner Archive doesn't keep them in business, that would.

HELL YEAH

fantastic! This set is mine then, despite already owning one of the titles as RC2.

TCM is rescuing Hathaway's Sundown with Gene Tierney and George Sanders from public domain hell on August 31

Don't hold your breath since their release of The House Across the Bay from the same studio (Westchester Films) is just awful and on DVD-R. Criterion licensed Stagecoach from them, so it depends on how much effort they put into it...

Jeff wrote:Cary Grant set delayed in order to do pressed discs. The individual titles will be on DVD-R.

You'd never guess from TCM's own web site that this collection is not available now...

domino harvey wrote:TCM is rescuing Hathaway's Sundown with Gene Tierney and George Sanders from public domain hell on August 31

What splendid news - thanks! Do you, or anybody else, know if this release will be a pressed DVD or a DVD-R? I strongly disapprove that TCM only let these facts leak through in a rather haphazard way. You literally have to check Internet forums everyday lest this info escape you.

Ashirg wrote:Don't hold your breath since their release of The House Across the Bay from the same studio (Westchester Films) is just awful and on DVD-R. Criterion licensed Stagecoach from them, so it depends on how much effort they put into it...

I think one of my posts got deleted somehow. Anyway, the upshot was that Lou Lumenick et. al. reported a deal between TCM and Castle Hill / Westchester Films to release "at least a dozen" films, of which this was apparently the first. Not sure who Westchester Films is or why this video master was so crummy. Criterion and VCI have released decent looking stuff from Castle Hill, so I guess TCM is just taking whatever element is on the shelf. Here's hoping History Is Made at Night did, in fact, go to Criterion.

Lawrence Olivier wrote:

domino harvey wrote:TCM is rescuing Hathaway's Sundown with Gene Tierney and George Sanders from public domain hell on August 31

What splendid news - thanks! Do you, or anybody else, know if this release will be a pressed DVD or a DVD-R? I strongly disapprove that TCM only let these facts leak through in a rather haphazard way. You literally have to check Internet forums everyday lest this info escape you.

Unlike all of the TCM/Universal Discs, this is part of a Westchester Films release schedule, and the first, House Across the Bay, was DVD-R. This is almost certainly going to be DVD-R as well. I hope the print TCM gets from Westchester is better than the last one.

I remember renting the old VCI disc of Sundown, and if it's any consolation, the movie is pretty bad. The African native stuff is especially cringeworthy, as I recall.

Perkins Cobb wrote:

Ashirg wrote:Don't hold your breath since their release of The House Across the Bay from the same studio (Westchester Films) is just awful and on DVD-R. Criterion licensed Stagecoach from them, so it depends on how much effort they put into it...

I think one of my posts got deleted somehow. Anyway, the upshot was that Lou Lumenick et. al. reported a deal between TCM and Castle Hill / Westchester Films to release "at least a dozen" films, of which this was apparently the first. Not sure who Westchester Films is or why this video master was so crummy. Criterion and VCI have released decent looking stuff from Castle Hill, so I guess TCM is just taking whatever element is on the shelf. Here's hoping History Is Made at Night did, in fact, go to Criterion.

Westchester Films bought Castle Hill Productions last year. I hope that we don't see titles like You Only Live Once, Blockade or any of the Kazan films as part of this deal. It seems fairly safe to assume Criterion has all the Caidin titles that were with Warners. (inc. History is Made at Night)

Has this upcoming Douglas Sirk TCM Collection been mentioned here before?

If so, would a mod kindly delete this post.

No, and holy smokes, what a great find! This'll save some of our members from importing that R4 Sirk box, maybe