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Orlac wrote:I do wonder if sales of these things would be better if the box called the film by its English title. I mean Schloss Vogelod or The Haunted Castle...

Or if the price dropped by a few pounds.

Oh I think the common price is fine, and I'm not moaning the films are billed under their German titles, I just wonder if it would aid consumers if they were sold under their English titles.

Perpetuating clumsy old titles that aren't literal translations of the original German title (but a whim of an earlier English/American distributor) is not particularly clever, which is why we didn't do it.

peerpee wrote:Perpetuating clumsy old titles that aren't literal translations of the original German title (but a whim of an earlier English/American distributor) is not particularly clever, which is why we didn't do it.

Ah I see. Makes sense!