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Re: Samuel Goldwyn Library
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2012 11:58 am
by willoneill
I also thought Best Years of our Lives was coming out on blu-ray. In fact, I had pre-ordered it from Amazon.ca. But when I checked this morning, the release date had been changed to November 5th, 2013. So that's not a good sign.
Re: Samuel Goldwyn Library
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2012 9:13 pm
by captveg
Getting a DVD release now does not prevent a BD release later in the year. Calm yourselves.
Re: Samuel Goldwyn Library
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2012 9:35 pm
by Matt
One would generally hope for simultaneous releases, though, or at least an announcement of the forthcoming BD. I have a still-unwatched Olive DVD of Despair that mocks me with this every time I look at it.
Re: Samuel Goldwyn Library
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2012 9:40 pm
by willoneill
captveg wrote:Getting a DVD release now does not prevent a BD release later in the year. Calm yourselves.
Hey, I'm cool as a cucumber. But the blu-ray was set for January 15th, and now it's been bumped 10 months. I'd say something's up.
Re: Samuel Goldwyn Library
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 7:17 am
by Fred Holywell
Jeff wrote:One title that is conspicuously absent from that list is Preminger's Porgy and Bess. It was the last film that Goldwyn produced. Columbia distributed it in 1959, but it's been confirmed that their rights expired long ago. All this time I've assumed it was still part of the Goldwyn library (and was thus under MGM's control), but obviously that was not the case. I know that the Gershwin estate has been able to suppress it due to their ownership of the opera. Did they buy up the distribution rights to the film as well?
A copy of the
Porgy and Bess bootleg video has just been removed from YouTube due to a "copyright claim by Warner Bros. Entertainment".
Hmmm, an interesting development, perhaps.
Re: Samuel Goldwyn Library
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 3:03 pm
by Ashirg
All of the DVD releases announced for January have been available at Costco stores in October for $7.99. I picked up Wuthering Heights.
Re: Samuel Goldwyn Library
Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 3:39 am
by atcolomb
willoneill wrote:I also thought Best Years of our Lives was coming out on blu-ray. In fact, I had pre-ordered it from Amazon.ca. But when I checked this morning, the release date had been changed to November 5th, 2013. So that's not a good sign.
I thought Costco would be selling the blu-ray of Best Years in January so let see what happens but it will have a wide release at sometime in the future.
Re: Samuel Goldwyn Library
Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 10:57 am
by JonasEB
Perhaps the Goldwyn people just wanted a bunch of titles reprinted as soon as possible?
The Warner DVD of Best Years on the shelves right now probably features the same transfer used on the MGM and the 1997 HBO DVDs, so the source may not even be an HD master (ditto the others.) Warner's going to have to do a new one (and this will surely get a big deluxe edition.) Hans Christian Anderson was probably the only thing they had ready in HD.
Re: Samuel Goldwyn Library
Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 6:17 pm
by Gregory
According to the
Beaver comparison, the MGM transfer was different from (and slightly inferior to) the one on the earlier HBO disc. I hope Warner will create something markedly better results.
Re: Samuel Goldwyn Library
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 8:18 am
by JonasEB
The MGM is a different encode but it's from the same master.
Re: Warner Catalog Titles on Blu
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 8:59 am
by rockysds
Re: Warner Catalog Titles on Blu
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 1:14 pm
by domino harvey
Yes yes yes yes there is a god!
Re: Warner Catalog Titles on Blu
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 6:03 pm
by Finch
Re: Warner Catalog Titles on Blu
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 6:04 pm
by domino harvey
Two of the best films of the 40s out on Blu on the same day, what a fantastic Fall treat
Re: Warner Catalog Titles on Blu
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 6:13 pm
by Matt
Both with Gregg Toland cinematography that ought to look stunning in 1080p.
Re: Samuel Goldwyn Library
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 12:24 pm
by rockysds
Regular dvd of
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty on
December 10th, presumably to tie in with the new Ben Stiller version. Was sorta hoping for a blu-ray of this, but I'll take it.
Also: Vidor's
Stella Dallas, same date.
Re: Samuel Goldwyn Library
Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 7:36 am
by rockysds
Good news!
Lou Lumenick wrote:Big surprise on new DVD of King Vidor's STELLA DALLAS '37: Henry King's entire 110-minute 1925 version (without music). The 1925 version is billed as a "vintage featurette'' on the box.
Re: Samuel Goldwyn Library
Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 10:08 am
by Ann Harding
Wow! The 1925
Stella Dallas a "vintage featurette"!
Great news, thanks for passing the information.
Re: Samuel Goldwyn Library
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 2:51 am
by domino harvey
Ball of Fire, Dead End, and the Little Foxes are coming back into print on DVD in July
Re: Samuel Goldwyn Library
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 4:56 am
by felipe
Are these titles big sellers or is Warner contractually obligated to release them on pressed discs? Because I could totally see these titles just being release through the Archive any other day of the week.
Re: Samuel Goldwyn Library
Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2014 6:55 pm
by domino harvey
The Princess and the Pirate and the Westerner coming back into print on DVD only in October
Re: Samuel Goldwyn Library
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 3:44 pm
by rockysds
The Adventure of Marco Polo, Arrowsmith, Enchantment, Raffles 1930 + 1939, They Shall Have Music & The Winning of Barbara Worth MOD through Warner Archive.
Re: Samuel Goldwyn Library
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 5:58 pm
by domino harvey
The Winning of Barbara Worth and the Adventures of Marco Polo were in the Gary Cooper MGM collection (with Vera Cruz et al) and Arrowsmith and Enchantment were also pressed releases on DVD. They Shall Have Music and the Raffles films are I believe new to disc. Boo to Warners, yet again though
Re: Samuel Goldwyn Library
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 6:01 pm
by knives
I'm pretty sure Adventures of Marco Polo wasn't unless you're thinking of a different MGM set with those two other titles.
Re: Samuel Goldwyn Library
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 6:04 pm
by domino harvey
Ha, you're right, it wasn't, but they used a cover design that it matches those films in the box! Well I'll be!
EDIT: Internet search reveals MGM released four Gary Cooper titles simultaneously with this packaging: Ball of Fire, the Wedding Night, Casanova Brown, and the Adventures of Marco Polo, and Marco Polo's the only one I never picked up, probably because I thought it was already in the Gary Cooper box!