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An upcoming Fox pre-code festival hits Film Forum in December with some new prints. Here's a link to the what's playing and particularly, what films have new prints.

Perhaps a box set is on the way similar to what Warner is doing?

It pains me greatly to look at that list and realize that, at best, we'll get 5 of the films in a box set. As long as one of them is Born to be Bad, though, I'm okay.

Born to Be Bad is out in R1 from Fox and available at Amazon.com

polecat wrote:Born to Be Bad is out in R1 from Fox and available at Amazon.com

Well I'll be damned. How on Earth did I miss that?

Oddly, but not surprisingly, the cover artwork for Born to Be Bad lists Cary Grant and Cary Grant only above the film title, when the film is definitely Loretta Young's show all the way.

And speaking of Loretta Young, what are the chances of a Loretta Young boxed set from Fox? The long list of Young's films for Fox (most of which have sadly never been released in any home video format) would provide enough material for several volumes.

And finally, given Fox's boxed set treatment of Clark Gable, Jayne Mansfield, Betty Grable et al, what are the chances of seeing a Bette Davis Collection of a repackaged All About Eve and Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte, along with the long-awaited The Virgin Queen?

Devin_M wrote:Oddly, but not surprisingly, the cover artwork for Born to Be Bad lists Cary Grant and Cary Grant only above the film title, when the film is definitely Loretta Young's show all the way.

And speaking of Loretta Young, what are the chances of a Loretta Young boxed set from Fox? The long list of Young's films for Fox (most of which have sadly never been released in any home video format) would provide enough material for several volumes.

And finally, given Fox's boxed set treatment of Clark Gable, Jayne Mansfield, Betty Grable et al, what are the chances of seeing a Bette Davis Collection of a repackaged All About Eve and Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte, along with the long-awaited The Virgin Queen?

How bout some new Davis titles such as The Virgin Queen, The Nanny, and Phonecall To A Strangerr?? That would be better.

Has there been any recent news on this Fox pre-code set. I also read that The Shocking Miss Pilgrim is in production.

Some of the titles I hope they're releasing this year:

-Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
-The Revolt of Mamie Stover
-The Farmer's Daughter (pure hokum, I know)
-Come to the Stable
-A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
-A Hatful of Rain
-The Virgin Queen
-The Nanny
-Viva Zapata
-Daisy Kenyon
-Cluny Brown
-My Gal Sal
-Star Dust
-Ramona
-Margie

Nothing official yet, but Creepy Classics lists The Lodger (1944) and Hangover Square amongst a bunch of Fox and Sony horror titles due out this Halloween.

Any word on any precode set that might or might not be coming? The below post was quite a long time ago now.

alandau wrote:Trusted source tells me that Fox is working on a precode boxset. The speculation is that it will include THE STORY OF TEMPLE DRAKE, POWER AND THE GLORY, QUICK MILLIONS, CALL HER SAVGE and HOOPLA.

Not sure how I missed this, but someone at the Home Theater Forum noticed that if you click on the For Christmas 2008 link at the Fox Classics website, you get this:



Borzage's Seventh Heaven perhaps?

mogwai wrote:Borzage's Seventh Heaven perhaps?

Certainly. But I wonder if this means we're getting the Borzage box.

This article on Fox classics on DVD mentions Cavalcade and Manhunt.

And what about Five Fingers? The region 2 release is quite poor.

Looking over the Film Forum synopsis for Bringing Up Baby, I was quite surprised to see Criterion Pictures, a Fox affiliate, credited as the distributor. I had thought that Warner held Baby as tightly as the likes of Casablanca and The Searchers; still, it appears to have flown the coup if this is to be believed. What isn't clear, in the first instance, is whether the home video rights have been passed from Warner to Fox. If so, that in turn begs the question as to whether Fox will put out their own release, or pass the task on to another Criterion again (imagine having both Bringing Up Baby and Red River on BR in the foreseeable future!).

Any further information on this matter would be most appreciated.

Criterion Pictures handles more than just FOX. They handle films from Warners, Paramount, Lionsgate and numerous other companies too.