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Burn Witch Burn (AKA Night of the Eagle) is the latest MGM MOD to go Blu; release is set for July.

September brings the Blu-ray release of The Honey Pot - another MGM MOD title rescue here. Also, dates for a few of the August releases have been tentatively set:

August 4 - Foreign Intrigue, Storm Fear, He Ran All the Way, & Big House, U.S.A.
August 11 - War Gods of the Deep, The Monster That Challenged the World, Still of the Night, & The January Man
August 18 - The Couch Trip, Diggstown, Navajo Joe, A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die, & Face to Face

Please note that August 25th doesn't have titles set right now, as three of the four have yet to be revealed.

AfterTheRain wrote:Burn Witch Burn (AKA Night of the Eagle) is the latest MGM MOD to go Blu; release is set for July.

I believe this one is technically a Scorpion Releasing title.

Pete Walker's House of Long Shadows is coming to Blu-ray in September in a new transfer; also, Phil Karlson's Hornets Nest with Rock Hudson also gets the Blu treatment in September.

With 3 titles announced for September one after another - The Honey Pot (1967), Hornets' Nest (1970) and House of the Long Shadows (1983), it seems Kino Lorber is going in alphabetical order from MOD releases... I hope they get to more noir titles - The Big Night, The Captive City, Chicago Confidential, The Killer Is Loose (must for a new transfer!!!), 99 River Street... as well as Park Row!!!)...

Park Row would be amazing, though since MOC only released it on DVD, unlikely?

Ashirg wrote:I hope they get to more noir titles - The Big Night, The Captive City, Chicago Confidential, The Killer Is Loose (must for a new transfer!!!), 99 River Street... as well as Park Row!!!)...

Also hope they get to the pressed noir releases -- Odds Against Tomorrow, The Big Knife.... It'd be great if they released Woman in the Window, Kansas City Confidential and He Walked By Night, but since they're PD, less likely.

Ken Loach's Hidden Agenda set for Blu and DVD in September.

Noiradelic wrote:It'd be great if they released Woman in the Window, Kansas City Confidential and He Walked By Night, but since they're PD, less likely.

Woman in the Window isn't PD, I assume you're thinking of it's doppelganger, Scarlet Street (already out via Kino on Blu with a Kalat commentary to boot)

And He Walked By Night has a nice MGM DVD. Mentioned it in a blog post just Tuesday in a post about Mann/Alton.

I asked Arrow on Twitter, with their track record of Lancaster and Frankenheimer films, was there any chance they'd release Young Savages. They said the rights are with Studio Canal, so it sounds like the Kino is the one to pick up with that film, and no reason to hold out, hoping for a European release.

John Dahl's Unforgettable is coming in September

domino harvey wrote:Woman in the Window isn't PD, I assume you're thinking of it's doppelganger, Scarlet Street (already out via Kino on Blu with a Kalat commentary to boot)

I didn't know, but when I looked it up on Amazon and saw it paired with The Stranger on this off-label twofer, I assumed it was.

I have the He Walked By Night DVD, but felt it deserves the upgrade more than many of the Kino Studio Classics films.

TGG Direct = MGM

The Boys in the Band on Blu in June

domino harvey wrote:TGG Direct = MGM

Not sure how TGG got into this, but they are an outside title that has licensed titles from MGM for budget DVD release. They have no direct connection to MGM.

Monte Walsh gets the Blu treatment in July.

For a second I thought Monte Blue was in a Raoul Walsh film.

You could always try reading the thread discussion. The aforementioned twofer was released by TGG, which as you said, licenses and releases from MGM. It is not a PD release and the film included are not PD films

AfterTheRain wrote:Monte Walsh gets the Blu treatment in July.

So between Boys in the Band and this, Kino is in the Paramount business now?

More like CBS business.

But The Stranger is (right?), which fed my confusion. Thanks for clearing it up, dom.

Yes, but MGM was believed to have had the best quality print when they put out their DVD (though that may no longer be the case thanks to Kino's Blu-ray not being derived from MGM's source)

Prime Cut confirmed for Blu-ray release in July.

The Reivers coming in August