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Yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing Kathleen Tynan (wife of the controversial Kenneth Tynan) and Michael Apted's, Agatha - if only for Storaro's warm, hazy lighting, but Johnny Mandel wrote the score, so that's another reason to check it out.

There were four production companies:

Casablanca Filmworks
First Artists
Sweetwall
Warner Bros. Pictures

There might be problems with the rights, which may have to be renegotiated and perhaps the Agatha Christie Estate also has a say in it. Warner's August 1998 Laserdisc (CLV only) had a good 1.85:1 transfer from what I can gather and it's a shame that it just missed out on being a DVD release.

I've skimmed over Gordon's original posts in this thread, and I've removed the titles that have already been released or officially announced (with date, price, specs). I did it pretty quickly, and I'm sure I've missed as many titles as I caught. If a few other people wouldn't mind scanning the lists as well, let me know which titles I forgot.

Gordon, if you don't like my changes, I've saved a version of your original posts (with bolding and colors), and I'll be happy to restore them.

Here are the titles I removed. Let me know if I deleted anything I shouldn't have.

Warner
Across the Pacific (1942)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Baby Face (1933)
Bullets or Ballots (1936)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
City for Conquest (1940)
Dames (1934)
Damn Yankees! (1958)
Each Dawn I Die (1939)
Firecreek (1967)
Footlight Parade (1933)
The Frisco Kid (1979)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
Harper (1966)
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968)
Johnny Belinda (1948)
Kings Row (1942)
Looker (1981)
The Nun's Story (1959)
Passage to Marseille (1944)
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)
Slight Case of Murder (1938)
Summer of '42 (1971)
There Was a Crooked Man (1970)
Up Periscope (1959)
The Yakuza (1975)
The Young Philadelphians (1959)


MGM (pre-1986)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
Boom Town (1940)
Border Incident (1949)
Boys Town (1938)
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Captains Courageous (1937)
The Champ (1931)
A Christmas Carol (1938)
The Clock (1945)
David Copperfield (1935)
The Devil-Doll (1936)
Grand Prix (1966)
Hallelujah (1929)
It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
Lady in the Lake (1947)
The Loved One (1965)
Madame Bovary (1949)
Madame Curie (1943)
Marie Antoinette (1938)
Mogambo (1953)
Murder Ahoy (1964)
Murder She Said (1961)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
The Naked Spur (1953)
Possessed (1931)
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
Red-Headed Woman (1932)
The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
The Stratton Story (1949)
Summer Stock (1950)
A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
Tarzan Escapes (1936)
Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)
Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941)
The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)
Treasure Island (1934)
Waterloo Bridge (1940)

RKO/First National
Carefree (1938)
Flying Down to Rio (1933)
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
His Kind of Woman
The Informer (1935)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
The Lost Patrol (1934)
Mary of Scotland (1936)
The Racket (1951)
Roberta (1935)
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)

Good man, Jeff! Warner have released and announced so many titles in the last six months that I gave up removing titles - cheers!

You meant Waterloo Bridge (1931) because the 1940 version one hasn't been announced or released. Also, the 1931 version of Possessed with Crawford & Gable hasn't been released or announced.

I actually work for a post-production media company in the Philippines. (I'm Filipino, born and raised here). And I work in the subtitling department and our company does a lot of the subtitle work of Warner Bros. many of them classic Warner Bros.

We worked on the Rooney/Garland musicals (Babes in Arms, etc.) as well as the Lucille Ball collection.

QUESTION ABOUT THE NEW KUBRICK SET: Do you think I should double-dip? I already have the original set.

Act of Violence, Side Street and They Live by Night are in the latest Warner Film-Noir Collection Vol. 4. :

The list can no longer be edited, as the author, Gordon has converted to Scientology and is currently getting his Thetans cleared.

I wish someone (who is not a Scientologist ) could edit the list. I'm actually curious on what is left in their catalog not yet on DVD.

Cinephrenic wrote:I wish someone ... could edit the list. I'm actually curious on what is left in their catalog not yet on DVD.

My update:

Warner-produced and miscellaneous acquisitions

Adam's Woman (1970)
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)
All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
Along the Great Divide (1951)
America, America (1963)
Anthony Adverse (1936)

Background to Danger (1943)
Between Two Worlds (1944)
Black Legion (1937)
Blonde Crazy (1931)
Bordertown (1935)
The Bounty Hunter (1954)
The Breaking Point (1950)
Brainstorm (1965)
The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)
Brother Orchid (1940)
Bye Bye Braverman (1968)

The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
Cal (1984)
Carson City (1952)
Ceiling Zero (1936)
Colorado Territory (1949)
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
Carson City (1945)
Conflict (1945)
The Corn Is Green (1945)
Crime School (1938)

The D.I. (1957)
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969)
Dangerous (1935)
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)
The Dark Horse (1932)
Darker Than Amber (1970)
Dear Heart (1964)
Deception (1946)
The Devils (1971)
Disraeli (1929)
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)

Edge of Darkness (1943)
Ex-Lady (1933)
Executive Action (1973)

Flamingo Road (1949)
Fog Over Frisco (1934)
Four Daughters (1938)
Freebie and the Bean (1974)
Front Page Woman (1935)

George Washington Slept Here (1942)
Gigot (1962)
The Girl from 10th Avenue (1935)
God Is My Co-Pilot (1945)
The Golden Arrow (1936)
The Great Lie (1941)
The Green Pastures (1936)

The Hanging Tree (1959)
The Hard Way (1943)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
Hollywood Canteen (1944)
The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
Hotel (1967)

In This Our Life (1942)
Invisible Stripes (1939)
It's Love I'm After (1937)

Jewel Robbery (1932)
Jimmy the Gent (1934)
Juarez (1939)
June Bride (1948)

Kid Galahad (1937)

Ladies They Talk About (1933)
Lady Killer (1933)
Larceny, Inc. (1942)
Lisztomania (1975)

The Male Animal (1942)
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
The Man Who Played God (1932)
Manpower (1941)
Marked Woman (1937)
The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
Me, Natalie (1969)
Merrill's Marauders (1962)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)
My Dream Is Yours (1949)

Night Nurse (1931)
No Time for Sergeants (1958)
Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
Nora Prentiss (1947)

O Lucky Man! (1973)
On Moonlight Bay (1951)
One Foot in Heaven (1941)
Out of the Fog (1941)
The Pack (1977)
Parachute Jumper (1933)
Picture Snatcher (1933)
Poor Cow (1967)

Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)
Riding Shotgun (1954)
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960)
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970)
The Ritz (1976)

Sammy Going South (1963)
The Sea Wolf (1941)
The Sea Gull (1968, Sidney Lumet)
Shining Victory (1941)
The Shuttered Room (1967)
Siesta (1987)
The Sisters (1938)
Skin Game (1971)
Smart Money (1931)
So Big! (1932)
Springfield Rifle (1952)
The Stalking Moon (1968)
A Stolen Life (1946)
The Story of Louis Pasteur (1935)
The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
Sunrise at Campobello (1960)

Taxi! (1932)
Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)
The Terminal Man (1974)
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
They Won't Forget (1937)
Three on a Match (1932)
Three Strangers (1946)
Torrid Zone (1940)
Tovarich (1937)
Thunder Over the Plains (1953)
Twisted Nerve (1968)

The Unsuspected (1947)

The Verdict (1946)
Virginia City (1940)

The Walking Dead (1936)
Westbound (1959, Budd Boetticher)
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993)

Young at Heart (1954)

RKO

5th Ave Girl (1939)
Anne of Green Gables (1934)
Annie Oakley (1935)
Armored Car Robbery (1950)
Bachelor Mother (1939)
Berlin Express (1948)
A Bill of Divorcement (1932)
Blood on the Moon (1948)
The Boy with Green Hair (1948)
Break of Hearts (1935)
Christopher Strong (1933)
Cornered (1945) ...cancelled by Warner in favor of The Big Steal
Crack-Up (1946)
Damsel in Distress (1937)
Deadline at Dawn (1946)
Desperate (1947)
The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)
The Fallen Sparrow (1943)
Five Came Back (1939)
Follow Me Quietly (1949)
Forever and a Day (1943)
Holiday Affair (1949)
In Name Only (1939)
Journey Into Fear (1943)
The Little Minister (1934)
Little Women (1933)
The Locket (1946)
The Lusty Men (1952)
The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Morning Glory (1933)
Mr. Lucky (1943)
Penguin Pool Murder (1932)
Primrose Path (1940)
Quality Street (1937)
Rachel and the Stranger (1948)
Run of the Arrow (1957)
Sinbad the Sailor (1947)
Spitfire (1934)
Split Second (1953)
Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
They Won't Believe Me (1947)
This Land Is Mine (1943)
Till the End of Time (1946)
Toast of New York, The (1937)
Tom Dick and Harry (1941)
Vivacious Lady (1938)
What Price Hollywood? (1932)
The Window (1949)
The Woman on the Beach (1947)
A Woman Rebels (1936)

Cornered (1945) canceled by Warner in favor of The Big Steal

A region-free/all-region/multi-region DVD-player is recommended: The Glass Key; The Blue Dahlia

(Sources: Play.com, Amazon.com, DVD Beaver, and DVD Pacific)

Updates are appreciated. Thanks!!

Mucho thanks!

Although, it is not complete. O Lucky Man! and Executive Action is announced and these are just off the top of my head.

It is sad that Ken Russell's films are sticking around in the last few films of their catalog that is still yet to recieve a release, expecially The Devils.

The following titles can also be removed from the list:

Adventures of Don Juan
The Bride Came C.O.D.
The Green Pastures
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
On Moonlight Bay

RKO

Annie Oakley
Little Women (1933) (released since 2001)
Morning Glory

Someday soon, when I have more energy and motivation, I can update Gordon's original post. Alternatively, Matt or Chris can reassign authorship of that post to "Person," whom I understand has been declared "clear" of thetans.

At some point, I could have sworn Some Came Running was on the R1 release calendar, but now can find no trace of it. Anybody know anything?

GringoTex wrote:I could have sworn Some Came Running was on the R1 release calendar

It's supposed to be on the way in a Sinatra signature box. Maybe early next year.

Any chance that Warners will release or license Stop, Bill (Ganja & Hess) Gunn's shelved debut feature? To my knowledge its only release was a weeklong engagement at Film Forum after he died.

The list is missing Mervyn Leroy's The Heart of New York (1932). Seeing TAXI (great early Cagney) up there reminded me. Charming slice of life pic of the old Ludlow/Rivington/Hester/Grand/Delancey Street days of schmackers & schmeckers.

Mashuganuh!

carax09 wrote:My Myrna Loy obsession requires that I mention Whipsaw, an MGM production in which Ms. Loy plays a jewel thief (with Spencer Tracy as the detective). This title and Manhattan Melodrama (another William Powell pairing) are probably my most eagerly anticipated of her unannounced work.

Myrna Loy as a jewel thief, sign me up. Loy plays a high class member of a gang of jewel thieves, who is on her way cross country to meet up with the rest of her gang. A second gang of thieves having been double-crossed by Loy's gang is trailing her, hoping she will lead them to her gang. Spencer Tracy plays an undercover cop who is pretending to be on the lam. He meets up with Loy and has similar hopes that she will lead them to her gang.

The story is helped immensely by the fact that Loy's character learns almost right away that Tracy is a cop. So it's basically Loy and Tracy trying to outsmart each other. Loy uses Tracy to protect her from the other gang, while Tracy tries to manipulate her into ratting on her gang.

Along the way they fall in love. It's a somewhat predictable story, but entertaining nonetheless. There is one great sequence where Loy and Tracy help a poor farmer and his wife deliver a baby. It is this part where Loy and Tracy realize that they are attracted to each other. It also reveals a different side to each character. It's a sequence that comes out of nowhere, but still works quite well.

Loy described the film as a throwaway picture designed to take advantage of her burgeoning post-'Thin Man' superstardom, and it's not especially memorable. But it's a pretty solid picture that at the very least gives us some worthwhile performances by Loy and Tracy.

Sadly the film isn't available on DVD or VHS, I bought mine as a DVD-R through a seller on ioffer.com, for any Loy or Tracy fans it's worth seeking out.

Info from The Digital Bits' Barrie Maxwell on Quo Vadis, Raintree County, and This is the Army:

Speaking of Warner, our very own Barrie Maxwell chimes in today with this little gem of a news nugget for you classic film fans:

Warner Bros. has Quo Vadis in the lab now and a 2008 release is planned, most likely in the fourth quarter. Raintree County is less certain as to timing as the studio is intent on releasing the road show version. To that end, it has involved dealing with a collector's print and marrying various portions to Warners' master. The studio continues to look for even better elements, so at this time it is impossible to gage the release date. A BD release for these titles cannot yet be confirmed, but it is Warners' intention to release as many special editions day and date SD and BD as possible.

Both of these titles are examples of the imprecise timeline that bringing classic titles to market is subject to. Warners has tried to be candid about their release plans and sometimes it's been to the studio's detriment as classic enthusiasts get wedded to a specific release year or quarter that the studio has mentioned in a chat and then are upset when a particular title doesn't appear. Such changes are due to any number of things including legal issues, imprecise restoration and remastering timelines, element surprises/availability, market opportunities, and so on. Classic fans should be aware that the studio is intent in bringing the many classic titles that they are looking for to the market as quickly as it can and in a condition that fans will be happy with.

Warners has also confirmed that they are working on This Is the Army right at this time. Quite a bit of work is needed, however, so release timing is not possible to tell at present.

Thanks, Barrie! We get a lot of questions about these titles, so it's good to know what's happening.

Two films that need to be added to this list:

Stop (1970) -- directed by Bill Gunn. First studio feature directed by an African-American; only released in a weeklong engagement at the Film Forum in the mid-80s.

Twice Upon a Time (1983) -- 1980s flop animated feature-turned-cult hit, thanks to multiple screenings on cable in the late 80s/early 90s. Notable as the first professional credit for David Fincher, who worked as an assistant cameraman.

Is there any word on whether they wil begin releasing their Paul Muni films like Juarez, Louis Pasteur, Black Fury, Hi Nellie? With this being their 85th birthday one would like to believe that they have not forgotten Paul Muni and his importance to the studio.

Also nice would be a George Brent boxset, or even Warren William.

ogygia avenue wrote:Two films that need to be added to this list:

Stop (1970) -- directed by Bill Gunn. First studio feature directed by an African-American; only released in a weeklong engagement at the Film Forum in the mid-80s.

Twice Upon a Time (1983) -- 1980s flop animated feature-turned-cult hit, thanks to multiple screenings on cable in the late 80s/early 90s. Notable as the first professional credit for David Fincher, who worked as an assistant cameraman.

Thank you so much for remembering these two titles. Both movies have such fascinating back stories and deserve to be widely seen (FYI, Gordon Parks' "The Learning Tree" was the first studio film to be helmed by an African-American, and that isn't out on DVD either, sadly).

I guess this is the best place for this: when is the next annual HTF Warner chat? I assume it's coming up pretty soon, yes?

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Night Nurse and Three on a Match can be removed from the list. Poor Cow is available in the UK, most recently as part of a Ken Loach box set.

Should The Strawberry Statement be on this list? It's a 1970 MGM production, so presumably Warners has the rights. TCM in the UK has shown it quite a few times, along with some other obscure late-60s MGM items. Interesting film, if dated...and probably music rights issues screw up much chance of a DVD release.

You forgot both of the Dark Shadows films, House of Dark Shadows (1970, MGM) and Night of Dark Shadows (1971, MGM).

These are all quality pre-codes that really should be out on DVD:

Wonder Bar (1934) WB
Union Depot (1932) WB
Blondie Johnson (1932) WB
Big City Blues (1932) WB
Professional Sweetheart (1933) RKO
The Story of Temple Drake (1933) Paramount
The Beast of the City (1932) MGM