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It was included in that very cheap DVD box set from a few years ago.

This is the Night and the Big Broadcast of 1938 added to next month’s slate

domino harvey wrote: Sat Feb 21, 2026 9:34 pm This is the Night and the Big Broadcast of 1938 added to next month’s slate

Forced to admit I'm an outsized fan of This is the Night, and will be picking it up

I love it too!

April:

Three more WC Fields vehicles:
International House
Million Dollar Legs
Mississippi

Here Comes Cookie
the Private War of Major Benson

May:

the Black Shield of Falworth
the Phantom President
Romanoff and Juliet - Fun fact: this is, I believe, the only film I’ve watched without finishing in the last twenty years
Three Smart Girls

domino harvey wrote: Sun Apr 05, 2026 12:05 am May:


Romanoff and Juliet - Fun fact: this is, I believe, the only film I’ve watched without finishing in the last twenty years

Another fun fact: It was in the Main Competition at Berlin in 1961 and Peter Ustinov was nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award in 1962. To be fair the DGA at 19 nominee's for 18 films (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins were nominated and won for West Side Story) but still it's a shock to see something so bad get a nomination over much better films. The next year the DGA went down to 9 nominee's and then the year after that to 5.

I saw Romanoff and Juliet as part of a project I have been undertaken to see all the films in the Main Competition at Berlin, Cannes & Venice over the years. It's been a very mixed experience with R&J being one of the lowest points.

It looks like only the Dracula Legacy set has made it to UHD. Does anyone know if the others are planned for upgrade, too? You'd think Frankenstein would be a no-brainer.

Where oh where is SON OF FRANKENSTEIN, at least on blu-ray, as a single disc? I know there was one from Elephant Films in France, but it appears to be out of print. OK, enough whining, back to searching for the 8 hour GREED...