Warner Box Sets

[Lino]

And let's not forget his part in Broadway Melody of 1936, alongside Eleanor Powell (another forgotten-on-DVD star), also a Warner title.

The man was so gorgeous that I would even watch a *gasp!* Andy Milligan film if he was in it!

[Harold Gervais]

Paramount doesn't do boxes. They box up already released DVDs and re-release titles with new artwork

With the recent exception of the Martin & Lewis Collection Vol. 1, I'm afraid you are right. Odd how just about every other company which releases DVDs has great success doing box sets but Paramount can't be bothered.

[ogygia avenue]

This brings up the question -- it's been at least two years since Film Forum in NYC screened a restored print of Brewster. What's the holdup on a DVD release? Are there rights issues keeping it out of circulation?

[Lino]

Classic 3D Films Collection, anyone?

I'd buy that. Two copies even. Warner owns:

House of Wax
The Maze
Kiss Me Kate
Hondo
The French Line
Phantom Of The Rue Morgue
Dial M For Murder
Dangerous Mission
Son Of Sinbad

I've always loved 3D movies ever since I picked up those crazy glasses and experienced the magic and I really wish that big studios like Warner would indulge the home viewing audience with a set like the one I'm proposing here. Paramount too has some wild stuff hidden away in their vaults and it's high time they start teaching the new generation of kids just how fun it used to be going to the movies back in the day.

I have high hopes for this since apparently Spielberg is trying to develop a 3D system that doesn't require glasses at all. Let's all hope that the next wave of 3D filmmaking isn't so far ahead of us. BTW, has anyone seen U2 3D?

[domino harvey]

Isn't traditional 3-D only possible with projection and not via TV?

[Der Müde Tod]

Isn't traditional 3-D only possible with projection and not via TV?

Traditionally, one wears either colored glasses (like red/green) or differently polarized glasses. The former works on any medium (but distorts the colors of the image unless you are only interested in b&w), the latter requires polarized lenses for the projector and a screen that preserves the polarization ($$$).

[tryavna]

Hondo

Just for the record, Warner doesn't own the rights to this one. It was produced by Wayne's own company, which seems to have an exclusive home video distribution deal with Paramount. (The existing DVD was released by Paramount, like all the other Batjac/Wayne-Fellows films.)

[Sheriff Chambers]

Sorry if this is covered elsewhere, but can anyone tell me if the extras on the following box sets are common to both region 1 and 2 editions (although I know some Warner classics are often playable in all regions):

Looney Tunes Golden Collection (all volumes)
The Thin Man Collection
The Tarzan Collection volume 2 (Any extras on the region 1?)
Village of the Dammed/Children of the Damned

I'm in region 2 land and want to know if I need to import.

[domino harvey]

The Thin Man collection's extras are mostly unrelated cartoons, so long as the R2 has the Nick and Nora docs, buy local

[der_Artur]

On "Shadow of the Thin Man" you also get Dassin's directorial debut "The Tell-Tale Heart". I don't know if that makes you buy the whole set, but I bought this episode only for the short. And it was a good decision.