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Apr 3, 2016 - 5:22 AM
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meheuck
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long time lurker, new poster to the site
First off, my deep appreciation to Bob DiMucci for his tremendous detailed posts about forgotten films. Many times when I've googled a title, I've found one of his descriptions in the search. I'm often treated as the film arcana dude around my friends, but I take my hat off to him.
Anyhow, just to put my two cents on titles mentioned in this thread:
FOOLIN' AROUND and NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER were financed and copyrighted by General Cinema Corporation; they were released in theatres by Columbia and syndicated on TV by Viacom, with video rights divided between Embassy Home Entertainment for FOOLIN' and Media for JUGGLER. I don't know if these wound up with AMC Theatres when they acquired GCC's circuit - I suspect not.
GET CRAZY is owned by MGM, and while Arkush has been quoted as saying its non-DVD availability is due to the audio stems for the various tracks being missing, it's more likely just expensive music rights precluding release.
PRIVATE PROPERTY was recently restored by UCLA, and is getting a major theatrical and home video release this year from Cinelicious Pictures, including a screening at TCM Fest in L.A. later this month.
THE REINCARNATION OF PETER PROUD should be with Paramount as they acquired the entire Bing Crosby Productions library from previous owner Cox Broadcasting, along with the Rysher Entertainment library. I suspect that since this still gets bandied about as remake material, they're still holding off on any release in the hopes of cashing in later on.
INCHON reportedly reverted back to the Reverend Moon's infamous Unification Church, and has been broadcast on their TV channel American Life.
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I don't want to change the subject slightly, but I couldn't resist listing five television series shamefully STILL not on D.V.D. or Blu Ray
#1. The Defenders
#2. The Felony Squad
#3. The Jack Benny Program
#4. The Burns & Allen Show
#5. Kraft Suspense Theatre
The Defenders Season 1 will (finally) be released by Shout Factory in the U.S. See the CC's Pinterest Board of New Releases for more information: https://au.pinterest.com/TheCinemaCafe/new-releases-on-blu-ray-and-dvd/
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tTHE SWINGER w/Ann Margaret
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Apr 25, 2016 - 2:17 PM
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Richard-W
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Last night I watched a bootleg transfer of Gordon Douglas' SKULLDUGGERY. I hadn't realized it was written by the brilliant Nelson Gidding, the late USC screenwriting professor and collaborator of Robert Wise who is best known for adapting THE HAUNTING. His original screenplay for SKULLDUGGERY has considerable merit and something of a PLANET OF THE APES (1968) vibe. On the surface the story is about scientific inquiry into the missing link, but it walks a fine line between drama and comedy, seriousness and satire, exploitation and the exposure of exploitation. It is didactic in the best Rod Serling tradition, and director Gordon Douglas is 100% successful at leading the audience by a metaphorical ring in the nose and at sustaining the merrily tragic tone.
The thematic dimensions of SKULLDUGGERY must have gone over my head when I saw the film as a youngster in 1970. After failing at the box-office it aired on ABC-TV's 4:30 after-school movie repeatedly throughout the 1970s, cut and speeded-up to fit a 90-minute time-slot. Turns out that the hero and heroine in the first half of the film are less than noble in the second half. They refuse to exploit their discovery of the missing link in human evolution, known as the Tropi, even as they define protecting the Tropi in terms of turning them into lab rats. The second half of the film progresses into increasing dark and transgressive territory while never losing its dark sense of humor. To pay for the lab, it doesn't hurt to see how much mining the Tropi can do in the diamond mines. The question arises whether or not mating with the Tropi will result in human babies or Tropi babies. If the babies are human, it means the missing link is human in the evolutionary chain. If the baby comes out Tropi, it means the missing link are animals and therefore have no rights. The actors -- especially Roger C. "Harry Mudd" Carmel but also Burt Reynolds and Susan Clark -- totally sell it.
SKULLDUGGERY is a shrewd smart-ass piece of work that deserves to be seen, but it is too politically incorrect, and deliberately provocative, to ever be released on home video in the USA. I wish Universal set the Tropi free in Europe.
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100 Rifles coming to Blu-ray later this year.
Racquel
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shower
+wet shirt
+high def picture
SLober, slobber!
brm
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With the talents involved in its production, you’d think that 1970’s TELL ME THAT YOU LOVE ME, JUNIE MOON would have received some sort of a release by now. But we don’t have so much as a cassette tape, let alone a DVD. Liza Minnelli stars in the film, and is supported by Ken Howard, James Coco, and Fred Williamson. Marjorie Kellogg wrote the script from her own novel, and Otto Preminger directed.
Leonard Maltin gives the “moving story” 3 and a half stars, noting that “moments of comedy, melodrama [and] compassion [are] expertly blended by Preminger in one of his best films.” Given all the obscure and dubious items that Olive Films is releasing from Paramount (such as Preminger's own SKIDOO), where is this?
For those who were interested in this, it has been finally announced for release on Blu-Ray by Olive Films (Region A North America). A note has been posted on the Most Wanted Board here: https://au.pinterest.com/TheCinemaCafe/the-community-chest-most-wanted-by-fans-on-dvd-or-/ and the title has been placed on the New Releases Pinterest Board here: https://au.pinterest.com/TheCinemaCafe/new-releases-on-blu-ray-and-dvd/
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Though it was released on D.V.D. in 2002.
Was it? All I can find on Amazon was a VHS.
It was, using the rare color photo of John Wayne and Kirk Douglas that as used on the original V.H.S. release and reissued with new cover art in 2006.
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