Movies that need to be released on DVD.

For fans of classic MGM animation, there is a bit of a tease on the recent DVD release of "High Society". They included the Tex Avery cinemascope cartoon "Millionaire Droopy" in non-anamorphic letterbox widescreen as a supplement. The dirty little secret of this film is that it was really not directed by Avery per se. It is a remake of Avery's 1949 cartoon "Wags to Riches" where they took Avery's original art and recomposed the images for a cinemascope frame with new backgrounds.

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Warner Brothers Home Video did a Chat last week at the Home Theater Forum. They have a ton of catalog stuff in the works for this and next year. The chat can be accessed at this link.

Here's a (probably incomplete) list of catalog titles they mentioned:
This Year
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The Mission
The Right Stuff
Giant
Once Upon A Time In America
The Great Dictator
Limelight
The Gold Rush
Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves
Modern Times
Casablanca 60th Anniversary Edition!
Memoirs Of An Invisible Man
National Lampoon's Vacation 20th Anniversary
Looney Tunes Collector Set(s)
Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
Yankee Doodle Dandy
The Adventures Of Robin Hood
To Have And Have Not
High Sierra
Christmas Story SE (Widescreen)
Around The World In 80 Days
Father Of The Bride
The Courtship Of Eddie's Father
The In-Laws
Objective, Burma
Operation Pacific
Battle Cry
Scaramouche
Knights Of The Round Table
Master Of Ballantrae
Crimson Pirate
Start The Revolution Without Me
The Outsiders-Extended Version
Valley Of The Gwangi
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
The Black Scorpion
The Haunting
House Of Wax
The Thing From Another World
What's Up Doc
Nuts
The Main Event
Up The Sandbox
Prince & The Pauper
Kim
Master Of Ballantrae
Soylent Green
The Omega Man
Wait Until Dark
Where Eagles Dare
Tightrope
White Hunter Black Heart
The Rookie
Honkytonk Man
City Heat
Pink Cadillac
Xmas Vacation (WS)
Vegas Vacation (WS)
The Prince And The Pauper


Next Year
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Sunshine Boys
Return Of The Living Dead 2
It's Alive Trilogy
Dial M For Murder
Meet Me In St. Louis
The Bad Seed
That's Entertainment
Freaks
THX-1138
Hitchcock Collection (Possibly Wrong Man, Suspicion, Stage Fright, Foreign Correspondent along with Dial M...)
Tom And Jerry Collections
The Hunger
Greystoke: Legend Of Tarzan
RKO Films Including Some Astaire/Rogers & Val Lewton
Wyatt Earp
Night At The Opera
Day At The Races
Other Marx Brothers
More Hammer Titles
Libeled Lady
Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)


Indefinite (being worked on but date not set)
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Police Academy Films
Thin Man Films
Goodfellas SE
Mean Streets SE

Yikes!

Regards,

 

All I can say is WOO-HOO!!!!!!!!

 

Yankee Doodle Dandy is on there, and it sounded like they were looking at more Cagney stuff, too, although they didn't mention titles. I'm personally pretty excited about "One, Two, Three" coming from MGM. It was Cagney's last great lead performance and is one of the two great cold-war comedies. (The other is "Dr. Strangelove". "Ninotchka" would qualify except that it pre-dates the actual cold war. )

Errol Flynn is also finally being released from WB vault captivity.

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