What movies aren't on DVD yet but should be?

[BuelahWitch]

I would like to see "Lili," not only because it's a cute little movie, but three of its lead actors (Caron, Ferrer and Zsa Zsa) are still with us and Time Warner could have made a documentary to go with the film.

I'd also like to see Kevin Brownlow's "Hollywood: The Pioneers" documentary. Unfortunately I don't think that will ever happen because of rights issues.

You?

[AtThePlaza]

1. Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean.

I'm still waiting for that one.

[cordelia]

14. YES!

[terrya]

2. "Hearts of the West"

[BuelahWitch]

5. The 1975 with Jeff Bridges and Andy Griffith?

[terrya]

7. Yes.

It's a nice movie. Sadly not out on dvd.

[CBHagman]

3. The 1992 version of "Enchanted April."

The last I'd read, it was available on DVD only in certain regions, but definitely not in the United States. I don't quite know why. Perhaps there are legal issues, since it was from Miramax and bought/promoted by Paramount.

I'd also like to see A Midwinter's Tale (AKA In the Bleak Midwinter) and Peter's Friends on DVD in the U.S. Yes, I'm a Kenneth Branagh fan.

There are a number of classic B&W movies I haven't been able to find on DVD, and a few color ones that need to be cleaned up and resissued with extras.

And John Sayles needs to start issuing his films in special editions too. I think most of his films are in print but not necessarily in top condition.

[BuelahWitch]

6. Oh I loved that one!

First time I ever liked a remake better than the original...

[lightningandsnow]

4. The Velvet Devil.

I absolutely ADORE this movie - but the only way to watch it is about once a year when it's on TV.

http://www.andreamenard.com/velvet_devil.htm

(It started off as a play - then was adapted into a movie.)

[Aristus]

8. "The Little Ark". An odd little film I saw only once when I was about eight.

It took place during the 1952 deluge of Holland. It contains one of the most haunting dream sequences I've ever seen in a film. At least, it haunted me when I was a kid. I haven't seen it since, and wonder how it has held up...

[lost-in-nj]

9. Amazing Grace and Chuck

should be in every families movie line up



lost

[MissMillie]

25. ABSOLUTELY!!!!!

one of my all-time favorites.

"But wouldn't it be nice...."

[BuelahWitch]

10. More I thought of

"Student Prince of Old Heidlburg," silent Lubitsch with Norma Shearer and Ramon Novarro.
"The Pagan" with Novarro (probably one of the most underrated actors of the early talkie period).

Two of Barbara Stanwyck's Frank Capra directed movies: "Bitter Tea of General Yen," and "The Miracle Woman."

[CBHagman]

11. More Lubitsch!

There are clips of The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg on YouTube, but I agree; we need DVDs (and more screenings on TCM and PBS).

I first stumbled on Lubitsch movies when I was at university and of course haven't been the same since... ;-)

[BuelahWitch]

13. I read somewhere that The Smiling Lieutenant will be out soon

As well as The Merry Widow. Paramount especially has been lax about putting their older films on DVD. Where is Wings, for instance?
Let's keep our fingers crossed CB!

[CBHagman]

17. Boxed set alert!

The New York Times recently had this review of some new Lubitsch DVD releases:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/movies/homevideo/12dvds.html?_r=1&st=cse&sq=Lubitsch&scp=1&oref=slogin

And I've jazzed up my Netflix queue with The Smiling Lieutenant and some other goodies...

[Cannikin]

12. I cant find 'Death Becomes Her' in widescreen

[huskerlaw]

15. Thirtysomething & China Beach

DAMN IT. x(

On edit: Oh, hahah...um...movies. Right then. *wanders off*

[BuelahWitch]

16. LOL, TV shows are ok too!

I lament about Kukla, Fran and Ollie all the time! :hi: BTW, I loved Thirtysomething. I had a mad crush on Michael. I would LOVE to see that show on DVD.

On edit: I tried to edit the OP to include TV shows, but the post is too old.

[underpants]

21. I bought the entire China Beach series for my wife last christmas

the DVD's were homemeade (from History channel and Lifetime) and aside from a few glitches here and there they were okay. 33 discs in all. I had never seen the show-I was in the Army when it was on and they didn't show it on AFN Europe

This looks more professional
http://www.tvdvdworld.tv/movie/drama/China_Beach.html


http://www.ioffer.com/i/14834901

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

55. Duckman

one of the best and most underrated animated show of all time

[Fire Walk With Me]

72. What're YOU lookin' at?

You get your downs down, you thrust your pelvis HUH! You thrust your pelvis HUH! You thrust your pelvis HUH! You thrust your pelvis HUH! You thrust your pelvis HUH! You thrust your pelvis HUH! You thrust your pelvis HUH! You thrust your pelvis HUH! You thrust your pelvis HUH! You thrust your pelvis HUH!

Full episodes are on youtube.com, but not DVD? That's bullshit. What a brilliant series.

[KT2000]

18. The Sound and the Fury

with Yul Brenner and Joann Woodward

really want to see that movie again.

[Tyler Durden]

19. "Cast a Deadly Spell," and "The Secret of Santa Vittoria"

"Cast" consistently makes the top ten list of "Best movies that never made it to DVD," Fantastic fake Film Noir, set in a mythical Los Angeles where "Everyone uses magic," with Private Eye H. Phillip Lovecraft (Fred Ward) to find a copy of the "Necronomicon."

"Secret" is Anthony Quinn as Vitolo Bombolini, the town drunk made mayor at the end of the war, and saddled with how to hide millions of bottles of wine before the Germans show up to take it away. Verna Lisi, Hardy Kruger, and a VERY young Giancarlo Giannini. How could you miss?

[BuelahWitch]

61. I saw "Secret" years ago when they had movies on network TV

I remember it being very funny, but poignant as well...

[Lydia Leftcoast]

20. "Dadetown": a mock documentary about a decaying industrial town

The filmmaker died tragically young, so I suppose there's no one to promote it. I saw it once on Sundance Channel.

Also the following TV shows:
The Defenders
East Side/West Side

Also the following movies/TV shows that have been released in Europe or Australia but not here:

Dalziel and Pascoe
Tenko
The Fringe Dwellers
Silent Witness
Life on Mars
Emil and the Detectives (the newest version)
Upswing (Finnish comedy)

[bikebloke]

22. The African Queen

I've never seen the end. (Was Bogie a cylon?) When it aired on TV as a kid I always saw the first part, but had to go to bed for school. Later, when I was older, I drifted away from teevee.

[Courtesy Flush]

24. We posted at the same time (spoiler alert)

I've seen the end several times. I own it on tape, but it's not on disc.

In the end they attempt to sink the Louisa, but The African Queen doesn't make it. She sinks. They're captured and the ship's captain agrees to marry them before they are executed. Great line: "I now pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution."

Just as Charlie and Rose are about to be hung, The African Queen floats upside down in the path of the Louisa -- Torpedoes up. The ship hits the torpedoes and is sunk. Charlie and Rose swim away, laughing and singing.

[CBHagman]

26. Oh, you've got to see the end!

Turner Classic Movies airs it regularly, and perhaps you can even find it on public TV (Our local station shows classics of that sort on a regular basis).

[Courtesy Flush]

23. The African Queen

Can't understand it. Bogart's only Oscar performance, and not on DVD.

[Taverner]

27. The Song of the South

Er...on second thought maybe that piece of racist crap shouldn't be on DVD.

[SCantiGOP]

28. it is available

netflix has it.

[Taverner]

29. Oh shit, ready for another generation of slavery deniers to come about...

[Courtesy Flush]

33. Look again

They don't actually have it. They list a lot of movies that aren't really available.

It has the green "Save" button under it. That allows you to put it below your queue in case it ever comes available. Same is true for The African Queen.

I suppose they do that in order to allow people to rate films that they've seen, regardless of availability, to aid in movie recommendations.

[SCantiGOP]

36. thanks for the clarification

I remember watching it in the 50s when I was a kid. I can still remember most of the words to Zip A Dee Doo Dah.

[OmahaBlueDog]

59. You can get SOTS, BUT

1) You've got to get the DVD from Japan
2) You have to have a player capable of playing discs from outside the North American Zone

It is easy to knock SOTS when applying todays standards, but few remember that it was one of the few films of its day to show white and black kids playing together -- nobody chooses to remember that point.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

66. And the cartoon parts are entertaining

They're based on stories that Joel Chandler Harris actually heard from African-Americans in the South.

I haven't seen the film since I was a kid, but I don't recall that Uncle Remus was a slave. (The fashions people are wearing in the film are definitely late nineteenth-early twentieth century.) The part about the elderly black man being called "Uncle" was, of course, standard practice until the civil rights era.

[sarge43]

30. Young Winston n/t

[LynneSin]

31. I'd say "The Last Emperor"

but now it's available at $50 for some special package. I just want the movie!

[geardaddy]

39. I love that movie. n/t

[Burma Jones]

32. 200 Motels

[martymar64]

45. Yeah!!!

Centerville, a real nice place to raise your kids up . .. . churches . . . and liquor stores!!!!!!

[theredpen]

34. Serial

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081485/

[hobbit709]

35. Work Is A Four Letter Word

Real trippy British comedy from 1968.

[geardaddy]

37. Hedd Wyn

nominated for best foreign language film.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104403/

[Shakespeare]

38. Enchanted April. WONDERFUL, Oscar-nominated movie--inexplicably not on DVD.

And if the studios are too dumb to understand the demand for that movie on DVD, they should check out the reviews section on Amazon. Hoo-boy, are there some pissed off fans out there.

[texas1928]

40. "High Road to China"

"The Rounders" not that one, the one with Henry Fonda and Glenn Ford.

[Wetzelbill]

41. West Beirut

Love that film. :)

[El Supremo]

42. A Boy 10 Feet Tall

Also called 'Sammy Going South'

With Edward G. Robinson.

[Connonym]

43. Howard the Duck

[MotorCityMan]

44. "The Reflecting Skin" with Viggio Mortenson

It's one of Viggio's early movies. It is one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. It is also has some beautiful scenery.

It can be taken as a (very) black comedy. Sample dialogue; "Why don't you go play with your friends?" "Because they're all dead!"

I've only known two other people besides myself who have seen it.

[Orrex]

50. It's a shame what they did to that frog

My wife and I have seen the film. I like it, but she's quite a bit more fond of it.

I could have sworn that we owned it on DVD, but now I see that we don't...

[MotorCityMan]

65. Yes, that opening scene grossed me out

When I first saw stories of * blowing up frogs when he was a kid, that movie was the first thing I thought of.

[martymar64]

46. Eat the Rich

With the Comic Strip gang and the wonderful Nosher Powell

[geardaddy]

68. That's a fantastic movie.

I did see it on VHS.

[Spirochete]

47. Cannery Row

and The Incident.

And others I can't think of right offhand.

[yellowdogintexas]

49. YES ,,nt

[yellowdogintexas]

48. The Wrong Box. nt

[Lydia Leftcoast]

67. "The Wrong Box" is one of the funniest British comedies ever!

I know I saw it on VHS a long time ago. Its release on DVD is long overdo.

[yellowdogintexas]

75. oh yes, one of my most favorite movies. saw it at a drive in movie on a

double feature with "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" We nearly killed ourselves laughing!!!

[housewolf]

51. Mindwalk

I don know... I just like it.

[lavenderdiva]

52. 'Enchanted April' with Miranda Richardson

this is a remake of a version originally made in 1935 (the remake was in 1992). In addition to Miranda Richardson, it also starred Alfred Molina, Jim Broadbent, Joan Plowright, and Josie Lawrence. It was nominated for 3 Oscars, won 2 Golden Globes, won a New York Film Critics Award, and was nominated for a Writers Guild of America award. All these kudos and still not released to DVD? :shrug:

[CBHagman]

56. Okay, we're getting militant here.

So let me see a show of hands. All in favor of marching with pitchforks and burning torches to Miramax, raise your hands. I thought so.

This is the film we're agitating for:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101811/

[Shakespeare]

58. See my post upthread--have you looked at the Amazon reviews?

People REALLY want this movie on DVD!

[CBHagman]

71. It's the same at Internet Movie Database.

There's a faithful fan base for Enchanted April, and rightly so.

[lavenderdiva]

74. ........

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

53. Orson Welles' "Journey Into Fear" and "The Magnificent Ambersons"

also: Wim Wenders' "Until the End of the World"
"Our Dancing Daughters" a 1928 silent starring Joan Crawford and Anita Page (who, incidentally, is still alive at 98)
Mr Mike's Mondo Video - a bizarre side project of early SNL's Michael O'Donohue - only available on long out-of-print VHS
sUburbia (the 1997 film, not the 80s one)

[BuelahWitch]

63. Maybe Our Dancing Daughters will be out this year

It's Crawford's centennial, after all. Keep our fingers crossed!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

54. Closet Land

Instead of reiterating an old post, I'll simply let you read it and decide for yourselves. All the information is there.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=655386

An interesting side note: Remember the Star Trek Next Gen episode where Picard is captured and tortured by the Cardassians? Well, the plot from that was taken whole cloth directly from this movie.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

57. "Lili" is a sweet, very cool movie. My choice is "Serial" with Martin Mull and Tom Smothers.

Martin Mull...Harvey Holroyd
Tuesday Weld...Kate Linville Holroyd
Jennifer McAllister...Joanie Holroyd
Tom Smothers...Reverend Spike
Sam Chew Jr....Bill
Sally Kellerman...Martha
Anthony Battaglia...Stokely
Bill Macy...Sam Stone
Nita Talbot...Angela Stone
Pamela Bellwood...Carol
Barbara Rhoades...Vivian
Ann Weldon...Rachel
Peter Bonerz...Dr. Leonard Miller
Jon Fong...Wong
Christopher Lee...Luckman Skull
Patch Mackenzie...Stella

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081485/

[OmahaBlueDog]

60. Our Man in Havana

Based on the novel by Graham Greene (the british novelist -- not the Native American actor, Directed by Carol Reed, starring Alec Guinness, Maureen O'Hara, Burl Ives, and Ernie Kovacs.

The film is set in Bautistas Cuba (but is filmed on location in Havana right after the revolution), and revolves around a vaccum cleaner salesman forced into the spy business who draws a giant vaccum cleaner and passes it off as plans for a secret installation.

Alec Guinness tells a great story about Ernie Kovacs from that movie. Guinness walked by Kovacs hotel room and was going to step into the wide open door when he noticed a) Kovacs typing feverishly away and b) naked women laying about the room reading Playboy magazine. Guinness, embarrased, apologizes and moves to close the door. Kovacs cuts him off --"No, no,leave that open!" and quickly explains "If you close that door, everyone will say 'you know Kovacs is up in a room with a bunch of naked broads.'but this way, everyone will know things are on the up-and-up."

[nuxvomica]

62. Just Imagine (1930)

I've read about this movie but I've only seen a clip and some stills from it. It's about a guy who is petrified by lightning in 1930 and revived in 1980. The cities are art-deco futuristic and people fly personal biplanes instead of driving cars. It stars El Brendel, who I thought was hilarious when I was a kid.

[BuelahWitch]

70. It shows up on Fox Movie Channel every so often

I'm almost sure I've seen it in their lineup.

[nuxvomica]

77. It turns out that I actually get that channel

It's buried between some premium channels I don't get and a mess a of pay-per-views, along with Sundance and Flix. I'll keep my eyes peeled for the movie. Thanks for mentioning it. :hi:

[Babel_17]

64. The Fourth Protocol

Only DVD available is Region 2 (PAL).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093044/

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fourth_protocol/

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fourth_protocol/articles/7434/

"The Fourth Protocol" involves a Soviet plan to smuggle the elements for a nuclear device into Britain, assemble it and detonate it right next to a U.S. base. The explosion would be so huge that its precise location would be obliterated, and it would look exactly like an American accident. Result: pressure for the Yankees to go home and a strategic victory for the Russians.

The key Russian operative is played by Pierce Brosnan, in what certainly is the best performance he has ever given, as a dark, brooding man with an outwardly cheerful disposition and a perfect British accent. The only person who seems capable of anticipating his plan, and stopping it, is Michael Caine as a British intelligence officer who is in political trouble with his bosses because he's too independent.

[skypilot]

69. "Household Saints"...

...starring Lili Taylor, Vincent D'Onofrio and Tracey Ullman. The director, Nancy Savoca, also directed "Dogfight" starring Lili Taylor and River Phoenix. "Dogfight" is on DVD but I don't know what is holding up "Household Saints".

But actually, the movie that I always look for when I go to the video store is a movie from the '70s called "Sandcastles" with Jan Michael Vincent and Bonnie Bedelia. I don't know if anyone on this thread is old enough to remember this movie but it was incredible, and had a twist ending that we've all seen a million times since then.

[Javaman]

73. The wizard of speed and time. nt

[CBHagman]

76. I hear "The Farmer's Daughter" is not on DVD.

No, it's not what you think. The Farmer's Daughter is about a young woman who runs for Congress. There's a decided undercurrent of progressive politics in it, too.

I also would like to see Westward the Women on DVD.

[Lady Freedom]

78. Has anyone found the animated movie "Flight of Dragons" on DVD?

I love that film! It stars the voices of John Ritter,Harry Morgan, and James Earl Jones.

[Steerpike]

79. Galaxy of Terror

Erin Moran, Eddie Albert, Robert Englund and a Rape Scene with a giant worm...
Really Masterpiece Theatre quality Film experience!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

80. "Fantastic Adventures of Unico" & "Unico in the Island of Magic"

I remember watching the "Unico" movies when I was a kid and loved them. They are both Japanese (Animated) movies by Osamu Tezuka (who is considered to be the Japanese equivalent of Walt Disney in regards to animation) about a little Unicorn and his adventures. I've been wanting a copy of these movies on DVD to share with my kids but for some reason or another, these movies have never seen the light of day in terms of an official DVD release here or in Japan. I think that they both got released to VHS and I was able to get a VHS copy of the first movie but I haven't been able to find a (reasonably priced) VHS copy of the second movie. There seem to be a lot of bootlegs of these particular titles floating around on the internet but nothing official is available and the studio, who I once contacted, stated that there were no plans for an official DVD release then and probably now, which I think is a real shame because both movies were gems IMHO and I know that my kids would just love them. Sometimes I just wax nostalgic for old childhood movies.