Dec 09 - Classics Thread

[molly1216]

anyone buying anything vintage?

I am trying to catch up on the WHV Holiday Collections as usual i only really want TWO out of the sets
but the its cheaper to buy the sets and i end up with films i haven't seen yet.

I had bought Warner Brothers Classic Holiday Collection 1: Boys Town, A Christmas Carol 1938, Christmas in Connecticut, before they enlarged the box to have Nuns Story which is fine cause i am not partial to that one...nor Boys Town but I kept it anyway. Christmas in Connecticut is not a perfect holiday film..the entire soldier come home from the war part seems incongruous with the screwball elements. But I did it out every year anyway.

Last month I snagged Warner Brothers Classic Holiday Collection, Vol. 2
All Mine to Give / Holiday Affair / It Happened on 5th Avenue / Blossoms in the Dust, when i really just wanted Holiday affair with Robert Mitchum and It Happened on 5th Ave with Charley Ruggles. The other two sound too sacchariney sweet for me. But will at least try them before I decided not to keep them. Holiday Affair is worth watching...nice little romantic comedy with Mitchum no less.

I wonder if Warner will dig up enough for a Volume 3 box? the last set was a little obscure but it's nice when they dig deep into their archives.

This set is out there...MGM Holiday Classics Collection (The Bishop's Wife / March of the Wooden Soldiers / Pocketful of Miracles) and i may pick it up as i have none of the films..i HAD pocketful of miracles but i can't find it...i may have sold it as i prefer the Lady for a Day (1933) version which is less surreal and not a holiday film.

Anyone see anything out there WORTH buying? or am i gonna have to be happy with what i got?

[Future Man]

Respectfully, must there be two separate threads? I think enough of us buy both old and new to keep it all together. Just my .02 Perhaps a vote?

[Steve T Power]

This thread is so that she can ignore the other one

[molly1216]

Respectfully, must there be two separate threads? I think enough of us buy both old and new to keep it all together. Just my .02 Perhaps a vote?

you had your chance to comment on the November thread. you didn't
a few of us don't buy more than one or two new films so most of the other thread isn't as useful
and no we aren't voting.

participate or don't.
i find myself reading very few threads at all anymore here.
i don't watch tv on tv and i don't buy games or go to new movies
if no one plays with me i may get tired of playing with myself.

[Paul Kile]

Right on, M olly! I'm in the same boat. The last new movie I went to was Star Trek last summer, gaming holds no interest for me, I time-shift everything on TV, I haven't gone Blu-Ray, and movies based on comic book characters have limited appeal to me. After I open Movies, TV, and DVD and see how few threads I am interested in, I go over to the Baker's Dozen and that's pretty much it for this website.

In the general vein of this thread, I have added "The Golden Age of Television - Criterion Collection" to my Netflix queue. Getting the original TV dramas "Marty", "No Time For Sergeants", "Requiem For A Heavyweight", and "Days of Wine and Roses" all in the same place has me pretty stoked.

[molly1216]

In the general vein of this thread, I have added "The Golden Age of Television - Criterion Collection" to my Netflix queue. Getting the original TV dramas "Marty", "No Time For Sergeants", "Requiem For A Heavyweight", and "Days of Wine and Roses" all in the same place has me pretty stoked.

it's good that they started with the most famous productions..but i have seen all these multiple times.
the Golden age of TV productions would be good fodder for those Essential art house series...cheaper not to much emphasis on bonus features.

[SmokestackJones]

In the general vein of this thread, I have added "The Golden Age of Television - Criterion Collection" to my Netflix queue. Getting the original TV dramas "Marty", "No Time For Sergeants", "Requiem For A Heavyweight", and "Days of Wine and Roses" all in the same place has me pretty stoked.

it's good that they started with the most famous productions..but i have seen all these multiple times.
the Golden age of TV productions would be good fodder for those Essential art house series...cheaper not to much emphasis on bonus features.

...AND (to use modern vernacular) the set kicks ass!

-SJ

[molly1216]

i totally missed the release date on this.
so i just orders it.
A Walk In The Sun (Restored) (1945)
I have been looking to replace the POS PD copy i have as a placeholder

[maintcoder]

i totally missed the release date on this.
so i just orders it.
A Walk In The Sun (Restored) (1945)
I have been looking to replace the POS PD copy i have as a placeholder

My copy just arrived today - I'll be watching this one over the weekend. I also received the 70th anniversary Buck Rogers, maybe that will get a play this weekend too.

[molly1216]

i totally missed the release date on this.
so i just orders it.
A Walk In The Sun (Restored) (1945)
I have been looking to replace the POS PD copy i have as a placeholder

My copy just arrived today - I'll be watching this one over the weekend. I also received the 70th anniversary Buck Rogers, maybe that will get a play this weekend too.

i am not sure if i want to upgrade.
can you let me know how the transfer is and if there are any bonus features

[molly1216]

Remember the Night (1940) arrived today...Stanwyck and McMurray...doesn't suck
it's remarkable how many movies were never run on tv.
I love it when i find something i have never seen before.
I wouldn't watch it paired with Double indemnity...i'd watch it with Christmas in connecticut
Remember the night has a maudlin streak right through it
bouncing straight to Christmas in Connecticut would counteract it.

[hoytereden]

Just ordered Charlie Chan:Vol. 5 from Amazon for about $23. With that same order I'm also getting Gone With the Wind Blu-ray.

As far as watching I saw a couple of Bogart films I had never seen before courtesy of TCM-Love Affair '32 A Columbia film with Bogart as a dedicated, but penniless, airplane designer with a (then) revolutionary airplane engine design being woo'ed by rich girl Dorothy Mackaill. Fun to see Bogart in a pre-code film as a leading man rather than a henchman.
The other one was One Fatal Hour (original title Two Against the World) '36 which was just a remake of the earlier, and better, Five Star Final with Bogart in the Edward G. Robinson role.
Also watched on TCM one of my favorite westerns Hell's Heros right behind the Ford remake 3 Godfathers which only reinforced my opinion of the Wyler version being far superior.

[Andrew Forbes]

The Spoilers

[maintcoder]

i totally missed the release date on this.
so i just orders it.
A Walk In The Sun (Restored) (1945)
I have been looking to replace the POS PD copy i have as a placeholder

My copy just arrived today - I'll be watching this one over the weekend. I also received the 70th anniversary Buck Rogers, maybe that will get a play this weekend too.

i am not sure if i want to upgrade.
can you let me know how the transfer is and if there are any bonus features

I watched this DVD yesterday and was amazed at the difference in the print compared to the Madacy PD copy I had (it was one of the first DVDs I ever purchased). There were times I simply stared at the clarity of the scene and was not really watching the movie. The extras are two interviews - one with Norman Lloyd discussing the movie and another with Joel Blumberg discussing the men of 'A Walk in the Sun'. I didn't watch either, but then I rarely do check out the special features.

I'm glad to have this gem in the collection - it and The Purple Heart or The Story of GI Joe would make a great double feature.

[molly1216]

i totally missed the release date on this.
so i just orders it.
A Walk In The Sun (Restored) (1945)
I have been looking to replace the POS PD copy i have as a placeholder

My copy just arrived today - I'll be watching this one over the weekend. I also received the 70th anniversary Buck Rogers, maybe that will get a play this weekend too.

i am not sure if i want to upgrade.
can you let me know how the transfer is and if there are any bonus features

I watched this DVD yesterday and was amazed at the difference in the print compared to the Madacy PD copy I had (it was one of the first DVDs I ever purchased). There were times I simply stared at the clarity of the scene and was not really watching the movie. The extras are two interviews - one with Norman Lloyd discussing the movie and another with Joel Blumberg discussing the men of 'A Walk in the Sun'. I didn't watch either, but then I rarely do check out the special features.

I'm glad to have this gem in the collection - it and The Purple Heart or The Story of GI Joe would make a great double feature.

i figured the Walk in the Sun would be great...how is the Buck Rogers though? i have the Image releases..bare bones..not bad looking.