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Originally Posted by Ned Brainard
It's probably a matter of a rights situation with either the source material or music. There are a number of films in the Warner library out of official circulation due to such problems (Perfect Specimen, Letty Lynton, Escapade, Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?, Ceiling Zero, The Trial of Mary Dugan, etc.). Sometimes the rights can be sorted as was seen a few months ago with Angels with Dirty Faces, but I wouldn't necessarily count on that happening with all of these "rights hell" titles.
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It took 69 years for the rights to
Night Flight to be cleared (another Porgy and Bess situation).