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Originally Posted by hoytereden
I asked them about this back in April and their reply was: “To the best of my knowledge, there are no current plans to bring back The Third Man in the foreseeable future.”
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As I remember it, Studio Canal gave the license to Criterion for releasing
The Third Man, then a couple of years later took back the license and issued their own distinctly inferior release. Now that I think of it, TCM uses a lot of Criterion prints for their films (presumably they've retained some contractual links since the days of Filmstruck), but I'm not sure which print they're using when they show TTM.
I've been wary of SC ever since the BD of
The Ladykillers, I was shocked at how inferior it was to the version that I had seen several times on TCM before the SC BD was released.