Come September (1961) coming from Kino in October

[whiteberry]

Coming in October!

Come September (1961) Starring Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Joel Grey, Walter Slezak, Brenda de Banzie & Rossana Rory – Shot by William H. Daniels (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) – Screenplay by Stanley Shapiro (Pillow Talk) & Maurice Richlin (The Pink Panther) – Story by Stanley Roberts (The Caine Mutiny) & Robert Russell (The More the Merrier) – Directed by Robert Mulligan (To Kill a Mockingbird, Love with the Proper Stranger, Summer of ’42).

https://www.facebook.com/KinoLorberS...6942391362636/

Trailer:

Rock Hudson - " Come September " Trailer - 1961 - YouTube

Radio Spots:

Universal sent a promotional radio spot record to radio stations containing 8 radio spots for the movie. One of the radio spots has been uploaded to YouTube:

Come September (1961) Radio Spot - YouTube

Universal Newsreels:

1. The premiere in Beverly Hills:
   
   Rock Hudson at "Come September" premiere.wmv - YouTube
   
   
2. It was the first movie shown on an airplane. In the following Universal newsreel, actor Walter Slezak is shown delivering a print of Come September to the airplane and later watching the movie on the airplane:
   https://www.criticalpast.com/video/6...t-on-earphones
   
   
3. Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee arriving in Los Angeles for their honeymoon after getting married after making the movie:
   
   Wedding: Sandra Dee & Bobby Darin, 1960 - YouTube

Italian Newsreel:

Rock Hudson and Gina Lollobrigida in Rome in 1960 for the filming of Come September (in Italian):

Rock Hudson and Gina Lollobrigida for Come September - YouTube

Promotional Interview Record:

Universal sent a promotional interview record to radio stations containing open-ended interviews with Bobby Darin and Gina Lollobrigida. It came with a script containing the questions the local DJ would read so that it would appear to listeners that he/she was actually interviewing the stars. The Bobby Darin interview from it has been uploaded to YouTube:

A personal interview with Bobby Darin, star of "Come September" (open-end interview, 1961) - YouTube

Music:

Here are the Bobby Darin songs featured in the movie:

1. Bobby Darin & His Orchestra - Theme From "Come September"
   https://www.discogs.com/Bobby-Darin-.../master/479565
   
   
   1961 Bobby Darin - Theme From “Come September� (instrumental) - YouTube
   
   
2. Bobby Darin - Multiplication
   https://www.discogs.com/Bobby-Darin-.../master/477693
   
   
   1962 HITS ARCHIVE: Multiplication - Bobby Darin - YouTube

Movie Locations:

Here's a look at the movie locations in Italy, then and now:
https://www.davinotti.com/forum/loca...embre/50010613 (in Italian)
https://www.reelstreets.com/films/come-september/
https://hollywoodontheitalianriviera...ome-september/

[CelestialAgent]

why aren't they releasing it in September

[whiteberry]

Originally Posted by CelestialAgent

why aren't they releasing it in September

Maybe they are working on a new restoration and/or new extras? Fans would like a version of Come September and Strange Bedfellows without the burned-in English subtitles but Universal would probably have to go back to the original camera negatives and I would imagine Universal would only be willing to do that for Pillow Talk because it is the most popular of their late 50s/early 60s romantic comedies.

[whiteberry]

It is currently scheduled for release on October 19:

October 19th
Homebodies (1974) Brand New 2K Master by KL
Come September (1961)
Change of Habit (1969)

https://www.hometheaterforum.com/com.../#post-4548319

[KeithPartridge]

This is fantastic news! One of my absolute favorite rom-coms from the 1960s! I don't understand why Universal let this one go out-of-print, it isn't even available to (legally) stream so it's most welcome that Kino is releasing it on blu-ray!

[whiteberry]

Blu-ray Extras Include:

NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian David Del Valle and Filmmaker David DeCoteau

Theatrical Trailer

Optional English Subtitles

https://www.kinolorber.com/product/c...tember-blu-ray

[whiteberry]

Menus:




Movie:




Extras:

• Audio commentary by film historian David Del Valle and filmmaker David DeCoteau
  
  
• Theatrical Trailer [01:17] (SD)
  
  
  
  
• Other Trailers
  • A Farewell To Arms (1957) [02:38] (SD)
  • The Tarnished Angels (1957) [02:40] (SD)
  • The Last Sunset (1961) [02:31] (HD)
  • Trapeze (1956) [03:14] (SD)
  • Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968) [02:58] (HD)
  • Portrait In Black (1960) [01:08] (SD)
  • Captain Newman, M.D. (1963) [02:19] (SD)
  • The Great Impostor (1960) [02:26] (SD)
  
  
  
  On a side note, Buona Sera Mrs. Campbell or Strange Bedfellows would make great double features with Come September.

Note:
Like the original theatrical print and previous home video releases, the blu-ray has burned-in subtitles for some of the Italian dialogue. Kino's removable subtitles do not add English translations for the Italian dialogue that wasn't translated by the burned-in English subtitles.

[whiteberry]

A comparison of the Kino and Elephant Films blu-rays and the Amazon stream...

Picture
All three use the same HD master but Kino's blu-ray is a little darker than the other two. Elephant Films is on the left (first screenshot), Kino is in the middle (second screenshot) and Amazon is on the right (third screenshot):















Note:
DVDClassik said in their review of the Elephant Films blu-ray that they encountered an encoding error around the 81 minute mark that caused the movie to freeze and have to be restarted. I didn't experience this mysef but it's worth mentioning.

Audio
Kino: English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
Elephant Films: English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0, French DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0

Subtitles
Kino: English
Elephant Films: French

Extras
Kino

• Audio commentary by film historian David Del Valle and filmmaker David DeCoteau
• Theatrical Trailer [01:17] (SD)
• Other Trailers
  • A Farewell To Arms (1957) [02:38] (SD)
  • The Tarnished Angels (1957) [02:40] (SD)
  • The Last Sunset (1961) [02:31] (HD)
  • Trapeze (1956) [03:14] (SD)
  • Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968) [02:58] (HD)
  • Portrait In Black (1960) [01:08] (SD)
  • Captain Newman, M.D. (1963) [02:19] (SD)
  • The Great Impostor (1960) [02:26] (SD)

Elephant Films

• Featurettes (in French)
  • Portrait de Robert Mulligan [23:26] (HD)
  • Portrait de Rock Hudson [15:40] (HD)
  • Analyse du film par Nachiketas Wignesan [23:44] (HD)
  • Le film par Jean-Pierre Dionnet [07:57] (HD)
• Theatrical Trailer [01:35] (HD but SD upconversion, non-removable French subtitles)
• Other Trailers
  • The Spiral Road (1962) [01:17] (New trailer with the English dialogue dubbed in French)
  • The Great Impostor (1960) [02:38] (HD but SD upconversion, non-removable French subtitles)
  • Tobruk (1967) [3:06] (HD but SD upconversion, non-removable French subtitles)
  • Strange Bedfellows (1965) [02:50] (HD but SD upconversion, non-removable French subtitles)
  • Man's Favorite Sport? (1964) [02:16] (HD but SD upconversion, non-removable French subtitles)

The Come September theatrical trailer is 18 seconds longer on the Elephant Films blu-ray because it has an Elephant Films opening logo and a text screen before and after the trailer. It's the same exact trailer that is on the Kino blu-ray.

The source for the trailer for both blu-rays is SD (probably taken from the DVD). Kino leaves the trailer in SD while Elephant Films upconverts it to HD. Neither one of them look that great. Elephant Films is on the left, Kino is on the right:



Menus
Kino: Yes
Elephant Films: Yes

Running Time
Kino: 1:53:31
Elephant Films: 1:53:31

Note:
There is now one more blu-ray of Come September. It has been released in Germany:

[Tomko]

I just watched the Kino blu and really enjoyed it. I thought it looked great!

[Mose Harper]

White highlights on the Kino don't look overly hot or blown out.
Looks good.

Looking forward to getting this soon.

[whiteberry]

Gina Lollobrigida Dies: Italian Cinema Diva Was 95

Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida, who was one of the world’s most famous actresses enjoying success in Europe and Hollywood in her 1950s and 60s heyday, has died in Rome at the age of 95.

Tributes poured in for the actress from across Italy and the world.

“In the immediate period after the war and throughout the 1950s there was one face that represented Italian beauty in the eyes of the world and it was that of Gina Lollobrigida,” wrote the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera in a tribute article.

“More than (Sophia) Loren, but also more than (Lucia) Bosè, (Gianna Maria) Canale, (Silvana) Mangano or (Silvana) Pampanini,” continued the article, citing a list of other female Italian cinema icons.

Born in the hilltop town of Subiaco outside Rome in 1927, Lollobrigida started out as a model and was first scouted when she took part in the Miss Italy competition in 1947.

Although she would go on to be dubbed “The Most Beautiful Woman in The World”, Lollobrigida came in third place in the competition, after Lucia Bosè and Gianna Maria Canale, who would both also go on to forge successful cinema careers.

After several smaller supporting roles in the late 1940s, she secured her first co-starring role in Luigi Zampa’s comedy-drama Campane e Martello, playing a prostitute who discovers the earnings she sent to a priest for safekeeping have been used to set up an orphanage.

Her first major breakthrough role was in the 1952 French swashbuckler Fearless Little Soldier (Fan la Tulipe), in which she co-starred opposite Gérard Philipe.

Her star also continued to rise at home with Luigi Comencini’s 1953 romantic comedy hit Bread, Love And Dreams, in which she played an earthy, young woman who catches the eye of a veteran marshall played by Vittorio De Sica.

Other Italian hits included the 1953 romantic-drama Beautiful But Dangerous, in which she played a music hall singer who falls in love with a Russian prince, for which she won the first of seven Italian Davide di Donatello awards.

She also clinched the acting prize for Venere Imperiale in 1962, a biopic about Napoleon Bonaparte’s sister, and Buona Sera, Mrs Campbell in 1968, about a woman who receives payments from three different men who believe themselves to be the father of her child.

At the same time, Lollobrigida was also forging a career in Hollywood, breaking out internationally with John Huston’s 1953 crime caper Beat The Devil, in which she co-starred opposite Humphrey Bogart and Jennifer Jones.

She also achieved international success with the 1956 version of The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, playing Esmeralda opposite Anthony Quinn as Quasimodo, and Robert Mulligan’s Italy-set 1961 romantic comedy Come September, in which she co-starred opposite Rock Hudson.

https://deadline.com/2023/01/gina-lo...95-1235223410/

[Jonestown1]

My German Blu Ray is BD50 this site says its a BD25
There are 2 separate copies of the film on the disc.