Submitted for Your Approval: The Long Overdue Release of “Slow Fade to Black” (AKA “M - Blu-ray Forum

chane · 04-14-2024, 12:25 AM

If Rod Steiger and/or Michael Pataki who played his character as a younger man, had been guilty of "overacting" in some scenes, it hardly detracts from this fine story by Rod Serling and Steven Bochco, which debuted on what was the Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theater TV series. Playing older than his years, Rod Steiger as an aging movie mogul desperately fighting against a changed Hollywood. Great supporting case too. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0528154/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Slow_Fade_to_Black

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ho...rysler_Theatre

https://rodserling.com/slow-fade-to-...1964-reviewed/

Searching [ slow fade to black rod steiger ] shows that the vintage film and TV collecting public recall this 1964 NBC-TV episode, to which Universal TV had later added footage and released it as a 1967 TV movie and/or for theatrical distribution. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0528154/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061998/

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/twil...ack-t1510.html

https://alchetron.com/Bob-Hope-Prese...rysler-Theatre

https://lantern.mediahist.org/catalo...964nati_1_0017

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Bob_Hope...rysler_Theatre

http://ctva.biz/US/Anthology/BobHope..._(1963-64).htm

https://m.cinemagia.ro/filme/bob-hop...01x21-1821867/

Some episodes from this series have made it to YouTube, though most in less than pristine technical quality.

But "Slow Fade to Black" or "Movie Maker have been long ago locked away for decades from most viewers by
https://www.paleycenter.org/collecti...&item=T87:0501 , who only permit private screenings by appointment. But many like me are physically unable to attend such showings. And it’s this kind of unjustifiable hoarding which is an affront to our cinematic community and an outright theft of its culture.

But who or what can compel Paley to open its vault to get at least one of these two titles get released on DVD or BD?

However the release may happen, hopefully it won’t be done exclusively via Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hulu or other Hollywood studio content fed streaming services. Either deliberately or by default, they are killing off the optical disk, the primary format which those who enjoy vintage movies and TV shows depend on. Instead, there plenty of DVD/BD distributors who would jump at the chance to release this Rod Serling/Steiger classic. To name only a few………..

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