William Castle on Blu-ray!

[Spootnek]

William Castle on Blu-ray!

Blue = Blu-ray
Green = DVD
Red = No Blu-ray or DVD Listed

As Producer​ & Director
(The Films He's Famous For!)

Macabre (1958)
House On Haunted Hill (1959) Included in The Vincent Price Collection II


The Tingler (1959)
13 Ghosts (1960) Double Feature with 13 Frightened Girls
Homicidal (1961) Double Feature with Mr. Sardonicus


Mr. Sardonicus (1961) Double Feature with Homicidal
Zotz! (1962)
13 Frightened Girls (1963) Double Feature with 13 Ghosts
The Old Dark House (1963) Included in Hammer Films: The Ultimate Collection: 20 Film Set


Strait-Jacket (1964)
The Night Walker (1964)
I Saw What You Did (1965)
Let's Kill Uncle (1966)


The Busy Body (1967)
The Spirit Is Willing (1967)
Project X (1968)
Shanks (1974)


As Director​

Klondike Kate (1943) Included in William Castle Western Collection
The Chance Of A Lifetime (1943)
The Whistler (1944)


She's A Soldier Too (1944)
When Strangers Marry (1944) Renamed Betrayed
The Mark Of The Whistler (1944)
Voice Of The Whistler (1945)


Crime Doctor's Warning (1945)
Just Before Dawn (Exposed By The Crime Doctor) (1946)
Mysterious Intruder (1946)
The Return Of Rusty (1946)


Crime Doctor's Man Hunt (1946)
Crime Doctor's Gamble (1947)
Texas, Brooklyn And Heaven (1948)
The Gentleman From Nowhere (1948)


Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949)
Undertow (1949)
It's A Small World (1950)
The Fat Man (1951)


Hollywood Story (1951) Double Feature with New Orleans Uncensored
Cave Of Outlaws (1951)
Fort Ti (3-D) (1953)
Serpent Of The Nile (1953)


Conquest Of Cochise (1953) Included in William Castle Western Collection
Slaves Of Babylon (1953)
Masterson Of Kansas (1954) Included in William Castle Western Collection
Charge Of The Lancers (1954)


The Battle Of Rogue River (1954) Included in William Castle Western Collection
The Iron Glove (1954)
Jesse James Vs. The Daltons (1954) Included in William Castle Western Collection
Drums Of Tahiti (1954)


The Saracen Blade (1954)
The Law Vs. Billy The Kid (1954)
The Americano (1955)
New Orleans Uncensored (1955) Double Feature with Hollywood Story


The Gun That Won The West (1955) Included in William Castle Western Collection
Duel On The Mississippi (1955) Included in William Castle Western Collection
The Houston Story (1956)
Uranium Boom (1956) Included in William Castle Western Collection


As Producer​ on films he didn't Direct

The Lady From Shanghai (1947) Associate Producer
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Riot (1969)
Bug (1975)


As Writer​

North To The Klondike (1942) Story
Dillinger (1945) uncredited
Voice Of The Whistler (1945)


The Lady From Shanghai (1947) uncredited
It's A Small World (1950)
Bug (1975)


As an Actor in films he didn't Direct

When Love Is Young (1937) uncredited
It Could Happen To You! (1937) uncredited
The Man Who Cried Wolf (1937) uncredited


The Lady In Question (1940) uncredited
He Stayed For Breakfast (1940) uncredited
Rosemary's Baby (1968) uncredited


The Sex Symbol (1974)
Shampoo (1975)
Bug (1975) uncredited
The Day Of The Locust (1975)


International Blu-rays of interest:

William Castle At Columbia Volume One (2018)

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The Tingler (1959)
13 Ghosts (1960)
Homicidal (1961)
Mr Sardonicus (1961)

Note: The listing for this Box Set says Region Free, but the listings for the individual Blu-rays say Region B.
William Castle At Columbia Volume Two (2018) Region B

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Zotz! (1962)
13 Frightened Girls (1963)
The Old Dark House (1963)
Strait-Jacket (1964)

The Day Of The Locust (1975) Region Free




Q: Why are there DVDs on this Blu-ray List?
A: So when the Blu-rays are released instead of having to shift the entire list to put them where they go I just have to change the DVD to the Blu-ray.
Just think of the DVDs as placeholders until the Blu-rays are released.

(Actor / Actress / Director on Blu-ray Index Link List)

[chriszilla]

The two box sets from Powerhouse/Indicator,

William Castle At Columbia Vol. One


- and -

William Castle At Columbia Vol. Two


feature superb transfers, and several excellent supplements, as well!

[lilboyblu]

ZOTZ! is on Blu-ray in that Volume II Indicator set.


The Day of the Locust is on Region Free Blu-ray from Imprint films in Australia.

[Rzzzz]

I LOVE the Castle films with Joan Crawford And Vincent Price. I wish he would have worked with Bette Davis. I have the Dvd of It's A Small World. It is incredibly entertaining and I recommend it for William Castle fans or anyone who likes "little people" films. You can get it here for cheap.....

[chriszilla]

Originally Posted by Spootnek

International Blu-rays of interest:

William Castle At Columbia Volume One (2018)

[Show spoiler]

The Tingler (1959)
13 Ghosts (1960)
Homicidal (1961)
Mr Sardonicus (1961)

Note: The listing for this Box Set says Region Free, but the listings for the individual Blu-rays say Region B.
William Castle At Columbia Volume Two (2018) Region B

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Zotz! (1962)
13 Frightened Girls (1963)
The Old Dark House (1963)
Strait-Jacket (1964)

Of the eight films in the two Powerhouse box sets, the only one to be coded for Region "B" is Strait-Jacket. The rest are region-free.

When their numbered/limited edition box sets sell out, they typically reissue the films individually, with the same supplements, but without the thick booklets that accompany the discs in the box. I am not aware of Powerhouse ever adding a region code to a disc upon its re-release, so I would imagine the individual discs of The Tingler, and the other 3 films in Vol. One, are all-region, as they had been originally. But I have not verified that. I have the box sets, and can confirm that all but Strait-Jacket are region-free.

Vol. Two is still available, so the films in that box are not yet available individually from Powerhouse.

[Beckford]

Thanks for all the effort you went to setting up this well organized reference list.
I'm actually a fan of Castle's pre-shocker titles. Would love to see Mill Creek put together Adventure and Western boxes similar to their Film Noir sets.
They'd be perfect places to incorporate the following:
(Adventure)
Serpent of the Nile, Slaves of Babylon, Charge of the Lancers,
The Saracen Blade, The Iron Glove, Duel on the Mississippi ,
Drums of Tahiti
(Western)
Battle of Rogue River, Fort Ti, The Gun That Won the West etc

Mill Creek drew from the Columbia catalogue for their 12 film Noir sets and that studio produced plenty of excellent non-Castle genre titles in the 50's. More than an enough to augment new Blu-ray packages. Things like "The Brigand", "Fortunes of Captain Blood","Captain Pirate", "Rogues of Sherwood Forest", "The Golden Hawk". And lots more.

Would also like a Blu-ray set of Castle's "Whistler" films from the 40's. Some of them are pretty terrific.

[Spootnek]

Originally Posted by chriszilla

Of the eight films in the two Powerhouse box sets, the only one to be coded for Region "B" is Strait-Jacket. The rest are region-free.

When their numbered/limited edition box sets sell out, they typically reissue the films individually, with the same supplements, but without the thick booklets that accompany the discs in the box. I am not aware of Powerhouse ever adding a region code to a disc upon its re-release, so I would imagine the individual discs of The Tingler, and the other 3 films in Vol. One, are all-region, as they had been originally. But I have not verified that. I have the box sets, and can confirm that all but Strait-Jacket are region-free.

Vol. Two is still available, so the films in that box are not yet available individually from Powerhouse.

I don't have either box set so I can only go by what's listed on this site.

[chriszilla]

Originally Posted by Spootnek

I don't have either box set so I can only go by what's listed on this site.

I understand. Since my last post, I visited the Powerhouse Films website, and verified that the individual releases of the 4 films in the Vol. One box set are indeed "Region Free".

The Mill Creek blu-ray's are a lot less expensive, but if you don't mind paying a bit more for slightly superior transfers, and much better supplementary material, the Powerhouse/Indicator editions are highly recommended, for those who may not have purchased some of these films yet.