Murder by Death (1976) coming from Shout

[CinemaScope]

Originally Posted by movieben1138

I just showed my DVD to some friends this past weekend! Now it goes to the trade pile! I hope THE CHEAP DETECTIVE won't be far behind.

I actually prefer The Cheap Detective, so I'd love that on Blu-ray, but the DVD looks very nice.

[Gacivory]

Originally Posted by raptors661

If Shout doesn't get the band Murder by Death to do the commentary, I won't buy!

I love the band! I would talk about the band, and I would have a friend always bring up this movie, but I haven’t seen it!

[Doombear]

Great news about this!!! I’m so excited.

[MEB]

I rented the iTunes HD version last night. It's a solid upgrade from the DVD with no serious issues (that I could see). I suspect that Shout will use exactly the same transfer that Sony has already made available to iTunes and other streaming sites.

Mark

[PowellPressburger]

Originally Posted by ltb2.0

It makes for a nice double feature with Clue as well.

Every time I watch CLUE I want to double feature it with Murder By Death

[dhwm]

movie is not funny; more of a snoozefest.

[FForFake]

Thrilled about this news, just watched by DVD again a month or so ago. This is one of my earliest movie memories, watching it on television on vacation. I was very young and didn't get most of the jokes, but it stuck with me, until I was able to get it on VHS much later. I've seen it dozens of times. Such a terrific cast, such a terrifically dumb script full of great terrible jokes, I just adore it. Also very happy they went with the original artwork for the cover, as the DVD cover art was god awful (Giant Peter Falk with tiny heads floating around him against a red background.)

[Aclea]

Back to the Bluray, I'm holding off until I find out about the special features. While I'm sure they'll carry over the featurette and trailer, their City Slickers disc doesn't fill me with confidence that they'll go any further and at least include the deleted scenes from the TV broadcast (Sellers' other brief role as a taxi driver, Holmes and Watson turning up late at the end of the movie, etc) - and this is exactly the kind of title that Indicator might just go to town on in the UK.

Either way, I'm hoping for an it's-about-time announcement for The Cheap Detective to follow.

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by Aclea

Back to the Bluray, I'm holding off until I find out about the special features. While I'm sure they'll carry over the featurette and trailer, their City Slickers disc doesn't fill me with confidence that they'll go any further and at least include the deleted scenes from the TV broadcast (Sellers other role as a taxi driver, Holmes and atson turning up late at the end of the movie, etc) - and this is exactly the kind of title that Indicator might just go to town on in the UK.

Either way, I'm hoping for an it's-about-time announcement for The Cheap Detective to follow.

They HAVE to announce Cheap Detective. They go hand-in-hand. Falk basically plays the same character in both. Maybe they'll announce it today at the same time of the day as Murder by Death was announced yesterday (about an hour from now).

[ltb2.0]

Originally Posted by PowellPressburger

Never offended me either....

Besides Truman Capote is in the damn movie!

If anyone finds this film offensive I’m sure we could rip apart their film collection and find one more offensive by far.


And back to the film... its great

And yes bring on The Cheap Detective

Cheap Detective was also great.

I also liked The Black Bird. Shameful, I know

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by ltb2.0

Cheap Detective was also great.

I also liked The Black Bird. Shameful, I know

There's no shame. I also liked the Black Bird. It's owned by Sony, so there's every chance it could get a release too.

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by ltb2.0

I also liked The Black Bird. Shameful, I know

I have a hunch Twilight Time might do that eventually, if only because of the Jerry Fielding score (Nick Redman produced CDs of many of his scores and met TT's Brian Jamieson through the CD for The Wild Bunch laser disc boxed set). They put out Harry and Walter Go to New York and The Fortune, and they were both just as unpopular in their day.

[BladeRunner2007]

One of my favorite movies of all time. Top 10 worthy. Finally!!!!!

[gates70]

Blind buy for me. Terrific cast!

[koberulz]

I've never seen it, but I've heard of it and it's been on my list of "movies I want to get but don't really want to buy the DVD of in case there's a Blu-ray".

[koberulz]

It says 'available in US and Canada'. Do Shout not ship overseas, or only ship certain titles overseas, or is that just because of the region coding? I don't think I've ever bought a Shout release before.

[latweek]

...

Man who argue with cow on wall like train with no wheels, very soon get nowhere

Questions like athlete's foot…after a while, very irritating.

[koberulz]

A Shot in the Dark just seemed to be an hour and a half of "Peter Sellers trips over and/or breaks things". Which is not my type of comedy at all.

[CinemaScope]

I'm thinking Peter Sellers was best in b/w:

The Naked Truth (1957)
I'm All Right Jack (1959)
Two Way Stretch (1960)
Only Two Can Play (1962)
Lolita (1962)
The Wrong Arm Of The Law (1963)
Dr. Strangelove (1964).

[UFOX]

Exelent news!
Hope the print will be good!