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[Kino Lorber Insider]

Originally Posted by goathead1

I would hope that one of the them is one of the greatest heist films of all time, Melodie En Sous-Sol aka Any Number Can Win (1963) but I'm not sure who has the US rights for this one.

It's not Studio Canal.

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Originally Posted by cloudnine

This may be a longshot, but does Studio Canal have the NA rights to ANDY WARHOL'S "BAD" (1977) , which still remains MIA on disc? I ask because it was an Embassy release on VHS and SC owns many of their titles.

No, the rights are not with Studio Canal.

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Originally Posted by John_Drake

Hi Kino Lorber Insider,

Pardon if this has been asked before but does Kino have the rights to Outside Man (1972)?

No, the rights are with MGM.

[SDCinerama]

Hello Kino Lorber Insider,
I saw the Studio Canal had the rights to FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH, and was wondering if that was under consideration for release. There was an Anchor Bay DVD about 20 years ago, but that was terrible.
Cheers!

[BarnDoor]

Is Farewell, Friend (AKA Honor Among Thieves) with StudioCanal? Hopefully that is one of the Delon titles. Gives us more Bronson to boot, which is always a good thing.

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by Kino Lorber Insider

The North American rights to Red Sun are not with Studio Canal.

What about Extreme Prejudice?

[Noremac Mij]

Originally Posted by Kino Lorber Insider

No, the rights are with MGM.

Hi KLI, are you by any chance working on any of the following movies?:

Alien
The Shining
The Terminator
Dune
Solaris

Thanks for your time.

[Jlouisbarrett]

Who owns the rights to Paul Morrissey’s films like Flesh for Frankenstein, Blood for Dracula, Trash, Heat and Flesh? Are these possible Kino releases?

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by Noremac Mij

Hi KLI, are you by any chance working on any of the following movies?:

Alien
The Shining
The Terminator
Dune
Solaris

Thanks for your time.

they might put these ones out after they release Gone With The Wind, Jaws, and Chinatown....

Seriously, not only are these films owned by studios like Fox and Warners, why would you even ask for these? They already have good blu ray releases for the most part.

[Dailyan]

Originally Posted by AKORIS

they might put these ones out after they release Gone With The Wind, Jaws, and Chinatown....

Seriously, not only are these films owned by studios like Fox and Warners, why would you even ask for these? They already have good blu ray releases for the most part.

He's just a troll. Pay no attention to him.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Noremac Mij

Hi KLI, are you by any chance working on any of the following movies?:

Alien
The Shining
The Terminator
Dune
Solaris

Alien, The Shining, and The Terminator are what people in the physical media industry refer to as “evergreen titles”, meaning that past home video editions of these movies have always sold well and that future releases always will sell well.

I'm hard pressed to imagine the studios that currently own these titles parting with them.

[javy]

Originally Posted by AKORIS

they might put these ones out after they release Gone With The Wind, Jaws, and Chinatown....

Seriously, not only are these films owned by studios like Fox and Warners, why would you even ask for these? They already have good blu ray releases for the most part.

Originally Posted by Dailyan

He's just a troll. Pay no attention to him.

When I seen his post I literally laughed out loud. But not because I thought he was stupid for asking such a thing, but because I thought he was really good joke-maker.

As for actual Kino titles, I'm really excited about Le Doulos, and I'm still looking forward to having Kundun one day.

[EVERYONE LIES]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Alien, The Shining, and The Terminator are what people in the physical media industry refer to as “evergreen titles”, meaning that past home video editions of these movies have always sold well and that future releases always will sell well.

I'm hard pressed to imagine the studios that currently own these titles parting with them.

Fake MGM did let Kino have The Good, the Bad and the Ugly which is a film you just don’t give away, so I could see them licensing The Terminator.

[Smegma]

Originally Posted by Jlouisbarrett

Who owns the rights to Paul Morrissey’s films like Flesh for Frankenstein, Blood for Dracula, Trash, Heat and Flesh? Are these possible Kino releases?

Let's hope Criterion reissues some of those, and not Kino

[The Great Owl]

Let's get this Mamie Van Doren show back on the road with Guns, Girls and Gangsters.



Immediately after he is paroled, Chuck Wheeler, an ex-con played by Gerald Mohr (Gilda), arrives in Las Vegas to orchestrate an armored car robbery plan that he and his cellmate devised in prison. With the help of Lou, a small-time criminal played by Paul Fix (To Kill a Mockingbird), he plans to use a short-wave radio to duplicate police check-in codes for the armored car after executing the robbery, but he first has to recruit Joe Darren, a racketeer played by Grant Richards (The Untouchables), to launder the money. The final piece of the puzzle is Vi Victor, a blonde nightclub singer played by Mamie Van Doren (The Girl in Black Stockings), who is married to Chuck's cellmate, but also secretly involved with Darren.

As these shady players set up base at a roadside motel and gas station, Chuck and Vi begin to fall in love while, at the same time, Vi befriends the couple who owns the motel. There is only one minor problem. Chuck's terrifyingly violent and trigger-happy cellmate, Mike Bennett, played by Lee Van Cleef (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), has escaped from prison on the eve of the planned robbery, and he is leaving a trail of corpses on his way to Las Vegas to be reunited with his estranged wife.

The 1959 film noir crime thriller, Guns, Girls and Gangsters, which was directed by Edward L. Cahn (It! The Terror from Beyond Space), is a riveting and fast-paced 70-minute feature that hits the ground running to serve the three basic cinematic food groups promised by its title. Mamie Van Doren, who, along with Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield, stopped traffic during the 1950s, has one of the most sultry character introductions that I have ever seen, in the form of a nightclub performance early in the movie. The ensuing rough-edged dialogue sequence, where her character first meets Mohr's Chuck, could serve as a contemporary by-the-numbers tutorial for what not to do when interacting with women at their places of work. The plot development of Vi later falling for Chuck after he “made a pass” at her backstage at the club adds to the outdated feel of the film by today's standards, but, on the plus side, it also cements the convincing actor portrayals of our key antiheroes as lost souls who do what they can to survive while navigating through their lives of disappointment and broken dreams, and who are willing to take the ultimate risk for a slim chance at wealth and happiness.

Elaine Edwards (The Bat) and John Baer (We're No Angels), as the friendly motel couple, are memorable as the moral counterpoints to the choices made by our girl and our gangsters. These two are also integral to the equation during the action-packed climax, since we are pulling for them to survive.

Lee Van Cleef is the true show stealer here, though, and he excels at what was one of his most fearsomely unhinged character roles. The split second that he appears on the screen, we know that things are not going to end well for anyone involved.

The final scene of Guns, Girls and Gangsters, showing an armored car driving along a desert road, is a priceless example of Production Code era goodness. A voiceover narration, which states, “This is an armored car, specially constructed for its job. It does that job.”, is downright comical in light of the story that has unfolded just before. The armored car featured in the plot certainly did a great job...of being robbed!

Incidentally, I'm finding it nearly impossible to get the title right, because I keep wanting to type it as, “Girls, Guns and Gangsters.” I guess that this natural inclination is a positive psychological validation that my order of priorities is sound.

As with The Girl in Black Stockings, which I watched and reviewed two nights ago as a first feature in the Kino Lorber set, The Mamie Van Doren Film Noir Collection, this movie, which shares a disc with the third feature, Vice Raid, is graced by an impressively filmic video presentation and good audio quality. There are no extras on the second disc, so I had to settle for restarting the movie to watch Mamie Van Doren's nightclub performance scene again.

[GilaFilms]

Originally Posted by Jlouisbarrett

Who owns the rights to Paul Morrissey’s films like Flesh for Frankenstein, Blood for Dracula, Trash, Heat and Flesh? Are these possible Kino releases?

I've heard that director Paul Morrissey owns Frankenstein and Dracula. Severin approached him about licensing them , but he wasn't interested in making any deals for the films at that time.

[garvanites]

Originally Posted by garvanites

KLI - Are Personal Services (1987) or Silent Partner (1978) with StudioCanal, or simply Lionsgate? Thanks.

Never saw a reply so I'm simply following-up:
KLI - Are Personal Services (1987) or Silent Partner (1978) with StudioCanal, or simply Lionsgate? Thanks again.

[Rzzzz]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

The 1959 film noir crime thriller, Guns, Girls and Gangsters, which was directed by Edward L. Cahn (It! The Terror from Beyond Space), is a riveting and fast-paced 70-minute feature that hits the ground running to serve the three basic cinematic food groups promised by its title. Mamie Van Doren, who, along with Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield, stopped traffic during the 1950s, has one of the most sultry character introductions that I have ever seen, in the form of a nightclub performance during one of the first scenes. The ensuing rough-edged dialogue sequence, where her character first meets Mohr's Chuck, could serve as a contemporary by-the-numbers tutorial for what not to do when interacting with women at their place of work. The plot development of Vi later falling for Chuck after he “made a pass” at her backstage at the club adds to the outdated feel of the film by today's standards, but, on the plus side, it also cements the convincing actor portrayals of our key antiheroes as lost souls who do what they can to survive while navigating through their lives of disappointment and broken dreams and who are willing to take the ultimate risk for a faint chance at wealth and happiness.

Lee Van Cleef is the true show stealer here, though, and he excels at what was one of his most fearsomely unhinged character roles. The split second that he appears on the screen, we know that things are not going to end well for anyone involved.

There are no extras on the second disc, so I had to settle for restarting the movie to watch Mamie Van Doren's nightclub performance scene again.

This sounds amazing ! I just watched my bootleg of It Conquered the World (1956)

[Show spoiler](it didn't even conquer the little town)

and Lee Van Cleef was great in that too. Thanks for the great review. I am really looking forward to getting this....

[zeze]

So is Kino ignoring the ghosting issue with The Interpreter blu-ray? This site's review mentions the issue as well as the thread for the blu-ray (links to the relevant posts below).

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...0&postcount=20
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...2&postcount=27
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...9&postcount=39

[gregmtl92]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Alien, The Shining, and The Terminator are what people in the physical media industry refer to as “evergreen titles”, meaning that past home video editions of these movies have always sold well and that future releases always will sell well.

I'm hard pressed to imagine the studios that currently own these titles parting with them.

For what it's worth, a lot of people are speculating that the upcoming 4K UHD release could be The Terminator.