Twilight Time Discussion Thread

[oildude]

Pre-order date: Wednesday, December 5th at 4 pm EST.

Directed by Henry Koster (The Robe, Harvey, Desiree, Flower Drum Song, My Cousin Rachel, Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, The Bishop's Wife)

Starring:

Richard Todd (The Dam Busters, The Virgin Queen, The Hasty Heart, The Longest Day, Asylum)

Jean Peters (Captain from Castile, Niagara, Pickup on South Street, Broken Lance)

Cinematography by Harold Lipstein (Damn Yankees, Pal Joey, The Night of the Grizzly, The Adventures of Hajji Baba, None But the Brave)

Music by the great Alfred Newman (Leave Her to Heaven, The King and I, All About Eve, Bus Stop, The Robe, The Egyptian, The Seven Year Itch, Twelve O'clock High, Dragonwyck, Cry of the City, The Song of Bernadette, and many more.)

Special Features: Isolated Music Track / Audio Sermon by Peter Marshall / Fox Movietone Newsreel / Original Theatrical Trailer

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Pre-order date: Wednesday, December 5th at 4 pm EST

Based on the novel by Pearl S. Buck

Directed by Leo McCarey (An Affair to Remember, The Awful Truth, Make Way for Tomorrow, Going My Way, The Bells of St. Mary's, and many more....most of his filmography is from the silent era)

Starring:

William Holden (Sunset Boulevard, The Wild Bunch, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Love is a Many Splendored Thing, The Bridges at Toko-ri, The Devil's Brigade, Stalag 17, Born Yesterday, Sabrina, and many more)

Clifton Webb (Laura, The Razor's Edge, Boy on a Dolphin, Stars and Stripes Forever, Woman's World)

France Nuyen (South Pacific, The Joy Luck Club, A Girl Named Tamiko, and many familiar TV series throughout the 1960s to 1980s)

Special Feature: Original Theatrical Trailer

Trailer

SATAN NEVER SLEEPS - 1962 - YouTube

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Pre-order date: Wednesday, December 5th at 4 pm EST.

Directed by Brian G. Hutton (Where Eagle's Dare, Kelly's Heroes, High Road to China, Night Watch)

Starring:

Elizabeth Taylor (Giant; Suddenly, Last Summer; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?; Cleopatra; Butterfield 8; Raintree County; and many more)

Michael Caine (Zulu, The Italian Job, Play Dirty, Get Carter, The Last Valley, Too Late the Hero, The Eagle Has Landed, Dressed to Kill, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and many more)

Susannah York (Tunes of Glory, Tom Jones, A Man for All Seasons, They Shoot Horses Don't They?, Superman, Images)

Cinematography by Billy Williams (Gandhi, On Golden Pond, The Wind and the Lion, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Voyage of the Damned)

Music by Stanley Myers (The Deer Hunter, The Incubus, Caravan to Vaccares, The Martian Chronicles)

Special Feature: Isolated Music Track

Good article about the film on TCM:

http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/96340.../articles.html


Trailer

X Y and Zee Trailer - YouTube

[krasnoludek]

Originally Posted by jayembee

I'm probably going to have to pass on this sale. Too many other things taking up simoleons these days. Among other things, I just ordered a bunch of sale MOC titles from Eureka, and picked up a bunch of Criterions from B&N (I still need to get the Bergman set, if I can manage it).

Plus, my wife and I are buying a house...

I couldn't find any Black Friday deals for houses. What site were you looking at?

[gobad2003]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Congratulations! Our Blu-ray collections are only as good as the roofs over our heads.

You could always build a roof with your blu-rays

[oildude]

Pre-order date: Wednesday, December 5th at 4 pm EST


Directed by Charles Jarrott (Mary, Queen of Scots; The Other Side of Midnight; Lost Horizon (1973); The Last Flight of Noah's Ark)

Starring:

Richard Burton (Where Eagle's Dare, My Cousin Rachel, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Becket, Cleopatra, Equus, The Wild Geese, and many more)

Genevieve Bujold (Coma, Tightrope, King of Hearts, Dead Ringers, Murder by Decree)

Irene Papas (The Guns of Navarone, Zorba the Greek, Z, Don't Torture a Duckling)

Anthony Quayle (Lawrence of Arabia, Masada, Damn the Defiant, The Eagle has Landed)


Music by Georges Delerue (whose many film scores include Rapture, The Day of the Jackal, Mister Johnson, Steel Magnolias, Platoon, Salvador, Julia, The Day of the Dolphin, Day for Night)

Cinematography by Arthur Ibbetson (Where Eagle's Dare, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Bounty, Hopscotch)

Special Features: Isolated Music Track / Original Theatrical Trailer

Trailer

Anne of the Thousand Days - Trailer - YouTube

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Originally Posted by oildude

Pre-order date: Wednesday, December 5th at 4 pm EST

Based on the novel by Pearl S. Buck

Directed by Leo McCarey (An Affair to Remember, The Awful Truth, Make Way for Tomorrow, Going My Way, The Bells of St. Mary's, and many more....most of his filmography is from the silent era)

Starring:

William Holden (Sunset Boulevard, The Wild Bunch, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Love is a Many Splendored Thing, The Bridges at Toko-ri, The Devil's Brigade, Stalag 17, Born Yesterday, Sabrina, and many more)

Clifton Webb (Laura, The Razor's Edge, Boy on a Dolphin, Stars and Stripes Forever, Woman's World)

France Nuyen (South Pacific, The Joy Luck Club, A Girl Named Tamiko, and many familiar TV series throughout the 1960s to 1980s)

[Show spoiler]




Trailer

SATAN NEVER SLEEPS - 1962 - YouTube

I love watching those old previews. I'm especially glad you included it with this film, as going by the title alone, I imagined an entirely different kind of movie from what the preview shows. FWIW, I'll be in for this one ... eventually.

[hoytereden]

Originally Posted by oildude

[Show spoiler] Pre-order date: Wednesday, December 5th at 4 pm EST


Directed by Charles Jarrott (Mary, Queen of Scots; The Other Side of Midnight; Lost Horizon (1973); The Last Flight of Noah's Ark)

Starring:

Richard Burton (Where Eagle's Dare, My Cousin Rachel, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Becket, Cleopatra, Equus, The Wild Geese, and many more)

Genevieve Bujold (Coma, Tightrope, King of Hearts, Dead Ringers, Murder by Decree)

Irene Papas (The Guns of Navarone, Zorba the Greek, Z, Don't Torture a Duckling)

Anthony Quayle (Lawrence of Arabia, Masada, Damn the Defiant, The Eagle has Landed)


Music by Georges Delerue (whose many film scores include Rapture, The Day of the Jackal, Mister Johnson, Steel Magnolias, Platoon, Salvador, Julia, The Day of the Dolphin, Day for Night)

Cinematography by Arthur Ibbetson (Where Eagle's Dare, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Bounty, Hopscotch)

Trailer

Anne of the Thousand Days - Trailer - YouTube

I'm really looking forward to this one. I'm just fascinated the Henry/Anne story and the films or series of it such as- A Man For All Seasons, Wolf Hall.

[Dailyan]

I was thinking of putting in another sale order. Any opinions/thoughts on "The Boston Strangler" and/or "I Could Go On Singing"?

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by Dailyan

I was thinking of putting in another sale order. Any opinions/thoughts on "The Boston Strangler" and/or "I Could Go On Singing"?

The Boston Strangler has dated somewhat: as with all revolutionary films, what seemed groundbreaking in 1968 seems almost quaint at times today. Yet it’s still interesting just how unjudgmental the film is, generally offering a tour of the city’s moral underbelly without ever assuming the same prejudices of the detectives failing to deal with the murders. Like the same year’s The Detective, also from 20th Century Fox, it’s surprisingly level and sympathetic in its treatment of Hurd Hatfield’s gay antique dealer who is automatically regarded as a prime suspect in any sex crimes (was it an in-joke that it’s a portrait that gets him on the list, I wonder?), just as it resists the temptation to demonize William Hickey’s obsessive pervert (lesbians, however, aren’t quite so lucky). In many ways, this is a film more about attempting to understand and prevent further killings than a manhunt movie, with the eternally under-rated Richard Fleischer’s psychiatric training making him an ideal choice for the material.

The matter of fact procedural nature of the film is at times too low-key to make for compelling drama, but the split-screen sequences are still quite impressive and Tony Curtis’ performance is a remarkable piece of work from an actor who all too often seemed all too content to play down to people’s low expectations. It’s also interesting to note the way that the interrogation scene, with Henry Fonda appearing in Curtis’ memories as he works his way inside his head, was so comprehensively ripped off by Spike Lee in Clockers to much less effect.

[hagios]

Does Twilight Time & SAE have regular scheduled sales (which month(s)), such as Criterion/B&N have?

[KJones77]

Originally Posted by hagios

Does Twilight Time & SAE have regular scheduled sales (which month(s)), such as Criterion/B&N have?

Just about every month has a sale. Right now, until the new year, everything is on sale.

Some months, all the items from a single studio are on sale. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong but MGM is Feb, Fox is June, and Sony is Sep? I know TT and MGM don't have a deal anymore so not sure how that'll change this.)

All of these sales have a variety of prices. Recent titles may be $20+, others $10-$15. Some of the slowest selling old titles might be as low as $7.50.

Other months have a 15 for $15 sale so 15 random titles on sale for $15.

[little idiot]

According to «The cart trick» following titles are down to less than 50 copies at SAE:
ALL THE KING'S MEN
GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER
ROOTS OF HEAVEN
SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN

[hariseldon]

Originally Posted by little idiot

According to «The cart trick» following titles are down to less than 50 copies at SAE:
ALL THE KING'S MEN
GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER
ROOTS OF HEAVEN
SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN

Roots is one of the last of the original discs (1/2012) and only one of 2 from 2012 left along with Beloved Infidel (12/2012)

Only 3 from 2013 left Pony Soldier, Alamo Bay, and Royal Flash.

It did always surprise me that a Kerr/Peck movie never sold out, but Scream and Scream Again just shocked me it lasted this long.

[gates70]

Originally Posted by hariseldon

Roots is one of the last of the original discs (1/2012) and only one of 2 from 2012 left along with Beloved Infidel (12/2012)

Only 3 from 2013 left Pony Soldier, Alamo Bay, and Royal Flash.

It did always surprise me that a Kerr/Peck movie never sold out, but Scream and Scream Again just shocked me it lasted this long.

Scream and Scream again is an awful awful movie, and that's coming from a huge Vincent Price fan.

[koberulz]

A new scan of Scream and Scream Again is coming from Kino, reportedly.

[Dailyan]

Originally Posted by koberulz

A new scan of Scream and Scream Again is coming from Kino, reportedly.

I believe that applies to the UK cut. They had stated the existing master (which I assume is the US cut) was getting some additional cleanup work such as dirt removal.

[hariseldon]

Originally Posted by gates70

Scream and Scream again is an awful awful movie, and that's coming from a huge Vincent Price fan.

Pretty irrelevant as these things go -- plenty of terrible awful movies sell great.

Horror and Vincent Price always sell great regardless of the quality. Sometimes bad is better.

May be even more irrelevant apparently with 5 copies left

[koberulz]

Originally Posted by Dailyan

I believe that applies to the UK cut. They had stated the existing master (which I assume is the US cut) was getting some additional cleanup work such as dirt removal.

Yes, that's right. I misremembered the specifics, I just knew there were going to be picture quality improvements.

[bdgking]

Originally Posted by little idiot

According to «The cart trick» following titles are down to less than 50 copies at SAE:
ALL THE KING'S MEN
GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER
ROOTS OF HEAVEN
SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN

Cowboy has 24 units, guess who's coming to dinner 35 units & big heat is under 45 as well