Barbara Stanwyck on Blu-ray

[bwdowiak]

Originally Posted by theater dreamer

Thank you for starting this. I am a huge Missy fan. She and Ingrid Bergman are my absolute favorites. I only wish they’d appeared together in a film.

I am pleased to see her filmography getting major distributor love. I have refused to buy The Strange Love of Martha Ivers and The Bitter Tea of General Yen because they were such half assed releases. Most of the Capra films got these beautiful digibook releases, yet Barbara’s turn with him is treated like an afterthought. Forty Guns will be on my next Barnes and Noble order. Hopefully, Criterion has more in the pipeline.

I don’t understand how so many of her best, and most beloved films remain conspicuously absent. I’ve seen them on TCM-the surviving elements look great. Yet Stella Dallas, Baby Face, Ball of Fire-where are they? One would think that movies pairing Barbara Stanwyck with the likes of Henry Fonda, Kirk Douglas, Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, etc would be no brainer releases.

Oh well. They’ll come eventually, and I’ll be ready to buy them. I’ve got The Lady Eve, now, and I’m happy as a clam.

I’ve subscribed to this discussion, and I’ll be checking it frequently. Thank you, again, for starting this, SanCarolina59.

Originally Posted by SanCarolina59

Thanks. I'm hoping more of her filmography comes to Blu-ray in the next year, especially with WAC going on a roll right now (Warner owns the majority of her remaining films that haven't been released on Blu-ray) and Kino potentially making a 3rd Universal deal. As far as what the best copy of The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers, the best copy of it out there is a now OOP DVD from Paramount themselves listed below, which is to my knowledge the only official version of this film ever released (I'm not certain if TV airings of it on TCM and other channels are taken from this source or random public domain transfers of it):

this site can be a very cool resource. I came to this thread today to ask this very question - if the folks here would consider the Paramount DVD a better release for this film being that the Blu-ray has been given a heavy treatment of DNR.

thanks for answering my question before I asked it!

[DaBargainHunta]

Originally Posted by bwdowiak

this site can be a very cool resource. I came to this thread today to ask this very question - if the folks here would consider the Paramount DVD a better release for this film being that the Blu-ray has been given a heavy treatment of DNR.

thanks for answering my question before I asked it!

I'm not sure, but from what I vaguely recall when I was researching the issue, I ended up just deciding on the iTunes HD version when it was on sale for $5. (I know, I know... Digital, yuck - etc. etc. But I figured I wasn't breaking the bank at five bucks and could always upgrade if a better disc ever came around.)

[SanCarolina59]

Kino has detailed their upcoming release of Union Pacific (1939):

Originally Posted by Kino Lorber Insider

Coming August 3rd!

Union Pacific (1939)
• NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Dr. Eloise Ross and Paul Anthony Nelson
• Theatrical Trailer

Filmmaking legend Cecil B. DeMille (The Plainsman, The Ten Commandments) directs the classic screen duo of Barbara Stanwyck (Internes Can’t Take Money, The Lady Eve) and Joel McCrea (The Great Man’s Lady, The Palm Beach Story) in this explosive western about the struggle to build America’s first transcontinental railroad. Jeff Butler (McCrea), overseer of the Union Pacific’s construction, finds a network of schemers bent on sabotage. Most prominent are gamblers Sid Campeau (Brian Donlevy, Beau Geste), Jack Cordray (Anthony Quinn, Against All Flags) and Dick Allen (Robert Preston, Reap the Wild Wind). Dick is a former pal of Jeff’s, but their relationship changes as they fight over the railroad and over Mollie Monahan (Stanwyck), the railroad’s spirited postmistress. Featuring Akim Tamiroff (The General Died at Dawn) and Lynne Overman (Spawn of the North), this action-packed spectacle, filled with political intrigue, stampeding buffalo and train wrecks, delivers everything you would expect from a Cecil B. DeMille epic.

[theater dreamer]

I really enjoyed Union Pacific, so assuming the technical merits, I’ll pick it up.

Have any of you heard anything about Ball of Fire or Stella Dallas getting a blu-ray release?

Those two feel to me like something that Eureka would release.

Originally Posted by SanCarolina59

Kino has detailed their upcoming release of Union Pacific (1939):