Barbara Stanwyck on Blu-ray

[SanCarolina59]

Per Criterion's announcements, The Furies (1950) will be released/upgraded to Blu-ray on April 20, 2021:

Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston are at their fierce finest in this crackling western melodrama by master Hollywood craftsman Anthony Mann. In 1870s New Mexico Territory, megalomaniacal widowed ranch owner T. C. Jeffords (Huston, in his final role) butts heads with his firebrand of a daughter, Vance (Stanwyck), over her dowry, choice of husband, and, finally, ownership of the land itself. Sophisticated in its view of frontier settlement and ablaze with searing domestic drama, The Furies is an often-overlooked treasure of American filmmaking, boasting Oscar–nominated cinematography and vivid supporting turns from Judith Anderson, Wendell Corey, and Gilbert Roland.
Film Info

Anthony Mann
United States
1950
109 minutes
Black & White
1.33:1
English
Spine #435

Special Features

High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary from 2008 featuring film historian Jim Kitses
New program featuring critic Imogen Sara Smith (Blu-ray only)
The Movies: “Action Speaks Louder Than Words,” a 1967 television interview with director Anthony Mann
Rare on-camera interview with actor Walter Huston, made for the movie-theater series Intimate Interviews in 1931
Interview from 2008 with Nina Mann, the director’s daughter
Stills gallery of rare behind-the-scenes photos (DVD only)
Trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by critic Robin Wood and a 1957 Cahiers du cinéma interview with Mann, as well as a new printing of the 1948 novel by Niven Busch on which the film is based

Cover by Eric Skillman

[SanCarolina59]

Union Pacific (1939) will be released at some point by Kino in the U.S. on Blu-ray (it was previously available on Blu-ray in other countries).

Coming Soon!
Oscar Nominee: Best Effects, Special Effects
Winner of Palme d’Or (Cecil B. DeMille) – Cannes Film Festival
UNION PACIFIC (1939) Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, Anthony Quinn & Evelyn Keyes – Shot by Victor Milner (Reap the Wild Wind) – Produced and Directed by Cecil B. DeMille (The Sign of the Cross, The Ten Commandments).

Originally Posted by Dailyan

[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):

[edmonddantes]

My favorite stanwyck movie is Baby Face without a doubt, I wished it got the release it deserved in HD. I think theres a streaming 1080p version in amazon prime, but I've never seen it coz I dont have prime. anyone care to share their thoughts if they've seen the 1080p version, please?

also I was very disappointed by the furies. i mean the criterion release is top notch, but the movie itself is not what I anticipated given its director and actress. I think walter huston wasnt the right choice for that bigger than life character, and I didnt believe Wendell Corey, an otherwise solid character actor, as this great ladies man either that could shake a woman of stanwyck stature and personality. This role called for someone like tyrone power or kirk douglas, or even better, gary cooper

[SanCarolina59]

Originally Posted by theater dreamer

I really enjoyed Union Pacific, so assuming the technical merits, I’ll pick. T 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.

Ball Of Fire and Stella Dallas are currently owned not by any major studio, but by the Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. Family Trust. Those films are currently have their physical distribution rights licensed to Warner in the U.S. (streaming and maybe broadcast rights are licensed to Miramax), so seemingly any release of them stateside would be from Warner or sub-licensed from Warner, if possible (from one of the last WAC podcasts, they said that since they don't own those films directly, however, the Goldwyn, Jr. Family Trust would need to approve those films for release, and WAC would merely distribute what they wanted to release). Overseas, Sony in Spain has put out The Little Foxes from the Goldwyn library on Blu-ray, so I wouldn't know how it would work abroad or not in regards to non-U.S. releases.

Originally Posted by edmonddantes

My favorite stanwyck movie is Baby Face without a doubt, I wished it got the release it deserved in HD. I think theres a streaming 1080p version in amazon prime, but I've never seen it coz I dont have prime. anyone care to share their thoughts if they've seen the 1080p version, please?

I haven't seen that version, but my guess is that it's likely the HD version of the same scan used for the DVD. Most likely if or when WAC releases Baby Face on Blu-ray, it'll be from a newer scan then that version. WAC has said earlier on their podcast that some films from the Forbidden Hollywood sets were in the works, so hopefully this can be one of them.

[rockinrick]

My Two Favorite Barbara Stanwyck on Blu-ray are Double Indemnity & The Lady Eve.

[SanCarolina59]

Coming from Sony MOD in September (and also from Arrow in Region B same month):

Originally Posted by whiteberry

September 14:



This should use the 4K restoration that showed up digitally on Amazon about a month ago. It is also getting released by Arrow in the UK in September:
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=28805

[DaBargainHunta]

Originally Posted by SanCarolina59

Coming from Sony MOD in September (and also from Arrow in Region B same month):

Awesome news! My thoughts from when I watched it on The Criterion Channel last year right before it expired:

Originally Posted by DaBargainHunta

Walk on the Wild Side (1962)



BARBARA STANWYCK AND JANE FONDA WERE IN THE SAME MOVIE? Why, yes they were! Expiring from The Criterion Channel, I wasn't even originally planning to watch Walk on the Wild Side - also starring Laurence Harvey and Capucine (who was also in Red Sun - which I watched last month before it expired) - but the casting so intrigued me that I couldn't resist. It is always incredible when two cinematic icons from different eras share the same screen, especially when you had no idea that could ever possibly be the case. What a delightful discovery. (For any wrestling fans reading this, it reminds me of a clip I saw the other day of Gordon Solie interviewing the future Triple H in WCW. Who knew they were around at the same time?)

The basic premise: Laurence Harvey meets Jane Fonda on the streets but really pines for his old flame, played by Capucine, who is now a sex worker at a New Orleans brothel run by Barbara Stanwyck. If that sentence alone isn't enough to sell you on the movie, nothing will.

Stanwyck and Fonda share only one or two scenes at most, but it's still a thrill seeing them together. Capucine is always lovely, and Laurence Harvey's easy charm is definitely something I will be seeking more of in the future (I knew of him mainly from the odd Tony Scott movie about his daughter, Domino, and the only thing I remember about that is the weird Beverly Hills 90210 reunion in it).

DaBargainHunta's Decree: Probably not the best movie any of them have ever done, but it's still a fun time. Bonus point for the weird decision to have Stanwyck's husband (played by Karl Swenson) without legs for absolutely no reason whatsoever. (Subtitles: Yes!)

[SanCarolina59]

Coming from WAC in November: Ladies They Talk About (1933)

[theater dreamer]

If only I could get the Arrow disc with the Sony cover.

I’ll buy the Arrow. Maybe it will have reversible art work.

Originally Posted by SanCarolina59

Coming from Sony MOD in September (and also from Arrow in Region B same month):

[theater dreamer]

Why, indeed it does.

Once again, the UK release tops the US.

[SanCarolina59]

Double Indemnity 4K release from Criterion in May:

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Double Indemnity 4K. Another stunning cover by Greg Ruth

https://www.criterion.com/films/30460-double-indemnity

[SanCarolina59]

From Australia, Golden Boy (1939) has been announced for Blu-ray release.

[SanCarolina59]

It was leaked yesterday, but Kino has announced a remastered Blu-ray of The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers from their new Paramount deal.

Originally Posted by Dailyan

https://www.kinolorber.com/product/t...dition-blu-ray
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
• Remastered in HD by Paramount Pictures – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Fine Grain
• Audio Commentary by Author/Film Historian Alan K. Rode
• Trailers
• Optional English Subtitles

[rikraq]

One of my favorite classic actresses. Two tv entries on dvd that will probably not get blu-ray releases that I love are:



But she is in an episode of Charlie's Angels called "Toni's Boys" that is on blu:

[whiteberry]

A trilogy of tales of love and death.

First, a drowning during Mardi Gras leads to a bitter woman’s masked reckoning. Next, an upstanding citizen is driven to madness and murder by a palm reader’s prophesy. Finally, a circus tightrope walker is haunted by dreams of a mysterious woman and his own death.

One of the first horror anthology films made by an American studio – and two years before DEAD OF NIGHT – award-winning director Julien Duvivier (PÉPÉ LE MOKO) delivers FLESH AND FANTASY, three strange and at times surreal stories of the supernatural with an all-star cast that includes Edward G. Robinson (Soylent Green), Barbara Stanwyck (Double Indemnity), and Charles Boyer (Gaslight), who also co-produced. Stunningly photographed by Oscar® winner Stanley Cortez (THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER) and lushly scored by Oscar® nominee Alexander Tansman, Vinegar Syndrome Labs presents the Blu-ray debut of this landmark in 1940s genre filmmaking, newly restored in 2K and featuring insightful critical appreciations along with rare archival materials.

directed by: Julien Duvivier
starring: Edward G. Robinson, Barbara Stanwyck, Charles Boyer, Betty Field, Robert Cummings
1943 / 94 min / 1.37:1 / English Mono

Additional info:

• Region A Blu-ray
• Newly scanned & restored in 2K from its 35mm dupe negative
• Brand new commentary track with film historian / author Barry Forshaw and film critic / author Kim Newman
• “Fate News or The Dark world of Julien Duvivier” - a featurette with French film director Christophe Gans
• Video trailer
• Reversible sleeve artwork
• English SDH subtitles

Ships mid to late January

https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collecti...sh-and-fantasy

Flesh and Fantasy (1943) [Vinegar Syndrome Labs Blu-ray Promo Trailer] - YouTube

It was previously released on a Universal MOD DVD:

[SanCarolina59]

Originally Posted by whiteberry

https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collecti...sh-and-fantasy

Flesh and Fantasy (1943) [Vinegar Syndrome Labs Blu-ray Promo Trailer] - YouTube

It was previously released on a Universal MOD DVD:

Thanks for the update, I'll add it to the master list as soon as it's in the database.