I do wonder if Kino will release this one.
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Kino has asked for this title (Midnight '39) several times, but were told it each time was not available (hinting that some other unknown label had right to it)
I wish whoever owns it would release it. They already have an excellent transfer.
The “Midnight“ transfer streaming on Criterion is significantly better than the very respectable Kino owned transfer of “Death Takes a Holiday” (also ending this month on Criterion). Another superb film BTW.
There is a Blu-ray review on this site.
There is a Blu-ray review on this site.
I know! I wrote it! It's here.
I watched "Midnight" and though it looked good, I did noticed some video defects with it. I might pull out my 2008 DVD to compare the two.
As to "Death Takes a Holiday", I have the Kino Blu-ray as well as the iTunes HD digital in my digital library. I'll try to watch the Criterion Channel's stream then watch the Blu-ray for the audio commentary. I might even compare the two streams, but I don't know which day I'll do so as I have so many movies on my plate to watch first.
Nobody leers at women like John Barrymore.
He's the third bill, but his performance in this movie makes this movie so much better. I always loved his throw away line in this movie about "Arsene Lupin". It always makes me chuckle.
Yesterday, I revisited another movie that I haven't watched in a number of years. After watching "The Most Dangerous Game" again on the TCM app., I decided to purchase the Flicker Alley Blu-ray which was a little pricey, but the 2012 BD seems to be out-of-stock at most retailers. Does anybody screams or looked as frighten as Fay Wray?
Leslie Banks as the psycho hunter really hams it up. A really good movie that was filmed at the same time as "King Kong" using the same sets and actors. Which kind of reminds me that I haven't watched that film in more than a decade so I'll try to do so in the near future.
Today, I hope to finish watching "A Quiet Place Part II" on Paramount+.
Edit: My "Objective Burma!" Blu-ray arrives today so that takes precedence over any other movie.
Edit: My "Objective Burma!" Blu-ray arrives today so that takes precedence over any other movie.
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This week it's back to the grindstone. Either today or tomorrow "The Plainsman" Blu-ray will arrive so that's one more western I can scratch off the list. Furthermore, I've been thinking a lot about "Red River", "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" and "Shane". If it's "Red River" or "Shane" then it will most likely be just one of those movies as I plan on watching both movies twice. "Red River" because of the two different versions while "Shane" has two different aspect ratios. Anyhow, I plan on scratching off at least two movies from my list below which will leave only 19 more to go before the end of the year.
Crawdaddy's "100" All-Time Favorite Westerns:
Either today or tomorrow "The Plainsman" Blu-ray will arrive so that's one more western I can scratch off the list. Furthermore, I've been thinking a lot about "Red River", "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" and "Shane". If it's "Red River" or "Shane" then it will most likely be just one of those movies as I plan on watching both movies twice. "Red River" because of the two different versions while "Shane" has two different aspect ratios. Anyhow, I plan on scratching off at least two movies from my list below which will leave only 19 more to go before the end of the year.Crawdaddy's "100" All-Time Favorite Westerns:
- 3 Godfathers (1949) (DVD/HD Digital)
- Big Sky, The (DVD)
- Blood on the Moon (Blu-ray)
- Geronimo (1939) (Not on Home Video)
- High Noon (Blu-ray/HD Digital)
- Hud (DVD/HD Digital)
- Last of the Dogmen (DVD/Upcoming Kino BD)
- Last of the Mohicans, The (1992) (DVD/Blu-ray/HD Digital)
- Lonely are the Brave (Blu-ray/HD Digital)
- Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (Blu-ray/HD Digital)
- Open Range (Blu-ray/HD Digital)
- Ox-Bow Incident, The (Blu-ray/HD Digital)
- Plainsman, The (1936) (DVD/Upcoming Kino BD)
- Red River (Blu-ray/HD Digital)
- Shane (Blu-ray/HD Digital)
- Sons of Katie Elder, The (Blu-ray/HD Digital)
- Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (Blu-ray/HD Digital)
- Unforgiven (4K/UHD/4K Digital)
- Union Pacific (Blu-ray/Upcoming Kino BD)
- Vera Cruz (Blu-ray/Upcoming Kino BD)
- Wild Bunch, The (Blu-ray/HD Digital)
3:10 to Yuma (1957) (Blu-ray/HD Digital)5 Card Stud (DVD)Alamo, The (1960) (DVD/HD Digital)Ambush (DVD)Angel and the Badman (Blu-ray/HD Digital)Apache (Blu-ray/HD Digital)Arizona (DVD/HD Digital)Backlash (Blu-ray)Big Country, The (Blu-ray)Bravados, The (Blu-ray/HD Digital)Broken Lance (Blu-ray)Buffalo Soldiers (1997) (DVD)Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Blu-ray/4K Digital)California (Blu-ray)Canyon Passage (Blu-ray)Cheyenne Autumn (DVD/HD Digital)Comanche Station (Blu-ray)Cowboy (Blu-ray/HD Digital)Death Hunt (Blu-ray)Destry Rides Again (Blu-ray/HD Digital)Devil's Doorway (DVD)Dodge City (Blu-ray)El Dorado (Blu-ray/HD Digital)Escape from Fort Bravo (Blu-ray)Fastest Gun Alive, The (DVD)Fort Apache (Blu-ray/HD Digital)Four Faces West (Blu-ray)Furies, The (HD Digital/Criterion BD)Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (Blu-ray/HD Digital)Gunfighter, The (Blu-ray/HD Digital)Hombre (Blu-ray/HD Digital)Hondo (Blu-ray/HD Digital)Horse Soldiers, The (Blu-ray/HD Digital)Jeremiah Johnson (Blu-ray)Joe Kidd (Blu-ray)Jubal (Blu-ray)King and Four Queens, The (Blu-ray)Kit Carson (DVD)Last Hunt, The (Blu-ray)Last Train from Gun Hill (DVD/Upcoming Paramount BD)Last Wagon, The (Blu-ray)Magnificent Seven, The (Blu-ray/HD Digital)Man Without a Star (Blu-ray)McLintock! (Blu-ray/HD Digital)Monte Walsh (Blu-ray)My Darling Clementine (Blu-ray/HD Digital)Nevada Smith (DVD/HD Digital)Night Passage (Blu-ray)Only the Valiant (Blu-ray)Outlaw Josey Wales, The (Blu-ray/HD Digital)Pillars in the Sky (Blu-ray)Professionals, The (Blu-ray/HD Digital)Proud Ones, The (DVD/HD Digital)Pursued (Blu-ray)Ride the High Country (Blu-ray)Rio Bravo (Blu-ray/HD Digital)Rio Grande (Blu-ray/HD Digital)Rocky Mountain (DVD)Santa Fe Trail (Blu-ray)Searchers, The (Blu-ray/HD Digital)She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (Blu-ray)Shootist, The (Blu-ray/HD Digital)South of St. Louis (Blu-ray)Stagecoach (1939) (Blu-ray/HD Digital)Tall in the Saddle (DVD/HD Digital)Tall Men, The (Blu-ray/HD Digital)They Died with their Boots On (DVD/HD Digital)Tin Star, The (DVD)Unforgiven, The (1960) (Blu-ray)Virginia City (DVD/HD Digital)Walk the Proud Land (DVD)Warlock (Blu-ray)War Wagon, The (Blu-ray/HD Digital)Westerner, The (DVD)Western Union (Blu-ray)Westward the Women (DVD)Will Penny (DVD/HD Digital)Winchester '73 (DVD/HD Digital)Yellow Sky (Blu-ray)
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Nobody’s “what I’m watching” posts fascinate me more than your’s Robert.View attachment 103819
Yesterday, I revisited another movie that I haven't watched in a number of years. After watching "The Most Dangerous Game" again on the TCM app., I decided to purchase the Flicker Alley Blu-ray which was a little pricey, but the 2012 BD seems to be out-of-stock at most retailers. Does anybody screams or looked as frighten as Fay Wray?
I just checked my Amazon wishlist and see that I added the Flicker Alley BD to it 9 years ago, and obviously it’s never been at a price point I’m willing to pay. It’s also streaming on HBOMax so I need to carve out some time to watch it, maybe even tomorrow. As for owning it, I take it that it’s in the public domain, so finding a halfway decent HD file at the Internet Archive shouldn’t be too difficult.I agree that the Midnight transfer isn’t perfect, but I’ll bet if you do pull out the DVD, you’ll only need one minute past the credits to see a big difference.
My guess on “Death” is that all three use the same transfer. If you get to it, I’ll be interested to hear your thoughts.
"One of my favorite Errol Flynn films "Objective Burma" (1945) about an American paratrooper mission to blow up a radar station in Burma just prior to the Allies launching their invasion to retake Burma from Japanese. The movie has some familiar Hollywood character actors like George Tobias, Henry Hull, William Prince, James Brown, Richard Erdman, Anthony Caruso, George Tyne, Warner Anderson and even Hugh Beaumont before his "Leave It to Beaver" days. I viewed this on TCM this afternoon. I'm still hopeful that some day we get a Blu-ray release for this 142 minute film. Upon release this WW II propaganda film offended the Brits as they felt shafted by it because they felt it showed the Burma invasion operation as strictly American, when the Brits played a major role in recapturing Burma. Warner added on a prologue to show the Brits involvement in the operation, but the damage was done for many Brits. It was banned in the UK for years, but it had good box office in the States."
That was my post from about three years ago about "Operation, Burma!" Today, I watched the WA Blu-ray and it brought tears to my eyes because it looked so beautiful on my 65" OLED. A great job by Warner Archive! I don't have much to add except to say the following line of dialogue taken from that movie kind of illustrates why "War" is just a horrible option.
Yesterday, after watching "Objective, Burma!" (1945), I got to the urge to watch "The Dark Corner" (1946) again because Mark Stevens was on both movies. I've been thinking about doing so for a while as I recently was reading the book "Dark City: The Film Noir" by Spencer Selby which was written back in the mid-1980s, and has almost 500 film noir movies listed in the book. I believe Eddie Muller recommends that book to as he stated during one of his "Ask Eddie" segments that he references on occasion. Anyhow, it's been about 15 years since my last viewing of "The Dark Corner", when the DVD was released. Damn, I almost forgot how good this movie was as I watched the DVD twice because I wanted to listen to the Silver and Uusini audio commentary.
A moody private detective in NYC is being haunted from a past and is being setup as a patsy in an elaborate murder scheme. Stevens plays that part while Lucille Ball plays his faithful secretary with some nice wisecracks and sassy attitude. I love her line about William Powell and The Thin Man movies. Silver and Ursini said Ball hated this movie because Hathaway was a tough director, but she was damn good in this movie without her usual comic slapstick. Clifton Webb plays even a more despicable character in this movie than he did in "Laura". William Bendix plays his hired muscle. I must say Cathy Downs plays a much different role in this movie than she did as Clementine in "My Darling Clementine" as Webb's wife.
While Kurt Kreuger playing an unscrupulous lawyer, Stevens former partner and Reed Hadley as a police lieutenant keeping an eye on Stevens in order to keep him on the straight and narrow.I recommend this movie to anybody, even those that are not big fans of film noir. It's that good of a movie. I love the lighting and cinematography in this movie and some of the NYC location shooting, though much of it was filmed on the Fox lot. A rather violent movie considering it was released in 1946, with some sharp dialogue.
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I agree with your assessment of the film and of Lucille Ball's performance. Both deserve to be more celebrated than they are.View attachment 103944
Yesterday, after watching "Objective, Burma!" (1945), I got to the urge to watch "The Dark Corner" (1946) again because Mark Stevens was on both movies. I've been thinking about doing so for a while as I recently was reading the book "Dark City: The Film Noir" by Spencer Selby which was written back in the mid-1980s, and has almost 500 film noir movies listed in the book. I believe Eddie Muller recommends that book to as he stated during one of his "Ask Eddie" segments that he references on occasion. Anyhow, it's been about 15 years since my last viewing of "The Dark Corner", when the DVD was released. Damn, I almost forgot how good this movies was as I watched the DVD twice because I wanted to listen to the Silver and Uusini audio commentary.
A moody private detective in NYC is being haunted from a past and is being setup as a patsy in an elaborate murder scheme. Stevens plays that part while Lucille Ball plays his faithful secretary with some nice wisecracks and sassy attitude. I love her line about William Powell and The Thin Man movies. Silver and Ursini said Ball hated this movie because Hathaway was a tough director, but she was damn good in this movie without her usual comic slapstick. Clifton Webb plays even a more despicable character in this movie than he did in "Laura". William Bendix plays his hired muscle. I must say Cathy Downs plays a much different role in this movie than she did as Clementine in "My Darling Clementine" as Webb's wife.
I recommend this movie to anybody, even those that are not big fans of film noir. It's that good of a movie. I love the lighting and cinematography in this movie and some of the NYC location shooting, though much of it was filmed on the Fox lot. A rather violent movie considering it was released in 1946, with some sharp dialogue.
After watching "The Dark Corner", it became apparent to me the lack of Fox "film noirs" being showed on "Noir Alley" in 2021. Disney again displaying its "ugly" head.
Updated TCM's Noir Alley 2021 schedule:
01-02-21: The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
01-09-21: The Glass Key
01-16-21: Witness to Murder
01-23-21: Born to Kill
01-30-21: The Killers
02-06-21: The Killer that Stalked New York
02-20-21: Native Son
02-27-21: Odds Against Tomorrow
03-06-21: Killer's Kiss
03-13-21: The Night Holds Terror
03-20-21: The Third Man
03-27-21: Pepe Le Moko
05-15-21: Touch of Evil
05-22-21: The Brothers Rico
05-29-21: Act of Violence
06-05-21: Possessed (1947)
06-12-21: Walk a Crooked Mile
06-19-21: The Blue Gardenia
06-26-21: Shadow of a Doubt
07-03-21: Guilty Bystander
07-10-21: The Bribe
07-17-21: Los Tallos Amargos (The Bitter Stems)
07-24-21: Cause for Alarm
07-31-21: The Glass Wall
Updated TCM's Noir Alley 2021 schedule:
01-09-21: The Glass Key
01-16-21: Witness to Murder
01-23-21: Born to Kill
01-30-21: The Killers
02-06-21: The Killer that Stalked New York
02-20-21: Native Son
02-27-21: Odds Against Tomorrow
03-06-21: Killer's Kiss
03-13-21: The Night Holds Terror
03-20-21: The Third Man
03-27-21: Pepe Le Moko
05-15-21: Touch of Evil
05-22-21: The Brothers Rico
05-29-21: Act of Violence
06-05-21: Possessed (1947)
07-03-21: Guilty Bystander
07-10-21: The Bribe
07-17-21: Los Tallos Amargos (The Bitter Stems)
07-24-21: Cause for Alarm
07-31-21: The Glass Wall
Yup, definitely an underrated movie that really deserves to be released on Blu-ray.
I agree with you both! The Dark Corner deserves to be mentioned and celebrated much more than it is. Being a Fox film is not going to do it any favors. I had completely forgotten that Henry Hathaway directed it. It's been a couple of years since I took the disc off the shelf, but I need to renew my acquaintance with it, too!
Yeah, that was the same price a couple of years ago when I purchased it from iTunes.
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