# Not available on DVD... SHOULD be available on DVD... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 3, 2003, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-available-on-dvd-should-be-available-on-dvd/158732 "2003-03-03T06:55:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-available-on-dvd-should-be-available-on-dvd/158732/1 "2003-03-03T06:55:50Z")
The entire season of the late, great CBS dramadie, “Frank’s Place.” Never jumped the shark. Better than “The Cosby Show.” I can’t find its opening theme song, “Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?” by Louis Armstrong anywhere, either. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-available-on-dvd-should-be-available-on-dvd/158732/2 "2003-03-03T07:02:50Z")
**Miller’s Crossing** , dammit. I’ve been waiting entirely too long for this movie to get released on DVD. I loaned my VHS copy to somebody a while back because they asked why I kept going on about the movie so much; I never saw that copy again. I don’t even need any special features; I just want to see the movie again! Also, in the “not available… should be available… probably NEVER WILL be available…”: US releases of **Pom Poko** and **Porco Rosso** , the Studio Ghibli animated movies. ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-available-on-dvd-should-be-available-on-dvd/158732/3 "2003-03-03T07:11:28Z")
**West Wing**. It’s available in the UK, but not in Region 1. That’s just… unAmerican. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-available-on-dvd-should-be-available-on-dvd/158732/4 "2003-03-03T07:18:15Z")
**Star Wars Trilogy.** ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-available-on-dvd-should-be-available-on-dvd/158732/5 "2003-03-03T07:31:13Z")
I am unable to buy “The Rescuers” or “Sleeping Beauty” by Disney, both available in Euro PAL format. The last in 2 different editions. I cannot buy “Robin Hood Men In Tights.” Nor can I buy “Green Acres” or “Science Court” and most annoyingly I can’t by a Bugs Bunny collection. At least not a complete one. ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-available-on-dvd-should-be-available-on-dvd/158732/6 "2003-03-03T08:00:01Z")
_Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead_ There ain’t no justice. ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-available-on-dvd-should-be-available-on-dvd/158732/7 "2003-03-03T08:13:08Z")
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. All of them would be nice, but if they wanted to leave out _Flying Down to Rio_, and _Roberta_, but they must include the following: _The Gay Divorcee_ _Top Hat_ _Follow the Fleet_ _Swing Time_ _The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle_ Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth: _You’ll Never Get Rich_ _You Were Never Lovelier_ (The best modern update of “The Taming of the Shrew” ever put on film) Gene Kelly and Judy Garland: _Summer Stock For Me and My Gal The Pirate_ And a few other Gene Kelly movies not yet available: _Cover Girl_: Gene Kelly and Rita Hayworth we expect to dance up a storm, but Phil Silvers matching them step for step? Whodathunkit? _Anchors Aweigh_: Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra as sailors on leave in New York. Kelly dances with Jerry the Mouse. _On the Town_: Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra as sailors on leave in New York. It worked so well the first time, they did it again with new songs four years later. _Take Me Out to the Ball Game_: More Kelly and Sinatra. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-available-on-dvd-should-be-available-on-dvd/158732/8 "2003-03-03T08:23:43Z")
_Dances With Wolves_ apparently had a pretty early (limited?)DVD release, but you can’t find it in stores and I’ve seen it on ebay for around $100. In the thread about “panned” movies that you like, I posted one of my personal favorites as _Popeye_, which I have since discovered is not available on DVD. ---
**Author:** ![Hepcat421](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/34f0e0/32.png) [@Hepcat421](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hepcat421)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-available-on-dvd-should-be-available-on-dvd/158732/9 "2003-03-03T09:24:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Drastic \* > \*\*_Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead_ > > There ain’t no justice. \*\* Very true. The VHS is OOP too. Sad, sad world. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-available-on-dvd-should-be-available-on-dvd/158732/10 "2003-03-03T09:26:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SolGrundy \*\*\*Also, in the “not available… should be available… probably NEVER WILL be available…”: US releases of **Pom Poko** and **Porco Rosso** , the Studio Ghibli animated movies. \*\* This may not be any help unless you have a multi-region player, but Amazon Japan has a region 2 Pom Poko that includes English (and French) subtitles. > **[Amazon.co.jp | 平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ \[DVD\] DVD・ブルーレイ - 上々颱風, 野々村真, 柳家小さん, 桂米朝, 福澤朗, 林家こぶ平,...](https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E5%B9%B3%E6%88%90%E7%8B%B8%E5%90%88%E6%88%A6%E3%81%BD%E3%82%93%E3%81%BD%E3%81%93-DVD-%E4%B8%8A%E3%80%85%E9%A2%B1%E9%A2%A8/dp/B00005R5J8)** > > 内容紹介 > > > > > > > > > ジブリがいっぱいCOLLECTION『平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ』自然の恵み豊かな多摩丘陵。そこでのんびり暮らしていたタヌキたちの間に、餌場を巡る争いが起こる。調べてみると、餌場の激減は、人間たちによる宅地造成が原因だと分かる。こんな争いをしている場合じゃない!このままだと、餌どころか住む所すらなくなってしまう。ここに丘陵のタヌキたちの大会議が持たれ、開発阻止を決議。人間たちに立ち向かうため、まず茶釜やだるまなど簡単に化けられるものから... tech info: > **[Amazon.co.jp | 平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ \[DVD\] DVD・ブルーレイ - 上々颱風, 野々村真, 柳家小さん, 桂米朝, 福澤朗, 林家こぶ平,...](https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E5%B9%B3%E6%88%90%E7%8B%B8%E5%90%88%E6%88%A6%E3%81%BD%E3%82%93%E3%81%BD%E3%81%93-DVD-%E4%B8%8A%E3%80%85%E9%A2%B1%E9%A2%A8/dp/B00005R5J8)** > > 内容紹介 > > > > > > > > > ジブリがいっぱいCOLLECTION『平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ』自然の恵み豊かな多摩丘陵。そこでのんびり暮らしていたタヌキたちの間に、餌場を巡る争いが起こる。調べてみると、餌場の激減は、人間たちによる宅地造成が原因だと分かる。こんな争いをしている場合じゃない!このままだと、餌どころか住む所すらなくなってしまう。ここに丘陵のタヌキたちの大会議が持たれ、開発阻止を決議。人間たちに立ち向かうため、まず茶釜やだるまなど簡単に化けられるものから... Personally, I’m hoping for _Emanuelle in Bangkok_ to be released on DVD one day. Always hoping… ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-available-on-dvd-should-be-available-on-dvd/158732/11 "2003-03-03T10:23:07Z")
[At Play in the Fields of the Lord](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6302359848). It’s got a pretty heavy-duty cast, and was a pretty amazing movie. I don’t understand why it’s OOP in VHS, and there is no DVD. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-available-on-dvd-should-be-available-on-dvd/158732/12 "2003-03-03T12:01:59Z")
Second on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Aslo, Noises Off, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark. ---
**Author:** ![HeatMiser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecd19e/32.png) [@HeatMiser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeatMiser)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-available-on-dvd-should-be-available-on-dvd/158732/13 "2003-03-03T12:02:32Z")
Indiana Jones Trilogy. ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-available-on-dvd-should-be-available-on-dvd/158732/14 "2003-03-03T13:49:06Z")
The Great Heston Sci Fi double bill Omega man and Soylent Green. The Bat Man Television show all three seasons. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-available-on-dvd-should-be-available-on-dvd/158732/15 "2003-03-03T13:54:19Z")
**Yankee Doodle Dandy** ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-available-on-dvd-should-be-available-on-dvd/158732/16 "2003-03-03T13:56:35Z")
**Schindler’s List** should be made available, with extras that include a “making of” documentary, deleted scenes, director’s commentary, and interviews with cast and crew. Currently, you can find poor-quality, possibly unauthorized DVDs of the movie, if you scrounge around on the web. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-available-on-dvd-should-be-available-on-dvd/158732/17 "2003-03-03T14:01:46Z")
The Depardieu version of _Cyrano de Bergerac_ isn’t available in the US. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-available-on-dvd-should-be-available-on-dvd/158732/18 "2003-03-03T14:49:47Z")
**Scarface**. I had a thread asking why I couldn’t find it on DVD and found out it had distributed, but is now OOP. ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-available-on-dvd-should-be-available-on-dvd/158732/19 "2003-03-03T14:53:28Z")
Belle de Jour. My perverted self needs that movie on DVD. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SolGrundy \* > Also, in the “not available… should be available… probably NEVER WILL be available…”: US releases of **Pom Poko** and **Porco Rosso** , the Studio Ghibli animated movies. [ IIRC, dh told me that some American outfit will be releasing some Studio Ghibli (subbed!) movies in April. I’ll ask him about it when I call him tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-available-on-dvd-should-be-available-on-dvd/158732/20 "2003-03-03T15:01:41Z")
**Once Upon a Time in America**. A director’s cut version of **Hoosiers**. Apparently the producers wanted the DVD to have all sorts of special features with things like deleted scenes and a documentary on the Milan team. But since MGM owns the rights because of Orion’s bankruptcy, they don’t want to spend the money on it because they didn’t produce the original. How stupid is that? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-available-on-dvd-should-be-available-on-dvd/158732.md?page=2)