# What are some of the bigger name films still not available on DVD? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 27, 2006, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-bigger-name-films-still-not-available-on-dvd/374361 "2006-09-27T14:40:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-bigger-name-films-still-not-available-on-dvd/374361/21 "2006-09-27T22:43:31Z")
If we can mention TV, how’bout Max Headroom? ---
**Author:** ![RumMunkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@RumMunkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RumMunkey)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-bigger-name-films-still-not-available-on-dvd/374361/22 "2006-09-27T23:07:45Z")
Penn & Teller Get Killed. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-bigger-name-films-still-not-available-on-dvd/374361/23 "2006-09-27T23:13:34Z")
_Police Squad!:_ The Series (all six episodes of it ;)) ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-bigger-name-films-still-not-available-on-dvd/374361/24 "2006-09-28T00:46:52Z")
[QUOTE=Max Torque] I’m sure that the list is slanted toward what’s available in the US. The page even notes that some DVDs are available in other countries; **K2** , for example, was released in Canada, but not in the States. [/QUOTE] Yes, yes it is, and in bargain bins all over the place. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-bigger-name-films-still-not-available-on-dvd/374361/25 "2006-09-28T00:51:40Z")
[QUOTE=rjung] _Police Squad!:_ The Series (all six episodes of it ;)) [/QUOTE] _Police Squad_ either is or soon will be available. Saw it on Amazon. But where is the complete, uncut, _Daria_ series? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-bigger-name-films-still-not-available-on-dvd/374361/26 "2006-09-28T00:51:51Z")
[QUOTE=rjung] _Police Squad!:_ The Series (all six episodes of it ;)) [/QUOTE] Will be released on DVD on 7th November. (Says Amazon.) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-bigger-name-films-still-not-available-on-dvd/374361/27 "2006-09-28T03:06:55Z")
[QUOTE=Crusoe] Now, some of these may be European region-coded, but since most players don’t care any more is that a problem? [/QUOTE] They’re also in PAL, which can be a problem with NTSC. And anyway, that list is very specifically about Region 1. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-bigger-name-films-still-not-available-on-dvd/374361/28 "2006-09-28T03:30:52Z")
**La Double vie de Véronique** aka “The Double Life of Veronica” A shame seeing as how much of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s other work is available on DVD (the major works anyway) but this one seems to be hanging in limbo somewhere. According to an IMDB post, it will be released in Nov 2006, but they were saying the same about Nov 2005. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-bigger-name-films-still-not-available-on-dvd/374361/29 "2006-09-28T03:40:26Z")
[QUOTE=Bippy the Beardless] Well [If…](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063850/) hasn’t come out on DVD anywhere to my knowledge. [/QUOTE] Neither has **O Lucky Man!**. Basically the only two movies I’m still waiting for. That and **Magic** with Anthony Hopkins. ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-bigger-name-films-still-not-available-on-dvd/374361/30 "2006-09-28T03:57:25Z")
Billy Wilder’s [A Foreign Affair](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040367/). Not a well-known picture today for some reason, but it’s still surprising that it’s not on DVD because a) it’s by a major director who was working at his peak, b) it has some big name stars in it, and c) it’s GOOD and deserves a release. It was released on DVD in France, but not in the US – go figure. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-bigger-name-films-still-not-available-on-dvd/374361/31 "2006-09-28T04:23:37Z")
Some movies that are not currently in print in Region 1 DVDs: La Ronde (1950), Death of a Salesman (1951), Miracle in Milan (1951), Navajo (1952), Le Plaisir (1952), El (1953), A Geisha (1953), Sawdust and Tinsel (1953), The Living Desert (1953), The Earrings of Madame de… (1953), Sansho the Bailiff (1954), Voyage in Italy (1954), The Night My Number Came Up (1955), Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955), The Silent World (1956), The Lovers (1958), The Goddess (1958), Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958), Wild River (1960), All the Way Home (1963), America, America (1963), The Cool World (1964), Marriage Italian Style (1964), World Without Sun (1964), Brainstorm (1965), Casanova '70 (1965), The Hill (1965), Simon of the Desert (1965), Inside Daisy Clover (1965), Castro Street (1966), Cul-de-sac (1966), Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967), El Amor Brujo (1967), Titicut Follies (1967), Tobruk (1967), Boom (1967), The Fixer (1968), High School (1968), The Hour of the Furnaces (1968), Journey Into Self (1968), Memories of Underdevelopment (1968), Rachel, Rachel (1968), Why Man Creates (1968), Arthur Rubinstein: The Love of Life (1969), Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), The Battle of Neretva (1969), The Brothers Karamazov (1969), The Happy Ending (1969), The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969), The Conformist (1970), Hospital (1970), Husbands (1970), King: A Filmed Record (1970), The Landlord (1970), The Revolutionary (1970), The Green Wall (1970), Tristana (1970), When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970), The Clockmaker (1971), The Clowns (1971), The Devils (1971), King Lear (1971), Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), A New Leaf (1971), Taking Off (1971), The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972), Young Winston (1972), The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), The Great American Cowboy (1973), The Mother and the Whore (1973), Jail Bait (1973), Lacombe Lucien (1974), Thieves Like Us (1974), Give 'em Hell, Harry! (1975), India Song (1975), Lies My Father Told Me (1975), Chulas Fronteras (1976), Hollywood on Trial (1976), Kings of the Road (1976), The Memory of Justice (1976), To Fly! (1976), Alambrista! (1977), Handle with Care (1977), Killer of Sheep (1977), Providence (1977), Rolling Thunder (1977), Hitler: A Film from Germany (1978), Bye Bye Brasil (1979), Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980), The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980), Prince of the City (1981), Alsino and the Condor (1982), La Nuit de Varennes (1982), Volver a empezar (1982). ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-bigger-name-films-still-not-available-on-dvd/374361/32 "2006-09-28T04:39:45Z")
_Reds_, with Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton. But I understand it is finally coming out on DVD on October 10. ---
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Thank you! When I looked at the list, I immediately went to Hellzapoppin’. When it was missing I did a search - and it is actually out on DVD. So, I can’t add it to the list, but I will be getting it. Olsen and Johnson’s Crazy House is kind of on DVD - but its kind of suspicious, as if someone did a VHS to DVD transfer, so it might still qualify. Not a big name, you say? It has Shemp Howard in it! ---
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[QUOTE=River Hippie] If we can mention TV, how’bout Max Headroom? [/QUOTE] I came here to say this. ---
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As far as I know, **Robinson Crusoe on Mars** has never been released in the States on either VHS or DVD. Despite the title, it’s a pretty good flick. The British TV edition of **Day of the Triffids** isn’t available in US format ([http://www.amazon.com/Day-Triffids-NON-USA-FORMAT-Reg-2/dp/B000GBN186/sr=8-4/qid=1159464223/ref=pd\_bbs\_4/102-2316190-5068134?ie=UTF8&s=dvd](http://www.amazon.com/Day-Triffids-NON-USA-FORMAT-Reg-2/dp/B000GBN186/sr=8-4/qid=1159464223/ref=pd_bbs_4/102-2316190-5068134?ie=UTF8&s=dvd) ) Infinitely superior to the 1962 movie. The Giorgiou Moroder version of **Metropolis** , AFAIK, hasn’t been out on DVD anywehere, I’d like to see the 1985 restoration of the 1924 **Thief of Baghdad** , with the orchestral score based on Rimsky-Korsakoff. I taped this off the TV, but it’s not the best quality. All the DVDs I’ve looked at are different editions. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2006, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-bigger-name-films-still-not-available-on-dvd/374361/36 "2006-09-28T18:11:10Z")
The TV series I’m waiting for is “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour”. I have a feeling it’ll be a long wait. Re: “Twin Peaks”. The season one DVD is missing the pilot episode, which is extremely annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-bigger-name-films-still-not-available-on-dvd/374361/37 "2006-09-28T18:16:42Z")
[QUOTE=h.sapiens] The TV series I’m waiting for is “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour”. I have a feeling it’ll be a long wait. [/QUOTE] And not worth it when it arrives. Those jokes were fresh & topical…in 1969! By now, they will have gone rancid in the can. ---
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For TV, I think it blows that only season 1 of Dragent 67-70 is available. What’s up with that? Surely there are enough rabid Joe Friday fans out there to warrant release of the other seasons? Oh well, at least the Sleuth channel shows episodes, however erratic the scheduling of them may be. Last week was the classic Gannon pretends to a fur dealer episode. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-bigger-name-films-still-not-available-on-dvd/374361/39 "2006-09-28T23:02:02Z")
[QUOTE=MacSpon] Will be released on DVD on 7th November. (Says Amazon.) [/QUOTE] Sure, but it’s not available _now._🙂 ---
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[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] And not worth it when it arrives. Those jokes were fresh & topical…in 1969! By now, they will have gone rancid in the can. [/QUOTE] I’d love to find a collection of _That Was the Week that Was_, which is even older. I have a CD of highlights, and saw an episode at the Museum of Television and Radio; it’s not as topical as it once was, but it’s still funny. A lot of smart, talented people worked on that show; many of whom were unknowns at the time but went on to great careers. And it’s worth it to see how sharply satirical you could be back then, and how lifeless such things are now. Tom Lehrer’s songs from that show have been reissued, why not the show itself? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-bigger-name-films-still-not-available-on-dvd/374361.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-bigger-name-films-still-not-available-on-dvd/374361.md?page=3)