# Which movies are you wanting to be released on DVD? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 26, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-are-you-wanting-to-be-released-on-dvd/305547 "2005-05-26T02:56:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-are-you-wanting-to-be-released-on-dvd/305547/41 "2005-05-26T18:46:18Z")
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. box set would be my most eagerly-awaited DVDs. I’d also love for them to hurry up and collect all the Justice League Unlimited episodes so far. ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-are-you-wanting-to-be-released-on-dvd/305547/42 "2005-05-26T19:15:26Z")
**The Frisco Kid** - a hysterical (if slightly inaccurate) movie set in the 1880s about a rabbi (Gene Wilder) who is sent to a new Jewish community in San Fransisco from Europe. Of course, he has to cross the North American Continent first. Along the way he teams up with a cowboy (Harrison Ford). Hilarity ensues. **Batman** (1966 TV series) **The Odd Couple** (TV series) Zev Steinhardt ---
**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:** [May 27, 2005, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-are-you-wanting-to-be-released-on-dvd/305547/43 "2005-05-27T03:19:30Z")
> [@Sierra Indigo](#): > > AFAIK Robin Hood: Men In Tights is on DVD - my brotherunit has it. Only for the PAL lovin’ Europeans. It’s Dave Chappelle working for Mel Brooks. You’d think they’d be all over it. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-are-you-wanting-to-be-released-on-dvd/305547/44 "2005-05-27T03:25:34Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > I really need a region free DVD player. If you decide to get one, be sure it has a PAL-NTSC converter built in. I bought one about 4 years ago and it’s been worth every penny. It can play R2 & R4 DVDs. ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-are-you-wanting-to-be-released-on-dvd/305547/45 "2005-05-27T04:11:38Z")
**Max Headroom**. What? ---
**Author:** ![don\_Jaime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@don\_Jaime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_Jaime)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-are-you-wanting-to-be-released-on-dvd/305547/46 "2005-05-27T04:18:34Z")
> [@Dignan](#): > > Animaniacs. Nickolodeon is in my dog house for not running the show anymore (and not giving it more attention or running it more often when it did). In '03 (I think) by a complete fluke, I caught Animaniacs on Nickolodeon and found out it ran every Saturday and Sunday at 5 am. I started taping it (when I remembered) or would try to get up and watch it. Then it was replaced by Tiny Toons, which isn’t terrible, but doesn’t match up to Animaniacs in the least. > > I can only imagine that some sort of studio or contractual thing keeps it from being run on Cartoon Network. How is it that something like “Dude, Where’s My Car?” or any other number of stupid movies/tv shows have been put on DVD, but Animaniacs isn’t on DVD? What good does it do anyone not to have Animaniacs on anymore? No good. I want the Animaniacs on DVD! Quoted for truth. And the Pinky and the Brain spinoff, plus the complete Freakazoid would be nice. As for movies, I’m still waiting on _At Play in the Fields of the Lord_. ---
**Author:** ![Dignan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Dignan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dignan)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-are-you-wanting-to-be-released-on-dvd/305547/47 "2005-05-27T04:43:42Z")
> [@Max Torque](#): > > **Dignan** : Animaniacs runs daily, if not even more frequently, on “Nick Toons”, the network for defunct Nickelodeon cartoons. You can also get your “Rocko’s Modern Life” and “Invader ZIM” fix there. Unfortunately I don’t have Nick Toons. The local cable provider doesn’t carry it, and I’m not going to get satellite, or digital or whatever would be necessary. Spielberg (or whoever) should just put out the DVD already! ---
**Author:** ![stegon66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@stegon66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stegon66)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-are-you-wanting-to-be-released-on-dvd/305547/48 "2005-05-27T05:00:46Z")
> [@](#): > > I’d like to get a copy of Until the end of the world or Quiet Earth Last I heard, Blue Underground had gotten the rights to _The Quiet Earth_ and was planning a release. My top three picks: _Voyager The Reflecting Skin Before the Rain_ ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-are-you-wanting-to-be-released-on-dvd/305547/49 "2005-05-27T05:58:44Z")
I would like _The Duchess of Duke Street_ released in America. Why should I have to buy new/different hardware just because it was made over there? Oh, all right. I’ll just buy the British DVD. Also, _EastEnders_ would be nice. But that would be like having a complete DVD set of _All My Children._ I guess I won’t hold my breath. ---
**Author:** ![ZeroGyro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47774/32.png) [@ZeroGyro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZeroGyro)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-are-you-wanting-to-be-released-on-dvd/305547/50 "2005-05-27T06:27:23Z")
How about **Leadbelly**? It’s directed by Gordon Parks. Leonard Maltin and Roger Ebert both gave the movie 3 1/2 stars. It’s one of the few feature films about a blues/folk musician. And it’s seemingly impossible to find a copy of it on VHS. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-are-you-wanting-to-be-released-on-dvd/305547/51 "2005-05-27T07:39:47Z")
I’m waiting for Region 1 DVDs of: Tih Minh (1918), La Roue (1923), The Wedding March (1928), Pandora’s Box (1929), Mädchen in Uniform (1931), Zero for Conduct (1933), The Story of a Cheat (1936), Une partie de campagne (1936), Angel (1937), Make Way for Tomorrow (1937), Hôtel du Nord (1938), J’accuse! (1938), Olympia (1938), Tobacco Road (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), A Canterbury Tale (1944), Hue and Cry (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948), Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), Jour de fête (1949), Not Wanted (1949), The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950), Los Olvidados (1950), La Ronde (1950), Wagon Master (1950), Ace in the Hole (1951), Miracle in Milan (1951), The Tales of Hoffmann (1951), Le Plaisir (1952), The Life of Oharu (1952), El (1953), A Geisha (1953), Sawdust and Tinsel (1953), The Earrings of Madame de… (1953), Monika (1953), Voyage in Italy (1953), Anatahan (1954), Human Desire (1954), Sansho the Bailiff (1954), Artists and Models (1955), The Naked Dawn (1955), Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955), There’s Always Tomorrow (1956), While the City Sleeps (1956), Pyaasa (1957), Journey to the Lost City (1959), General della Rovere (1959), The Nun’s Story (1959), Pickpocket (1959), When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960), El Cid (1961), Whistle Down the Wind (1961), Heaven and Earth Magic (1962), My Name Is Ivan (1962), Ride the High Country (1962), America, America (1963), The Organizer (1963), Brainstorm (1965), Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965), The Hill (1965), The War Game (1965), Cul-de-Sac (1966), Masculin, féminin (1966). ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-are-you-wanting-to-be-released-on-dvd/305547/52 "2005-05-27T11:57:12Z")
> [@](#): > > Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) Are you sure this one isn’t out? I’ve seen most of Russ Meyer’s breast-obsessed _ouevre_ out on DVD, with the read box and the “Bosomania” logo (although I don’t recall this one) ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-are-you-wanting-to-be-released-on-dvd/305547/53 "2005-05-27T12:36:00Z")
_Faster, Pussycat!_ is available only on NTSC VHS. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-are-you-wanting-to-be-released-on-dvd/305547/54 "2005-05-27T15:11:47Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I would like to see the British _Carry On_ movies released. I’ve never seen them but I’ve read about them many times and would like to watch them for myself. [You mean these?](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006JDRW/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1/002-3255223-9456023?v=glance&s=dvd&st=*) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-are-you-wanting-to-be-released-on-dvd/305547/55 "2005-05-27T15:22:20Z")
> [@Tapioca Dextrin](#): > > [You mean these?](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006JDRW/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1/002-3255223-9456023?v=glance&s=dvd&st=*) Well, kinda like that, but not nearly as round. Sorry- I assumed that if there wasn’t a DVD link in imdb they weren’t in DVD (especially since imdb is owned by Amazon). ---
**Author:** ![Selkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Selkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Selkie)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-are-you-wanting-to-be-released-on-dvd/305547/56 "2005-05-27T15:27:52Z")
**Dave Allen At Large**. I have very fond memories of it playing on PBS when I was a kid, and suspect I’d love it even more now, as a semi-adult. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-are-you-wanting-to-be-released-on-dvd/305547/57 "2005-05-27T15:29:03Z")
Not a movie, but V.I.P. was a TV show that would do well on DVD. Someone tell me when it comes out. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-are-you-wanting-to-be-released-on-dvd/305547/58 "2005-05-29T04:19:55Z")
I want to see _Threads_ (BBC nuclear war movie), the Marlon Brando version of _Julius Caesar_, _Scavengar Hunt_, as well as the tv series _Parker Lewis Can’t Lose_ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-are-you-wanting-to-be-released-on-dvd/305547/59 "2005-05-29T04:50:03Z")
There is a “Best Of” compilation for Dave Allen, but, yeah, we need the whole program run. I’d like to revisit “The Gong Show” in all its tawdry 70’s glory. It’ll never happen, though. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-are-you-wanting-to-be-released-on-dvd/305547/60 "2005-05-29T06:32:04Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > John Hurt & Richard Burton’s Orwell’s 1984 (WITH Eurhythmics soundtrack- I heard one got issued with it omitted) The DVD version I have, there’s as much of the Eurythm!cs as the VHS I have, very little. The director never wanted to use the Eurythm!cs to begin with, but was forced to by the studio. The film to DVD transfer is what they botched. Whoever did it, didn’t know that the film was _supposed_ to look washed out, so they “corrected” it. Supposedly there’s a six hour version of _Until the End of the World_ out there. I’d like a decent version of PBS’s _The Lathe of Heaven_ to be released on DVD. The copy that’s out there now supposedly had to be heavily reworked from a pisspoor copy. There **is** a decent copy of the film out there on 1-inch master, owned by the local PBS station in town, and while I told PBS about it, they’ve yet to jump on it. I’ll also agree that we need the complete _Dave Allen at Large_ on DVD. Maybe now that he’s gone, they’ll do it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-are-you-wanting-to-be-released-on-dvd/305547.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-are-you-wanting-to-be-released-on-dvd/305547.md?page=4)