The Prize Is Still In The Pipeline...Representatives from Warner Home Video Theatrical conducted their annual online chat yesterday at the Home Theater Forum. Well, I say annual, but there actually wasn't one last year. In the previous year's chat, however (which I reported on at the time here), they had promised the 1963 Paul Newman/Elke Sommer spy movie The Prize in 2008. Well, that didn't happen. But they gave an update on it yesterday, assuring readers that, "The Prize is undergoing remastering at the moment. No date set yet." So... not much information, but at least we know it's still in production. The Prize may be a blatant Hitchcock wannabe (written by North By Northwest screenwriter Ernest Lehman, ripping himself off), but it's got Elke and it's a hell of a lot of fun... all of which makes it a classic in my book. So I'm excited to know that the studio is still working on it.
The other thing they had promised for 2008 that never came to be was a set of the black and white Saint movies, but there was sadly no update on those last night. (I wish I'd logged on in time to ask!) They did, however, promise that we'd see "all" the Tarzan movies in the near future, so hopefully this means an official release for the Sean Connery classic Tarzan's Greatest Adventure...
The Digital Bits has a full transcript of the chat.
It's pathetic that there's a Spanish and a French 8 b/w Saint film set but no sign of a US/UK 9 b/w Saint film set(the reason I haven't bought either of the above sets is that they are missing "The Saint's Girl Friday").
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised that all of the Tarzan films aren't available on dvd yet. I would get the "Gordon Scott collection" and the "Mike Henry collection".