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by Gregory » Tue Jul 17, 2018 6:31 pm
I don't think they chose to release this solely because of Mitchum, because if there's one director the WAC is devoted to, it's Minnelli, with eight total releases of his films in the line, more than anyone else, and half of those among 2018's announcements so far. I say release them all—keep them coming in any order, though if The Sandpiper is next, that will be a bummer.
As always, the bias is strongly against anything before the 1950s. In the past two years, WAC has released only TWO titles on Blu from before 1945, the more recent of which Meet Me in St. Louis, had already been out from them on Blu-ray.
They should really release The Bad and the Beautiful on Blu, which according to IMDb at least is Minnelli's most popular feature bar none, and it's the successful forerunner to the recently released Two Weeks in Another Town, so probably should have been upgraded ahead of it. But what can you say to a studio that won't even do anything with the Astaire/Rogers cycle on Blu-ray and have left the definitive DVD set essentially scattered to the winds?