Jesse James x 3 (King, Lang, Ray)

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Jeff
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#1 Post by Jeff »

From DVD Times:
[quote]Fox Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of three Jesse James titles for 5th September 2006. Part of their “Cinema Classics Collectionâ€
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pzman84
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#2 Post by pzman84 »

Wait: the Ray film True Story of Jesse James was widescreen:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051114/technical

Their cropping it!
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#3 Post by justeleblanc »

pzman84 wrote:Wait: the Ray film True Story of Jesse James was widescreen:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051114/technical

Their cropping it!
Give it a second, I doubt they're cropping it. It's probably a typo.
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#4 Post by Ashirg »

Remember when Guns At Batasi and These Thousand Hills were listed as full screen only in announcement and ended up being correct widescreen ratio?
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#5 Post by pzman84 »

justeleblanc wrote:
pzman84 wrote:Wait: the Ray film True Story of Jesse James was widescreen:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051114/technical

Their cropping it!
Give it a second, I doubt they're cropping it. It's probably a typo.
You're probably right. Sorry for my melodramatics. Don't want this to turn into the Breathless board.
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#6 Post by The Fanciful Norwegian »

[quote]Fox Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of three Jesse James titles for 5th September 2006. Part of their “Cinema Classics Collectionâ€
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#7 Post by tryavna »

I wonder if the release of Frank James augurs well for future DVD releases of Lang's films for Fox. I tend to think that Lang's efforts for Fox are among his weakest overall. (American Guerrilla in the Philippines anyone?) But what I wouldn't give for a good release of Man Hunt, which must rank among Lang's finest Hollywood work!
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#8 Post by devlinnn »

[quote="The Fanciful Norwegian"][quote]Fox Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of three Jesse James titles for 5th September 2006. Part of their “Cinema Classics Collectionâ€
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#9 Post by Lino »

These are now scheduled to be released on March, 6 2007 according to DVDEmpire.
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Via_Chicago
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#10 Post by Via_Chicago »

This announcement, coupled with Turell's e-mail regarding the Fuller disc of I Shot Jesse James, makes me sad. I really want to see the Ray...oh well.
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#12 Post by HerrSchreck »

I was thinking the same thing looking at those caps last night. Looks like b&w colorized then dunked in hydrochloric acid.
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#13 Post by viciousliar »

Seems like CBS/Fox must have utilized other source materials for the laser disc release of The Return of Frank James. Seen it, David?
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#14 Post by Scharphedin2 »

It is a real shame! I have viewed Lang's other two technicolor westerns recently (from Optimum), and the colors on those titles were not very good either. Rancho Notorious in particular looked very parched.
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#15 Post by Lino »

Jesse James DVDBeaver review.
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