MYST0 wrote:

I was very excited when I heard that Shout Factory was putting out FACE OF MARBLE at last. It's not a great film, of course, but it's one of the few titles from the classic era that has never been on home video legitimately.
What a big disappointment!  It's just about unwatchable.
I would vote FACE OF MARBLE the worst looking licensed release for 2013. Maybe even this decade so far.
Seriously, it actually looks like a bad Alpha release. Shout Factory must not have seen the material before they announced it. Have they commented on what went so wrong with this title?
They would have been better off canceling it and saving the embarrassment of having their good name on this mess.

A lot of us Monogrammers bought this set for this title only. I sure did. Before anyone says "Yeah, but look at how cheap this set is." I would have paid twice the price for a stand-alone bare-bones good quality copy of this film. 
I wonder if Bob Furmanek knows of a better print in existence? Then they could re-do this title and have a recall of this set.


Shout didn't put their "good name" on this release.  They put the Timeless name on it.  And they chose to put the film on a $5 discount four-pack.  That tells you what they think of the title right there, so don't hold your breath for them to spend thousands of dollars remastering a film that they'll sell a couple hundred copies of (at $5 a pop) at best.  The economics don't work.