Where's the rest of William Castle's movies??

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bgart13.thelatarniaforums	Where's the rest of William Castle's movies??	Lead	[-]
(07/25/08 5:37 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	How about MACABRE, NIGHT WALKER, etc? Who's got the rights to 'em, and are any of the non-Columbia dvd-released titles available elsewhere? Ben
PeteFitzgerald		#1	[-]
(07/25/08 6:14 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	BETRAYED (1944, a.k.a. WHEN STRANGERS MARRY) - Warner THE WHISTLER (1944, and the Castle-directed follow-ups + CRIME DOCTOR, etc) - Sony IT'S A SMALL WORLD (1950) - MGM or Sony (whichever has the Eagle-Lion films) FORT TI (1953, and all/most other pre-MACABRE films of the early/mid-1950s) - Sony MACABRE (1958) - Warner (part of their Allied Artists holdings) ZOTZ! (1962) - Sony 13 FRIGHTENED GIRLS (1963, a.k.a. THE CANDY WEB) - Sony THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1963) - Sony NIGHT WALKER (1964) - Universal I SAW WHAT YOU DID (1965) - Universal (the long out-of-print R1 DVD was released under license by Anchor Bay) LET'S KILL UNCLE (1966) - Universal THE SPIRIT IS WILLING (1967) - Paramount PROJECT X (1968) - Paramount SHANKS (1974) - Paramount I don't know if any of these are out in other regions, though I doubt it. "I say ALL you scientists are CRACKPOTS! Nothing is going to happen..." My current damage at DVD Aficionado See some of my artwork at My ComicSpace page "Limerick of the Day" blog (I post there as "Backthrow") Last Edited By: PeteFitzgerald 07/25/08 6:23 PM. Edited 4 times.
Dr Spyclops		#2	[-]
(07/25/08 6:29 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Nice job, Pete. Your well-researched film lists continually amaze me.
bgart13.thelatarniaforums		#3	[-]
(07/25/08 6:36 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Thanks, Pete. I see a few titles that I'd love to get to see sooner, rather than later!
PeteFitzgerald		#4	[-]
(07/25/08 6:46 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Dr Spyclops wrote: Nice job, Pete. Your well-researched film lists continually amaze me. Oddly, I carry around that unreleased William Castle info in my head at all times (though I had to double-check the release years for IT'S A SMALL WORLD and FORT TI, for accuracy). What can I say? I'm a geek! "I say ALL you scientists are CRACKPOTS! Nothing is going to happen..." My current damage at DVD Aficionado See some of my artwork at My ComicSpace page "Limerick of the Day" blog (I post there as "Backthrow")
PeteFitzgerald		#5	[-]
(07/25/08 7:05 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	bgart13 wrote: Thanks, Pete. I see a few titles that I'd love to get to see sooner, rather than later! You're welcome. At the very least, I'd like to see: * WHEN STRANGERS MARRY included in a future WB Film Noir set * a Sony set of all the WHISTLER films * MACABRE (paired-up, like the upcoming Best Buy sci-fi combos, with some other WB-owned Allied Artists oddity like THE HYPNOTIC EYE or CONFESSIONS OF AN OPIUM EATER) * a set of the three 1960s Sony films, ZOTZ, THE OLD DARK HOUSE and 13 FRIGHTENED GIRLS (with the alternate CANDY WEB title sequence and Castle hosting bits --TNT aired it that way in the early 1990s) * NIGHT WALKER and LET'S KILL UNCLE (maybe mixed in with DARK INTRUDER and SHADOW OF THE CAT, if the marketing department insisted on a 4-film set) * PROJECT X (okay, maybe SHANKS as well... both would be ideal fodder for Legend Films) Luckily, I scored I SAW WHAT YOU DID, shortly after Anchor Bay released it, but latter-day fans deserve another chance at it, if Universal would deign to release a set of their three mid-1960s Castle flicks. "I say ALL you scientists are CRACKPOTS! Nothing is going to happen..." My current damage at DVD Aficionado See some of my artwork at My ComicSpace page "Limerick of the Day" blog (I post there as "Backthrow") Last Edited By: PeteFitzgerald 07/28/08 2:55 PM. Edited 1 times.
Joe Lugoff		#6	[-]
(07/26/08 12:07 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Since you left out: THE BUSY BODY (1967) - Paramount does that mean it has been released to DVD? If so, I wonder why that one and not some of the others.
PeteFitzgerald		#7	[-]
(07/26/08 3:54 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Joe Lugoff wrote: Since you left out: THE BUSY BODY (1967) - Paramount does that mean it has been released to DVD? If so, I wonder why that one and not some of the others. Yes, it's out. THE BUSY BODY was just released early this month, as one of the Legend Films releases of Paramount-licensed films that are currently Best Buy "test market" exclusives, along with THE MAN WHO COULD CHEAT DEATH, PHASE IV, THE DEADLY BEES and THE SENDER. "I say ALL you scientists are CRACKPOTS! Nothing is going to happen..." My current damage at DVD Aficionado See some of my artwork at My ComicSpace page "Limerick of the Day" blog (I post there as "Backthrow")
Hausenfan		#8	[-]
(07/26/08 5:03 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	The Busy Body is available from Amazon as well. Since Sony released The Giant Claw, Zotz shouldn't be far behind!
pinkfloyd95209		#9	[-]
(07/27/08 4:01 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	PeteFitzgerald wrote: THE WHISTLER (1944, and the Castle-directed follow-ups + CRIME DOCTOR, etc) - Sony FORT TI (1953, and all/most other pre-MACABRE films of the early/mid-1950s) - Sony ZOTZ! (1962) - Sony 13 FRIGHTENED GIRLS (1963, a.k.a. THE CANDY WEB) - Sony THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1963) - Sony A perfect collection for SONY's next: ICON OF GIMMICKS-WILLIAM CASTLE
RKS		#10	[-]
(07/28/08 3:01 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	ZOTZ and THE OLD DARK HOUSE are two of my most wanted. How about a ZOTZ coin included?
JimPV		#11	[-]
(07/28/08 2:14 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	PeteFitzgerald wrote: MACABRE (paired-up, like the upcoming Best Buy sci-fi combos, with some other WB-owned Allied Artists oddity like THE HYPNOTIC EYE...) A double-feature disc of these two would be very much appreciated!
Jameson281		#12	[-]
(07/28/08 2:42 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	PeteFitzgerald wrote: IT'S A SMALL WORLD (1950) - MGM or Sony (whichever has the Eagle-Lion films) MGM only has some of the Eagle-Lion films, and that isn't one of them.
PeteFitzgerald		#13	[-]
(07/28/08 3:03 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Jameson281 wrote: PeteFitzgerald wrote: IT'S A SMALL WORLD (1950) - MGM or Sony (whichever has the Eagle-Lion films) MGM only has some of the Eagle-Lion films, and that isn't one of them. Ah, okay. Thanks for the clarification. I guess Eagle-Lion is similar to Allied Artists; a catalog that is split up between more than one studio, plus films that have reverted to individuals, and probably some that have fallen into the public domain. That being the case, do you know if the non-Castle prison/noir flick, CANON CITY (1948), is currently part of MGM's library, or is that in other hands? "I say ALL you scientists are CRACKPOTS! Nothing is going to happen..." My current damage at DVD Aficionado See some of my artwork at My ComicSpace page "Limerick of the Day" blog (I post there as "Backthrow")
Jameson281		#14	[-]
(07/29/08 12:47 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	PeteFitzgerald wrote: That being the case, do you know if the non-Castle prison/noir flick, CANON CITY (1948), is currently part of MGM's library, or is that in other hands? That one is in the MGM library.
Jobla.scarletstreet		#15	[-]
(07/29/08 1:10 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	In an email letter from Sony honcho Mike Schlesinger, he mentioned to me that there is a William Castle box "on the drawing board" for next year (he made a similar comment about Sam Fuller). While he wouldn't confirm any specific titles, he did say that I might see a letterboxed HOMICIDAL in the set (the previous DVD release of the film was full frame).
yendor1152		#16	[-]
(07/29/08 5:35 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I Saw What you Did has to be one of the cheesiest "horror" films I've ever seen. Take 3 parts Leave it to Beaver (only leave out the Cleavers and insert any of the girlfriends who had the hots for Wally), add one part sitcom sweetness, 1 part "rock and roll" the likes of which makes Petula Clark look cutting edge, toss in Joan Crawford wearing a god-awful necklace and screaming like a harpy, one annoying "little sister" who gets into wacky situations, and top it all off with a very dour John Ireland, and you've got Castle's recipe for scares. Except there aren't any! And it looks as if it was filmed in Beaver's neighborhood, too. I half-expected to see Larry Mandelo do a cameo, along with Whitey. Ugh! Rod

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