william...@aol.com
2007-10-20 02:11:09 UTC
Universal has unveiled details of it's W.C. Fields; The Movie
Collection, featuring 17 titles on 10 discs and coming at last on
December 10. The full press release as found at Zeta Minor, tells us
that, unlike the R1 sets there are no extras to be found. However,
those extras are frankly pretty underwhelming, they are relatively
expensive sets, and the U.K. box has the advantage of, I think I'm
right in saying, all but two of Fields Universal titles in a single
collection that can currently be found online at just over £50. Not
bad.
Those titles are, I'll remind you: Million Dollar Legs, My Little
Chickadee, If I Had A Million, Tillie and Gus, Mississippi, The Bank
Dick, Follow The Boys, Six of a Kind, International House, You Can't
Cheat An Honest Man, The Old Fashioned Way, You're Telling Me, It's A
Gift, The Man on the Flying Trapeze, The Big Broadcast of 1938, Poppy
and Never Give a Sucker An Even Break.
The set now includes Follow The Boys but there's no sign of Mrs Wiggs
of the Cabbage Patch or Alice In Wonderland, both listed in previous
specs and possibly the cause of this box being shunted around the
schedules.
http://filmjournal.net/john/2007/10/17/showing-soon-fields-zulu-and-a-pair-of-horrors/
Collection, featuring 17 titles on 10 discs and coming at last on
December 10. The full press release as found at Zeta Minor, tells us
that, unlike the R1 sets there are no extras to be found. However,
those extras are frankly pretty underwhelming, they are relatively
expensive sets, and the U.K. box has the advantage of, I think I'm
right in saying, all but two of Fields Universal titles in a single
collection that can currently be found online at just over £50. Not
bad.
Those titles are, I'll remind you: Million Dollar Legs, My Little
Chickadee, If I Had A Million, Tillie and Gus, Mississippi, The Bank
Dick, Follow The Boys, Six of a Kind, International House, You Can't
Cheat An Honest Man, The Old Fashioned Way, You're Telling Me, It's A
Gift, The Man on the Flying Trapeze, The Big Broadcast of 1938, Poppy
and Never Give a Sucker An Even Break.
The set now includes Follow The Boys but there's no sign of Mrs Wiggs
of the Cabbage Patch or Alice In Wonderland, both listed in previous
specs and possibly the cause of this box being shunted around the
schedules.
http://filmjournal.net/john/2007/10/17/showing-soon-fields-zulu-and-a-pair-of-horrors/