WARNER HOME VIDEO

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Great thread Reaps.

Lets hope it gets people talking films.

I went through the covers individually. When The Bourne Identity sprang up i couldn't believe it. Never heard of it. And such a great cover.

Seeing artwork for The Deadly Trackers was cool. Its a brilliant film and is out on Warners region 1 dvd with Man in the Wilderness another really cool Harris western.

Neither film can be called a conventional western, both are very violent and gritty and showcase the other side of the American west - the mountains and woods.

A highly recommended double bill, especially as it can be picked up for a fiver delivered.

[mr 420]

Two of my favourite Warners are Outland, the 'high noon in space' with Sean Connery and The original (and best) Rollerball. The latter is one of my top ten sci-fi films.

[Wes]

I used to love those old Warner clamshell boxes... Just scanning thru the sleeves on page 1 is a great reminder of what an incredible studio Warners was - I'm specifically thinking of all those gritty gangster films from the 30's, later the shadowy film noirs of the 40's and 50's, and the extraordinary run of films during the 70's - Performance, THX-1138, Death In Venice, Klute, McCabe & Mrs Miller, The Devils, Dirty Harry, Clockwork Orange, Deliverance, O Lucky Man, Enter the Dragon, The Exorcist, Black Christmas, Barry Lyndon, All the President's Men.... I mean these are films we all have in our collections...

[Boo Radley]

It's at times like this I regret having sold all my videos. I had just under 2000 and sold many for less than I paid for them.

[keirarts]

Warner's Maverick directors label was a personal favorite.

Like BOO I got rid of all my tapes. Ditched mine at the advent of DVD, including a lot pf pre-cert rarities.

[Wes]

Originally Posted by keirarts

Warner's Maverick directors label was a personal favorite.

Like BOO I got rid of all my tapes. Ditched mine at the advent of DVD, including a lot pf pre-cert rarities.

Yeah, I dumped all my tapes, thinking everything would be on DVD within a year or two, and part of the culling was my widescreen Mavericks edition of The Devils... which took only 12 years or so to finally replace with a DVD...

Warners had a pretty good selection of music as well....
(By the way, all these Warner tapes can be found at the excellent VideoCollector website)

[Paul@TheOverlook]

Great thread, Reaps. I had loads of big box Warner tapes when I was into collecting VHS - the studio was a firm favourite of mine. I can't remember how many exactly that I had but there were loads. I had every Eastwood film released by Warner big box, pre-cert where possible. I have The Exorcist, Barry Lyndon, The Squeeze, etc, etc. I must have had 50-60 of the black-bordered ones alone...

Originally Posted by Wes

I used to love those old Warner clamshell boxes... Just scanning thru the sleeves on page 1 is a great reminder of what an incredible studio Warners was - I'm specifically thinking of all those gritty gangster films from the 30's, later the shadowy film noirs of the 40's and 50's, and the extraordinary run of films during the 70's - Performance, THX-1138, Death In Venice, Klute, McCabe & Mrs Miller, The Devils, Dirty Harry, Clockwork Orange, Deliverance, O Lucky Man, Enter the Dragon, The Exorcist, Black Christmas, Barry Lyndon, All the President's Men.... I mean these are films we all have in our collections...

Goes to show just how great the studio's management was at that time. Remember, this was the era of the movie brats (Coppola, Friedkin, De Palma, Scorsese, etc) and they get more that their fair share of credit for the way in which Hollywood changed for the better in the late 1970s but some of the studio heads were just as instrumental but are barely mentioned now. People like John Calley who was head of production at WB and Robert Evans who ran Paramount. WB, Paramount and UA were probably the biggest risk takers out of the lot during that time. It's a shame that the greedy eighties creeped in and said movie brats (Firedkin with Sorcerer, Coppola with One from the Heart, Cimino with Heaven's Gate, Scorsese with New York New York) got to a point where they were so deluded that they believed everything that they turned their hands to would be a success (but failed spectacularly in each case of those film's I've mentioned and of course the runaway success of stuff like Jaws and Star Wars didn't help matters either), as the days of big studios taking risks like they did in the 1970s are gone forever.

[mr 420]

Another Warner that springs to mind is Star 80. A fantastic film telling the true story of Dorothy Stratton, a Playboy model on the cusp of Hollywood stardom, but is doomed by her marriage to a slimey and manipulative hustler.

[Rik]

I still have that Led Zepp vid, tried selling it a few years back when I upgraded it to DVD, but nobody wanted it

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Now for F-H.....