Humphrey Bogart Collections
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Humphrey Bogart Collections
Warner press release:
HUMPHREY BOGART: THE SIGNATURE COLLECTION VOL. 2 DEBUTS OCTOBER 3
DVD Debuts of The Maltese Falcon 3-Disc Special Edition and Bogie Classics Across The Pacific, Action In the North Atlantic, All Through the Night and Passage To Marseille
Burbank, Calif., June 12, 2006 - On October 3, Warner Home Video honors one of the most popular movie actors of all time with the DVD release of Humphrey Bogart: The Signature Collection Volume 2. Highlighting this collection is a deluxe new 3-Disc Special Edition of The Maltese Falcon, featuring a newly-remastered edition of the 1941 John Huston masterpiece starring Bogart as Dashiell Hammett's definitive Sam Spade. This new deluxe set is loaded with hours of bonuses including the 1931 version of The Maltese Falcon and the 1936 film, Satan Met a Lady, commentary by Bogart biographer Eric Lax, a recently recovered additional scene as well as vintage Warner "Night at the Movies"
HUMPHREY BOGART: THE SIGNATURE COLLECTION VOL. 2 DEBUTS OCTOBER 3
DVD Debuts of The Maltese Falcon 3-Disc Special Edition and Bogie Classics Across The Pacific, Action In the North Atlantic, All Through the Night and Passage To Marseille
Burbank, Calif., June 12, 2006 - On October 3, Warner Home Video honors one of the most popular movie actors of all time with the DVD release of Humphrey Bogart: The Signature Collection Volume 2. Highlighting this collection is a deluxe new 3-Disc Special Edition of The Maltese Falcon, featuring a newly-remastered edition of the 1941 John Huston masterpiece starring Bogart as Dashiell Hammett's definitive Sam Spade. This new deluxe set is loaded with hours of bonuses including the 1931 version of The Maltese Falcon and the 1936 film, Satan Met a Lady, commentary by Bogart biographer Eric Lax, a recently recovered additional scene as well as vintage Warner "Night at the Movies"
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- tryavna
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Wow! That 3-disc Falcon set looks impressive. It'll be particularly interesting to compare the three different versions. I can't remember which of the earlier versions it is, but one of them features a truly bizarre character actor named Dudley Digges in the Caspar Guttman role. He's not as good as Greenstreet, but he definitely puts his own unique stamp on the role.
I'm also interested in how they'll handle this:
Have they "restored" this additional scene to the film itself, or is it being offered as an extra "deleted scene" elsewhere? I hope it's the latter.
Shame that none of the other titles are being offered separately. IMO, Across the Pacific is a fun little adventure movie that would be nice to own, but I personally find Passage to Marseilles and Action in the North Atlantic rather dull, despite the casts.
I'm also interested in how they'll handle this:
a recently recovered additional scene
Have they "restored" this additional scene to the film itself, or is it being offered as an extra "deleted scene" elsewhere? I hope it's the latter.
Shame that none of the other titles are being offered separately. IMO, Across the Pacific is a fun little adventure movie that would be nice to own, but I personally find Passage to Marseilles and Action in the North Atlantic rather dull, despite the casts.
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It is great to see Warner's releasing more of Bogie's films especially those that he made with Michael Curtiz. I concur, on the 3-disc of Maltese Falcon, it will be great to see Warren William as Sam Spade. I think Warner's should consider a Warren William boxset with the films Employees Entrance, Skyscraper, The Kennel Murder Case and The Case of the Curious Bride (he is Perry Mason in this film and interestingly this is Errol Flynn's screen debut as a corpse)
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There was no first collection. They released The Bogart Collection that has a head shot of Bogart like other signature collections, but no signature on the box. It includes The Big Sleep, Casablanca - Two-Disc Special Edition, The Maltese Falcon, To Have and Have Not and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - Two-Disc Special Edition. I think this set was released when they still used snappers (in September 2003). There was also a Humphrey Bogart Collection released in 2000 with Boggie in fedora on the cover.
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I completely agree that many of the fans would overlap (I'm one of them), but from a competitive sales point of view, the Bogart collection probably wouldn't sell as many copies as new Star Wars discs.
Oh well, I can wait another month to once again see Bogart as a Frenchman in Passage to Marseille.
Oh well, I can wait another month to once again see Bogart as a Frenchman in Passage to Marseille.
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I really hope that the films other than The Maltese Falcon are packaged in the traditional armary cases. I adore Passage to Marseille, and think it deserves a release of its own, separate from the boxed set.
Does anyone know if the other four films, besides The Maltese Falcon, will be packaged in slimcases or the traditional armary cases?
Does anyone know if the other four films, besides The Maltese Falcon, will be packaged in slimcases or the traditional armary cases?
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- Matt
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Warner said in the last HTF chat that discs will only be put in slim cases if they are not otherwise available individually. Since the press release indicates that "all titles are exclusive to the collection, except The Maltese Falcon 3-Disc Special Edition," I would think that the discs will be in slim cases.
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