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New additions to Fox's DVD-R line include several pre-merger titles new to video and some reissued from the Murnau-Borzage and Ford collection:
http://classicflix.com/FOX-ARCHIVES-Thi ... 31273.html

-HA

It will be interesting to see if the issue of MEN WITHOUT WOMEN (1930) is an improvement on the peculiar print hitherto available...

earlytalkiebuffRob wrote:It will be interesting to see if the issue of MEN WITHOUT WOMEN (1930) is an improvement on the peculiar print hitherto available...

The DVDs I have seen of MEN WITHOUT WOMEN are all copied from S-VHS recordings from a screening that was part of the AMC Film Preservation Festival tribute to John Ford. Don't recall anything "peculiar" about the print, unless you mean peculiar in the early talkie sense. I'm sure the FOX DVD-R will be the same source material as appeared on AMC back in 1999.

azjazzman wrote:

earlytalkiebuffRob wrote:It will be interesting to see if the issue of MEN WITHOUT WOMEN (1930) is an improvement on the peculiar print hitherto available...

The DVDs I have seen of MEN WITHOUT WOMEN are all copied from S-VHS recordings from a screening that was part of the AMC Film Preservation Festival tribute to John Ford. Don't recall anything "peculiar" about the print, unless you mean peculiar in the early talkie sense. I'm sure the FOX DVD-R will be the same source material as appeared on AMC back in 1999.

Over the years I have probably seen over 100 talkies made between 1928 and 1931, plus a number of 'shorts', so I didn't mean in the early talkie sense. And in recent years I have caught up with THE BLACK WATCH (1929), UP THE RIVER (1930) and SEAS BENEATH (1931), admittedly all in better copies.

By 'peculiar' I meant in the way the copy of MEN WITHOUT WOMEN seemed to be a sound / silent hybrid. I was given to understand it was lost at one time, although an NFT booklet c1970 lists a scheduling of the film, tho' doesn't mention any peculiarities. When I put up a posting about the film a while ago, arguments raged thick and thin, and I am still uncertain whether what I saw was an amalgam of silent / sound material, or a print prepared for foreign markets. A fascinating film nevertheless.