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Speedtrap. 1970's film starring Joe Don Baker and Tyne Daly. Saw it twice on ITV back in the nineteen eighties! Got a VHS copy from the second showing which is pretty much knackered. Never seen it listed or shown on tv anywhere since. think it was available to buy on VHS for a while but was deleted. Anyone know who holRAB/held the rights or why it's never shown?
 
Well copy it and stick it on ebay then, for us unfortunate souls that don't have it:D

Actually I have it on VHS myself. I got it imported from the USA, would you believe it? I still want it on DVD though.
 
Flight of Dragons - Cartoon feature that I saw when I was younger about a quest and dragons! Made by the same people that made Thundercats.

Battle Beyond the Stars - Sci fi version of 7 samurai, John Boy Walton plays the lead character. Also, Robert Vaughan and George Peppard are in there

Both of these are pretty good films IMHO and given some of the dross that gets shoved out on DVD, I can't believe that these haven't made it yet.
 
I can't add any films to this thread that I can think of, but I would love to see this on DVD. :D


edit - My bad, it's out on Region One!
 
One of my all time faves is Mr Blunden and it was released on dvd about 5 years ago.

Deleted last year - end stocks of it sold for about a fiver and it now sells for 10 times that.
 
Is there any point in putting old films like the ones mentioned (However good they may be) on to DVD when Blu Ray is in the process of taking over?
 
The Cobblers of Umbridge.

Starring
Joan Sims ... Lilian Beverly / Carol Begorrah / Norah Pepper / Voice of Doris
Roy Kinnear ... Dan and Doris Cobbler
John Fortune ... Phil Cobbler / John Begorrah / Jack Woodley
Lance Percival ... Ralph Beverly / Zebedee Thing
John Wells ... Peggy Cobbler / Tom Wood / Tony Cobbler
William Rushton ... Walter Tumbril
Derek Griffiths ... The People Of Umbridge

I remember it vaguely. It was a send-up of The Archers, and had a running gag of people going round the village saying "I've got some news that concerns not only you, but others too numerous to mention..." and then going on to mention them all, before that character is written out of the film by meeting an unlikely death before being able to impart the important news. I also remember a scene when Willy Rushton is trying to castrate a bull with a pair of garden shears, shortly before being kicked to death by the bull. The important news turns out to be
an H-bomb test at Penny Hasset that destroys the village.
 
One film that I would LOVE to see again is Start the Revolution Without Me. I was in a video rental shop with my mum in the mid 80s and she spotted it, and was all *OMG we saw that on our honeymoon in 1969 and it was the funniest thing ever!* and we rented it, and she was really nervous in case it was a total let down. It wasn't, it was fab - Donald Sutherland and Gene Wilder as two sets of identical twins who were split at birth (so one set is Donald Sutherland and Gene Wilder as pre Revolutionary French aristocrats, and the other set is Donald Sutherland and Gene Wilder as Corsican peasants) and it's the silliest, funniest thing I've ever seen. Or it was, twenty five years ago. I'm now really nervous that when I do finally find it, I'll be disappointed by it.
 
Two films for now:
1 The Saint Of Fort Washington with Matt Dillon&Danny Glover. It's had bare bones releases in France&Spain,but I'd love a R1/2 S.E release!

2 WW And The Dixie Dance Kings(1975) with Burt ReynolRAB. I remember watching and enjoying this during a ReynolRAB season on BBC1/2 during the mid-80s!
 
The Miracle of Morgan Creek. I vaguely remember seeing it one Christmas many years ago when the BBC ran a Preston Sturges season. Even though I couldn't have been more than 8 years old, I remember thinking how risque the subject matter was for the time (unmarried mother, in a comedy, in a 1940's film). There is a Preston Sturges box set for a ridiculously cheap price on Amazon, but MMC is not part of it.

Silas Marner. A wonderful BBC adaptation of one of my favourite books. Ben Kingsley in the title role and a very young Patsy Kensit playing his daughter!
 
Yeah me too :(
Ended up having to settle for a video-dvd transfer.
The movie looks like it may never get a release, due to ownership & copyright arguments. 37 companies claiming ownership apparently, or some such nonsense.
 
I have a video to dvd transfer too, its watchable but not as good as a pre recorded video.
I didn't know about all the copyright problems, it's a real shame.
Recording it off tv is the best bet at the moment but got to hope its on BBC so no adverts.
 
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