Duck Soup Not in Marx Bros Set

Anyone know when/if DUck Soup will get rereleased ?

Winston Corcoran

"Winston Corcoran" <> wrote in message
news:4hthc.13568448$.. .
> Anyone know when/if DUck Soup will get rereleased ?


_Duck Soup_ was already released as an Image DVD on 10/17/00.

However, the Image version of _Duck Soup_ is now out of print, along
original Image versions of other Marx Brothers classics, such as
_Cocoanuts_, _Animal Crackers_ and _Horse Feathers_. Now, Image has
brought back the last three titles, but _Duck Soup_ is the holdout.

Image also has three out of print Mae West classics, _I'm No Angel_,
_Belle of the Nineties_ and _Klondike Annie_.

When these movies first appeared on DVD between 1998 and 2000,
they didn't sell well and ended up being closed out under $10 each.
Maybe now that there are many millions more DVD players in circulation,
these titles will sell better and Image will release ALL of them again.

One-Shot Scot

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 06:17:52 -0700, "One-Shot Scot" <>
wrote:

>"Winston Corcoran" <> wrote in message
>news:4hthc.13568448$. ..
>> Anyone know when/if DUck Soup will get rereleased ?
>
>
>_Duck Soup_ was already released as an Image DVD on 10/17/00.
>
>However, the Image version of _Duck Soup_ is now out of print, along
>original Image versions of other Marx Brothers classics, such as
>_Cocoanuts_, _Animal Crackers_ and _Horse Feathers_. Now, Image has
>brought back the last three titles, but _Duck Soup_ is the holdout.

The Paramount Marxes are coming back into print?! Where did you see
that? The original releases still fetch a lot of money.

. Steve ..
>
>Image also has three out of print Mae West classics, _I'm No Angel_,
>_Belle of the Nineties_ and _Klondike Annie_.
>
>When these movies first appeared on DVD between 1998 and 2000,
>they didn't sell well and ended up being closed out under $10 each.
>Maybe now that there are many millions more DVD players in circulation,
>these titles will sell better and Image will release ALL of them again.
>

Steve(JazzHunter)

DUCK SOUP is not in the set because it was a Paramount film which along with
THE COCONUTS, ANIMAL CRACKERS, HORSE FEATHERS and MONKEY BUSINESS are now owned
by Universal. The Box Set is put out by Warner Bros. which owns the rights to
the brothers' MGM and RKO output along with the NIGHT IN CASABLANCA which is
now owned by Castle Rock which Warner also releases. Write to Universal -
they're the ones who should re-release those other goodies.

AAbrams0264

If you have a region-free PAL player, all the Paramounts except
Cocoanuts are available in R2. I also believe there are NTSC releases
in Brazil(!) that are R0.


In article <>,
"Steve(JazzHunter)" <> wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 06:17:52 -0700, "One-Shot Scot" <>
> wrote:
>
> >"Winston Corcoran" <> wrote in message
> >news:4hthc.13568448$. ..
> >> Anyone know when/if DUck Soup will get rereleased ?
> >
> >
> >_Duck Soup_ was already released as an Image DVD on 10/17/00.
> >
> >However, the Image version of _Duck Soup_ is now out of print, along
> >original Image versions of other Marx Brothers classics, such as
> >_Cocoanuts_, _Animal Crackers_ and _Horse Feathers_. Now, Image has
> >brought back the last three titles, but _Duck Soup_ is the holdout.
>
> The Paramount Marxes are coming back into print?! Where did you see
> that? The original releases still fetch a lot of money.
>
> . Steve ..
> >
> >Image also has three out of print Mae West classics, _I'm No Angel_,
> >_Belle of the Nineties_ and _Klondike Annie_.
> >
> >When these movies first appeared on DVD between 1998 and 2000,
> >they didn't sell well and ended up being closed out under $10 each.
> >Maybe now that there are many millions more DVD players in circulation,
> >these titles will sell better and Image will release ALL of them again.
> >
>

dbf

"One-Shot Scot" <> wrote in message news:<osqdnRjG-cd97hvdRVn->...
> "Winston Corcoran" <> wrote in message
> news:4hthc.13568448$.. .
> > Anyone know when/if DUck Soup will get rereleased ?
>
>
> _Duck Soup_ was already released as an Image DVD on 10/17/00.
>
> However, the Image version of _Duck Soup_ is now out of print, along
> original Image versions of other Marx Brothers classics, such as
> _Cocoanuts_, _Animal Crackers_ and _Horse Feathers_. Now, Image has
> brought back the last three titles, but _Duck Soup_ is the holdout.

Image no longer has rights to any of the Marx Brothers titles. If
you
saw a package it was a rare leftover from years ago. Universal has the
rights to
all four of the above mentioned titles. In articles about Warners'
upcoming Marx release it was mentioned that Universal was working on
re-releasing their Marx Brothers movies "before the end of the year".
But there has been nothing officially announced.

Edgar Allenpoe

Winston Corcoran <> wrote:

> Anyone know when/if DUck Soup will get rereleased ?

Yes, it will.

The reason it's not in the soon-to-be-released set is because
the set contains only those Marx films owned by Warner Bros
(films they did for MGM and RKO). DUCK SOUP was originally
made for Paramount, and is owned by Universal.

-- jayembee

jayembee

"Steve(JazzHunter)" <> wrote:

> "One-Shot Scot" <> wrote:
>
>> "Winston Corcoran" <> wrote:
>>
>> _Duck Soup_ was already released as an Image DVD on 10/17/00.

Actually, it was originally released on 21 Jan 1998.

>> However, the Image version of _Duck Soup_ is now out of
>> print, along original Image versions of other Marx Brothers
>> classics, such as _Cocoanuts_, _Animal Crackers_ and
>> _Horse Feathers_.

And MONKEY BUSINESS.

>> Now, Image has brought back the last three titles, but
>> _Duck Soup_ is the holdout.

No, they haven't brought any of them back. Image licensed
these from Universal, who has since withdrawn the license,
so Image no longer has the rights.

> The Paramount Marxes are coming back into print?! Where
> did you see that? The original releases still fetch a lot
> of money.

At this point, it's still in the "strong rumor" phase, but
it's been said from a few different places that Universal
will be issuing them (probably in their "franchise collection"
format) in or around November.

>> Image also has three out of print Mae West classics,
>> _I'm No Angel_, _Belle of the Nineties_ and _Klondike
>> Annie_.

As well as four Abbott & Costello films (three of which had
been recently reissued by Universal in their first A&C
"franchise collection" volume). And two of the Hope & Crosby
Road Movies, which have been reissued by Universal as well.

-- jayembee

jayembee

"Steve(JazzHunter)" <> wrote in message
news:...
> The Paramount Marxes are coming back into print?! Where did you
see
> that? The original releases still fetch a lot of money.
>
> . Steve ..


I saw it here:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...v=glance&s=dvd

Unfortunately, what I didn't notice was that the Amazon page does not
have a price because the item is out of print:

Marx Brothers Box

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

DVD Features:
Includes 3 Marx Bros. Films (see individual titles for complete
details):

Animal Crackers (1930, 97 min.),
Horse Feathers (1932, 67 min.)
and Duck Soup (1933, 68 min.)

Number of discs: 3

One-Shot Scot