“Hollywood Q & A” Archive
Irv Slifkin | Hollywood Q & A, Movie Buzz
Question: When, oh when are Arthur Hailey's Hotel and the TV series of The Ghost & Mrs. Muir ever going to be introduced on DVD?
Answer: Good questions that, unfortunately, we don’t have all the answers to. With respect to Hotel, if you are talking about the 1983-1988 ABC TV series produced by Aaron Spelling starring James Brolin and Connie Sellecca, we’ve got the first season available, but no news on when subsequent season will be released by Paramount. The DVD appearance of the 1967 film with Rod Taylor, Catherine Spaak and Merle Oberon is more likely, a perfect candidate for a future Warner Archives release. As for The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, the popular show that ran on NBC and ABC from 1968 to 1970 with Hope Lange and Edward Mulhare, its rights are owned by Fox. According to a company spokesperson, “it is not on our schedule.” So it will remain invisible to video fans for a while longer.
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Irv Slifkin | Hollywood Q & A, Movie Buzz
Question: As always, I enjoy your column each month. I was wondering if you had any information concerning DVD releases of the following films:
Belle Starr (1941)
Springtime in the Rockies (1942)
Song of the Islands (1942)
Yolanda & the Thief (1945)
The Sky's the Limit (1943)
They Met in Bombay (1941)
The Lone Wolf series with Warren William & Eric Blore
Maisie
Thanks for all your help, Irv.
-- (via email)
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Irv Slifkin | Hollywood Q & A
Letters. We get letters. And we’d like to answer them here, each time we update this column. So email us here at movieirv@www.moviesunlimited.com and we’ll print the letters in this column. Here are a couple of our recent queries:
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Irv Slifkin | Hollywood Q & A
Letters. We get letters. And we’d like to answer them here, each time we update this column. So email us here at movieirv@www.moviesunlimited.com and we’ll print the letters in this column. Here are a couple of our recent queries:
Question: Love your column! As a huge fan of all things film noir, I have a few questions on the potential availability of a few noir classics and more recent era gems.
The first one concerns the availability of Johnny Stool Pigeon with Dan Duryea, Howard Duff and Shelley Winters on DVD? This winter I was lucky enough to catch this forgotten treasure at the annual San Francisco Noir Festival. It is one of those great pictures that have fallen through the cracks, which is a shame, because the film has a lot to recommend it. The print that we saw was a brand new copy struck especially for the festival by Universal, and it looked gorgeous.
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