No release date has been set yet, but it's been confirmed that Suez is among the first 35 titles soon to be available from Fox Cinema Archives, the studio's new MOD series, modeled on Warner Archives. The film is apparently not among the first batch being released in the series' first month (June 2012), but will appear sometime after. When firm details are available, I (or someone) will post the news here. But it's definitely on its way.
shareSUEZ was released on June 20, along with other Tyrone Power films - LOVE IS NEWS and DIPLOMATIC COURIER .
SUEZ is listed as 98 minutes - too bad the original uncut 104 min. version wasn't located
Right! Fox rearranged some of the films' release dates, and got I think 13 or so of the intial 35 out sooner. Thanks for posting the updated info, prjdean.
Love is News is, of course, also on standard DVD, part of the "Tyrone Power: Matinee Idol" box set. Some outlets broke the set up and sell the titles separately. (Frontier Marshal, also coming out on the FCA line, is also on regular DVD, as a second disc in their most recent edition of My Darling Clementine.)
Besides the matter of running time on this film, I'm concerned that the two CinemaScope films listed among these first 35 titles are advertised as being "fullscreen", not widescreen: Three Brave Men and Fraulein. I hope this series doesn't start off by issuing substandard versions of its films. Time will tell.
Hobnob, I certainly hope that Fox releases those films in Cinemascope - Ive never heard of THRE BRAVE MEN !
Yes I have LOVE IS NEWS already - thanks for reminding me it is in that MATINEE IDOL set- whats the point in issuing it on a MOD disc when there are so many unreleased titles in their catalog? My vote for most wanted are PRINCE OF PLAYERS & GOOD MORNING MISS DOVE in Cinemascope - and why not MARGIE - one of favorite 40s films?
Prince of Players and Margie are on my "want" list, too (I don't care much for Miss Dove), along with plenty of others.
Warner Archives and Universal Vault have been issuing a few films previously released by their studios on standard DVD, but which are now out of print, on these MOD programs, so what Fox is doing isn't unprecedented, but you're absolutely right, when they're just beginning this series, you'd think they'd concentrate on unreleased stuff.
Three Brave Men isn't a great movie, but interesting. It stars Ernest Borgnine as a government worker who's accused of being a subversive, and has to fight to get his job back. It co-stars Ray Milland as his attorney (ironically, Ray was a supporter of HUAC and the blacklist), and Frank Lovejoy. It's not bad, but more interesting for its year (1957) than for its being hard-hitting or daring. It is pretty obscure.
I just read today that two of the initial batch of films, Outcasts of Poker Flat and The Raid, are both postponed. Of course, that would happen to The Raid, the film I wanted most out of all of them.
Just saw the new Fox Archives DVD of SUEZ, and it is stunning (as are all the others I'ver seen so far) We are so lucky nowadays to see these films in such pristine condition and quality.
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