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I am also looking for a DVD or VHS copy of Hellzapoppin '41. Frank is still looking for Mrs. Jones!
shareIf you can handle a PAL DVD (it is all-region), it is availabe from EZDVD in Australia: [url] http://www.ezydvd.com.au. It is mastered from a 16mm print, so it isn't the best image, but the film and its silliness are intact. EZ DVD is "blowing it out", so it may mean that Universal has recovered its copyright, which may mean the film will come out in a "real" edition sometime in the next decade.
shareThanks for the info. I don't know if I'll bother ordering it from there myself, but I would really like to see it as I am into swing dancing and am learning Balboa. I keep seeing this movie referenced in the dancing community. Hope they come out with a copy here soon.
shareThey sell this plus thousands more obscure titles at www.videoscreams.com
sharewww.moviemail-online.co.uk are advertising it this month.
shareJust so you know, all VHS/DVD copies of this film are pirate copies. This film has NEVER been offered for tape/DVD distribution.
Same goes for a few of their other films, GHOST CATCHERS, CRAZY HOUSE, and SEE MY LAWYER.
Just for your information!
If the copyright owners haven't come out with an authorized edition by now, they have only themselves to blame if bootleg copies are the only way fans of this 1941 classic can see the film. When they produce a legal copy, then they can complain about bootleggers! The technology has been around for decades. They have no excuse. I saw this movie once on late night TV in the 60s and I'll never forget it.
shareAbsolutely Right!
Olsen & Johnson made only a few films, and few remember them - but - there is a market for them - small, but they are out there.
They could produce them for pennies and charge dollars!
I got a two bootleg copies of their films off of the USENET, not great quality, but passable.
And you are right, once you see an Olsen & Johnson film, it stays in your memory!
As much as I like Abbott & Costello, I am more intriged by Olsen & Johnson.
Not true! Universal Home Video issued it on PAL VHS in the late 1990s. Quality is great. But I agree, this film has been on everyone's list for an official US home video release and it has never happened.
shareIt was on UK TV last week, copied onto dvd, lovely, great film
"I thought we burned that"
O & J's HELLZAPOPPIN and CRAZY HOUSE are both available on VHS in nicely done versions in American NTSC format from MOVIES UNLIMITED. I got mine from them last fall and have enjoyed them several times!
Dejael
Second Sight are releasing this in the UK on Feb 5.
shareIm a fan from switzerland, and i am one more fan of this movie, the community is not so small, and its time they put it on DVD soon. If anyone has a copy to sell, DVD any regions, please, please, please let me know! I`ll zip away.....
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Yup, British DVD in February:
http://www.bensonsworld.co.uk/dvd/7000000120374.asp (this site ships worldwide)
"We find ourselves like a hollow glass globe, from the emptiness of which - a voice speaks."
thanks for the answer. Fantastic. I've been looking for it for years.
one can already order it on the benson world site. i suppose it's a safe bet??
Anne
Just got my copy today, £11.99 from www.play.com in the UK
Now the only other knockout funny movie on my list not available on DVD is 'A New Leaf'
It now exists on DVD in France, in the original English and with French subtitles as well (the subtitles were done at the time of the original film by two French comedians and are quite good).
shareSome french guy's review on amazon.fr says that they don't use the original subtitles on the DVD. They just used the original movie poster for the cover which used them at the time.
Contrairement à ce qui est indiqué sur la jaquette et malgré ce que le "bonus" sur Pierre Dac nous fait croire, les sous-titres ne sont pas ceux réalisés par Pierre Dac et Fernand Rauzena. Je n'ai rien contre les sous-titres de l'adaptatrice Michelle Nahon (qui s'en sort très bien) mais je trouve que c'est de la publicité mensongère d'utiliser l'affiche ayant servi à la sortie du film en France qui indique en gros que l'adaptation a été effectuée par les Rois du Loufoque.
I know some producers at Universal so I will look into this and see if I can find out why O&J's movies have never been released on video by the studio. I am sure it has to do with legal reasons, whatever they are - this sort of thing is usually over music publishing rights to the songs in the movies, which make it sticky for the films to be reissued, and not worth the time and money by the studio to take their time to do it. Typically, the studios always put their time and resources into promoting their new current product like carnival barkers on the midway circus, and seem to have amnesia when someone says "I loved the movie your studio made back in 1941". That's ancient history to the studios.
Dejael
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