Does anyone know who currently owns the Home Video rights to this great film? Or how to look something like that up?
I know it was originally made by Paramount, but my old VHS copy was distributed by Universal and I know rights for old movies sometimes jump from studio to studio for various reasons.
This is one of just two movies left from my original VHS collection not yet on DVD and I want to e-mail the appropriate studio with my vote to put it out on DVD.
The main IMDb page for "The Glass Key" lists "Teakwood Video" (USA) (2004) as issuing a DVD. If you click on the "Teakwood Video" link, IMDb gives a list of titles from "Teakwood Video". Looks like you will be able to get a copy if you live in the US.
Great movie BTW.
The best bet would be to e-mail Universal. They still have the rights to Paramount's catalogue from this period and released Ladd/Lake's 'This Gun For Hire' from the same period. They are not good at releasing their back catalogue though - I mean they haven't even given Double Indemnity a release.
shareYou can always try to pressure Criterion into releasing it. At least you know it will be a quality release i.e. good transfer and some extras.
Criterion is the kind of company that actually seems to give a damn...
Yes. And Criterion have released Universal titles in the past too [the Killers, All That Heaven Allows, etc.]. Hopefully they'll get some of their noir titles that Universal aren't doing anything with.
shareI e-mailed Universal and they said they have no plans to release it yet.
In the meantime, a friend of mine transferred my video onto a DVD-R. This, of course, isn't nearly the same as proper restored release with nifty extras(and I'll still buy a proper DVD if it's ever released), but at least I've got it on a fairly permanent disc instead of a fragile videotape while I'm waiting for that to happen.
A Criterion release would be great. Certainly this classic film deserves special treatment.
Yeah, and maybe Criterion could restore the other exellent Ladd/Lake "Noir" too: THE BLUE DAHLIA.
Perhaps a Ladd/Lake DVD-boxset (as so many this year) with films like THE GLASS KEY, SAIGON (1948), THE BLUE DAHLIA.