GOG on DVD? - Gog Discussion

[–] rleary1 16 years ago

You can find tons of rare TV and movies at sell dot com Here's a link to Gog: http://www.sell.com/22KVCV

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[–] Dr Wily 16 years ago

I ended up finding it somewhere else, can't recall. But, it looks like that site is selling the same version I managed to find. It will have to do, I suppose, since it looks like Gog will never received an official DVD.

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[–] Bob-45 16 years ago

No, but Turner Classic Movies showed it a few years back. If you have a TiVo, put it on your wishlist; otherwise, you'll have to scan TCM's monthly schedule.

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[–] Dr Wily 16 years ago

Turner appears to hold the rights to Gog, it seems. It also turned up on TNT around 1993 for their 100% Weird block of weekend programming.

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[–] Xcalat3 16 years ago

ebay

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[–] pcnotmac 16 years ago

I found DVD copies of all of the OSI trilogy; "The Magnetic Monster", "Riders to the Stars", and "Gog" at www.scifistation.com . "Gog" is listed as being in colour. I only purchased "Riders" and toward the end of the film "TCM" popped up in the lower right corner of the screen for a while. The film must have been lifted from Turner Classic Movies.

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[–] jamesroo 15 years ago

try ebay and some of horror movie sellers like
strange video.but careful lot of bad copies out there.

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[–] PostmortemG 15 years ago

"Turner appears to hold the rights to Gog, it seems. It also turned up on TNT around 1993 for their 100% Weird block of weekend programming."

TNT´s 100% Weird was an incredible part of my developing years. Geez, i remember staying up all night, nearly every weekend (Whenever NBA Jams wasn´t showing), just to watch bad movies on TNT! =D Well, most of those weird low-budget movies are nowhere to be seen on cable now, so it´s up to me to collect as many as i can on DVD. Ahhh... those were the days! 100% Weird and MST3K certainly helped turn me into the b-movie junkie (And film student) i am now.

As for this movie? Yeah, i remember it being... weird. Doesn´t some unfortunate sucker get killed by one of the robots near the beginning of the movie? I remember that sequence (If it´s indeed in Gog) disturbing me; also, the awkward clunkiness of the robots is part of what made them threatening, in a wacky way. Seriously - being bashed to death by a robot composed of big metal pieces is scary!

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[–] Dejael 14 years ago

Yes, I have a grainy poor quality VHS videotape copy from TNT's wonderful "100% Weird" sci-fi film festival back in 1993. If it were on a legitimate DVD release, I would buy it.

What's most fascinating about this film is its depiction of then-cutting-edge science and technology, including the supercomputer NOVAC, and the two realistic, believable industrial robots Gog and Magog. It gets a bit dry and pedantic due to dull performances by some of the cast (lackluster and boring Herbert Marshall, for example) but the two stars - handsome, virile Richard Egan and beautiful blonde Constance Dowling make it enjoyable.

I would love to have this on a factory high-quality DVD made from a fresh 35mm print. It is owned by MGM-UA, and AOL-TW, which also owns TCM. This was part of a trilogy of films about a fictitious U.S. government scientific agency, OSI, the Office of Scientific Investigation, sort of a forerunner to NASA. The other ones were The MAGNETIC MONSTER (UA, 1953) and RIDERS TO THE STARS (UA, 1954).
All good sci-fi movies in their day, but all very dated now. Of the three, The MAGNETIC MONSTER is the best, in a black & white film noir sort of way, with its serious depiction of the dangers of nuclear radiation and its Art Deco cinema-verite footage of the underground nuclear cyclotron, taken from a German sci-fi movie titled GOLD made in 1934.

These films were made by the same production company team that made the landmark sci-fi TV anthology series SCIENCE FICTION THEATRE in 1955-1957.

Dejael

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[–] silentxerox 12 years ago

Gog is finally available on DVD from Amazon.com. It's a good print, but not a remastered version. I had a bootleg copy of it earlier, but this print looks great! It just came out Dec 6 2011. I wish a remastered edition with the option of wathcing it in 3D was available, but maybe someday.

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[–] cinema_universe 15 years ago

I have a great copy of "Gog" on VHS. I purchased it from the now-defunct HellFire Video, several years ago. HF was the only outlet I knew of that sold it, and they provided it with full video cover-art that is almost identical to the film's 1950s posters.
HellFire had exclusives of many films (which I purchased), including "Twonky" "The Mad Doctor of Market Street" "Horror Island" and many other titles that are, to this day, almost impossible to find.

I am always on the look-out for an 'official' DVD release of "Gog", but the only DVDs out there are poor copies of poor prints. I purchased one two years ago (from a vendor on ebay) thinking it was a 'proper' DVD, however it was of such poor quality that I asked the vendor if I could return it (which I did).
If I wanted a DVD-R that was home-made, I could do it myself.

My HF-Video VHS copy of "Gog" is still the best print I've ever seen. And yes, indeed, it's color is vivid and striking.

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[–] hobnob53 12 years ago

It's now on DVD-R from MGM. See the other threads!

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[–] diannewirszilas 12 years ago

It's available from Amazon.com as a limited release MGM disc. The movie is in good shape and is in color.

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