DVD now available directly from Warner's webpage!
Warner Home Video are now selling this film on DVD directly on their webpage:
http://www.wbshop.com/Crowded-Sky%2c-The-+MOD/1000088092,default,pd.html?cgid=ARCHIVE
..... and now a year later you can also buy it at amazon.com, moviesunlimited.com ..... and the best deal, with free shipping, at deepdiscount.com. Watch it first at TCM, and you may lose your desire to own a copy. That's happened to me many times. Time, and everything that's transpired since, has a way of making most older movies lose whatever luster they once had.
shareExcept -- how much is it at Deep Discount? Every site aside from Warner itself sells it at a list price of $28.95, "discounted" to around $23.95 or something. WBshop.com sells it at a list price of $19.95. Shipping is free with an order over an amount which varies, but is usually $60, the price of three or four DVDs. Depending on circumstances, Warner is normally the cheapest site.
shareCurrently deepdiscount.com's price is $19.39, but I've seen Warner Archive titles priced as low as $17.78 there in recent months.
shareThat's good to know. Thanks.
sharei wanted this movie but now i find out its on the shameful list of Warners archive collection.These movies are not remastered ,even the ones that say they are,look like they are not.Then they charge 20$ for a lousy looking disc,its just a ripoff,and i hope people stop buying these discs,so Warners will think about releasing these movies in proper format.
shareI disagree with you, most of the WA films are in very good shape, and many if not most are remastered. Waiting for a "proper format"? With DVD sales plummeting and a limited market for most of these films, there's virtually no prospect that any of them would ever get a so-called "proper" release. Without Warner Archives (and similar series from MGM and Columbia) almost all these titles, most certainly including The Crowded Sky, would never be released on DVD in any form. That's preferable?
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you must be kidding.I happened to have bought a few titles and they were all LOUSY.Like stuff converted from VHS.They should simply be ashamed of this collection.And charging 20$ for THAT?have you heard of blu-ray at all?this collection is like they are saying,we are not gonna bother with these titles,if you are desperate to own these movies too bad for you.
jimakros, I own a lot of WA titles and they all have good-to-excellent picture and sound. You really expect everything to be of Blu-ray quality? The fact is, almost none of these and hundreds of other films would ever see the light of day but for such series.
Also, if you always paid $20 for each title you aren't a very good shopper. Warner offers these titles for sale pretty frequently, for prices ranging from $13.99 to as low as $9.99. All it takes is a little judicious checking.
You have to have impossibly perfectionist standards to insist that everything be of some mythic Blu-ray quality. Blu-ray is, in the view of a lot of people, an overrated and indisputedly much more expensive venue, one more way for the studios to get still more money out of customers for re-issuing titles in yet another slightly "improved" format. If you think buying a Blu-ray for $10-$20 more than a standard DVD is really worth that enormous price difference, then you shouldn't complain about the cost of Warner Archives discs. The difference in quality -- and a few superfluous extras -- don't justify the added cost, especially since virtually all Blu-ray films are available on perfectly good DVDs...whereas, like it or not, WA films are only available in one format. If you don't like Archives titles, don't buy any, but to expect them to magically appear on Blu-ray or its successor homevid format is unrealistic.
Exactly. ''The Crowded Sky''for one, looks fine- the color is near-perfect and the sound is surprisingly robust. Two others ''Two On A Guillotine'' and ''House Of Women'' are almost as good. All are in their correct aspect ratios and enhanced for widescreen TVS. I wish they included their trailers, otherwise, they are well above average in quality. And ''Crowed Sky'' is over 50 years old. So are many others offered for the first time (in ANY format) in the Archives. What MORE do you want?.
shareAlthough, since my last post, Warner Archives actually has released a couple of its new films in Blu-ray. But it's highly unlikely The Crowded Sky or most of the other classics on this label will be getting a Blu-ray release anytime soon, if at all. Anyway, as you say phillindholm, it's fine just the way it is.
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