Great idea folks to go to the Turner website to vote to get this movie on dvd (or prefereably considering the outstanding cinematography, music score and art direction, on blu-ray disc), but I'm pretty certain that Turner wouldn't have the rights to the movie in the first place.
You have to remember that the movie was from an independant studio and when all the movies from this studio (or production company, whatever) came out on video in the 1980s and 1990s, they came out through CBS Fox Home Video (including this movie).
Other movies from this studio include "A Man Called Horse" and "Big Jake"--all of them were released by Paramount Home Video and this movie is one of the very few from that studio that never made it to dvd.
I'm also near certain that the reason this movie is not on anything beyond vhs at the moment is because of music rights.
One has to remember that the producers of this movie (one of them was Jack Lemmon himself) wanted to make it as marketable as possible, so they included not only a proper film score (by Marvin Hamlisch, his first), but a range of songs used in discotheques for the movie--the soundtrack album of this movie tried to do what "Saturday Night Fever" succeeded to do eight years later.
Paramount are notorious for rescoring movies and tv episodes, just so they won't have to pay music royalties (one only has to buy season sets on dvd of shows like "Happy Days" or "The Odd Couple" to know what this is like), and since this movie is loaded with songs coming from all angles (including two Bacharach/David songs), they won't release it unless they can pay these artists and their record labels royalties.
Could they be waiting for a special 40th anniversary special edition? I like to think they were, but I fear that probably even my grandchildren will never see this movie on dvd either....
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