20th Century Fox Studio Classics
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20th Century Fox Studio Classics refers to a collection of DVD's released by 20th Century Fox. The releases are all numbered (with All About Eve being number one).
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[edit] Features
The DVD's usually include inserts with reproductions of the movie poster as well as small amounts of trivia. The movies included run from the silent era up to about the late-1960's, and includes drama, romances, comedies, science fiction and westerns. Some of the early Fox Film movies are included as well, most notably F. W. Murnau's film, Sunrise.
The collection is notable for having a very high production quality with plenty of extras for every movie, including commentaries, trailers, newsreel footage, biographical features, and outtakes. The films are usually also shown with digitally restored sound and visuals.
[edit] Pricing
The DVD's in the series, unlike those in many other premium collections, tend to be fairly inexpensive, topping out at about $20 (US). Copies of some of them, such as The Day the Earth Stood Still can be found for under $10.
[edit] Spinoffs
The success of the series has spawned three other DVD lines:
- 'Fox Film Noir' (includes Laura and Call Northside 777)
- 'Marquee Musicals' (includes the musical films of Fox stars Alice Faye and Betty Grable, among others. Interestingly, the Shirley Temple films are not released under this series' banner)
- 'Cinema Classics Collection' (a line of titles that has been so varied that it so far defies categorization, except that it mainly consists of classic and latter-day Fox films that lack the prestige of the studio's best films).
[edit] List of Films in the Collection
5. The Day the Earth Stood Still
7. Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
9. Anastasia
10. The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
11. Titanic
16. Peyton Place
18. Desk Set
19. The Snake Pit
20. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
21. Zorba the Greek
24. Three Coins in the Fountain
31. The Razor's Edge
32. Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
33. In Old Chicago
34. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
35. Orchestra Wives
36. The Rains Came
37. Two For The Road
38. The Black Swan
40. The River's Edge
Limited Edition with unnumbered spine: Sunrise (available only through a mail-order offer which has since expired, copies can often be found on auction sites such as Ebay)
[edit] See also
Criterion Collection - A similar series of high-quality DVD releases.
