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American Hot Wax - where is it? - SH Forums
I have an old copy I taped off HBO but why isn't this out on DVD?
Great movie.
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It's probably the most authentic 50's RnR movie ever made.
Indeed where is it?
Probably tied up in sychronization rights hell.
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I think it has been listed for some years on Amazon with, DO YOU WANT TO BE NOTIFIED WHEN IT BECOMES AVAILABLE?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&s=dvd
I'm sure I signed up for it, but I've never heard anything
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Quote: : B Good I think it has been listed for some years on Amazon with, DO YOU WANT TO BE NOTIFIED WHEN IT BECOMES AVAILABLE?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&s=dvd
I'm sure I signed up for it, but I've never heard anything Yeah, me too.
I'll have to dig out my VHS tape and convert it to DVD.
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Is there original music on the VHS?
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Quote: : I have an old copy I taped off HBO but why isn't this out on DVD?
Great movie. Especially since we don't see enough of Leno these days or in the coming year.
Honestly, I know Floyd, the director.
I'll email him. He'll have no idea I'm sure, but let's see...
Jeff
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Don't think it ever came out on VHS.Maybe.I know I saw it uncut once,but I think it was on a movie channel.
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Amazon says it came out on VHS briefly in 1978.
Used prices are in low hundreds.
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I remember seeing a legit VHS ages ago...I saw it a zillion times on HBO back in the day, and it resurfaced a few years ago on a pay channel, can't remember which one.
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Now that I think about it, I believe I taped it off of HBO or something, and have it on a VHS that is hidden in some box in storage....
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Even at that young age and just starting out, Fran Drescher was just as whiny and annoying.
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Quote: : It's probably the most authentic 50's RnR movie ever made.
Indeed where is it?
Probably tied up in sychronization rights hell.
What if the official VHS had all the original music?
Is all the music intact for American Grafitti on home video?
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I loved this. I hope it comes out at some point.
I have looked for it before as well, and wondered what the deal was.
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Amazon is mistaken.
I mastered the title for Paramount home video around 1980 or so at Modern Videofilm in LA.
It wasn't out for long, because there were a ton of problems getting all the music cleared.
My guess is that it would cost a million bucks today to pay for those 25-30 tunes used in the soundtrack.
And the movie was such a bomb, nobody wants to spend the money.
It's a strange film.
Tim McIntire was terrific in the starring role, but the movie has a weird kind of detached feeling all the way through, so you never really get involved with the characters.
(I thought the kid, Moosie Drier, stole every scene he was in.)
I think it plays once in a blue moon on cable, because the TV rights were locked in when they made the film.
But home video is a whole 'nuther problem (a "bag of hurt," as Steve Jobs put it, talking about Blu-ray).
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It's a strange film.
Tim McIntire was terrific in the starring role, but the movie has a weird kind of detached feeling all the way through, so you never really get involved with the characters.
(I thought the kid, Moosie Drier, stole every scene he was in.).
Yes, Tim McIntire (R.I.P.) was great as Alan Freed but I know what you mean about how you never really feel any connection to the characters...Moosie was very good too, yes.
I love when Alan Freed says "So you're the president of the Buddy Holly Fan Club, eh?
So how many members do you have, 200?" (or something like that) and Artie (the kid) says "25,000" (or something like that).
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Yeah, that's a great moment in the film.
I thought it was actually very moving when Alan Freed plays a Buddy Holly song with the kid there in the studio.
I think the movie was set in late 1959, maybe six months after Holly died, and just before Freed was fired from WABC (which is never named in the movie) for the payola scandal.
Wikipedia says that producer Art Linson discussed the movie's production and its failure at the box office in his new book What Just Happened?
Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line.
About 20 years ago, I worked on a Jay Leno Showtime special and mentioned the film to him, and he said, "oh, you're one of the five people who saw that?"
I don't know the story on Paramount, but they're sitting on a ton of great movies that either aren't out on home video, or they were out for five minutes decades ago and never came out on DVD.
Got no idea why.
It's for reasons like this that Sony, WB, and Disney rule the roost on making money in home video.
They put a ton of stuff out and generally spend the money to master it right.
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I remember seeing this during it's theatrical run in 1978.
I enjoyed this picture.
I wish it were on DVD.
Getting the music cleared would be difficult to impossible though!
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Quote: : I don't know the story on Paramount, but they're sitting on a ton of great movies that either aren't out on home video, or they were out for five minutes decades ago and never came out on DVD.
Got no idea why.
It's for reasons like this that Sony, WB, and Disney rule the roost on making money in home video.
They put a ton of stuff out and generally spend the money to master it right.
Except when it comes to classic television shows, Paramount is a thousand times better than every other company.
Sony never even finished the run on All in the Family for goodness sakes.
And Warner just sits on their entire classic library of 50s westerns and detective shows.
I buy a few hundred dollars worth of TV DVDs a month and I'd guess 90% of it goes to Paramount.
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TV DVDs are in a weird area.
To me, the only shows I'd consider owning are a handful of cult shows like Twilight Zone , Star Trek , Monty Python , The Avengers ...
Stuff like that. The problem with owning shows like this is I think the chances of me watching them more than once or twice is almost nil.
To me, if every TV show ever made were available on-demand -- especially in HD, and without compression problems -- I'd much rather have that.
That's assuming it cost under a buck to watch each show.
I do confess to buying the Paramount Mission: Impossible episodes on DVD, but man, those 4th season episodes really start to suck.
I think I'm done with the series.
Losing Martin Landau & Barbara Bain was a "shark-jumper" for me.
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