I want to see it dammit! Someone out there, hear this call and get off your butt and supply me with the goods!!! PLEASE :(
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9 Responses to “Why isn’t Make Way for Tomorrow on DVD ?”
I have a dubbed VHS copy sitting around somewhere that, if you can’t find it elsewhere, I could transfer to DVD and supply you with. (I think some website–5minutestolive or something like it–had this on a gray-market DVD, didn’t they?) But feel free to email me if this is something you’d be interested in.
Dave Kehr was making this same plaint not too long ago. I would have to go back and check his post and comments, but while no one knows for sure what the hold-up is and the studio isn’t talking, I think the suspicion is that the print is in bad shape and the will/$$ to restore it isn’t there … yet.
We should start a petition. Aux barricades! I have never seen this one myself.
I’ll check out the website, hopefully it’ll be announced soon. I actually do know where to get a copy, but it’s a terrible TV transfer with french subs that I frankly found unwatcheable. It’s a shame
Ahh print problems! That’s terrible, I hope someone realises there is a demand and does something though. A petition is not a bad idea, I know many people who are willing and waiting to see it. One of those online things maybe, I don’t know how well they work though.
In John (Hollywood press agent) Springer’s nostalgic, “They Had Faces Then,”(Citadel Press 1974) detailing the biographical and professional lives of hundreds of 1930’s Hollywood actresses; he sited Beulah Bondi’s performance as Lucy Cooper among the 10 best female characterizations of that fabulous decade.
I quote, “When you are speaking of the most moving movie scenes of all times, certainly you’re going to choose several from Leo McCarey’s Make Way for Tomorrow”…and…”the person who tore you apart at all of those moments was the beloved Beulah Bondi, surely the most versatile character actress on all levels the movies have known. She wasn’t one of those darling lavender-and-old-lace ladies. Her Lucy Cooper in Make Way for Tomorrow could be a cranky, cantankerous old girl. But she was so real, she was frightening. Academy Oscars ceased to have their full value the year she did not get a nomination for Make Way for Tomorrow.”
I purchased a dvd copy (most definitely a cheap copying job) a couple of years ago, but instantly returned it, as the VHS/TV copy I made was far superior. A loving restoration of this picture is long overdue.
I was lucky to purchase a VHS copy from someone who used to have a website selling rare old “not yet or ever released to DVD films, but shut it down, probably because he was afraid he was going to be sued, BUT the copy he made was pretty good, and I had a friend make me a DVD copy. I also had the pleasure of seeing it on the big screen in Chicago at a film society. MAN, it made me call my Mom in Phoenix after I got home, it was so powerful. The audience was in TEARS at the end. If THIS film doesn’t make you cry, you must have had terrible parents!
May 12, 2008 at 4:59 am
Orson Welles said it could make a stone cry. I am afraid to see it.
But it is insensible that it is not publically available on home video.
May 13, 2008 at 2:13 am
I have a dubbed VHS copy sitting around somewhere that, if you can’t find it elsewhere, I could transfer to DVD and supply you with. (I think some website–5minutestolive or something like it–had this on a gray-market DVD, didn’t they?) But feel free to email me if this is something you’d be interested in.
May 14, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Dave Kehr was making this same plaint not too long ago. I would have to go back and check his post and comments, but while no one knows for sure what the hold-up is and the studio isn’t talking, I think the suspicion is that the print is in bad shape and the will/$$ to restore it isn’t there … yet.
We should start a petition. Aux barricades! I have never seen this one myself.
May 14, 2008 at 8:59 pm
I’ll check out the website, hopefully it’ll be announced soon. I actually do know where to get a copy, but it’s a terrible TV transfer with french subs that I frankly found unwatcheable. It’s a shame
Ahh print problems! That’s terrible, I hope someone realises there is a demand and does something though. A petition is not a bad idea, I know many people who are willing and waiting to see it. One of those online things maybe, I don’t know how well they work though.
July 6, 2008 at 12:01 am
Try “Movielead”. They should be able to locate a copy for you.
July 6, 2008 at 1:22 am
Lucky for me, just signed up for a membership a few weeks ago. I’ll inquire :)
September 9, 2008 at 9:25 pm
If there is any way I could get a copy of a DVD or VHS for “Make Way for Tomorrow,” I’d sure like to hear from someone who could help!
September 28, 2008 at 5:44 am
In John (Hollywood press agent) Springer’s nostalgic, “They Had Faces Then,”(Citadel Press 1974) detailing the biographical and professional lives of hundreds of 1930’s Hollywood actresses; he sited Beulah Bondi’s performance as Lucy Cooper among the 10 best female characterizations of that fabulous decade.
I quote, “When you are speaking of the most moving movie scenes of all times, certainly you’re going to choose several from Leo McCarey’s Make Way for Tomorrow”…and…”the person who tore you apart at all of those moments was the beloved Beulah Bondi, surely the most versatile character actress on all levels the movies have known. She wasn’t one of those darling lavender-and-old-lace ladies. Her Lucy Cooper in Make Way for Tomorrow could be a cranky, cantankerous old girl. But she was so real, she was frightening. Academy Oscars ceased to have their full value the year she did not get a nomination for Make Way for Tomorrow.”
I purchased a dvd copy (most definitely a cheap copying job) a couple of years ago, but instantly returned it, as the VHS/TV copy I made was far superior. A loving restoration of this picture is long overdue.
December 3, 2008 at 4:07 am
I was lucky to purchase a VHS copy from someone who used to have a website selling rare old “not yet or ever released to DVD films, but shut it down, probably because he was afraid he was going to be sued, BUT the copy he made was pretty good, and I had a friend make me a DVD copy. I also had the pleasure of seeing it on the big screen in Chicago at a film society. MAN, it made me call my Mom in Phoenix after I got home, it was so powerful. The audience was in TEARS at the end. If THIS film doesn’t make you cry, you must have had terrible parents!