[78-L] Jolson's Hallelujah I'm a Bum on DVD

[Harold Aherne]

I don't use Netflix myself, but here are some early musicals worth looking for:
 
The Roan Company has "The Vagabond Lover" (1929) and "Dixiana" (1930) available; 
I haven't seen the former but the latter is a very nice edition with Technicolor scenes 
intact and "La Cucaracha" (1934) as an extra (the audio is somewhat low on it, IIRC).
 
Kino has had "Applause" (1929) and "Love Me Tonight" (1932) available for some time,
and just a couple of years ago they release two United Artists musicals from 1930:
"Be Yourself" with Fannie Brice and "The Lottery Bride" with Jeanette MacDonald. Both
are edited versions of the original releases (which I've heard do survive for both), but 
these are probably the only editions we'll have on DVD for some time.
 
Image has "The Gay Desperado" (1936) available, as well as "365 Nights in Hollywood"
(1934). 
 
I suppose "Hallelujah" isn't a full-fledged musical, but it's an interesting picture in
many other ways. WHV has it available. 
 
Smaller companies like Grapevine and Alpha may have issued various PD 
titles as well, but I haven't looked into their listings as much.
 
-Harold
--- On Sat, 7/11/09, Steve Ramm <steveramm78l at hotmail.com> wrote:


From: Steve Ramm <steveramm78l at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Jolson's Hallelujah I'm a Bum on DVD
To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
Date: Saturday, July 11, 2009, 12:11 PM



I just got a free month of Netflix (the lawsuit settlement) and searched Jolson and they have HIAB for rental as a single DVD.



BTW, Have any of you who use Netflix found any great obscure early musicals which Netflix cares that I could order during my free month?



Steve

> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 23:47:46 -0400
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> From: bbrent at pipeline.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] BIG news for Jolson fans from Warner Home Video
> 
> At 11:36 PM 7/9/2009, you wrote:
> >Hallelujah I'm a Bum came out on DVD years ago..I bought it as a cutout.
> 
> 
> don't think it was legal (people seamed to think it was PD
> 
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