My Man Godfrey on TCM tonight…

Updated on February 15, 2011 By Ken Begg 5 Comments

It’s in the prime time slot, so 7:00 here in the midwest, 8:00 on the East coast. Probably one of my top ten films ever. Give it a look if  you’ve never seen it before. Ah, William Powell. (Not to mention Eugene Pallete.)

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  • Rock Baker

    Had my chance to grab it out of the bargin bin, but I ended up going with a genre picture I felt would be rarer (Jungle Woman? The fat Spy? House of Excorsism?). Still haven’t seen this one, but I do like Powell so I’ll have to rectify that one of these days.

  • Rock — The dollar bin public domain DVDs are atrocious. I’m sure your local library can probably provide, or send away for, a copy of the Criterion disc. Believe me, it would be worth the effort.

  • Rock Baker

    Well, dollar bin DVDs are just ‘make do’ disks until you can get a better copy, sort of like taping a movie off television.

  • BeckoningChasm

    I haven’t seen the Criterion version of MMG, but I own their release of another perennial dollar DVD title, The 39 Steps. Those dollar DVD versions are awful in picture and sound; Criterion’s is stunningly good.

  • Yes, Criterion is pretty simply the best DVD company out there, certainly for classic films. And I think they had decided in a few cases to spend the money to release great films that have fallen into the public domain, since the thinking could easily be, “How can we expect people to pay $30 for a film they could get for a buck.” It helps, certainly, that their presentations are 30 times better.

    I’m also glad there are still good masters of Godfrey and 39 Steps and some of the others. Again, in a very short sighted way, it’s easy to say “Why spend all the money to preserve this film when others are releasing copies of it off old TV prints and the like.” It’s wise stewardship, and bless ’em for doing it.