20th Century Fox Studio Classics refers to a collection of films ranging from the late 1920s to the late 1960s released on DVD by 20th Century Fox.
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The DVDs usually include inserts with reproductions of the movie poster as well as trivia bits. 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.
DVDs in the series, unlike those in many other premium collections, tend to be fairly inexpensive, with an SRP of $14.99 (US). Copies of some of them, such as The Day the Earth Stood Still can be found for under $10 at retail stores.
Footnotes
a Sunrise was simply labeled "Limited Edition" and did not have a spine number. It was available only through a mail-order offer which has since expired, but it is included in the Studio Classics: Best Picture Collection boxset which also contains All About Eve, Gentleman's Agreement, and How Green Was My Valley.
bAll About Eve and Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte are set to be replaced by new editions, scheduled for release in April 2008. The two films will be included in a Bette Davis boxed set.
cAn Affair to Remember has since been replaced by a two-disc "50th Anniversary Edition", released January 15, 2008.
dThe Mark of Zorro has since been replaced by a "Special Edition", released in 2005, that offered the same extras as the Studio Classics release, but with a colorized version of the film on the flipside of the disc.
eThe Ox-Bow Incident was originally scheduled for a December 2003 release, but when 20th Century Fox pulled Laura from the schedule, it was moved up to the November slot.
fHow Green Was My Valley, My Darling Clementine, and The Grapes of Wrath were later released in December 2007 as part of the Ford at Fox DVD collection as well as individually with new cover art (but the same discs).
The success of the series has spawned three other DVD lines:
The European [R2] collection differs slightly, the first 98 DVDs being as follows:
Released on March 26 2007 were [spine numbers awaiting verification]:
Note regarding spine numbers 99-114: Eleven Marilyn Monroe films were released as part of the collection in April 2006 [As Young as You Feel, Bus Stop, Don't Bother to Knock, Let's Make It Legal, Let's Make Love, Love Nest, Monkey Business, Niagara, River of No Return, The Seven Year Itch and There's No Business Like Show Business], and stayed in print for only one month, being replaced by the "Marilyn Monroe 80th Anniversary" collection. These were most likely spine numbers 99-109. The Dolly Sisters and Pin Up Girl were also slated for release one month later, but did not appear [until February 2007]. These two releases were most likely spine numbers 110 and 111. Spine number 112-114 remain unaccounted for.
On 10 October 2005, five box sets were released to tie in with the collection. They each featured five of the Studio Classics releases in slimline DVD cases [rather than the standard ones used for the main collection], with slightly modified inserts to fit the cases and without spine numbers. The five collections are:
Classic Award Winners:
All About Eve
How Green Was My Valley
Gentleman's Agreement
Zorba the Greek
The Grapes of Wrath
Classic Encounters:
Anastasia
Three Coins in the Fountain
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
An Affair to Remember
Classic War Movies:
Von Ryans Express
The Young Lions
The Hunters
The Sand Pebbles
The Desert Fox
Classic War Stories:
The Longest Day
Sink the Bismark!
The Desert Rats
Twelve OClock High
A Farewell to Arms
Fantastic Classics:
The Fly
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Fantastic Journey
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
On 26 March 2007, a box-set entitles The Greatest Stories Ever Told was released containing the following eight films:
Francis of Assisi
The Story of Ruth
The Bible... In the Beginning
The Song of Bernadette
The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Agony and the Ectasy
The Robe
Demetrius and the Gladiators
Criterion Collection - A similar series of high-quality DVD releases.
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