11/9/2008 9:51 AM
posted awhile ago
The Walking Dead
Just listened to Filmcouch #95, and found Karina's comments about The Walking Dead interesting, so I decided to look it up.
As near as I can tell, it has never been officially released on VHS or DVD. I found a couple of pages that mentioned this, though I'm not sure how reliable they are. For example one of these is old and the other is an Amazon review:
http://www.scifilm.org/musing142.html
http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3W3VSOWJ7D2MU/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm
This is most strange, as it seems like a film that should have more of a following - the fact that it stars Karloff, is directed by Michael Curtiz (of Casablanca fame) and gets almost universally good reviews makes this even more confusing.
That said, I did find this site which is offering a DVD of the film. I'm virtually positive that it's not an "official" copy as Karina requested, but it looks like it's about as close as you're going to get for now...
http://www.ioffer.com/i/15067547
The guys says the movie comes in a plastic case with cover art, so again, it looks like that's as close as it gets for now... (not sure how that site works either - it looks to be a quasi-ebay/Amazon Marketplace style store)
Update: I found a Variety article that says it was available on VHS, but most articles seem to indicate that it was never released. I also found this guy, but again, he's definitely just making copies of hard to find movies and sending them out:
http://www.movie-classics.com/
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