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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributorninehours
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DOC SAVAGE: THE MAN OF BRONZE
Want this film, is this a U.S. only thing?
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At the bottom of the Buy It Now box:

Ships to U.S. Destinations Only

I'm guessing they have to be careful as they may not have the rights to distribute all titles internationally.
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Also from the HTF chat:

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1). There will be a availability of product WORLDWIDE shortly through the Warner
Archive Collection. SHORTLY.  We just don't have a date yet...it could be only a few days away....
bear with us...This would be only applicable to the films where we hold worldwide rights, which is
MOST of them.


I assume the "ships to US only" is only temporary, though WB does not seem to know when they will begin shipping internationally.  As Northbloke pointed out, they likely have to check all the titles with their legal department to make sure they have the worldwide rights.
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..and they probably distribute/ print these out of Mexico or Quebec too.. 
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Since I went to the trouble of creating a concise list, I'll see if I can share it with everyone:

The Abdication
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
The Actress
The Adventures of Huck Finn 1939
The Adventures of Mark Twain
Ah, Wildernesss!
Al Capone
All Fall Down
Along the Great Divide
Angel Baby
The Baby Maker
The Bamboo Blonde
Barricade
The Beast of the City
The Beggar's Opera
Betrayed
Bhowani Junctioin
Big Circus
The Big House
Brainstorm 1965
Cain and Mabel
Canyon River
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City
Captain Sindbad
Carbine Williams
Cattletown
Chained
The Church Mouse
The Citadel
Close to My Heart
The Command
El Condor
Convicts Four
Countdown
Crescendo
Crime & Punishment U.S.A.
Crisis
The Crowded Sky
The D.I.
Dance, Fools, Dance
Darby's Rangers
The Defector
The Devil Is a Sissy
A Distant Trumpet
Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
Dream Lover
A Dream of Kings
Dream Wife
Drums of Africa
The Dude Goes West
Dusty and Sweets McGee
Edison the Man
Emma
An Enemy of the People
Exit Smiling
Forsaking All Others
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 1962\
The George Raft Story
Goodbye, My Fancy
The Grasshopper
H.M. Pulham, Esquire
Heart Beat
Homecoming
Honky Tonk
I Was a Communist for the F.B.I.
I Was an American Spy
Ice Follies of 1939
Idiot's Delight
Interrupted Melody
The Invitation
John Loves Mary
Just the Way You Are
Kaleidoscope
Kidnapped
King of the Roaring 20s
The Kiss
Laughing Sinners
Lepke
A Lion in the Streets
The Little Drummer Girl
Lost Boundaries
Love 1927
Love on the Run
Made in Paris
The Magnificent Yankee
Malaya
Man from Galveston
Man from God's Country
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
Mannequin 1937
The Mating Game
Men in White
The Money Trap
The Moonlighters
Mr. Lucky 1943
Mrs. Parkington
My Blood Runs Cold
The Oklahoman
On Borrowed Time
Once Upon a Honeymoon
One on One
One Trick Pony
Orphans
Outlaw Blues
Oxford Blues
Painting the Clouds with Sunshine
Payment on Demand
Possessed 1931
Private Lives
Promises in the Dark
Purple Hearts
Quentin Durward 1955
Rage
The Rain People
Rasputin and the Empress
The Red Lily
The Red Mill
Room for One More
Scaramouche 1923
The Sergeant
The Shining Hour
The Shopworn Angel
The Single Standard
Sins of Rachel Cade
The Smart Set
So This Is Love
Somewhere I'll Find You
Souls for Sale
Spring Fever
Strange Interlude
Sunrise at Campobello
Sweet November
The Temptress
They Only Kill Their Masters
This Woman Is Dangerous
Three Comrades
Three Sailors and a Girl
The Toast of New York
Too Hot to Handle
The Trail of '98
Tugboat Annie
Voices
We Were Dancing
Westbound 1959
When Ladies Meet
Wichita
Wild Orchids
Wisdom
Yes, Giorgio
Young Tom Edison
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Wow, nice work. Thanks for posting the entire list!
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Cute list, but you forgot all the old MGM and RKO films they now hold the rights to.  You can just about double the list.
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I just may have to order Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze soon. I've been waiting forever for that to be released somewhere on DVD.
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Quoting Katatonia:
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I just may have to order Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze soon. I've been waiting forever for that to be released somewhere on DVD.

Yeah, I burnt my DVR copy to disk a while ago, but it's pan and scan.  It would be nice to have a widescreen anamorphic copy.  The only problem is that when I last watched it, I was reminded of just how awful a movie it was.

I'll probably still end up getting it.  Damn my guilty pleasures! 
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Oh my, I'm in big trouble now.

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I really don't to start picking apart WB's choices because i think the concept is terrific but i just have to note that i can't see a reference to the film Purple Hearts without thinking of the start of Roger Ebert's review:

"...where the whole world was a stage, and millions of people were fighting and dying so that these two goofballs could swap spit?" - Review

Here's hoping more studios do the same as WB with their catalogs.
Bad movie?  You're soaking in it!
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Some people on other forums are reporting that they've received DVD-R's...no big surprise there. Apparently they also somehow can't even be played on a PC drive for copy protection reasons.
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Some people on other forums are reporting that they've received DVD-R's...no big surprise there. Apparently they also somehow can't even be played on a PC drive for copy protection reasons.

They are DVD-R's, and they may not play on PC drives...most of these issues and questions are addressed in the FAQ at the Warner Archive website.  Not sure why people are surprised, unless they're just buying willy-nilly without investigating the details first.  From the FAQ:

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Q: What makes an on-demand DVD different than a Commercial DVD?

A: DVD’s produced on-demand are similar to, but not quite same as, DVD’s you’d buy at the local video store. DVD movies you buy at the local video outlet are manufactured from a mold via a stamping process whereas on-demand DVDs are "burned". Each carries information read by the DVD player, but the physical properties of the two are different.

Most DVD players are compatible with both commercial DVD-Video and one or more of the “recordable DVD formats. Our on-demand DVD’s are manufactured using the most widely accepted format, DVD-R.
The owner's manual of the DVD player usually lists which DVD recording formats it can play. Almost all DVD players can play DVD-R (except for some older models made before 2000)

Q: My DVD won’t play on my computer.

A: As noted on the DVD case wrap, DVD’s encrypted with CSS may not play on all computers or DVD player/recorders. This is normal. To address this, we recommend viewing the DVD on a DVD player that does not have recording capability.



Link to Warner Archive media FAQ

Edited to add FAQ link.
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Quoting ninehours:
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DOC SAVAGE: THE MAN OF BRONZE
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I'm the same - and as others have said these are at the moment US only..
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I've got to say, I'm getting less and less enthusiastic about these the more reviews I read.  The biggest concerns I've read are interlaced transfers and some very amateurish encoding.  All kinds of digitally induced artifacts.  That's all well and good for a public domain company, but for 20 bucks each, on a DVD-R no less, I think I'll keep my money.
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