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Thanks so much for this heads up. I have the ancient LD, and two DVDs (one is a Japanese import) -- and all of these versions suck. Faded color, terrible quality even on the VCI DVD. I hope VCI has been able to get back to the original elements for restoration to bluray. The elements, I'd always heard, were in the Warner or MGM vaults. However, the film somehow entered Public Domain and it has been my understanding that the studio with the primary elements was wary of releasing a pristine version that could then be copied, etc. It would be a gorgeous bluray if done justice -- fingers crossed!
Addendum:
Here is a link to the VCI page on the bluray release:
http://store.vcientertainment.com/product/Coming_Soon/830
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Like it was yesterday, I can remember sitting in the balcony of the Iris Theater on Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia, on Easter Monday, April 1961, seeing this film for the very first time. I couldn't have loved it more! I hope it finally gets the quality release it deserves.
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I'm getting really excited about this -- based on Glenn Erickson's comments at DVD Savant:
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"I've seen .... a check disc of VCI's new Gorgo release! The movie is just as good as I remember and the disc looks very good. The nighttime big destruction scenes are spectacular in Blu-ray. A full review of final product will follow closer to the release date, but I will remark on the disc's elaborate extras, most of which seem to be the work of Daniel Griffith and Lee Kaplan, with major on-screen input from Ted Newsom. The extras are a real fan round-up -- and the participants are given a special on-screen credit. The galleries appear to have rounded up every poster, lobby card and photo ever released of the film. And they have a couple of BTS stills of the Gorgo head costume, and the elaborate hydraulic rig that the monster suit mime had to wear.
I was as happily surprised as anyone back in late 2011 when VCI announced that it was going to access the original printing elements stored by MGM in a midwestern salt mine. Gorgo has been impossible to see in a really satisfying form for decades, and VCI's disc replicates the jaw-dropping matinee experience for a certain stratum of baby boomers like myself. At the moment the disc's official release date is March 19, and frankly, the price is right as well."
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I've preordered a copy -- one of my favorite giant monster films -- I'm in rabid anticipation mode!
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ANY PRICE IS RIGHT,A CRISP $500 BILL.
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