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 Posted:   May 18, 2022 - 11:01 AM   
 By:   EdG   (Member)

Indeed. First and foremost GREED, I daresay. Still not available anywhere, at least in restored, physical form.
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I've wanted GREED on Blu ray for so long...

The only other discs I've found with Davis's music are THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA on BFI (region-free), THE THIEF OF BAGDAD on Cohen and a massive favorite of mine, THE BIG PARADE on Warner Classics. Criterion has released his scores on discs for SAFETY LAST, SPEEDY, KID BROTHER, and THE FRESHMAN. That's a tragically small sample of the many scores he recorded for the silents.

His music for NAPOLEON is Region B locked due to Coppola's ownership of the rights in the US.



Davis' score for the 1925 silent BEN-HUR is also on disc, albeit only available as part of the MGM DVD and Blu-ray box sets of the 1959 remake.


Bob, do you know of the silent Ben-Hur is in HD?

 
 
 Posted:   May 18, 2022 - 11:16 AM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

Davis' score for the 1925 silent BEN-HUR is also on disc, albeit only available as part of the MGM DVD and Blu-ray box sets of the 1959 remake.
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Bob, do you know if the silent Ben-Hur is in HD?



Even in the Blu-ray set of the 1959 version, the 1925 silent BEN-HUR is presented only in standard definition.

 
 
 Posted:   May 18, 2022 - 11:20 AM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

The Cohen Blu-ray release of 1916's INTOLERANCE has Carl Davis' score. The score was also released on CD by Prometheus in 1990 and re-issued by The Carl Davis Collection in 2019.

 
 
 Posted:   May 18, 2022 - 11:40 AM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

The 2006 DVD release of the Chaplin Mutual Comedies from Film Preservation Associates/Image Entertainment has new orchestral scores composed and conducted by Carl Davis. The scores were released on a 2006 Silva Screen compilation CD, "Charlie Chaplin: The Essential Film Music Collection." (The more recent 2014 Flicker Alley Blu-ray release of the comedies does not have the Davis scores.)

 
 
 Posted:   May 18, 2022 - 12:06 PM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

The 2009 Blu-ray (and 2008 DVD) of Chaplin's THE GENERAL from Kino International includes a Carl Davis score as one of its three different score offerings.

 
 
 Posted:   May 18, 2022 - 12:15 PM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

The now OOP 2002 Kino DVD of Douglas Fairbanks' THE IRON MASK (1929) has a Carl Davis music score, performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra in digital stereo. No Blu-ray release exists.



 
 
 Posted:   May 18, 2022 - 12:25 PM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

The now OOP 2004 DVD of IT (1927), starring Clara Bow, from Milestone Film and Video/Image Entertainment, has a Carl Davis score. No Blu-ray edition exists.



 
 
 Posted:   May 18, 2022 - 12:35 PM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

The 2011 Kino International Blu-ray (and DVD) release of Buster Keaton's OUR HOSPITALITY includes a Carl Davis score as one of its two optional scores. (The more recent 2019 Kino Classics Blu-ray and DVD have dropped the Davis score.)

 
 
 Posted:   May 18, 2022 - 12:42 PM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

Filmmakers David Gill and Kevin Brownlow were nominated for an American television Emmy Award for the three-part 1993 documentary "D.W. Griffith: Father of Film," an exploration of the life and career of film’s first directorial superstar. Narrated by Lindsay Anderson, the series has music composed by Carl Davis. The program was released on DVD by Kino International in 2008.

 
 
 Posted:   May 18, 2022 - 12:54 PM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

An earlier three-part documentary by David Gill and Kevin Brownlow also had a Carl Davis score. That was "Unknown Chaplin," which was produced in 1983. Although its 2005 American DVD release by A&E Home Video is out of print, the 2006 Region 2 UK DVD from Network is still available at reasonable prices.



 
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