WHERE IS IT ON DVD

Thank you for your comments on the film I always considered it the best film. I worked on and I agree the availability of it should be better.Unfortunately the only way certain things get done in the industry is the volume of demand for it.In other words enough people have to ask for it.

All the Best

Jack O'Halloran

You may be right about some copies making it through the pipeline to retail stores, or it just may be that a Canadian reseller either ignored the recall notice or sold the DVD before its street date. The problem with this DVD is not whether it is anamorphic or not (most of the scenes are interior shots, in cramped spaces) but the inage quality of the print. Farewell My Lovely was a dark movie, and if not overdone, new digital scanning technology could sharpen the image without messing up the color timing. The fact that this movie was not part of the Robert Mitchum DVD set recently released (which includes his long missing The Yakuza) indicates a severe copyright problem somewhere along the line. Farewell My Lovely was shown on pay cable and some local stations a decade or more ago, but never on TCM, as far as I can recall. I would not sell my copy for the still high prices it fetches now at Amazon.com's marketplace, for copies there that are probably either bootlegs or worn Artisan copies rewrapped in cellophane and sold as new.

I believe you can get it on e-bay if not let me know and I may have another way.

All the Best

please don't buy the current DVD of this classic

a very poor picture quality AND it's pan&scan

so don't support this disgrace. the film deserves a proper DVD release