PRINCE OF FOXES & THE BLACK ROSE on DVD

[The Night Man]

From Barrie Maxwell's Classic Coming Attractions column at The Digital Bits:

Fox also has a Tyrone Power collection in the works with a likely summer release. It would include Son of Fury (1942), Captain from Castile (1947), Prince of Foxes (1949), and The Black Rose (1950).

Also predicted, but with less certainty, are 2007 releases for AMBERSONS and JOURNEY INTO FEAR. I would hope that any JIF release at this point would include the variant European version. It's probably too much to hope that Stefan Droessler's integrated version might be included as well.

[purplepines]

Prince of Foxes is really worth it. We don't have many on-screen appearances of a young Orson (here, early 30's), and he's quite cool in this one. Plus Everett Sloan, and you've got the old recipie on the stove. A few philosophical lines in this film, which is always a plus.

[The Night Man]

According to what I've been reading, the films from the Tyrone Power set will be available individually at some point as well. For those interested in film music, Nick Redman also notes:

...three of the films [including PRINCE OF FOXES] will have isolated scores... The isolated scores, wherever possible, will include the slates, intros, count-ins, and composer comments to the orchestra, as well as often having accompanying audio commentaries, and on occasion, composer-themed featurettes. We hope that the inclusion of the slates, etc, will give the listener a sense of being present at the sessions... hopefully it will prove popular enough to remain a regular component of not all, but many, classic films. It is just another way that Fox, the most forward-thinking studio in terms of music preservation, is making its history available to those who might be interested.

In addition, Fox's new JANE EYRE release will have the complete isolated Herrmann score as an extra.

[Sir Bygber Brown]

Prince of Foxes also had an isolated score, a movie tone clip announcing a Tyrone Power wedding, and quite a great Welles appearance. Healthy amount of screen time. A+

[tonyw]

Which came first? The chicken or the egg? In PRINCE OF FOXES, Orson's Cesare Borgia plans a similar fate for Tyrone Power's Orsini similar to that of Iago in OTHELLO. Also the film features Everett Sloane playing a deceitful character and ORSON WELLES IN ITALY tells us that Sloane was scheduled to play Iago until he learned of production difficulties and fled the coup.

[Jeff Wilson]

PRINCE OF FOXES comes out on blu-ray 2/7/17 from Kino Lorber.

[Wellesnet]

Thanks Jeff.
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Prince-Foxes-Blu ... B01MRW1382

[tonyw]

Great news - Orson and Tyrome that I've seen on youtube.