ATLANTA, October 18: Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has acquired the rights to six films from the 1930s, produced by the classic film studio RKO, that were previously considered lost.
This selection of rare motion pictures includes works directed by William Wellman, John Cromwell and Garson Kanin, and starring William Powell, Ginger Rogers, Irene Dunne, Lionel Barrymore and Joel McCrea, as well as an early screenplay by blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo.
In association with the Library of Congress and the Brigham Young University film archive, TCM is currently making new 35mm fine-grain masters and prints of six pictures slated to air on the network in 2007: Double Harness (1933), One Man’s Journey (1933), Rafter Romance (1933), Stingaree (1934), Living on Love (1937) and A Man to Remember (1938). [Source: Worldscreen.com]
One these lost gems, A Man To Remember, has not been seen since 1938–when it made The New York Times list of Top 10 Films to see in 1938. The other 5 films have rarely been seen since 1959. TCM will be preserving these films and featuring them sometime in ’07. It should be interesting to see these “pre-code” lost gems. I can’t wait!
