Now, that's service! Last night, I write a piece about how I wish The Night They Raided Minsky's would come out on DVD. I go to bed. I wake up this morning and there on Amazon, they're taking orders for The Night They Raided Minsky's, coming out on DVD on May 20! What clout we have here.
Amazing. True, there doesn't seem to be that commentary track I craved but that'll probably be done for a Deluxe Platinum Edition a few years down the line…about the time they're ready to try to get us to buy this DVD again. Guess you can't have everything. I'm just satisfied that my little item caused them to hurriedly schedule the release and design a DVD cover and get it all up on Amazon…and in under seven hours! (A few of the dozens who wrote me this morning to tell me about it are under the delusion that this was arranged some time ago and that I was simply unaware it had been announced. You folks don't understand the power of this weblog.)
If you'd like to pre-order, here's the link. I don't understand why the Amazon page says that the movie stars Harry Andrews and Jack Burns, when they actually have much smaller parts than Jason Robards, Norman Wisdom, Britt Ekland and Bert Lahr…but I guess whoever whipped up this listing was in such a hurry to surprise me with it that they got a little sloppy.