HarryLong
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I think you're right on both counts, traceyk65. Moorhead didn't have the star power & studio executives (if not the public) would have had a tough time accepting a woman in that type of role. (Welles was ahead of his time in so many ways.) Pity. Much as I like Robinson in THE STRANGER, I'd have loved to mee Moorhead in tha pert, too.
It'd be nice to be able to access some alternate universe where that version exists.
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*Dear HarryLong- There is no reason to attack Lanore01 just because Captain Queeg stole your strawberries. It is easy for some people to confuse frustration with paranoia.*
Dear lanore01noog...
It was not an attack just an observation based on your jumping to the conclusion that anyone who might not agree that the unavailability of THE DESERT SONG is part of some vast Illuminati conspiracy is in the pay of Warner Bros or TCM. No confusion at all on my part.
However, when you log on as abnoog and refer to lanore01n the third person and then claim later that abnoog was you having forgotten to log off on someone else's computer... that's a clear sign of something. But I'll refrain from saying what.
In fact I think I'll refrain from revisiting this thread while I'm at it.
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*As far as your having trouble playing some of the Archive, they are DVD-Rs, not regular DVDs, and usually don't they have a warning they may not play in all things? I know some manufacturers of DVDs or computer players state they will not play DVD-Rs.*
Hmmm...
I have DVD players in both my computers, several units for routing into a TV and one of those little portable players. The DVDRs I've made and the ones made by friends (I do considerable trading with some others) have played in every one of my machines 99% of the time. Generally the cause of a non-playable disc is that the Finalizing step was omitted (though not always). Even pressed DVDs don't necessarily play flawlessly in every single machine, which is why I have 3 DVD players routed into the TV in my living room.
Of course, lanore, it may be that the Warners Archive disc would play in anyone else's machine but wouldn't in any of yours because of the vast Entertainment Industry Conspiracy directed against you.
(I'll regeret that last sentence in the morning...)
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*Even Helen Broderick is preferable.*
Clore, you have no idea how close I came to adding those very words to my initial post.
I have no particular dislike of Pitts. I appreciate her work in a nymber of films. But she is a disaster as Hildegarde Withers. It's no wonder the series ended after her turn.
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Moorhead being substituted by Robinson is not after-the-fact editing, which was the issue I was addressing.
Current runtime of THE STRANGER is 95 min... 20-30 minutes were cut? Welles turned in an awfully long film for the time, if that's so.
It may have been Welles' least favorite (& I wouldn't doubt it was the only one that was profitable on initial release), but I think there's quite a lot of good things in it (Welles furiously rearranging the paper trail to divert attention from the corpse somes to mind)... but what do I know? I love even MR. ARKADIN & most people think it's crap.
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You're just determined to be paranoid about this, aren't you?
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Better stick with anything pre-1970... maybe even pre-1960. Hammer, beginning with CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN in 1957 started the trend of bloodier horror films (though mostly today the blood in their earliest films look like red makeup dribbled about - not terribly realistic) and things escalated from there.
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*What makes a great romantic movie?*
It's usually vital that one of the charcters die at the end: ROMEO & JULIET, CAMILLE, WATERLOO BRIDGE, LOVE STORY, KING KONG...
AT the very least the lovers are unable to be together: NOW VOYAGER, CASABLANCA...
Things like NINOTCHKA is a romantic comedy & IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT is a screwball comedy... very different animals.
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*Did Orson Welles ever direct a film that wasn't edited by the studio, differently than what he wanted?*
*I can't think of one. Seems like all his films have many different versions and edits.*
KANE is his edit. And I'm fairly certain THE TRIAL (though it may exist in more than one version) was his edit. He commented once that it was the only film that was all his.
For that matter isn't THE STRANGER his edit as well?
I think OTHELLO and CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT also went out as he intended, but I'm not positive and I'm not able to check any of my OW books at the moment.
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Jimmy Sangster, the writer of the film claims that there was never any dialogue written for Dracula in the first place.
Anthony Hinds, producer of the film & the guy who updated Sangster's script, says the same. Claims he signed Lee for the film & only then did Lee discover he hadn't any lines & was furious.
Now I'd always thought his was a he-said/she-said situation & wasn't sure hwo was telling the truth -- but then several posts up I see that Lee's story changed over the years...
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Given I now pay about $70 a month for all the crap I don't want just so I can get TCM, I wouldn't mind a deal where I only pay for TCM.
But I want to wacth on a TV screen, not an Iphone...
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Or did you discover that this isn't really a Vivien Leigh thread?
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*The problem is finding translations for the films and most of them aren't released. I imagine TCM can only show those issued by Kino.*
TCM has also shown non-US films released by Janus/Criterion, films fantoma and Flicker Alley among other companies. But you are correct in stating that access to subbed or dubbed versions is crucial. If the films mentioned in the OP are not available as such, then TCM won't be showing them. I could just imagine the hue & cry if these film were simply screened in their original German language...
And this is a bit of a pity. For those of us in the US, the German cinema from the end of the war to, approximately 1960 is a black hole. And I, for one, would find it intriguing to see what the country's filmmakers turned out during that period. Only in the last few years have we started to have the opportunity to see some of the films made during the war (TITANIC and MUNCHAUSEN, for instance). I hope it won't be too long till we get to see some post-war titles.
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*I've gotten more into Shelley's autobio. She claims to have had affairs, or at least one-night stands, with a long list of luminaries.*
A friend who read it before I did described the book as "And then I f****d..."
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*infinite1 wrote:*
*THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET*
*...which contains one of my favorite lines, courtesy of Madame Ouspenskaya:*
*"GO HAVE YOURSELF STUFFED!"*
That's two of us.
This is a very under-rated film. Too bad Universal didn't try for a Dupin series.
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There are some things I like better in the Vivien Leigh version than the Garbo version. The score is gorgeous, for one thing. Ralph Richardson makes the husband just slightly morte sympathetic than Basil Rathbone - he lets us see the hurt seeping through a bit. And unlike the MGM version - where the Karenins seemed to have taken up residence in the Winter Palace - the house here is grand but not unbelievably so. Kieron Moore is a bit stiff, but a lot better looking than Frederick March - you can understand why Anna would fall for him. I do think Greta Garbo might have a slightb edge over Leigh, though, in her portrayal of Anna.
The film doesn't quite come together as a film, though, the way the Garbo version does & I've never quite figured out just why. It is, however, a lot better than its reputation has it.
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*They weren't the only ones. Why was Iron Butterfly called "Iron Butterfly?" Because their allegiance lay behind the Iron Curtain!*
You mean they weren't a Jeanette MacDonald tribute band????
I have been seriously led astray...
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*I thought Night Life of the Gods was a comedy?*
Yup. And it's almost as funny as I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG.
Edited by: HarryLong on Sep 29, 2010 1:20 PM
Edited by: HarryLong on Sep 29, 2010 1:21 PM
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It was released on VHS, and some pricey copies are on Amazon & E-Bay
Hmmm... as I've burned my copy to DVD, perhaps I should look into selling it...
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Not lost ... sold. MCA/Universal now owns most all pre-1949 Paramount titles.
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*in the poster Blanche does look like a lady and a fairly healthy and good looking one*
But with ET's neck...
Hammer: Where are the Scars of Dracula
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*the redoubtable Martita Hunt.*
Who has a way od saying "balls" the just almost suggests she's not referring to dances...