HarryLong
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Interesting article about Hodkinson here:
>http://www.cobbles.com/simpp_archive/hodkinson_system.htm
It looks like any Famous Players or Lasky or Paramount production would fit the bill ... and that means that Barrymore DR JEKLYLL & MR HYDE was probably one of the films. That's an easy title to track down
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>or I recorded it and forgot that I had.
I do that sometimes. My memory is not what it once was.
It's god's way of telling you that you have too damn many films ... I should know ...
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My first awareness of Bergman was an article in the pages of CASTLE OF FRANKENSTEIN back when I was in high school. Couldn't get to see it until I went off to college, though & instantly fell in love with it. Marvelous film, so bleak and yet not without its humorous momnents (one character climbs a tree to escape Death, who promptly begins sawing down the tree).
WILD STRAWBERRIES is also wonderful.
And if you've never seen his delightful film of THE MAGIC FLUTE, I urge you to do do.
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>Welles was not around to fight for the film. Despite attempts by wire and telephone by Robert Wise and others involved in the film, Welles did not respond.
I though I read somewhere that Welles did respond by telegram with editing instructions ...
Of course with him working from memory rather than being where he could watch the film, his directions apparently weren't always that easy to figure out.
And I'm pretty certain, too, that Welles went to Mexico when RKO sent him rather than "choosing" to leave at the time he did. The studio - whose new head didn't much like Welles - may have been looking for a way to take AMBERSONS out of his hands ... in fact the whole thing looks suspiciously like a set-up to me.
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>would you be willing to lock yourself up at home and do nothing but watch TCM all day long?
One does what one must.
(And prays it's not the day the celebrate El Brendel's birthday ... )
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>The biggest problem with the 60?s whiz-kids of the British movie industry, including those that HollywoodGolightly mentions, is that they thought movies were about ?ART?.
... Ken Russell, Tony Richardson et al. may be intellectually stimulating (or depressing), but the ?Carry On?s? made more money. The British film industry never quite learned what the folks in Hollywood knew from the beginning, the bottom-of-the-barrel is lined with gold.
But your argument falls apart when you consider that the films HollywoodGolightly listed were all quite big hits ... internationally.
And the Hammer films and Carry On films became impossible to find financing for ... and that is the real reason why the Brit film industry fell apart after the 1960s: Financing dried up.
On top of that the former Rank and Korda studios (now run by corporations arther than movie producers) found it more profitable to rent out to US productions (STAR WARS, for instance) than to promote their own countries' film production.
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Given it has one of his great performances, I'm a little disappointed THE NAME OF THE ROSE is not part of the line-up.
Oh, well, I've got the DVD...
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THE LONG, LONG TRAILER has been shown many, many times over the past year or so -- in some cases during Prime Time.
Aside from getting a programmable recording device, you might also check your cable company's On Demand service. TCM has free on-demand titles on mine. I've never looked for TLLT, but ...
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I thought it odd, too, that Boland wasn't mentioned even though she is ins everal of the films being shown.
Oh, well, they ignore Maude Eburne in RUGGLES, too...
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>I'm not sure how Kent Taylor and Barton MacLane got into W. C. Fields' films
Well, in 1934 kent Taylor was just another Paramount contract player ...
As to Barton McClane ... luck? There were worse things ahead. UNKNOWN ISLAND anyone?
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I might pick a few more than just WALL-E (which I haven't even seen as yet) from that list.
But whence came the list of 1939 films? If it isn't picked by the same criteria as the Netflix list *(i.e.: What were the most popular films in 1939?) it's not a fair comparison, is it?
As I recall SON OF FRANKENSTEIN was an immensely popular film in 1939 (saved The New Universal from bankruptcy, I believe), but I didn't spot it on your list. Seventy years from now, I predict, someone will wail about the lack of great movies & come up with a list of great ones from 2008 that inlcudes almost none of the films on that Netflix list. But it will include MILK and SYNECDOCHE, NY and TROPIC THUNDER and BURN AFTER READING and (maybe) IRON MAN and BE KIND REWIND and THE READER and IN BRUGES and LEATHERHEADS and HELLBOY II and BRIDESHEAD REVISITED and THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES and W and CHANGELING and AUSTRALIA and FROST/NIXON and CHE and DOUBT and THE WRESTLER and ...
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Well, it's very easy to think past years produced more great films than current years. We're not living through past years' releases film by film the way we are today's films.
I notice that your list for 1939 is curiously missing ... oh ... say any of Monogram or Republic's features. Kinda skews the list, doesn't it, unless we make one of every single film from that year? The lowliest films there are a coupla Saint flicks.
Additionally I don't necessarily think every film of that 1939 list is necessarily great. But that's mostly a matter of taste. And so, I should think, is one's assessment of current fare.
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>One report I read said the girl was off camera and recording as Annie spoke the lines, but another report said that Hitchcock used the ?loop? method and recorded the girl?s English voice later and edited it into the film.
I'm pretty sure it was the former: that another woman off-camera but on-mike spoke the lines that Ondra mouthed. This was very early in the sound period for Britain (hell, wasn't Hitch's film THE first British talkie?) & I don't think the looping technology (or even dubbing of any kind) had been perfected.
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>PS Notice thread locks recently?
They're Voltron's specialty, apparently.
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>In any case, this is the first un-nailed crucifiction I've ever seen.
Nor encountered the term Entr'acte...
You need to get out more.
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Seeing as how the film carefully detailed Christ's pumishment but none of his message, I think this film can only be described as Torture Porn for the faithful.
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>?well, you don?t like my movies because you only want to see Disney animation.?
Yeah he doesn't seem to grasp that some people don't like his films just because they don't like his films, not because they prefer Disney animation. I did like the work from his MIGHTY MOUSE stint, but I find his features rather simplistically written & cliched.
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Olives in apricot brandy???????
Gaaaaaaaaaaaaag!
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There seems to be little rhyme or reason at Universal (or so many other companies for that matter). Both UNINVITED and ISLAND were out on VHS (in fact my DVDR of UNINVITED is from the pre-record) and ISLAND, at least, is one of the most-wanted Golden-Age, Pre-Code horrors. But the Big U just drags its feet on issuing it.
Now, I'm not under any illusion that it will sell better than the Ultimate Directors Cut Edition of whatever the latest Adam Sandler time-waster is ... old movies are difinitely a niche market, but it's a pretty large one. And of course the classic horror market is a niche within that niche. But ISLAND and I dare say THE UNIVITED are well-liked even by classic film lovers who are not necessarily horror fans. My guess is that releases of them would do well & if the Paramount Horrors were "boxed" in the same cheap manner as Universal's Hammer and Lugosi and Inner Sanctum sets (good lord! Inner Sanctum titles get released before ISLAND or UNINVITED!), they'd show a profit.
Universal should look toward the sales of things like the Fox Horror sets and watch how their own Pre-Code set goes.
Heaven knows if they will, though.
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>I remember being very surprised at how handsome Victor Jory was in the picture
Must be the makeup or lighting or something. I recently watched the serial THE GREEN ARCHER, which was made thesame year as GWTW & Jory is the hero. He looks perfectly acceptable.
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Very ticked off that I forgot this was on & so neglected to record it.
Dieterle really is one of the more interesting that directors that, it seems, no one ever thinks of. I've been dubbing as many of his films as I can from TCM toward doing my own re-evaluation.
Maybe now that Borzage has been rediscovered, Dieterle will be next. He deserves it.
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Universal ought to be horsewhipped for not releasing a whole slew of great Paramount titles. What about ISLAND OF LOST SOULS and THE MONSTER AND THE GIRL, for instance?
Why not a set like they (finally) did with their Hammer holdings ...
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Having the characters ruminate philosophically from time to time seems like an effort by the screenwriter (Wolf Mankowitz) to make it more than just a horror film. In fact his disdain for the genre just permeates the script & pretty much sinks it.
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Any idea which ending CREEPS will have? Or will it include both?
Where is Island of Lost Souls on DVD?!
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I read on another board that LOST SOULS is not in good shape anymore. Someone saw a restoration at a screening a few months ago & reported that it was very contrasty with the whiter areas really blown out.
On the other hand it looks fine on the laser disc, so I don't know why they don't just port that over...