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There wasn't much marketing (such as action figures, etc.) of this or many other films back in 1963, except for Disney films. My parents' generation was saner.

You're absolutely wrong. No one in this world is more important than anyone else.

So he's so important he can have as many typos as he wants and we have to figure out what the $%#@ he's trying to say? Is that your point? Does he have to show us any respect?

Remember how in the old days when people rented videotapes the signs said "please rewind"? I'd like signs here saying "please proofread." What does "some bits and pieces that don't below" mean? Can I guess you meant "that don't belong"? If I've guessed right, then I'd like to ask: Belong in...

Well, I'm jealous. When will you be able to give us your review? Do they make you wait until the date of release?

Here we go again. Last year, a lot of you knew about this restoration before us ordinary peasants did. Now we have someone who's seen it two weeks before it's released. I'd like to ask how, but I'm sure I won't be told. But that's okay. I'm used to always being on the outside looking in...

Hey, don't say that. I'm not feeling well lately and I have this terrible feeling I'm going to do exactly that on the night of January 20. Even so, I'm still giddy with excitement. :dancing-banana-04:

To reiterate what others have said, my original memory of many CinemaScope, color, stereo movies was seeing them on television pan-and-scanned, in black and white, mono, cut and interrupted by commercials. Just because something's an "original memory" doesn't make it right. I saw IAMMMMW in...

I think it's been addressed that Smilebox isn't correct for MAD WORLD because it wasn't true Cinerama, like HOW THE WEST WAS WON was. I'm too giddy with excitement to think straight now. Besides it's five below zero here and my fingers are numb. I'm sure those who know much more about this...

The sentence reads: "There I saw Goldfinger and It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World and Bullitt and Fantastic Voyage–anything PG-rated I could get my kid’s eyes on." That doesn't indicate that any of them were paired; it's just a list of four movies he saw there.

The auteur of "The First Nudie Musical" has contributed to this thread! Back in early '68, I saw "The Graduate" as a sneak preview with the Joan Crawford horror movie "Berserk!" I want to proclaim as the winner of the contest the pairing of "King of Kings" with "The Three Stooges Go Around the...

And that Becket/Beach Ball pairing was indeed at a drive-in. At last, after 48 years, I understand!

Oh, I've got a good one! In 1965 I saw Becket with Beach Ball. To this day I can't figure out how the target audiences of those two movies would intersect at all. Would anyone who came to see Becket stay for Beach Ball, or vice versa? So why did I sit through both of them? Don't ask. :unsure:

The Odd Couple and Rosemary's Baby. I like to try to find connections between apparently unconnected things. Let's see ............ They were Paramount's two biggest successes of 1968. They were both nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar. Rosemary's baby was the result of the...

As for BIRDIE being with FAIL SAFE, there is that goofy subplot in BYE BYE BIRDIE with the Russians knocking Birdie off the Sullivan show, until Albert Peterson uses his speedup pill. So both movies dealt with US-USSR relations. :)

Back in the old days, the worst week for movie theaters was the week before the big Xmas movies opened. Many theaters would bring in a double feature of recent hits for that week. So, for that week in 1965, at the long gone Loew's State in downtown St. Louis, I did indeed see IAMMMMW (for the...

Actually, MOON & SURF wasn't an official pairing from Columbia. RIDE THE WILD SURF played in most of the USA in the summer of 1964. This was just a New York City thing. I think most of the USA did get EAST OF SUDAN with FIRST MEN IN THE MOON. For some reason there would often be whacky...

IAMMMMW opened in the metropolitan NYC area for Xmas of 1964 (December 23, 1964, to be exact.) Its year-long run at the Warner Cinerama had ended about a month before. Here's the original ad in the New York Times of that day (and you get some Ann-Margret and Ray Harryhausen thrown in along...

It was extremely important to me to read this. It's very important for fans of a movie to know that someone out there doesn't like the movie. Here I thought everyone loved it as much as we do. This is so important, I'm going over right now to every thread here devoted to certain movies and...

No, in his other thread he said he would have preferred 4K.

But I think it's pretty much all there, even if some of it is audio only with stills -- or video only with subtitles -- or both stills and subtitles (I guess -- as Russell says, "He didn't make that clear."). The reason I think that all of it will be represented in one form or another is that...

Mark Evanier had a link to a "critique" of IAMMMW by a self-described professor of film studies: http://filmint.nu/?p=5675 Few things depress me more than a professor who gets his facts wrong. His ridiculous opinion of the movie is one thing -- you can't argue opinions -- but look what he...

Yes. And it's one thing to be risque and irreverent, but that movie is just plain disgusting and vulgar. The ending didn't seem right and I read that UA refused to release Reiner's original ending because it went too far. Considering what they left in, can you imagine how disgusting it must...

If you presume I'm making my comments as a medical professional, that's your presumption, and there's nothing I can do about it. Based on what I've heard Reiner say in interviews and based on what I've read about him -- and based on what I heard him say with my own ears from a foot away at the...

Carl Reiner suffers from intense egomania. At one of these discussions he said he did the single funniest thing in the whole movie, then proceeded to tell what it was. It was totally unfunny, of course. Get this: I actually stood next to him at the world premiere of his movie "Enter...

I'm sure you all want to read Mark Evanier's report on the 50th Anniversary showing of MAD WORLD that was held Sunday at the Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles. I'm sure some of you will want to watch the video of the panel discussion he includes in his report -- that is, if you can take Mickey...

If I may jump in, I'd say, yes, that's what he means. Those three "music only" parts of the movie add up to approximately 7 to 8 minutes. Sooooooo --- The 161 running time (which was what was shown as the "roadshow version," after the cuts were made) includes all three. The 154 running time...

Well, I meant when can we expect the comments about the restoration on your blog. I get so excited I don't say what I mean sometimes.

Is that the one of everyone on the world reaching for the money ... or the one of everyone running out of the world chasing after the money ... or both? I check your blog every day. Our interests and political outlook ... and other things ... are identical. I'm looking forward to what you...

Thanks for your reasoned response to my earlier criticism. You've twice referred to the police calls as being on Reel 16, but the Technical Bulletin says Reel 6, so here I am confused again. I'm glad you said the T.B. was several weeks before the opening, because that 3 hours and 30 minutes...