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  1. Robin9

    Your Twilight Time/MGM wishlist?

    I watched The Best Man again last night, on an MGM MOD which comes with a warning about best available source material. I'd forgotten that in The Best Man, as in Advise And Consent. the President is in very poor health and is about to die which, of course, he is keeping secret. I'd also...
  2. Robin9

    Your Twilight Time/MGM wishlist?

    Keep dreaming. I do.
  3. Robin9

    Your Twilight Time/MGM wishlist?

    Although both films are about politics and in particular about who is going to get an important position, the two films are very different. It's not easy to compare them. I like both a lot. The biggest difference for me is that The Best Man is faster paced. The second biggest difference is the...
  4. Robin9

    Your Twilight Time/MGM wishlist?

    The Best Man is a superb film that deserves to be better known and more widely celebrated!
  5. Robin9

    Your Twilight Time/MGM wishlist?

    Very good news. Very good news indeed. In his biography of David Lean, Kevin Brownlow writes that Freddie Young was photographing Khartoum when David Lean sent him a distress call from Doctor Zhivago. Apparently Freddie Young left the production to rejoin Lean. I hope Julie Kirgo's essay deals...
  6. Robin9

    Your Twilight Time/MGM wishlist?

    Glenn Lovell's book about John Sturges says the rights to Hour Of The Gun passed to MGM/UA in 1992, presumably from Mirisch and Sturges. If that is correct, then this is the film more than any other I'd like Twilight Time to release on Blu-ray. There is already an Australian BRD which I haven't...
  7. Robin9

    Your Twilight Time/MGM wishlist?

    Mmmm. The first James Bond movies were United Artists. :) I assume they won't be included! I hope that Mister Moses comes into Twilight Times' orbit. It's been missing in action for far too long.
  8. Robin9

    Your Twilight Time/MGM wishlist?

    That's what I thought too. I don't understand this thread.
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