On a different note, I'd like to suggest that the Twilight Time "powers that be" consider two interesting 20th Century Fox CinemaScope movies with great musical scores which have never had studio releases on any fomat as far as I know: BLUE DENIM (Brandon deWilde, Carol Lynley. Bernard Herrmann...
Hi Anthony. I don't remember whether we went to Hillier's when going to movies at the Plaza/Regent.
I used to get specially made shoes in the Betsy Pryam Shoe shop in the lane just up from those cinemas. I would always gaze at the posters and on one of these occasions I noticed the poster for...
Fascinating details re the above films. It would indicate that GREATEST STORY was more popular than legend would indicate. I saw it as a child here in Melbourne at the Plaza, which was our Cinerama theater. I also saw THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM and HOW THE WEST WAS WON there in...
From what I can gather, the German RAINS is not in DTS-HD MA 4.0, just two-channel stereo. Guessing it's a mix down. You may be better off getting the more expensive TT version.
I think anyone wanting THE EGYPTIAN on Blu Ray needs to keep an eye on overseas releases. THE RAINS OF RANCHIPUR was released in Germany on Blu Ray and is - I'm sure- from the identical master. It doesn't have the isolated score though. It is in stereo, despite misinformation to the contrary...
Fox Archives have released a number of CinemaScope titles in pan/scan for which original ratio masters exist egs
THE VISIT (released in 16:9 2.35:1 in Europe)
NIGHT PEOPLE (released in 16:9, 2.35:1 in Australia and in non-anamorphic LBX in Spain)
23 PACES TO BAKER STREET (released in 16:9...
What has happened to Twentieth Century Fox CinemaScope movies, the initial publicized purpose of Twilight Time? Nothing wrong with adding other genres/studios etc, but a shame to appear to be abandoning the original "raison d'etre" of this series.
I think TT could do a great service to Fox...