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I saw a mint 70mm print in 1972. In 1990 I saw a new 35mm print multiple times in the cinema where I was working. The color was not as perfect as the 70mm print due to the deterioration of whatever negatives Fox was using to create new prints (I'm guessing a 3-strip protection negative made in...

I saw a mint 70mm print of KING AND I in 1972. In 1990, the cinema where I worked ran a season of a brand new 35mm print. To my eyes,the blu ray transfer looks nothing like these prints, which I believe were representative of Leon Shamroy's Oscar-nominated cinematography. Ditto for CAROUSEL...

The HD edition available on iTunes is similar to the restored print/transfer used for the 2-Disc R+H dvds released in the early 2000's, for which I believe - much to the horror of people such as Robert Harris- they went back to the original 65mm camera negatives for this and CAROUSEL. The color...

I think it's more 'limited choreography'. Hermes Pan was great with real dancers, but only had Bobby Van in that category to work with in the cast of this film. Personally, I think it's one of the better songs in the score. The lyrics and staging of 'LIving Together, Growing Together' make me...

In all honesty, the SD release looks much better. I believe that earlier transfer can be viewed in HD online, as can CAROUSEL (which looks even worse on Fox's blu ray disc).

As much as I have a nostalgic, "guilty pleasure" approach to the Bacharach-David musicalization of LOST HORIZON (it's failure ended their song-writing partnership), to my way of thinking it;'s not in the same league as THE KING AND I (by a country mile). Fox are driving classic movie buyers to...

Hi Dave. Re KING AND I, the first dvd release was in LETTERBOX format, not 16:9 anamorphic.You should be able to just modify your TV/monitor to 'Zoom' when playing KING. If this doesn't work, try modifying the SET UP selections you gave us a photo of from WIDE (16:9) to 4:3. Let me know how you go.

I grew up playing the LP of the Broadway cast with Juanita Hall. Muriel Smith was an opera singer who had played the lead in the Original Broadway Cast of CARMEN JONES (Interesting that two black actresses played this Vietnamese character on stage and- united- on film.) Hers is much the better...

I have the full screenplay of SOUTH PACIFIC, which I am assuming was the narrative sequence of the European cut.(Which I don't think we got here in Australia- I think we only ever had the shorter version of the movie in 70mm. I saw that cut in 1971 when the movie was owned by Road Show...

The European version of SOUTH PACIFIC when it premiered followed the narrative sequence of the play, as the Paul Osborn screenplay (and the order of songs on the soundtrack) indicate the film was originally meant to do, ie. beginning with deBeque and Nellie having their lunch date (and with his...

I think Cinerama10 means the ASTOR theatre in Melbourne, not the ASCOT. The sad news is that it's closing next year and is the last cinema in Melbourne (as far as I know) that can run 70mm.

For me, CAN CAN is not in the same league as STAR! or even DOCTOR DOLITTLE. The best song ('I Love Paris') was inexplicably cut and Sinatra's character was developed for the film purely because he settled the Fox lawsuit over his failure to honor his contract re CAROUSEL by making this film. In...

I believe the Blu Ray transfers of THE KING AND I and CAROUSEL (two of the best Broadway to Hollywood musicals ever made) were terrible and Fox needs to re-master them. Otherwise, fans will stick with the Special Edition SDs, which have superior color and contrast/brightness levels. For the...

In SOUTH PACIFIC, the moonlight scenes were intended to have a blue tint in them. They were the least objectionable "filtered sequences" in the (otherwise) excellent film adaptation of the Broadway play. Joshua Logan went on record saying it was the biggest mistake of his professional career and...