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That’s a lot of image missing isn’t it? that apart I’m amazed to see Sayonara made twice as much money as Raintree! must have been the beautifully shot Japanese locations.

Make sure you see Yield To The Night in which she plays woman condemned to hang after a crime of passion. She is simply wonderful in it, looking far from glamorous at times. She was indeed as you say a distinct personality, a strong lady and by all accounts a really nice one. She managed to...

What beautiful art work. Wonder if Elizabeth got to keep the painting.

she was a talented lady. Took a long time for people to realise this, thinking her as little more than a British Marilyn Monroe look a like. Her performance in Yield To The Night was the eye opener For many. She played woman about to be hanged for killing her lover in crime of passion, like real...

Last week on UK tv there was a Dors film from the early 50s Passport to Shame in which she played the number one “escort” in a brothel. Considered so shocking at the time they gave the film a warning introduction by a Scotland Yard police inspector! She stole the film hands down!

Such a pity the big studios haven’t followed the lead Scorcese gave with restoration of movies. Why does Hollywood not consider cinema an art worth preserving? France restores and archives so many of its cinematic history to put Hollywood to shame.

Never shown in U.K. in 70mm. Lucky you seeing it the way intended.

OK Technirama 70 not Panavision 70 but 70mm all the same. They didn’t make 35mm réduction prints from 35mm negatives.

I’m amazed the movie was never released in Camera 65! Why not? Why spend all that money then dump it onto 35mm. Though I know they did that with Zulu too though that was shot Super Panavision 70.

Er it must be some time since you saw it. James Mason becomes a Christian who is tortured by the barbarians who because of his courage convert to Christianity, the main reason they are later persecuted and burnt when Commodus tries to burn Sophia and Stephen Boyd. It is more than just an oblique...

I’m always surprised to read negative comments about Fall as it is without doubt the most spectacular of all Roman epics with the best set and costume design. And Gladiator was a remake, though with the religion removed.

So Blu Ray recorders at the ready then. Anybody willing to make me a copy please contact me off list to negotiate!