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turtledove

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Robin9 said:
Thank to a tip-off from another HTF member, I bought a French DVD of Mark Of The Renegade, a film I've been seeking for ages. I'm a Cyd Charisse completist.

Unfortunately this disc is a double whammy. Being French, it has forced sub-titles. Neither my Oppo HD981 DVD player nor my Zone B Blu-ray player can block them. It's also a Universal film, and the transfer was done when Universal were using DNR without skill or restraint. Faces are unnaturally smooth and I thought at first the transfer might have been from a VHS tape.

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As Cyd Charisse is one of my four favorite female film stars, I'm glad to have this film but I wish the disc was better.

Robert Harris has assured us that Universal has a new attitude, and anyone who has seen the new Spartacus or Remember The Night Blu-ray discs will be inclined to agree. Universal however will more likely revisit the Douglas Sirk and Anthony Mann films and Day Of The Jackal than a very minor film like Mark Of The Renegade.
2 ways to get rid of forced subs.

First is to use a player that has UOP disabled. I'm in the UK and players with this feature are scarce ( my Panasonic Bluray Recorder has it though) and I think its even rarer in the US but you should find players for your PC should enable you to remove the subs.


Second way is to make a copy of the disc and you can delete the subs entirely.
 

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The 3 disc Blu-ray set of "Deep Red" finally shipped off from Amazon.co.uk I ordered it in September, but there were many delays in production.
 

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Robin9 said:
Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth and Claudia Cardinale. (It is permitted for men to sigh and give a deep, exhausted groan! :))

Interesting choices (this really deserves its own thread). I will have to give it more thought but based on favourite films three of mine are Vera-Ellen, Rhonda Fleming and Eva Marie Saint.
 

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Keith Cobby said:
Interesting choices (this really deserves its own thread). I will have to give it more thought but based on favourite films three of mine are Vera-Ellen, Rhonda Fleming and Eva Marie Saint.

Oh, mine has nothing to do with favorite films! It's all about what some actresses can do with whatever material they're given.


One of my biggests regrets about movies and the star system is that Rita Hayworth made so few films and hardly any good ones. That Harry Cohn must have been a prize dumbo. If Columbia was short of cash and penny-pinching in the 1940s, he should have hired her out other studios to be in their major movies, as of course did happen with My Gal Sal and Blood And Sand. Note that Fox were willing to give her a great, star-making role which any of their own actresses would have loved to have played.
 

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Keith Cobby said:
I don't agree about Rita. She made some great films and big favourites of mine. Cover Girl, Pal Joey, Gilda, Lady from Shanghai. In fact I should add her to my list!

Sure, she made some good films - and don't forget the two with Astaire - but not many. In the mid to late 1940s, when she was the hottest female star in Hollywood, she made about one film a year! In 1947 that one film was Down To Earth: a seriously bad film.
 

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I watched the German Explosive Media release of Columbia's 1957 The Guns of Fort Petticoat (Das Fort Der Mutigen Frauen) with Audie Murphy tonight. It is a very nice disc: sharp and has good color, with the only drawback being the dupe optical sections, e.g. fades and dissolves. Most of them pop out of the weaker dupe quality to the original footage at the end of the effect so you don't have to wait until the next cut, however. The disc is 16x9 1.78 anamorphic and has English and German tracks. It has the PAL speed-up of course but there's no getting around that and it is not bothersome to me. Recommended.

http://www.amazon.de/Fort-mutigen-F...8&qid=1454823662&sr=1-5&keywords=audie+murphy
 
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Amazon.de has pre-orders up on One Million BC (1940) with Victor Mature, The Victors (1963) and Casbah (1948) with Yvonne De Carlo, none of of which have R1 releases.

Unfortunately, The Victors appears to be the cut 146 minute version.
 

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Amazon.de has pre-orders up on One Million BC (1940) with Victor Mature, The Victors (1963) and Casbah (1948) with Yvonne De Carlo, none of of which have R1 releases.

Unfortunately, The Victors appears to be the cut 146 minute version.

Many thanks. I'll definitely buy Casbah, a much despised film! The score, by Harold Arlen and Leo Robin, includes What's Good About Goodbye?Hooray For Love, It Was Written In The Stars and For Every man There's A Woman. Two good songs and two masterpieces.
 

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I watched a german DVD release of the movie Woman They Almost Lynched (1953) (Am Tode vorbei).
It was an enjoyable and well made western directed by Allan Dwan.

The B/W print looked very nice. There was a few scratches here and there, but rarely.

It's No. 3 in a DVD series called "Western Perlen".

I see that a US DVD of this movie was released by Olive Films in 2015.

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Just now I discovered that Olive released it on a fine looking Blu-ray.
Now I want the Blu! :(
 
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