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There must be people who understand it because I went to a Film Club screening at which there was much muttering among the audience. It turned out three spools of the film, about twenty minutes each, had been shown in the wrong order. We were given tickets to come back the next night when it...

Guys, just to let you know there are long delays in postal and delivery services across Europe due to a reduction in transport options, cancelled flights etc. I've been waiting up to three weeks for packets which would normally take a day or two. Your disks are probably waiting to move on to a...

That's fine. Sorry I bothered.

The issue, if it is an issue, seems to be equipment dependent. I first tried the disk on a newer Sony player and high definition TV and the motion blur, a sort of strobe effect, was very evident. Player and TV have various picture enhancements but I have them all turned off. On an older...

I still have the Super 8 print, mounted on a single big reel and it was screened many, many times for family and friends who have almost all passed away. Our regular postman complained that he never got to see any of the films he delivered to me, so a showing of "Last Train" had to be arranged...

When they reissued it in 1948, MGM thought the 1936 sequence dated the picture. This despite the rest of it being set in 1906!

Many thanks for the good news, David. Very much appreciated.

Does the movie have the original ending? The DVD had the 1948 reissue version showing a still picture of the then modern city. The proper finish has scenes of rebuilding including work on some kind of bridge which I believe may be still there.

$64.95 for "Giant from the Unknown" ? I'm holding out for the signature edition. Word is it'll have a souvenir pencil and a ticket stub from the Sunset Drive In.

https://thefilmdetective.imagenorders.com/product/giant-blu-ray/ "Giant from the Unknown" released by The Film Detective and Wade Williams.

In my case the cinema only ever had 35mm. Rank distributed Universal pictures at the time and I heard they had a few other prints like these intended for houses without 'scope screens.

This had an odd history even in the cinema. I saw it on a reissue double bill in the nineteen sixties with a Fred McMurray western. Both were CinemaScope but letterboxed onto standard ratio prints, the only two such 35mm prints I'd seen. The projectionist didn't know what to make of the tiny...

KL Insider, any chance of a favorite North-Western in your Universal series - "Back to God's Country" (1953)? Our local cinema had very poor heating and always showed this in wintertime. Rock Hudson, in the snow, was probably warmer than we were when it finished!

Got mine yesterday from Amazon and can highly recommend it. Quality looks excellent and the set is beautifully presented with lots of poster art and a nice thick booklet full of interest for each film. Superb job from Powerhouse/Indicator. Box is numbered from a run of 6000, so may not be on the...

My disk, released by Deutsche Grammophon, had wonderful picture and sound but has developed some fault and can no longer be played on anything. Sadly, the company I bought it from, Axel Music are also long out of business! Amazon have it but I'd be reluctant to buy the same edition again.