Thanks for the poster and follow-up. I took a date to see that double-bill. She hadn't seen either movie before. Since she is the girl who stole my heart in high-school my memories drift more to her rather than intermission or no intermission for either movie. But I do know our butts would have...
My first screening of West Side Story was 2-3 years after its road show run, probably in 1963/64. I was 10 years old. It was at a small neighborhood theater in the Los Angeles area. Apparently in order to squeeze in more showings, they cut out the Overture and the closing credits! The movie...
Vertigo
Spartacus
North by Northwest
Psycho
The Man With The Golden Arm
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Goldfinger
The Birds
Deadpool
The Man Who Knew Too Much ('56)
Gone With The Wind
My Fair Lady
Bonnie and Clyde
The Graduate
Gigi
Lolita
Awesome performance by Shirley Booth in this movie, as I can only imagine it was on stage. It must have been up there with Marlon Brando in Streetcar Named Desire or Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady as the performance in a role against which all others will be compared.
I have had the DVD for...
Sorry to hear that.
I have inadvertently run my own unofficial survey on that movie over the decades; bringing young friends who had never seen it to any nearby theatrical screening that comes up, popping the latest greatest video version of it into my home theater system for us to watch...
Just a small note of correction on my previous post. I see now that this blu-ray package states that all 6 Volumes of the original set were transferred from the S-VHS masters of the original uncut Something Weird VHS compilations from the 1990s.
Hmm. I had misread that earlier to be that the...
My copy just arrived today. You might have ordered and received your copy by now too. If not, doing a quick spot check through the Mix Tape portion (says it was transferred from S-VHS) and all 6 of the original Hey, Folks Volumes (says they were transferred from VHS) spread across 2 blu-ray...
Back in the DVD-R version days, I had a Sony 5-disc DVD changer/carousel player and placed one of the discs in it along with a favorite cartoon compilation disc, a schlocky horror or sci-fi trailer disc and a couple of movie discs for whatever double-bill was on my schedule for the night. Then I...
Yep, that was just one of several volumes on VHS. Then later on DVD.
It'll be interesting to see what they put on the mix disc.
Hard to believe there was a time when we were thrilled to get a simple hamburger (cheeseburgers were rare and exotic in a pre McDonald's world, double-deckers only...
I am one of those Drive-In (and some indoor) Theatre intermission countdowns, concession ads, local business ads, etc groupies, too! Love having them on physical media.
So much so that I did buy all volumes on VHS from Something Weird Video back in the 90s. Then I replaced those with the DVD-R...
In the hands of a master filmmaker or a collaboration of master filmmakers, a movie can and sometimes does transcend the sum of its "remakeable" parts; story, plot, script, dialog, etc., elements that I consider the "content" of the movie.
Hitchcock, in particular, sought to blend the content...
Ah, my apologies for the confusion. I have ordered from both ClassicFlix and Amazon over the years and it had been some time since my initial pre-order of that title. So I had to go into my email notifications and saw messages from ClassicFlix letting me know it was ready for shipment and so on...
ClassicFlix does ship to some non USA countries. My copy of Our Town was shipped to me in Thailand.
VERY LATE EDIT: At some point I did have to shift my order to Amazon for an international delivery!
I would add that the presentation format size and quality is one important factor in how
those films were desgned by the filmmakers and percieved by their audience while that "shared situation" factor mentioned was just as important if not more so.
In those days that experience was "shared"...
Thankfully, I have never seen a lousy one. However, I have never seen one that moved me to tears and profound self-reflection nearly as much as this 1940 movie version of it.
Ah, thank you so much for that link! I had not seen that or read it anywhere else before.
Right or wrong, that is my feeling about it as well for that movie version of the story as presented with all the real sets and props, close ups, music soundtrack and so on working on us.
However, the...
It is daunting research in order to be absolutely certain, but I think she might have been the second to last credited cast member in Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Shirley MaClaine now being the last.
My apologies to anyone I am overlooking. But being cast and credited in that...
I do wish there was more info on Thornton Wilder's reasoning for the change. And fellow screenplay contributors Frank Craven, Harry Chandlee, producer Sol Lesser and director Sam Wood as well. I have searched but not found anything more on it. I have not read anything about any of them...
Thornton Wilder has the first screenplay credit and I had always heard and read that he authorized the change you mentioned if not actively proposed it. I don't know the truth of it but I think it was the right call for this movie version.
That is just my feeling based on the year it was made...
I watched the Extended Version last night after having seen the Theatrical Version 4-5 times and I totally agree with your assessment here.
Yes, I watched that Making Of bonus doc last night as well and was struck by another collaborator's recalling of the way the movie played so differently...
When I want to relish and share the "Best" of Hitchcock in terms of his incomparable craft and art of filmmaking combined with masterful audience identification and manipulation, I watch:
1.Vertigo
2.Rear Window
3.North By Northwest
4.The Man Who Knew Too Much ('56)
5.Psycho
They also happen...
Have you considered contacting Steve Martin to ask him about it? Through his agent perhaps? I have heard him calling in to a computer tech radio show from time to time just to chat and ask a few questions about computers and programs himself and he seems pretty open to responding to fan questions.
I think Angela Lansbury had the chops, fit and credentials for it in just about every important way except for the kind of box office draw the producers felt they needed.
And in 1968 she was still knockin' em dead in the stage version of Mame.
The Apartment
West Side Story
The Sound of Music
7 Brides for 7 Brothers
Vertigo
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
North By Northwest
The Searchers
Forrest Gump
Some Came Running
I would also mention that, unless I blinked and missed it, we never actually see how he makes that tricky move from being dragged behind the truck to climbing back onto it again. Amazing, unseen leg work there I would say.