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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...

Great! I have it on order now. 😄

Will your blu-ray of Our Town include subtitles?

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

Yep. I saw that double bill there, too. Memorable. I took my highschool sweetheart who had never seen either movie before.

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.

"...if you happen to like Lucy." Mr. Harris, you always give us a generous "tell" to clue us in to what you're up to. 😉😁

Just a guess but had they not been newlyweds and instead been married for 10-15 years as might have been more age-appropriate, we wouldn't have gotten that hilarious and nerve-wracking first meeting with Desi's In-Laws, him trying to maneuver that long, long trailer into a tight parking space...

It might be worth bearing in mind what the 1600 international film critics, writers, programmers, archivists, etc. (not just film critics) were asked to do in this survey. Essentially they were asked to choose 10 movies each and on whatever criteria of "greatness" feels right to them with a few...

I wonder if Vera Miles as Judy emerging from the bathroom as the resurrected Madeleine, coming back into Scottie's world would have been as overwhelming, as powerful as what Kim Novak brought to it. I don't know. I am glad Kim Novak was there for that. I do think a less, what, dynamic type of...

"Written and Edited by Daniel Simpson" Thanks for that link. I really enjoyed it. To my knowledge, I had not heard of nor seen anything else by Daniel Simpson. But I found myself largely agreeing with his take on Hitchcock's work, with a few minor quibbles barely worth mentioning. In this...

I am always fascinated by how much of what was supposed to be a shock or a surprise to the audience (and was at the time) was given away prior to the release of PSYCHO. Even Hitchcock tells us a murder takes place in the shower in his famous comedic trailer for it, which I never saw prior to...

My larger point about that was not that we would be confused whether or not Arbogast was killed (in the later edited version). It was more that Hitchcock would not have taken the too quick and easy route of suggesting a single knife plunge is all it takes for Arbogast to be "dispatched quickly...

Lol. Of course, the length of that hands shot and I would say even the number of knife plunges in the Arbogast scene would not have been nearly as memorable as the bra removal shot in the peephole scene because, unlike that bra removal shot, they did not elicit a specific audience-wide response...

To be fair it was a perfect storm of conditions that allowed many if not most of us who had seen it in its orginal years of theatrical release to miss that something had been cut. In addition to that convenient few years' gap/window between its major commercial theater showings and the first...