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Interestingly my problems with the Abyss 4K disc freezing (see my post in The Abyss thread) happened on two different Sony players.

My thanks to Brian L and other posters. I shall look into your suggestions.

Anyone else had problems with The Abyss freezing? Mine froze twice in the 4K discs of Theatrical Edition and once in the Special Edition, strangely in the same place (Lindsey drowning in the mini-sub). I got the same results on two different 4K players.

If James Cameron hates blue so much how come he created an entire race of blue aliens and made them the heroes of Avatar?

Forget my earlier enquiry about the Napoleon ‘trailer’. I’ve managed to track it down and it’s clearly a ‘fan-edit’ mostly stitched together from the 1970 film.

Someone I know has watched a 3m 12s trailer of this film and is convinced that a lot of the battle scenes are stock footage from Bondarchuk’s Waterloo. I’ve not seen the trailer and find it difficult to believe that this claim is correct. Has anyone else seen or heard about this?

I would certainly buy an upgraded version of this film.

Cyrano was played by Jose Ferrer who was born only five years before Mel. They were not related. Jose’s son was Miguel Ferrer who was born in 1955.

I very much enjoyed the concert. Shirley Bassey’s contribution was great and the standing ovation was really quite touching. Hitting those high notes at age 85 gives hope to us all.

I just tried pre-ordering this like Flashgear and Superclark but, although the above link works, it won’t do anything when i click on the page. It just says ‘temporarily out of stock’. Any advice? I don’t want to miss this one again. Cheers.

Or Spice Viagra.

Netflix are increasing their subs here in the UK too, by about 10 percent.

Well I’ll be jiggered! Only an hour after my above post TWWOTBG arrived in my letterbox several weeks earlier than might have been the case. Well done WOW HD. Guess what I’ll be watching this weekend.

I’m really looking forward to watching this. I’ve had it pre-ordered for weeks but, living here in the UK, my supplier tells me that delivery could take up to 45 days, frustratingly. Oh well, I guess that means I’ll savour it all the more when it arrives.

Ordered my copy several weeks ago. Regarding Bosley Crowther’s review copied above: surely George Pal had nothing to do with The Three Worlds of Gulliver which was a Charles H Schneer production for Columbia. Maybe Crowther was thinking of tom thumb.

Thank you Douglas. That’s encouraging. I’ll look into it.

Can I ask UK members how they will be importing Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm? I’ve looked at Amazon and WOW and with VAT they both come out at nearly £30 so I guess that means there could be import duty on top of that(?). Any ideas would be welcome, thanks.

Yes, it is a little frustrating if these new editions are from 35mm but in terms of PQ things are starting to get hopeful. I think I’m becoming very slightly excited.

Yes, and so was El Cid. Only 55 Days at Peking seems to have made it to the clever remastering folks at Pinewood. One can only hope that Rimini will prove as expert - although I realise it doesn’t necessarily mean that Rimini have done any remastering themselves.

I’m still hoping that neither El Cid or FOTRE will have forced subtitles.

As these new releases of El Cid and FOTRE are French, might they have forced subtitles?

Thanks for your reply Oliver and your suggestion about using a Bronston thread. I shall try to locate one.

So does El Cid - and Fall of The Roman Empire (which appears in a similar unhappy condition) - need a remastering or an actual restoration to produce something like what we now have for Spartacus and Ben-Hur? And on physical copies too.

In answer to DeWilson’s question, I’m not sure that Stagecoach West ever played in the UK. It also doesn’t seem to have been mentioned in the Western Film and TV annual which gave a yearly round-up of westerns appearing on UK cinemas and TVs for about 10 years starting in the early 1950s. The...

Martin Landau or Martian Lander?

I think the name of Richard Attenborough's character was actually Christie, not Cronin. Otherwise a very helpful review, thank you.