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I was there in 1968 and I can assure you that the public very much did expect a conclusion. Viewers and press critics were outraged and their reaction made McGoohan leave the U.K. for good! This U.K. made series wasnt like the typical US series that carried for more than one series with no...

I saw it when first broadcast and just about everyone complained about the final episode. It showed contempt for the viewers who, from the advance publicity, expected a conclusion but it was just self-indulgent style above plot.

I’m tempted to get The Man Who Haunted Himself again for the additional extras.

THE DRESSER is great. Wonderful performances from Tom Courtenay and Albert Finney.

The Brando set is interesting. I only have One Eyed Jacks (one of my all time favourites) out of that set but the new extras look well worth having. What a pity none of the large amount of cut material has never shown up. The film flows well, so I've never understood exactly what was cut.

I recently bought Damn the Defiant (H.M.S. Defiant in the UK). The box and the menus say the sound is 2.00 mono which is a mistake. It is very obviously two track stereo with spacious music and effects. In one of the featurettes, assistant sound editor John Crome talks about mixing it for 5...

Good to know there’s new scan of The Man in Half Moon Street on the way which never even had a DVD release. With a Miklos Rozsa score as well. Maybe Kino will soon have this as well.

I still sometimes buy DVDs. A very large number of films and TV series will never be released on Blu-ray and DVD still holds 50% of the physical media market, despite many saying years ago that the format wouldn’t exist much longer.

Received “War of the Worlds” today. Huge improvement on the DVD and Amazon Prime HD version. I first saw the film as a reissue in the mid 1960s as a double bill with, of all things, “Psycho”. “War of the Worlds“ was shown cropped to fit the wide screen.

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