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Yes, we really owe those companies a debt of gratitude for releasing so much of the Fox back catalog that we eventually got. I guess that's going to be it, though, and that makes me quite sad.

Fox created pan and scan SD masters for its Cinemascope films decades ago for television broadcast use, and those are many of the masters still in use today. No one has bothered to update these scans for the high definition era especially if the film is not one of the top priority movies that...

ANYBODY would have been better than Montand.

Oh, yes, Shirley's role in the film was a combination of Lilo's and Gwen Verdon's from the stage version.

Thanks so much for sharing this story.

No kidding! I loved it (and still enjoy watching it to this day), but I understand why there wasn't a huge audience in America of the time for a biofilm about Gertrude Lawrence who was far more famous for her stage work, most of which a general audience in that era wouldn't have seen.

Paul, Carousel was the movie Frank Sinatra walked off of because of the dual filming intentions. I think we were very lucky that happened since I much prefer Gordon MacRae in that role with his weightier voice and greater physical authority. And, as it turned out, they didn't end up filming...

I've repeated this story several times here, but I did see Star! in 70mm at Charlotte's Carolina Theater (the city's lone Cinerama screen though, of course, it was a Todd-AO film) on its opening night in December 1968. Even though it had been playing in London since the summer and in NYC for a...

These pictures of the Rivoli bring back such vivid, vivid memories. Saw The Sound Of Music there, and I would have seen Star! there if it had run longer.

Cleopatra wouldn't qualify anyway; it was filmed in Todd-AO, not CInemascope.

Yes, I was going to make The Egyptian my choice as the best transfer.

I haven't watched my DVD of The Virgin Queen in a few years, but I don't remember it being as bright as those samples from iTunes and Vudu. Maybe I'm just misremembering it.

Argh! Thanks for telling me. I won't bother buying it. I'll stick to my DVD which at least is anamorphic widescreen.

I reviewed the disc for HTF here.

I'd like to see THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE OR FREE in the correct aspect ratio, too. Every broadcast of the film on the Fox Movie Channel in the last year has been pan and scan, and I refuse to watch it in such a butchered fashion.