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Foreman was quite a talented actress. A shame her career never really took off.

That's not quite correct. It was indeed originally published as simply THE GRACIE MURDER CASE, but when Paramount bought the film rights, they added "Allen" to make sure audiences knew who it was about. The publisher then changed the title to make it a movie tie-in.

Wow, this is not something I would ever have put on my bingo card. You have the thanks of a grateful nation.

Actually more like two weeks. LB opened May 25, 1994; SPEED opened 16 days later on June 10.

Is the Stanley Kramer Production Featurette ported over from the Olive release? Because I did that! 🤠

Please note that this is not a solo commentary; I'm joined by historian Darlene Ramirez. Hopefully this will be fixed quickly.

We showed this at Cinecon this past September with both Nancy Olson and Peggy Webber Q&As. Astounding that a 72-year-old movie still has two of its adult cast members alive.

It's been eight months since this announcement. Any update?

Is LADY AND THE MONSTER the full 86-minute version or the more common 58-minute reissue?

She was a Paramount contract star; Astaire was a loan-out from MGM. I'm sure he had no problem being second.

I asked Evanier to join me on this because we'd previously done MAD MAD WORLD together and there's a great deal of personnel overlap with RUSSIANS. I think it's one of my/our best commentaries.

I cannot wait to hear this commentary. I once asked Laurie about working with Sirk, and she unleashed a torrent of profanity that would have shocked Lenny Bruce!

Hey, Kino! I'll be joined on this by archivist/historian Stan Taffel!

It does. In fact, a new preservation was just shown two months ago at Cinecon, along with clips from the concurrently released "silent" version.

Okay, enough of this. Let's get back to what's really important: Whining about all the titles Kino hasn't released yet. :rolling-smiley:

It was. I've just remade 7KTB as a comedy, ROCK AND DORIS (try to) WRITE A MOVIE. Hopefully it'll be out next year.

Indeed it is. Mention should also be made of the brilliant score by Modern Jazz Quartet pianist John Lewis, some of which was played by the group. And "Skating in Central Park" became a permanent part of their repertoire and was reused in other films, notably "Love Story" and "Little Murders."

During the brief time Sony owned the UA library in 2005, I had this idea to create an "ultimate" edition: the original Italian version, but with Karloff's scenes in English (i.e., his own voice). Alas, the split ownership stymied that idea.

A delightful and sadly underrated film. I had no idea there was a longer version, but if it's included, this will be an exceedingly rare double-dip for me.

Hey, that dude Schlesinger's piece wasn't bad. :D BTW, I also talked about HN's relationship with JOHNNY GUITAR, as Olive also handled it at the time, but they chose to focus on the Kramer stuff and didn't use it.

Powell also played Vance in a sketch in PARAMOUNT ON PARADE. Any chance Universal might let you have it as an extra?

Always been a favorite of mine, especially Holden's performance. I had a 16 that went vinegar, so this will be a welcome replacement.

Hey, I do the lousy jokes around here! ;)

One thing that nobody never mentions is Pamela Reed's spot-on impression of Arnold as his "sister."

Pretty sure that was a joke.

I have it on very good authority that everything he knows could fit into a thimble with enough room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart. (Oops, wrong radio comedian.)

My second favorite Barrymore after TWENTIETH CENTURY. An absolute joy.

When I was at Sony, I was given this to do as an uplift release. But they hated the idea that I was booking it in Landmark and similar theatres--even though that's where it belonged--so they took it away from me and released it themselves in regular theatres--dubbed--selling it like an action...

Fabulous news. Lilian Harvey is one of the great undiscovered treasures of cinema. (We ran MY LIPS BETRAY at Cinecon this year and the crowd ate it up.) I believe CONGRESS was filmed in French as well as English and German, but I assume that version doesn't survive, either. :emoji_cry: