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Geoffrey Toone can be seen briefly in The King and I (released the same year as Helen of Troy) as Deborah Kerr’s former beau during the banquet scene.

This will probably seem like a silly question (especially since it was included on the TCM broadcast), but was the overture included? Mr. Feltenstein didn’t sound too sure about its inclusion during the announcement podcast for July.

Do you remember when that print was booked? I also find it strange that they would try to claim that Ebert approved of this cropping since he was quite critical of the cropping applied to the 1987 reissue of Snow White (he starts talking about the cropping about 14 minutes into the below video).

By bumping, I mean bringing up again since it’s been dormant for a few days.

Bumping this thread since Helen of Troy has been officially announced for July.

As I said in the Warner Archive thread, hopefully we’ll get Helen in July. Until it’s officially announced, my DVR recording of the new master will suffice for now.

Yeah, as much as I would like Helen to win the poll (I probably should have mentioned this when I first brought up the poll, but Victor Young’s Samson and Delilah is also an option), I just don’t see it beating The Chairman (lot of Goldsmith fans in those parts). There’s also a poll on an...

Reviving this post of mine as Intrada has started a new poll for Kickstarter recordings and Helen of Troy is one of the options. While it doesn’t have many votes right now (on their forum, it currently has one vote cast by yours truly), it does indicate that there is interest in recording...

If by different, you mean more natural looking, then yes, the colors are different. As I mentioned when I first related my views of the TCM transfer, it looked a little too blue (rendering the desert sand a bluish white), so in this aspect, I like the new color grading better. That said, I’m a...

I’m not so sure about that. TCM did show the restored Helen of Troy earlier this month (which is not on HBOMAX yet).

No idea. For all I know, we could get one or both of them announced on Monday when Part II of the May announcements are made. I certainly hope we at least get Pharaohs since TCM messed up and showed the old master last night.

Just a reminder that the TCM broadcast of the remastered Land of the Pharaohs is tomorrow night at 8:00 PM EST (Currently listening to the marvelous FSM release of Dimitri Tiomkin’s magnificent score).

Mayo would have been ok as Helen, but I can honestly understand why Wise went with the unknown route for the role.

Apparently Jacques Sernas was dubbed by an actor named Geoffrey Toone, although there are some who believe it was Edmond Purdom. Can’t remember what thread I read it in, but I read somewhere on Film Score Monthly that TFC were at one point considering recording Helen, but decided to do...

Intrada is still doing re-recordings via Kickstarter (albeit only smaller-scale scores so far) so perhaps they may try to tackle Helen in the future barring the discovery of original tapes and supposing things at Warner settle down. The FSM of The Silver Chalice is every bit as good as their...

Yes, the transfer was quite an improvement over the DVD (which is evident even from the iPhone screenshot above). I did detect a few soft looking shots (primarily in shots around dissolves or involving matte paintings. One shot that looked soft on my set that didn’t involve those factors was...

Just a reminder for those that have TCM that the new master for Helen of Troy will be airing tomorrow at 5:45 PM EST.

As a matter of fact, Scorsese will be introducing the TCM broadcast on the 14th. Here’s a link to the article screenshoted above, which also includes a link for the full April schedule: https://deadline.com/2023/03/warner-bros-100th-anniversary-tcm-movie-programming-1235307202/

Yep, the new masters are being aired on TCM as part of their celebration of Warner’s centennial (April 3rd for Helen, April 14th for Pharaohs).

Definitely agree with you on Williams being the only composer working today comparable to all those greats. I haven’t heard much of his TV music, but I will say I find some of his more recent scores decent, if nowhere near the scores he did in his prime. And with the talk of his possibly...

My guess is that is for the same reason WAC hasn’t released several films that have HD masters on streaming sites, that being that while they’re good enough for streaming, it doesn’t cut the mustard for Blu-ray.

Unfortunately, I believe the Mill Creek deal is only for films that had previously been released on Blu-ray, so no Story of Ruth, Francis of Assisi, or Esther and the King. That said, I would definitely spring for a Blu-ray of Ruth with its great performances (especially Peggy Wood as Naomi)...

While Hayworth was the better dancer, I have to agree with this statement. Bazlen was more aligned with the Salome of Oscar Wilde and Richard Strauss (the scene after the dance even borrows a few lines from the Wilde play, which also as the libretto for Strauss). Also, in terms of music, while...

While I would love to see the recovered footage reinserted in some way, shape, or form, I’ve been given to understand that the intended six-hour version never made it past the workprint stage (at least, it never reached the scoring stage, otherwise Varese would have found a lot more music when...

I don’t think Miramax even has the rights to El Cid, or Fall of the Roman Empire for that matter, anymore. I think the decision for that lies with whoever ended up with the Weinstein catalog in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal.

Definitely agree about the battle scenes in Bondarchuk’s War and Peace, especially the film’s depiction of Borodino. Among other aspects of the scene, that one point-of-view shot where the camera flies across the field like a cannonball is absolutely unforgettable. Also, keeping with the...

Eastman, more likely, given its large format origins (Technirama).

Did the Blu-ray include the roadshow portions of the film (Overture, Intermission, intermezzo/Entr’Acte, Exit Music)?

I’ve only seen bits and pieces of The Prodigal so I can’t make a full judgement on that one, but I’ll agree that Salome was pretty bad, especially how it more or less clears her of the beheading of John, that not even Charles Laughton could save it. However, I would say that The Silver Chalice...

I do wish that the rights situation with the Bronston epics wasn’t so confusing. Aside from King of Kings, the rights to the other epics seems confusing (I’ve seen digital copies of Fall listed as belonging to Paramount, though it’s not necessarily an indicator).