Assistance with OAR of Thunder Road Please (1 Viewer)

[David Singleton]

Can someone please tell me the OAR of Robert Mitchum's Thunder Road? I couldn't find the details of the film at IMDB, but their specs of the MGM DVD indicate it is pan 'n scan.
Is that correct?
Thanks for any assistance.
David

 

[SteveGon]

I checked Amazon's specs for TR and the aspect ratio given is 1.33:1. Also, Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide doesn't make a note of TR being filmed in any specific widescreen process. TR was also a low-budget film which means Mitchum probably used the cheapest equipment he could get his hands on. So knowing that, I'd guess the aspect ratio of TR is either 1.37:1 or possibly 1.66:1. I know that's not much help if you're a diehard OAR enthusiast, but it's the best I could come up with. Perhaps someone else knows better.
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He thought on homeland, the big timber, the air thin and chill all the year long. Tulip poplars so big through the trunk they put you in mind of locomotives set on end. He thought of getting home and building him a cabin on Cold Mountain so high that not a soul but the nighthawks passing across the clouds in autumn could hear his sad cry. Of living a life so quiet he would not need ears. And if Ada would go with him, there might be the hope, so far off in the distance he did not even really see it, that in time his despair might be honed off to a point so fine and thin that it would be nearly the same as vanishing.
-- Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
[Edited last by SteveGon on October 08, 2001 at 10:44 PM]

 

[David Singleton]

I appreciate the help Steve.
David