Flicker Alleys' The Golden Head on Blu-ray...any thoughts? (1 Viewer)

[Capt D McMars]

I remember seeing this at the Cinearamadome in Los Angeles as a kid, and never saw it again...then I come across it in Flicker Alley cataolg, WOW!! I come to find out WHY I never saw it again, it was a lost film for many decades...A great cast and family orientaion storyline made this a classic worthy of it's salvation. The main issue was it's format...any one else remember this film or bought this BRD?

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[Josh Steinberg]

I reviewed it for HTF here:

The Golden Head Blu-ray Review (Flicker Alley)

Flicker Alley’s release of The Golden Head presents this single-strip large format production on Blu-ray and DVD in a smilebox presentation which recreates its original Cinerama exhibition. Although the film itself is little more than a travelogue through Budapest, the scenery is pretty and the...

www.hometheaterforum.com

Dave Strohmeier, who worked on the disc, talks about it here:

Cinerama's Golden Head and Tale of Old Whiff

A heads up on a “Golden Head” release Often considered the LOST Cinerama film, “The Golden Head” starring Buddy Hackett and George Sauders will come out sometime this fall through Flicker Alley. One of the bonus extras will be the LOST 15 minute 1960 cartoon “A Tale of Of Whiff” that was...

www.hometheaterforum.com

 

[ahollis]

A fun film with an amazing restoration.

 

[Ross Gowland]

I’d have bought it day one if they’d have done a non-Smilebox edition.

That format makes sense for three-strip Cinerama, but this was single strip. No need for it at all.

 

[Dick]

I find the film to be a bit of a bore, but I purchase every smilebox release that comes out.

 

[Thomas T]

I remember seeing this at the Cinearamadome in Los Angeles as a kid, and never saw it again...

Then you must have seen it in 2009. The film was never released in the U.S. and made its American debut for one night only at the Cinerama Dome 2009 at a special showing.

 

[Capt D McMars]

Yeah I must’ve been some other movie because this was back like 1966..

 

[RolandL]

Yeah I must’ve been some other movie because this was back like 1966..

These are the movies that played at the LA Cinerama Dome in the 1960's.

1963-11-07 … It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (66) [70mm “Cinerama”]
1965-02-17 … THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD (43) [70mm “Cinerama”]
1965-12-16 … BATTLE OF THE BULGE (27) [70mm “Cinerama”]
1966-06-23 … Khartoum (24) [70mm “Cinerama”]
1966-12-22 … Grand Prix (44) [70mm “Cinerama”]
1967-11-01 … CAMELOT (51) [70mm]
1968-10-23 … ICE STATION ZEBRA (29) [70mm “Cinerama”]
1969-05-14 … Krakatoa, East of Java (23) [70mm “Cinerama”]
1969-10-22 … PAINT YOUR WAGON (35) [70mm]

 

[Capt D McMars]

These are the movies that played at the LA Cinerama Dome in the 1960's.

1963-11-07 … It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (66) [70mm “Cinerama”]
1965-02-17 … THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD (43) [70mm “Cinerama”]
1965-12-16 … BATTLE OF THE BULGE (27) [70mm “Cinerama”]
1966-06-23 … Khartoum (24) [70mm “Cinerama”]
1966-12-22 … Grand Prix (44) [70mm “Cinerama”]
1967-11-01 … CAMELOT (51) [70mm]
1968-10-23 … ICE STATION ZEBRA (29) [70mm “Cinerama”]
1969-05-14 … Krakatoa, East of Java (23) [70mm “Cinerama”]
1969-10-22 … PAINT YOUR WAGON (35) [70mm]

this wasn't the movie I was thinking of, I never saw this one...I'm old, Brain Fart, LOL!!!