yep. I would also like to see Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, and Straw Dogs in 4K UHD, especially since we have 4K scans of their respective source material already. And maybe Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid in 4K, if it can be done.
Arrow did a wonderful BD of Major Dundee, with both the theatrical and Directors cut versions!!
I'm fine w Straw Dogs and Alfredo Garcia as they are. 4k would be fine but those are both really grainy 70s films (Garcia is a mess technically at times.) Not sure I really need to see more detail in any of those two films (which again are among my personal faves and are 70s cinema landmarks.
Yes, please. Enormously touching, sensitive performance by Mr. O’Toole. At least equal to if not surpassing that of Oscar winning Mr. Donat.
And a wonderful role for a young Petula Clark as well. A draft of a musical adaptation of Goodbye, Mr. Chips was on file in the M-G-M script department since 1951.[2] In 1964, with Julie Andrews flush from the success of Mary Poppins, trade magazine advertisements announced she would star opposite Rex Harrison, with Vincente Minnelli listed as director, but nothing came of the project. A few years later, it was back on track with its share of pre-production problems, including several changes in the casting of the lead roles. First, Richard Burton and Samantha Eggar were signed. Then Lee Remick replaced Eggar.[3] Gower Champion, who had replaced Minnelli as director, viewed raw footage of Petula Clark in Finian's Rainbow(1968), fired Remick and replaced her with Clark. Remick sued MGM for damages.[4] Burton balked at playing opposite a "pop singer," and he was replaced by Peter O'Toole. Champion also eventually resigned,[5] and the film ultimately became the first-time directorial effort of choreographer Herbert Ross.
I love that movie, but it never had to be a musical. I don't know why Peter O'Toole of all people starred in two musicals. Yikes. It was a weird trend in those days to film musicals with people who shouldn't even sing in the shower, and then not bother to dub them. Paint Your Wagon was worse, but this genre went on and on throughout the 70s until the Wiz came out and there you had Diana Ross and Michael Jackson who can actually, you know--sing.
BMTHOAG gets better every time I see it. There's so much going on in it. One of the great movies of the 70s. Bleak as F but probably one of the most authentic expressions of dreams, desperation, Nixon-era cynicism committed to film. BMTHOAG and The Wild Bunch are great bookends - Peckinpah at his most epic and his most concentrated.
Well, they did dub him in Man of La Mancha but with Simon Gilbert who, to my ear, was not a great singer.
I second the O.P.'s choices of SINBAD THE SAILOR (RKO), NORTHWEST PASSAGE (MGM) and THE CANTERVILLE GHOST (MGM), the latter which looked like crap on DVD.
In addition, I would love to see, From Warner Bros.:
CAPTAIN BLOOD
BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS
CARNY
CAGED!
COUNTDOWN (ALTMAN)
DR. ERLICH'S MAGIC BULLET
LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA
NORTH COUNTRY
GOING IN STYLE (1976)
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER
KING'S ROW
LAND OF THE PHARAOHS
THE LATE SHOW
THE ROARING TWENTIES
LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA
RACHEL, RACHEL
THE SUNDOWNERS
WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART
From R.K.O.:
I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE
7TH VICTIM,
TOP HAT
THE BOY WITH GREEN HAIR,
NARROW MARGIN (1952)
ROOM SERVICE
THE INFORMER
I REMEMBER MAMA
TALL IN THE SADDLE
LITTLE WOMEN (1933)
From MGM:
BEN HUR (1925)
ADAM'S RIB
CAPTAIN SINDBAD
A DAY AT THE RACES
EDGE OF THE CITY
FREAKS
THE GAZEBO
THE GREAT ZIEGFELD
GREEN MANSIONS
KING SOLOMPN'S MINES (1950)
MARK OF THE VAMPIRE
NIGHT OF THE IGUANA
OUR MOTHER'S HOUSE
PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID
THE POWER
QUEEN CHRISTINA
RED BADGE OF COURAGE
SCARAMOUCHE
THE SEARCH
7 FACES OF DR. LAO
SHOOT THE MOON
tomb thumb
WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY
YOUNG CASSIDY
Too much to ask? View attachment 145155
tomb thumb? Is that a horror movie about a disembodied thumb trying to hitchhike back to the cemetery?I second the O.P.'s choices of SINBAD THE SAILOR (RKO), NORTHWEST PASSAGE (MGM) and THE CANTERVILLE GHOST (MGM), the latter which looked like crap on DVD.
In addition, I would love to see, From Warner Bros.:
CAPTAIN BLOOD
BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS
CARNY
CAGED!
COUNTDOWN (ALTMAN)
DR. ERLICH'S MAGIC BULLET
LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA
NORTH COUNTRY
GOING IN STYLE (1976)
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER
KING'S ROW
LAND OF THE PHARAOHS
THE LATE SHOW
THE ROARING TWENTIES
LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA
RACHEL, RACHEL
THE SUNDOWNERS
WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART
From R.K.O.:
I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE
7TH VICTIM,
TOP HAT
THE BOY WITH GREEN HAIR,
NARROW MARGIN (1952)
ROOM SERVICE
THE INFORMER
I REMEMBER MAMA
TALL IN THE SADDLE
LITTLE WOMEN (1933)
From MGM:
BEN HUR (1925)
ADAM'S RIB
CAPTAIN SINDBAD
A DAY AT THE RACES
EDGE OF THE CITY
FREAKS
THE GAZEBO
THE GREAT ZIEGFELD
GREEN MANSIONS
KING SOLOMPN'S MINES (1950)
MARK OF THE VAMPIRE
NIGHT OF THE IGUANA
OUR MOTHER'S HOUSE
PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID
THE POWER
QUEEN CHRISTINA
RED BADGE OF COURAGE
SCARAMOUCHE
THE SEARCH
7 FACES OF DR. LAO
SHOOT THE MOON
tomb thumb
WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY
YOUNG CASSIDY
Too much to ask? View attachment 145155
it's a children's movie from the 50's about a woodcutter,who decide not chop down the tree,in the forrest,where he got three wishes,two were wasted with his bickering wife,and tom decides go on a village where they finally listen to him.and then runs into villian named ivan and tony.it's a perfect family movie.
Yes, and I have the disc! I was with Shall we dance in mind and wrote Swing Time.
I didn't even know that. I always thought it was O'Toole. His rendition of "Dulcinea" makes me cringe. And it's actually one of my favorites songs, ever.
