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Tomorrow Entertainment produced Truman Capote's THE GLASS HOUSE, for which Tracy Keenan Wynn wrote the screenplay from a Capote story. The film was broadcast on CBS on 4 February 1972. In 1973, this Emmy-winning portrait of prison life began playing in theaters overseas.
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Apr 10, 2013 - 4:17 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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The police drama TOMA was based upon the exploits of a real-life Newark, New Jersey plainclothes detective with a talent for disguises. Starring Tony Musante, Susan Strasberg, and Simon Oakland, the television movie aired on ABC on 21 March 1973. The three leads reprised their roles in a regular series that began in the fall of that year. Although the series was renewed for a second year, Tony Musante decided to quit the show. The producers hired Robert Blake as a replacement, reworked the show for him, and it became Baretta. Meanwhile, Universal released the original telemovie as a theatrical feature overseas. Here is the Spanish poster for the film, where it was called THE LOOK OF FEAR.
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Apr 11, 2013 - 11:12 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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If I'm not mistaken, I think the Jack Smight-directed FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY, from 1973, was shot as a TV Movie and released in European cinemas. Again, that's an interesting case in the sense that the original version was actually longer (about 3 hours) than the cinema version, which lost about half of its footage. I haven't seen it since its two BBC showings in the '70s. Thankfully it was the complete TV version and not the butchered version seen in cinemas. Again, feel free to correct me if my information is wrong. By the way, did any of you actually SEE that in the cinema? I remember it got coverage in "Monster Mag" (Wow! Nostalgia!) but I don't recall it ever being advertised "at a cinema near you" (or in this case "me"). Graham S. Watt NBC broadcast the television movie FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY in two parts on 30 November & 1 December 1973. The film, which featured Leonard Whiting as Frankenstein and Michael Sarrazin as the Creature, was directed by Jack Smight and scored by Gil Melle. The telefilm ran 185 minutes but Universal edited it down to about two hours for its foreign theatrical release.
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Bob, do you have running times for the COLUMBO releases? I would be interested in comparing with the US tele broadcasts thx! bruce
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Apr 21, 2013 - 5:34 AM
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Doug Raynes
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how do they show :1:33 tv shows in a theater? do they windowbox the image or just crop it, which would be disatrous to the framing? That's a good question, as I've never seen any of the films we're discussing in a theater, other than the first two "Man From U.N.C.L.E." features. And I don't even remember what ratio I saw those in. It could have been 1.33:1 as far as I know. I suppose if the producers had some idea that they were going to do a theatrical release, they could frame the 1.33:1 image for narrower ratios. Also, many foreign countries used a standard ratio that is taller than the 1.85:1 used in the U.S., particularly in the 1960s and 1970s. Not as much image would be lost at 1.75:1 or 1.66:1. Perhaps 30-40 years ago, more theaters were capable of playing 1.33:1 ratio films. Today, few theaters other than repertory houses have such aperture plates. That's why the last releases of "Gone With the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz" had to be sent out primarily in windowboxed prints. Only just come across this interesting thread. I saw the "Man From U.N.C.L.E," features in the UK and they were shown 1.85:1. I don't think think that even in the '60s theatres were capable of showing films in 1.33:1, other than specialised venues. Even in the '50s I used to see reissues of pre '53 films films being shown in widescreen in my local cinemas. I've sometimes adjusted my TV picture to see what 1.33:1 TV material looks like in 1.85:1 and unless you actually know that the ratio is wrong, you mostly wouldn't question it.
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