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Why thank you Mike. You are the first person who has ever read one of my Alex North reviews. This is a milestone of some significance and I shall celebrate by reading a Facebook status update written by the aforementioned Mr Rutherford. See you in eighteen hours.
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Beautiful movie. Beautiful score. I was initially distressed to find that the Varese album seemed to omit the haunting final cue -- until someone on this Board informed me that Varese had merely re-ordered the tracks, putting the climax somewhere in the middle.
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A sweet young actress named Maria Hayden used to live downstairs in the Hollywood building where I still reside, and to her great joy she got her first movie role as Miss O'Callaghan in THE DEAD. She shared with me stories of the production, including the way all the young actresses adored Mr. Huston and kept close to him whenever possible. She also told me about the day they shot her one substantial scene in the film, her dialogue with a young man in front of a window. Maria and the young actor rehearsed the scene, once, and then she beard Huston say, "Cut. Print." Without telling them, he had been filming their "rehearsal." When Maria expressed her shock and asked if they could do it one more time the director assured her, "You can if you want to, my dear, but you played it perfectly the first time." And of course, they didn't do it again; their rehearsal was the scene that went into the movie.
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Required spinning on the turntable every St. Patrick's Day at my house.
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Nu, Eugene,
Have you given a listen to the Kritzerland release (along with a Newman score) of Cyril J. Mockridge's THE LUCK OF THE IRISH? I give it my very highest recommendation -- here, and in the liner notes!
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