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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1      Non-Film Score Discussion: Gunn (1967)   Last Post   Posted:   Feb 8, 2018 - 9:21 AM     By:   Dan Roman   (Member) Cinematic version of Peter Gunn, has anyone ever watched this film? Is it as good as the television series? Why no DVD release?    Posted:   Feb 8, 2018 - 11:23 AM     By:   mgh   (Member) I saw the movie many years ago, and I liked it, but then I was a fan of the series. Remembering it, it seems like it was long on style and mood, but short on plot. I did buy the album, and it was great. I too wish they would put it out on DVD; I would certainly buy it.    Posted:   Feb 8, 2018 - 8:07 PM     By:   On the Rooftops   (Member) I think this has never had a video release..filmed in bright color it loses some of the b/w noirish quality of the TV show (of course I've only seen shaky TV versions of it) and your mileage may vary on the recasting of the characters, but it's decent like an extended episode of the show (with extra violence)... But beware, I think somewhere in there is the "Mancini Chorus" with the song made out of the Gunn theme...    Posted:   Feb 8, 2018 - 10:36 PM     By:   dragon53   (Member) I've seen it twice. The last time was about 1974 on CBS late night movie. This may be one of the few Blake Edwards movies not released on dvd/Blu-ray---which is too bad. The soundtrack is included in the Sony Henry Mancini birthday set from several years ago.    Posted:   Feb 8, 2018 - 11:40 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) The soundtrack is included in the Sony Henry Mancini birthday set from several years ago. I assume that the LP release was re-recorded for our listening pleasure, as were all the other 1960s Mancini RCA film score albums. I saw the film only once, about 35 years ago, and have no memory of how closely the LP resembles the actual soundtrack.    Posted:   Feb 9, 2018 - 12:45 PM     By:   riotengine   (Member) I think this has never had a video release..filmed in bright color it loses some of the b/w noirish quality of the TV show (of course I've only seen shaky TV versions of it) and your mileage may vary on the recasting of the characters, but it's decent like an extended episode of the show (with extra violence)... Amazon was streaming it for a brief time. It's no longer available. Greg Espinoza    Posted:   Feb 9, 2018 - 12:46 PM     By:   riotengine   (Member) The soundtrack is included in the Sony Henry Mancini birthday set from several years ago. I assume that the LP release was re-recorded for our listening pleasure, as were all the other 1960s Mancini RCA film score albums. I saw the film only once, about 35 years ago, and have no memory of how closely the LP resembles the actual soundtrack. Released on import CD by RCA/BMG Spain. Greg Espinoza    Posted:   Feb 9, 2018 - 1:14 PM     By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member) no way the film is as good as that artwork!!    Posted:   Feb 9, 2018 - 3:32 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) no way the film is as good as that artwork!! That image of Craig Stevens surrounded by women is similar to the one-sheet of Sean Connery in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, with which GUNN was competing at the box office. The films opened in the U.S. within two weeks of each other in June 1967. Each of them has eight women.    Posted:   Feb 9, 2018 - 3:36 PM     By:   OnyaBirri   (Member) Were they trying to update Peter Gunn for the 1960s spy genre/aesthetic?    Posted:   Feb 9, 2018 - 3:52 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Were they trying to update Peter Gunn for the 1960s spy genre/aesthetic? I don't know what Blake Edwards had in mind, but of the four contemporary reviews of the film that I read, three of them (Time, Variety, and the New York Times) made no mention of Bond. Only Andrew Sarris in the Village Voice brought up Bond. He concludes his favorable review thusly: "Gunn is a movie of the sixties as Kiss Me Deadly was a movie of the fifties and The Big Sleep a movie of the forties and The Maltese Falcon a hangover from the thirties. Craig Stevens' patented coolness looks a bit worn by now, but the feeling of fleshy corruption is more subtly expressed in Gunn than in the more socially concerned Spades and Hammers of yesteryear. Edward Asner and Albert Paulsen are two actors to keep in mind when anyone asks you what happened to all the good character actors from the good old days of movie-movies. All in all, Gunn makes the Bond series look like child's play."    Posted:   Feb 9, 2018 - 7:46 PM     By:   On the Rooftops   (Member) No, there aren't any attempts to bring in 60s spy elements in the film itself, but the "mod" main title sequence (it's on YouTube) looks suspiciously Matt Helm-ish to me..    Posted:   Feb 9, 2018 - 8:10 PM     By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member) Mos def looks like the same artist as Bond. Could be Robert Mcginnis..?     Non-Film Score Discussion: Gunn (1967)    < 1  >   Go to page:  1   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1

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