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The horrible dubbing for the extended version completely ruins the movie for me, though this is a childhood favorite. Those should have been included as bonus deleted scenes, not re-integrated to the movie if they were going to sound that way. So is there a good release of the theatrical edition now?
Yavar
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The horrible dubbing for the extended version completely ruins the movie for me, though this is a childhood favorite. Those should have been included as bonus deleted scenes, not re-integrated to the movie if they were going to sound that way. So is there a good release of the theatrical edition now?
Yavar
The current Blu-ray is the theatrical version, so that would be your best bet for a good edition of that. The theatrical version also got shown on TCM last month as part of their quarter-annual Disney lineup.
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Viewed the film last evening. I was VERY PLEASED with the film, for what it aimed to be for it's time, and for how it stands up today. Viewing the technical credits, it had a fine pedigree. Cotton Warburton was the Film Editor who'd won and Oscar for Mary Poppins. The costumes and art direction were top-drawer, and Oscar nominated. The Director of Photography was Frank Phelps, who'd go on to his own Oscar nomination in a few more years for 'The Black Hole', however in this film, the photography was merely serviceable. The score and the song 'The Age of Not Believing' were quite nice by The Sherman Brothers. I wish the song had been repeated later in the film, but it was not.
When around midway in the film I was truly amazed to see actor SAM JAFFE in a supporting role. This is the man who made terrific impressions in films like, 'Gunga-Din', 'The Asphault Jungle', 'The Day the Earth Stood Still', and 'Ben-Hur'. I hadn't seen him in anything released after 'Ben-Hur'.
What I truly enjoyed were the SPECIAL EFFECTS, particularly at the film's end when the (bumbling) Nazis invade Britain at Dover, and are repulsed by 'Ghosts of Past British / Scottish Armies'. These scenes were truly imaginative and wonderous. Though not on the same scale as today's C.G.I., they were done at a time that must have made it difficult to accomplish, and the scenes of Knights in armor on foot and on horseback were brilliantly done and added a sense of majesty! Not unlike the scene from 'Young Sherlock Holmes' with the 'stained-glass Knight'. If I were a young child viewing these ghostly armies, I'd have been truly impressed!
The song and dance scene, 'PORTOBELLO ROAD', was quite nice, if perhaps a little bit on the lengthy side. I sensed it was meant to emulate 'CONSIDER YOURSELF', the great song and dance from 'OLIVER', which had come out a couple of years prior. Can someone tell me what's special about 'Portobello Road', I mean during this time and if it still exists today?
Separately, yes indeed there is a truly memorably risque line of dialogue uttered in this film. How it didn't flag anyone at the time is beyond me. I won't disclose it here either, so not to spoil the fun for when you see the film.
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