 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
It always struck me as a film in which a half hour wound up on the cutting room floor. It feels like something is missing between the time the guest cast shows up and the time they are all gunned down.
|
|
|
|
|
|
It always struck me as a film in which a half hour wound up on the cutting room floor. It feels like something is missing between the time the guest cast shows up and the time they are all gunned down.
I agree. The scene near the beginning of the film where Colorado (Omar Sharif) and his gang kill the old man and end up in the desert moments later to apprehend Mackenna (Gregory Peck) I was always wondering what happened in between those scenes, but we never find out.
I still feel this movie would be perfect to remake today. With some changes to the story structure, this could be made into an exciting film with decent CGI effects.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
Posted: |
Jul 25, 2018 - 11:58 AM
|
|
|
|
By: |
Bob DiMucci
(Member)
|
Should have bought the Tsunami years ago, instead of wasting years waiting for the Intrada that ends up giving us a non-film, "pop" performance of Ol' Turkey Buzzard.
Based on the track timings given in Soundtrack Collector, the first track on the Tsunami disc, "OVERTURE / OLE TURKEY BUZZARD"," runs 7:24. That would seem to comprise the Overture (4:36 on all versions) and a version of Ole Turkey Buzzard that runs 2:48. That's the long version that appeared on LPs in Japan (and Britain, apparently), and not the shorter 1:55 version that appears on the U.S. and French LPs, the Spanish EP and the Intrada CD.
For those of use who grew up with the U.S. LP, the short (non-film) version of Ole Turkey Buzzard is the only one we've ever known.
|
|
|
|
|
|
'Should have bought the Tsunami years ago, instead of wasting years waiting for the Intrada that ends up giving us a non-film, "pop" performance of Ol' Turkey Buzzard.'
I agree!!!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: |
Jul 25, 2018 - 1:06 PM
|
|
|
|
By: |
HARRYO
(Member)
|
Watching this only last week on Talking Pictures in the U.K., I felt it was certainly not the film it could have been, the special effects even for 1969 were pretty ropey, the dialogue on the whole was trite, and the performances bordered from the plain awful to average.
That said, I thoroughly enjoyed it, probably due to Quincy Jones' magnificent score. There was a lot more scoring than I recalled originally, though I suspect the Soundtrack Album was pretty representative of the score has a whole. That was from a pretty fertile period from Quincy Jones. THE DEADLY AFFAIR , IRONSIDE, IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT and THE ITALIAN JOB especially comes to mind.
I am sure I read somewhere , I think on a Blu Ray thread , that Twilight Time would bring it out on Blu Ray, once remastered and I wondered if there is any up date on this. There is a French one I believe of fair quality, but it seems as if the subtitles can't be turned off, which is not a very satisfactory state of affairs
|
|
|
|
|
|
I bought the Tsunami edition years ago, it had the correct song on but the sound quality was abysmal, as far as I can remember it was mastered (if that's the right word) from a record. I didn't keep it long, maybe I should have. 
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
