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The Diamond (1954)
Another excellent noir from the golden age of 3d
This had to have been the second and last noir shot in 3D,but, it was released flat by 1954. Fortunately Bob Fermanek and the 3D archives restored it to it's 3D glory.. Once again they took considerations for 3D fans, who do not have a Polaroid set up, were considered and it includes and anaglyphic version. Both Polaroid and anaglyph version are great. As with ,' I the Jury," Margaret Sheridan shows up in her second 3d noir film. She plays a bigger role Stewardess who works for TWA, who is a daughters of a scientist. It was directed and written and starred Dennis O Keefe. A scientist, played by. Paul Hardtmuth, known to create fake diamonds, is kidnapped by Francis Dewolf and his thugs, one of them is a sneaky member. Played by Alan Wheatley, who portrays himself as a diamond expert. These thugs are trying to force the scientist to make fake diamonds to sell them as real ones, in a huge castle type building. Phillip Friend and Dennis with the aid of sergeant played by. Gundrun Yur, searches for the kidnapped victim. Both Polaroid and anaglyph versions are great. Ratio in its original one by sixty five by one wide screen in the menus Mike Ballew, which for the first time your see a picture of what he looks like .I thought he was a young 20 something person, he's older. He explain the development of the British 3D camera that was invented by Raymond Spottiswood that was used to make shorts and in an improvement to make this film from.. Then there's the before and after restoration demo. Excellent black n white 3d noir.11/11/22.
I, the Jury (1953)
finally restored in it's 3d glory
I think I remember seeing this film on t.c.m. Years ago in 2d,but,with the 3D version all those gray and light shades, typical of black and white noir, now it's sculpted shades of gray. Even though I was disappointed either classic flix or studio canal did not include anaglyph version ,for 3D fans who did not have a 3d set up and the original now lost 3 track stereo sound was not recreated. It was still an excellent film. If The 3D archive archives had restored, this it would have been different. I wasn't aware that the actor that played the main bad guy,Kalecki ,played by Alan Reed, was Fred Flimstone's voice,. Normally that is the way Reed sounded,but it was less,It was an Xmas picture,the same way that,"Lady in the lake, was. Joe Besser show up as an elevator man,his voice would would be used in a 3d short released that year that was produced back in 1940. The main actor ,Biff Eliot, who plays Mike Hammer,this was his first big screen debut and only 3D film. This includes the actors interview and the discussion of the 3D camera.10/29/22.
Four Dimensions of Greta (1972)
A very well done film mystery
This was the first British film to use the 3D process,since Diamond wizard,but, only in sequences. Peter walker ,who did the flesh and blood show,was going to shoot the 3d sequences in anaglyph 3Dprobably since it wasn't going to be the whole feature and a license for space vision 3D would be too much for just 4 sequences,probably. Being that anaglyph distort color photography he shot the sequence in black n white. Tristan Rodgers plays an journalist who visits his fiance. In his country Germany. During dinner the friend of Mr and Mrs Schickler,played by Martin Wyldeck and Elizabeth Bradley ,whose friend the Grubers,played by. Godfrey Kenton and. Pearl Hackney are concerned about their daughter ,Greta missing. She been in London for a long time and they have not heard from. Tristan plays a journalist who works for his fiance fathers news paper. His fiances father ask him to go to England to find her and make and write a story about it for the newspaper. So Tristan goes to swinging 70's London to meet Greta's first boss. She doesn't know where she went and tries to make a pass at him. Later he calls his old girl friend.who unhappily married to an old wealthy man. She not sure if she want to get together back with him. She helps him find Greta .They manage to find her room mates who state that they were tormented by her wild parties,the anaglyph 3D sequence , green right ,magenta left. Expressing that she was a bad roommate and left. Later they discovers she worked in a strip club. Peter manages to talk to the black stripper ,who knew her. Then goes back to the time she was working there. She had broken the rule and the club was raided. Technically the anaglyph 3D sequences is pretty fair. He than interview a rugby player ,her boyfriend ,played by. Robin Askwith. He explained that he would come over and she would feed him food. This leads to a suggestive tryst. Then .Tristan discovers that she eventually worked for a gambling center. Tristan and his ex girl friend meets the boss and it proceeds to the scene in which a gambler paid him with a massage parlor. Greta is then hired as a masseuse. She then starts to seduce the gambler owner until Greta's boy friend shows up and both men start a fight. Kristen later finds out that the gambling owner had kidnap her and holding her hostage on a boat. Tristan ex girl friend agrees to help him. She practically seduces the gambling house owner..He get suspicious and has his three men try to rape her. The two men see her being taken in the gambling owner's car. They follow the others to rescue Greta and Sue. This is one of the best sexploitation films of England and. Pete Walker knows his style.08/16/22.
Le journal d'un combat (1964)
it's actually,"Le Journal d'un combat
Well this is mainstream ,family oriented,short that is a part of xxx Equation to the unknown,both on Blu Ray and DVD. This is a none sex short .It was narrated by Alain Delon , whom , was a friend of the painter,who also knew Romy Schneider,too. It show cases and early Frances Savel who barley shows his face when he demonstrates in front of a camera and artist that is preparing painting a picture. He prepares for a drawing of the concepts that he want to do. He use charcoals pencil first .He start to draws designs ,then changes his mind and wipes them off .He then starts to write a picture of a man with a hat And a skull. He then decides to remove the man with hat . He then starts drawing animals. Then you see he added his face to the picture. He dries the charcoal Then flashes of oil paints and the cardboard that you mix it on is shown .then the film show Paris at night with it colorful night advertisement lights at different places. Then back to the painting. He is now adding color the the charcoal drawings are now taking better shape and the picture is becoming more clear Before you know it .Frances creates a good masterpiece. I look at his autobiography and it is vague. It doesn't tell whether he is dead or alive,but, he was a good adult film maker and regular film maker and artist.08/06/22.
Équation à un inconnu (1980)
The most artistic French hardcore , gay sex erotic film
Equation to the unknown is equivalent to the still erotic photos of Mapplethorpe and ,even I have yet to see it,but, I know it,Andy Warhol's Blue Movie. Visual sex is very poetic Made during the last years of condom free sex. The male actor are in their early twenties. There's is some dialog ,but, the story is very visual oriented. It was produced by an gay porn filmmaker,who was an artist and years earlier had open the first drag queen cabaret in France. You hear of straight motorcycle porn class like ",Motor cycle Mama. Well, This is a french gay version.of the motorcycle hardcore sex film. The plot is simple,Black Curly haired actor,Gianfranco Longhi,rides his motor cycle to a Rugby game to watch all the Young hot Rugby players, a European version of Football,then he observes that some one has kicked the brown hair football player,played by jean Jacques Loupmon, on one of his legs. As some body helped the foot ball player up. The game ends and all the players go into the showers,but the two young guys go into the locker room .Then the other football player massages the thighs of the brown foot ball player to kill the pain.then another naked football player,a tall one, tell the other football player that the brown one enjoys having his penis messaged,as a joke. By this time Gian has met another brunette curly hair stud and both decide to go into the locker room and see whats going on. Then he sees the men already getting it on. He then masturbate at them. The other black haired man kneels right next to him and mutually helps him. Then the scene cut short and next you see him going back to his apartment,in his motor cycle. He gets to bed and then has the fantasy of what he saw. In this version he and the other guy participates with the two men in the locker room in a hot foursome. Whether this actually happened for the character or it was just the man's imagination ,the movie doesn't let you know. The next day he wakes up and his jealous friend. He tries to touch the guys penis ,but pushes his friend hand away from him,telling his friend that it wasn't consent. All of a sudden. Gian get horny and begs his jealous friend to J.o. Him You see this curly dark blond hair man walking down the street. Then you see this other motor cyclist riding down the street. The motor cyclist meets the blond man and he gets on back of his bicycle and they go somewhere. Gian is riding his motorcycle .It's dark and you see the other driver and rider going on a side road. Gian stops at a gas station and invites a gas attended to go with him. They both end up in the in a abandon place as the other two men are there. The blond guy was already fellatio by the other motor cyclist. Gian suggest all four go to an abandon shack. It never turns into a foursome. Both of the four engage in one on one sex. The cafe sequence is very interesting a dark curly hair construction work is having coffee. Gian is already there. The construction worker notices a man and other guy playing with a pinball machine, I think. Dominique Delattre. Some other guy,Gerard, goes behind Dom and flirts with him. Dom notices the construction worker,both cruises into the toilet. The construction worker services Dom's anal and mouth. Late Gian services dom's mouth until the cafe worker gets mad and throws Gian out and urinates all over poor Dom as Dom falls asleep. In this movie it doesn't tell you how Gian makes a living .He no street hustler neither. In the end the jealous friend show up and decide to finally rides Gian at his at his apartment .Gian closes his eyes and fantasizes all his one night stands and the rugby game team. After they both get of Gian tells his friend he wishes he could love him to his friend..Very excellent artist hard core sex gay erotic film by painter turned adult auteur,Frances Savel,under a different name Dietrich Develsa. I don't know if he decide to do this in the 80's cause he need the money ,maybe that's why he did not use his real name due to the anti porn forces. Also include is the discussion of this film a video essay by. Yann Gonzales,who first discover this film from a VHS rip in the begging before the film was found. It also includes trailers from the film that were made by this film maker,too. It also includes a 1964 short narrated by Alain Delon Diary of fight by film Auteur Guy Gilles. It Show cases Frances before he did that one xxx gay movie. Now turn to that. It also includes a poster of the leading actor photograph by Jena Daniel Cadinot. It is distributed by T. L. A. And comes in DVD and Blu- ray versions. Worth collecting.08/06/22.
Crash toujours (1989)
Another hot wall to wall from Jean
This is the second part of the doubles feature ,Cadinot classic 5. It's a wall to wall in 16mm shot on film .In this case it's situated around an army military Hospital where the soldiers get examined. The art direction is more colorful ,too. This involves integrated gay adult performers ,black and white. The two military doctors are played are played by two white guys Elyes Ardini and Paul Chaval. The focus in the second hot feature is examining the soldiers. Although it was advertise as one hour, It ended in 56 minutes. It take space in the army. In the real army this kind of examination could never be tolerated, but , this is a fantasy. The first soldier to be examined comes in ,played by handsome, tall, black actor Benjamin Real ,as a private. At first the examination is normal. The Eyles and Chaval checks his weight. Then things start to change. One of the doctors start measuring Bens penis by length. Eyles then checks the diameter of his penis and then balls. Then as Ben take his shirt off Chaval start to oral ben witch leads to a hot threesome between Ben, Eyles and Chaval. Then Ben penetrates chaval's butt. Then Eyles comes back and it looks like he is about to penetrate chavals butt ,but, instead dildos him. He uses a double dong. Then chaval is giving oral to ben again. Then all of a sudden Chaval double dong turns into a single battery operated dildo penetrating chaval's butt. Ben tires the two doctors out.as he dress up and leave ,while the two nap ,ben calls in the next soldier for examination. It's another black soldier ,an army officer ,Pascal Lancein. He immediately observes the to naked resting doctors .He quickly gets the message .He is to going to get some hot vanilla pudding .He star to play with chaval's butt. Lancien then start to lick chaval's butt ,too. Then Eyles wake sup and gives chaval some fellatio in his mouth. Then Lancien penetrates chaval's butt. This leads to a huge climax. Next another doctor portrayed by black actor Chris Romi is goin to check the weight of white, black, curly haired private, Paolo Pozzi, whom I think is Italian ,French? This leads to Chris playing with the Italian scallion's butt. This leads to Chris douching Paolo butt on the operation table .what an affect .A full clean anus no nasty stuff coming out. Then Chris start to plow in Paolo. Chis has to do some business so he throws a dildo for Paolo to play with. The las soldier waiting to get a check up . Another black performer. Patrick Berger can't help to notice ,that, he see the shadow of Paolo playing with dildo. Wants he goes into the office ,he realizes what happening. He takes advantage of it. He is going to get some
Italian vanilla pudding. Before that Pat was already doing a j.o. Paolo is already going down on Patrick. Paolo then give pat a back door licking. Pat French kisses Paolo. Paolo dildos him. Well Chaval comes back and joins in the three some including the dildos. Then Pat fellatios Chaval. Leading to a full climax. Now back to La Mason Bleue. 08/1/22.
La maison bleue (1992)
Well staged wall too wall shot on film
This is part of a double feature under the title Cadinot Classics five. It contains too lower budget ,but high quality wall to wall vignette sex with some recognized Cadinot actor. La Maison Blue 1992,which advertises as 1 hour and 10 minutes, but it's only 1 hour and 5 minutes. The other is advertised as an hour ,but it's really 56 minutes. The first one centers around a gay bordello for sailors ,in which the sex workers get off with their clients. The art direction of the studio set up uses weaker colors than most of Jean's films, that uses bright colors. I think it takes place in world war 2. I think they are trying to make it look like an aged color photograph. So what you observe in the first scene is a sailor trying to deice which trick to take. The sailor played by Friederich Saxe who looks at Oliver Quayrol and, I think, Bruno Verlac in the sailor decision. Then Fred chooses Oliver and both Oliver and Bruno leave the room. The next scene David is giving oral to Fred. This then lead to Fred licking Oliver. Then he gives Oliver some oral too leading to into hot sexual interaction. The next hot scene is with another handsome performer don't know if it's Bruno ,but he dark hair with another sex worker ,played by. David Bauman. The client is oralling Bauman man that leads to Bauman penetrating the clients anal. Hot! Hot ! Hot. Then a sailor, ,portrayed By Franz Webber, chooses Verlac in which he give soral to the s Webber leading to another passionate hot interaction. Now another sailor ,played by Jacques Aubray,, chooses trick ,played by Lucien Lebraun,but, as soon as Jacques go to the other room to warm up. Then, all of a sudden Lucien is goin to another Sailor client ,played by Yadranko Wasa,i instead .Verlac show up to join in a three some. It really heats up. A forth another blond trick show up ,played by hot Samuel Vitrac. You hear Aubray's voice in the other room letting Lucien know he is ready ,but, he doesn't come in .Aub calls again. Instead Samuel shows up in Aub's room and both star their hot sexual tryst while Yadro is having a three way with Lucien and Verlac. Two horny sailors, portrayed by. Bertrand Robaud and Gillis Montpeyroux. They are so horny and can't wait for trick. They start doing each other, until the trick shows up. They even look at straight hardcore mag too. Then one of them start to give oral to the other. Which is not real since real clients would hold back for sex worker. Then , Bauman shows up for them and they go to Bauman's room for a hot three some. Last scene involves Sailor ,played by .Piotr Kooz with Trick Verlac ,again. Now to Crash Toujours. Both features are very well done and hot for wall to wall. Available from T. L. A.. 07/31/22.
Deuxième sous-sol (1987)
One of the many of the best of Jean Daniel Cadinot
Jean Daniel Cadinot is one of the best, or was one of the best gay porn adult film makers. He know how to hire good sex male actors ,either gay or bi or gay for pay. From 18 years old to Thirty. He always make good sex in his films ,with good editing and lighting.these performers are always good actors in their lines. Most of his films were shot on 16mm film,but even the direct on videos are sensuous. His gay porn feature are real movies. This title is the best. EME Sou -Sol is a street where two thieve son roller skates live.they are thieves cause they are poor Oooh La! La,one of them a hot stud of a black french actor Tony Abrantes and other white stud actor,Jacques,Auvray. Now Jean does not tell you whether they are boyfriends ,lovers ,friends or common law or state married,they are just together. They are skating in the park exposing their hot gams with male hot pants. Jean doesn't tell you at the moment why they are at the park. Lounge,but adult white stud Horst Kruger ,with blond hair and less tall than the two is sitting in the park observing these two beautiful men,as he slowly is getting how. Both are just doing skate tricks. Then Frederic Lamaire and his friend or lover or room mate is walking down the street and Fred is carrying a business case. All of a sudden both of the skaters go up to them and snatch the case and take off .Both the victims run after the skater,but fail to catch them Horst is curious so he follows the skater. Back at the tow poor apartment. One of them opens up the case and sees double dong dildo an xxx magazine. It looks that they are disappointed that there is no money. This lee ads to the hottest black and white sex scene ever involving the double dong anal and oral. Horst has already found the apartment and he getting off at watching them ,as Horst hides.the scenes gets hooter and hotter with these two sensual men. I certainly was wishing i was in the middle of them. Oooh La! La!, mae wee. This ex scene is really tide to the story. As soon as the two men finish ,Horst hides as they leave. After that, he goes to their room and before you know it he is playing with the dildo in his butt and masturbating. As both goes back to the park,Jacques , realizes he left the suit case. So tony waits for him. When fins host a the apartment ,he is not mad. He gets sexually involve with Horst instead ,involving oral anal and the double dong. By the time Tony come back he joins the two in the most hottest three way .Next scene they are all at the park sitting and smoking cigarettes. Horst disappears for good in the films and the two men are headed for an building taking the case with them.they visit a friend apartment .this scene is different ,that is a black hair half naked women shaving the penis and ball of a male roommate with a an old fashion safety razor and shaving cream.there are the other men in the room, if i can remember. One black hair man in bed. All of a sudden Tony becomes straight and start to shave the women's vagina and start to have sex with her. Everybody gets horny and now it's gay and straight ,bi sex. After that it finally reveal that this was a part of the gang and they stolen the case for ransom. One of them finds the address and calls Fredric apartment ,but his room. Mate answer it. I think the thieve might think it's Lamiere. It looks like his roommate ,dark curly short hair guy is pretending to be him. After the call. Fred roommate contact him an informs Fred of his missing case .Fred calls his friend,who works for a printer for something,another dark haired curly short hair guy. As soon as the two thieve go to the door of Fred's apartment and knock on the door and Fred room mate let them in ,guess what? The two men throw the case down and grabs Fred's roommate and throw him on the couch and both rapes him. Why? Cause the case had no money. And what intensified rape too. Anal oral french kissing hugging ,but by force.then for the moment it changes to consent. Now this should never be done a t home for rape is illegal. This is only fantasy rape.then Fred and his friend for the printing comap0ny enter his apartment and sees what is going one and the tables are turned. Now the victims room mate and Fred and his friend are raping the two crooks with so much intensity. As I said this is not real rape ,so no one is really being victimized except in this fantasy. There is no scientific proof that portrayed crime cause secondary effect in the real world anyway. After the victim got their revenge they throw the two out naked in the street. Jean Daniel Cadinot's ,mother or aunt plays a small none sex part as a taxi rider with her dog. I'm wondering if he could have borrowed some of the budget from her and in terms she could play a small part. I'm only guessing. If a gay fan of gay porn is militant,then this film is not for them due to the straight scene in it and straight porn mag. If they are recovering from actual rape or are just sensitive to it then this film is not for them, due to the fake rape scene. If you can tell the different between fake and real ,then this film is for you. Release through french art films and distributed on DVD from T. L. A. This feature was funny witty and erotic.07/30/22.
The Mount of Venus (1975)
Lower budget,but still very entertaining From Carter Stevens.
This is the second feature offered from the double feature by Vinegar Syndrome,under the Peek A Rama label. Now it's the roman gods and Mount Olympus .This version of Mount Olympus is cheap. It looks like it was created at a local community theater. Well the gods have gotten bored. Jamie Gillis as Jupiter Stormbinger, Georgina Spelvin ,at age 37,as his wife. Juno Goddess of Marriage, Eric Edwards ,Mercury Kim Pope as Venus the goddess of love,Kevin Andre as Bacchus. Well these go want to have another orgy party ,but the last guest were poor sex partners. Georgina suggest to Jamie seek guest from earth,New York City ,where the film was shot. The first woman he observe in an apartment is paling with a dildo ,but by the time he come to see her she's exhausted. She asks her friend to come over. Her friend like him ,but he not too sure. He goes back to go back Mount Olympus .Next he decide to disguise as a husband of a women she waiting for to come back to show her a good time. Tia Von Davis plays the wife waiting for her husband to acme back from business. She is talking to her informing that she just cant practice adultery .She has to wait .Then Jaime shows up in disguises of her husband,played by Max Packs. During the sex you see Jamie changing to Max then back to himself a few time. Then he goes back to the same apartment with the women's second friend is there .she state to Jamie to light her fire .He accidentally disintegrates her. By the time he goes Eric Edwards is visiting making suggestion for the orgy party. Juno suggest to Jupiter that he dress in drag ,magically pretending to be her to visit two women in their Manhattan apartment. Come in as Georgina Spelvin Starting in a three way lesbian scene Turning back to Jamie .then back to her,then back to him. By the time one of the women suggest than she double dongs Jamie ,as they see Georgina by this time,Jamie takes off. Eric Edward is getting on with Georgian and Kim.they all decide to invite the mortal for their party. For the first time You see the sot spoken ,soft manner sarcastic Kevin Andre remove his clothes and get on actually with two women in this orgy. Normally he does platonic scenes only. I though he might have been gay also .He was a soft straight actor,I think. Although this was lower budget it was still very entertaining. Now back to the Roller Babies page. 07/29/22.
Rollerbabies (1976)
Classic east coast porn of the 70's by Carter stevens
This is a part of the double feature promoted by Vinegar syndrome,through their peekarama series. Eric Stan hope ,possible s.a.g. Plays a commissioner of a sexually repressed society. Sex has been outlawed and fellatio is a misdemeanor. He narrates the story with some humor. This includes having babies a crime. So most citizens do fellatio or cunnilingus only. Alan Marlow ,of Private afternoons of Pamela Mann fame, has the leading role ,which is unusual for a porn feature ,even back then,since the female porn stars up staged the males. Porn and live sex shows have been legalized on t.v. .Performers are allowed if they are license ,but only if they are hired. I would like to say the full name of the show ,but i.m.d.b forbids me ,even though this adult section. I'll sanitize it .The sexual intercourse and oral show. It is a big hit .What make this unusual is the one shot wonder porn actress who plays Marlowe's secretary . Yolanadas Savalas .A black women ,possibly tall five feet eight with shaved head. She is very unusual and a good porn performer and actress Terry hall plays a virgin,as she state to Marlow ,she is not a common criminal. She want to be a sex performer on t.v. Two big star on the show played by Mary Stuart and David Williams. Marlow explain to her that she has to have a gimmick, Terry. As both observe at the sex restaurant that the show being televised , has forgetting he sex repressed pills. She has gotten horny ans suggested that they go to his office and do a misdemeanor. She ask to drop by he grocery store. As soon as she and him go to his place the gimmick is discovered green Sherbet ice cream with whip cream in sex. When Alan Marlow is ask to see the commissioner. The commissioner inform him that his shows rating have dropped and he has only 6 more shows before it's cancelled,Alan becomes desperate. He goes to hi hired scientist who create horny pill to get the performers horny,played by Phillip De Hatte,who looks a little like Sid Caesar. As Alan let him know that he has to fire the scientist , the scientist show a new invention,the bionic sex partner robot. He than realizes that it's a good idea and it would make him money .So Alan decides to go into that business. But before he can change, a spy from the CIA,meaning something what i.m.d.b would be called a vulgar and not let me say it. Spies on Alan to trap him into intercourse. I think it's Susan Bain as Miss Vice Squad. She pretends to be a license psychic sex performer who telepathically get performers off She is caught ,but,she warns him that she going to trap him. As soon as she is caught looking at his office papers,with the aid of his secretary they try to rape her,by putting that drug in her.this rape turn into consent,when Alan learns alter that what she did was wrong and that she was missing out on something that was natural and allowed Marlow to put the drug in her. She quits the CIA and helps him. One again the scientist make a mistake. He cause the robot to gets pregnant.so the scientist reworks the robot only to discover ti would cost too much for the bionic sex doll for consumer too expensive. Finally he comes sup with anew show Roller babes,like roller ball. A contest in which skater hold back as they have sex on the rink as they skate. How do they do this .Close up shot reveal that they slow down at the moment. This was a very well done hard core sex film very entertaining. Now I'm going to review the second feature,the Mount of Venus .Pleas turn that page. Now were back Well both feature are good and worth collecting.0729/22.
Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)
Finally The Restored version is available.
The is an officially restored print. Coming closer to the way it was when it was released in 1952. The original Eastman color negative is gone, except for a fragment. So are the three-strip Super Cinecolor negatives long gone. Despite this Bob Furmanek and the staff, of the 3D Archives, have done a marvelous job. It should be released later in July 2022. We investors have gotten our copies earlier. It took 2 years to have this Abbot and Costello classic repaired. This was their first feature in color too. I think it was inspired when Lou Costello was reading the fairy tale to his daughter. It was decided to make it more for kids than adults. So both Comedians had to hold back on a lot of stuff. I remember when I first saw it at the old paramount theater in the early 60s in Texarkana Texas, now the Perot arts and entertainment center. I don't clearly. I do remember seeing Lou Costello in color. I suspect this was the original director cut possibly. It was stated that when it was sold to another company that when the original CineColor and Eastman color negs got lost. I remember first seeing it again in black and white on a color t.v in a motel in B ham Ala in 75. I was wondering why it was in black n white. Then by the late '70s, I saw it again and the fantasy sequence was in color but started late after Jack's mom, played by Barbra Brown criticizes him for a neighbor .played by. Almira Sessions. The modern sequence in that print was not sepia-toned. Years later again on t.c.m I saw what I felt was a complete version that includes a sepia tone sequence again. There was something strange two of the musical number were shortened. Was it time constraints? Now for years, I thought of the actress who played Princess Eloise./Eloise Larken was played by Dorthy Ford. Wrong, Her name was Shaye Cogan who was a t.v singer, at the time. Dorothy Ford was the taller dark-haired woman who played one of the kidnap victims of the giant, who was now a servant. Now on the DVD version that I have got there were out takes. Many only survived in photos and some aspects in black and white and color fragments. I learned that the earlier version I saw in the late '70s included outtakes that were not supposed to be seen in released prints. So for the first time in years, I saw the complete full version of the music number Darlene Darla. A complete version of dreamer cloth in which Shay Sing extra refrains. In this new director cut, the villagers criticizing Mr. Dinklpus over charging meat were trimmed a bit. This is the true director's cut.78 minutes. The way Bud Abbot and Lou Costello had intended the movie to be seen. You have Max Baer Jr's uncle, Buddy Baer, who became a singer after he got out of sports. Then you have the pop singer of the '40s and '50s, James Alexander who plays Arthur and doesn't know the princess he supposes to be engaged to at the moment. The Irish Character of the harp, whose voice is played by Arthur Shields. The dancers in the begging and the end were also hired from t.v. You also have the famous Norman Luboff Choir in it too. . Part of the menus include a brief history of the Cinecolor, Abbott, and Costello Comedy act they did on a live t.v. Show. One was part of promoting their film. A record they did for Jack and the beanstalk. This is truly the best version yet. You will truly enjoy it on Blu-ray and DVD from Classic Flix .07/20/22.
Mamba (1930)
It finally arrived on the 9th of May 2022
I have been waiting for it since 2015,hoping it would be eventually put on DVD. Three month earlier that is when I found out that Kino Lorber was offering pre order. Now this two tone technicolor print is more pink tinted than orange. Maybe that was the way it ended up being restored .It's lucky that it existed. I had adjusted my color t.v set's tint towards the green side, at 24-still some scenes had those pink tint. The female star in this film,Eleanore Boardman.,I made some mistakes about her. I thought she was married to Clarence Brown. I got that wrong it was King Vidor. I thought she quit the business in the early 30's .no, her last film was in 1935 that was produced by her second husband. This was her first talkie,not the black n white film she did with john Gilbert. She plays a women who was sold into marriage by her father,which was originally played by. Josef Swickard,. That scene was cut out of the film. Now I discovered that the screen play writers were social liberals and wanted to exposed the German and British controlled Africa back in 1913 and the mistreatment Natives. Humanitarian actor Jean Herscholt.played a cruel German plantation owner who has enslaved Africans. The scene in which a black women who had an affair with him and got pregnant and she chasing after him for food for her baby. He just ignores her.when a British Major,played by Claude. Flemming with another British higher up is observing the ghastly scene,there reaction is directed against the women begging for food,That's how bad things were .You also have a white actor who possibly plays a black African,although he looked more biracial. Handsome character actor,Ralph Forbes plays one of his few leads in film. I had thought that this might of been his first talkie ,but, it was his third.this was his first appearance in Technicolor. His second would be the later Frenchman's creek. Originally the Aussie censors had removed the difficult honeymoon sequence,cause they thought it was insulting marriage and it contained a medium shot of Jean Herscolt grabbing Eleanore's breast. This scene survived in some fragments and was put back on with the original dialog,They also borrowed some other scenes for this. In the party sequence where Jean is introducing Eleanore to the people he invited,most of the British and German soldiers hate him,You hear the same music that was used in the technicolor party sequence in Hell's Angels. I also learned that the same set were used in the later Golden dawn.at least that is what the narrator stated in the audio side although it was claimed that it was digitally restored. Originally it was chemically restored. It looked the same way that the original Dr x looked before that was that was digitally restored. This makes it a better film look than let's say the king of jazz. Originally only 3 reels existed in the U. C. L. A. with the complete disc. The complete film was found in Australia.the menus include a short about the person who found the feature film and encouraged the restoration.then the interview of a couple who owned the print and were film and projectors enthusiast. It also includes gallery that explain Tiffany films.also has poster form the film and advertisement. For serious classic film fans it is worth seeing. 05/11/22.
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
Finally it arrived
For years i would watch the none restored Panavision version on t.c.m for years i would hear that the positive prints had water damage and that it could not be restored. Then I heard rumors that the water damage is not that bad.then i hear rumors that it could be restored,but , it could cost up to 1million to 2 million dollars. The restored version is finally out. Now I know what the expense would of cost for a chemical restoration. As in the restoration of it, the film did have some damages and water spots. It turned out there was a three strip negative of the three films .It was in good shape .That would equate to 9 strips of film for a chemical restoration. That explains the prohibitive cost. Thanks to Dave Strohmair. And Tom March with the less expensive,but, still expensive digital restoration ,they preformed a successful operation.the picture quality looks great. The scene where KarlHeinz Bohem sit on the left side of the screen and Lawrence Harvey on the right side ,as their character are writing history of a royal family ,played by Oscar Homolka,in the palace at the German town where the real bothers Grimm lived, exteriors were shot in the actual town, the smile box and the cleaned up image makes the sets look right .I was kind of disappointed that time Warner did not include the curtains,but, that was just a little thing. The other cinerama travelogs were owned by Cinerama ink .So they could add the curtains. The dragon scene was far more effective seen in the curve Cinerama,as the dragon went after buddy hackett,while cowardly Knight,Terry Thomas waited outside of the cave. It looks like that some of the cast ,that was in ,It's a mad,mad ,mad ,world, Showed up in this film ,including Arnold. Stang ,as Rumpelstiltskin. The overture music and intermission music was slightly different than the turner print As I said it was a real miracle that it was finally fixed. David had to go to the three strip negatives to recreate the prologue Worth seeing.03/30/22.
Dancing Pirate (1936)
Keep you old cineccolor copy's
Although this print is a lot better than the scratched up Cinecolor version, it is only 78 minutes. The Film Detective should have honestly advertised this way. I don't know why R. K. O released a slight edited print. Unless this surviving print was the reissue that Classic films corporation released and when Cinecolor bought the rights that is when they only uses the two color components. In this version when John ,Collins, Escape from pirate ship is slightly edited. The Scene in which Serafina shows john he Castinette dance is slightly edited. The Frank Morgan bath tube sequence is eliminated. The first half of the Dancing finale ,the first part has been edited out..In spite of this it's better than nothing. By common since it should of been turned into powder by now .The color are very realistic and not garish ,like trial from the lonesome pine. This might have been from the darker colors and white back ground that they used for the sets. This movie ,unlike traditional 3 color technicolor shorts at the time ,bright and positively garish. I suspect that some of the reddish tint on some of the dark scenes, like The time Serafina was helping her Juannito escape, might be stemming from some difficulties Pioneer had with shooting the colors. It is nerveless a better print,form the beginning,where the dance Master ,Collins, is teaching his student in Boston in the 1820's the waltz ,the light none color of the walls , to where Serafina is begging her Alchalde father to not to hang him. Steffi Dunno portrays the daughters of the Mayor ,in her Hungarian accent disguised as a Spanish accent ,is one of the few films in which she was the lead. Victor Varconi playing the fired Monterey Captain using his own Austrian accent as the Spanish accent ,too. Frank Morgan is great as the Mayor of the Spanish town. He act the same way as always he act in films ,befuddled. There is a short on the history of Technicolor. There is also a discussion on the film. The release did not do well. Jock Whitney was hoping to use Fred Astaire,Imagine if the studio decide to use Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers,in which she would have grown back her auburn hair and used that, it would of demanded a better script and bigger budget. It would have been taken care of too, staying in 3 colors. There is a commentary,where it look like they are getting offend ,a little at the portrayal of the Spanish Indians. Certainly the 1937 Romana portrayed the Spanish Indian better and in sympathy. If your like me and been a classic film fan for years ,you except the past in it's good and bad. The commentator ,possibly, was expression criticism to make sure that no one would think they were bigots,out of fear of losing a job,maybe. This is worth the buy and if you got your VHS and DVD Cinecolor version ,keep it s,since it's 83 minutes and to compare. Film detective did a great job in it's restoration. They also might have used the incomplete technicolor negative, also. It might be incomplete cause of the third component missing,but, this is guess .03/21/22.
Anyone But My Husband (1975)
another C.J. Laing classic
Produced in the east coast during the golden age of porn including the golden age of New York, until the Republicrats took over and mess it up. It's a part of a Roberta Findlay Double feature ,which includes Punkin .I love you. Restored from it's original negative in 2k. Unfortunately the original sound was lost and the archivist had to use the sound from the video version ,which is u even,all from Vinegar Syndrome. C. J. Is in the lead. Richard Bolla,aka Robert Kerman ,this was hist first porn feature. He plays a pedophile high school teacher with a penchant for 16 year old students. His character gets away with it .Iris flouret,aka Susan Sloan ,portrays the under age student as she almost get Kerman in trouble.. C. J. portrays his board wife ,whom you learned later on in the film was also under age when they got married. When he arrives home,in spite of a good meal ready ,he totally reject her and admits she is too old ,age 22. She knew his fetish for young girls. In real life she would have left him and gotten him in legal trouble. Jennifer Jordan one again shows up in this Findlay film as C. J. best friend who tries to help her to find a man to have an affair to get back at Kerman,while he is at a teachers convention The first one is mistake.an owner of art gallery,played by Beerbohn Tree. Who in the commentary it was stated he was a gay man from England who owned an antique shop. Gay? You mean bisexual. This man after he lightly hits he with a cat o nine tail get a hard on from her mouth and gets off from screwing her. This nice looking porn actor ,who is now dead, is bi. Then Eric Edwards once again plays the romantic,but it turn out he want to marry C. J criticizes all the plants in his apartment to make it look like outdoor park reject from south pacific. Then Jen takes C. J. to a madam disguises as a fake Psychic,played by Deanna Darby. To off them one studs ,one played by Tony Perez and herself. The lesbian fisting sequence the Deann give to C.j. Is hot .It get even hotter after southern redneck Perez, after he finished Jenifer, Goes into the jacuzzi and C. J absolutely deep throats his 13 inches. By the time. Kerman meet another young women ,played by Bree Anthony Kerman is thinking more about C. J. By the time he comes home ,now she is too tired. The story if your husband is getting together with other women that you need to get together with other men was amusing and arousing.03/12/22 12:29 pm cnt.
'Sweet Punkin' I Love You.... (1976)
A couples film of the 70's
I found this film to be very unusual porn feature of the mid 70's. Directed by Robert Michaels, actually based on her husband film maker Michael Findlay. Whether he was involved in the film making is a question mark. This movie involves the use of food with sex.,although i am a little sensitive about this. This is a 2 k remastered of the adult film classic part of a double feature released by Vinegar Syndrome on Blu ray with other Roberta Findlay feature ," Any one ,but, My husband. It's New York porn,east coast, before the late Ruth Ginsberg,anti porn Republicrats got into the city council.there was no community standard in new York city,except with content of s an m and d an b and the fisting act on the porn screen. C. J Laing was an adequate actress.,even in the commentary in the other movie Ms Fndlay claimed she had problems with her when it come to lines. Her character as an abused maid working for wealthy Mr Crean Smith , played by. Marlow Furguson., who is a tight wad rich man who keeps his money out of the bank and counts it every day.. His wealthy neighbors, who actually don't like him, played by. Jenifer Jordan and excellent actress crystal sync. They use Creans smith back yard to work Jens inspiration of clay art, A Penis,but you see Crystal posing with two other studs,Southerner great Peter played by real southerner Tony the hook Perez and Peter the great, a Russian character played by the legend John Holmes. Both men are arguing who has the biggest. Great Peter insult John penis by stating it's only big as his dog. Cryst and Jen decides to prove who the biggest with Jen to John and Crystal to Holmes. As they show the close up of the blow jobs you can tell the john's comment is a voice over and he isn't really talking. The Harry Reems look alike Jeffery Hurst,looks like he could of been Harry's brother, plays the honest poor Butler. I get the impression that Hurst wore a wig in an attempt to conceal his identity a bit ,so he can get family acting jobs.in Hollywood ,possibly..His hair does looked that way. He is a compulsive gourmet cook, You see it seems that food makes him horny ,so he then thinks about food.the scene ,which i find a bit queasy , he is cooking crepe Suzettes. He insist on C. J. to blow him while he is cooking. He eats the crepes and very sickening puts jam on his penis ,oh gross. I'm wondering if C j. Was grossing out. As he is about to climax he smashes all the crepes and eats more after orgasm. Another equally gross sequence,which should help those who are trying to cut back on sweets. Just thinking about this sequence will cure you from candy forever. It's when he had finished the wedding cake and the down stair maid is blowing him.played by Lorraine Alraune. He put some of the icing on the his penis head as she sucks him, He then screw her. When he pulls it out he ejaculates all over the wedding cake ,BARF!. Then Alraune sticks her finger in the now cum icing ,on the cake to lick it off her finger, gross again. Eric Edwards plays the sleazy lawyer for Crean Smith. His character was able to get the job when he marred Debutante,played by Crystal Sync because her families wealthy. In the bath tube sequence,where she refuses to go to the wedding Party of Crean,because he is marrying his maid. She is so convincing as the wealthy heiress .The lesbian tryst with the maid. Danielle ,played by Marlene Willoughby is nice too. The sex scene between Eric Edwards and C. J..as he consoles her because of the death of her new husband Crean,in front of a fire place after they drink bandy,the sex scene is soft. My guess is that Roberta was trying to focus on the sex as being romantic. The fantasy party sequence,imagine by C. J., after no one should up for her charity ball, is wild, It includes some orgies. It also has a genuine Rock band call Slim Pickins. In the end C. J kicks. The snotty next door neighbors out of her back yard and ends up in a three way with John,Tony and Jeff.the production values are excellent ,especially the reddish exterior of the romantic sex scene to the wild party to the kitchen. Worth the watch. 03/11/22 at 11:09 cnt.
The Boys from Syracuse (1940)
I finally got to see it
I have heard about it for years and wondering why it has never been on T. V. Zeus a on line service for classic films on DVD had it. The description stated that it had not been seen on T. V since the 70's .The print was not broadcast quality. It wasn't bad .It look like a bit worn 35mm or 16mm. It does need remastering. Was it good ? It wasn't that bad .It was changed for the film. It was an Alan Jones vehicle so it had to be centered around him. For example the song,"Falling in love with love, was originally sang by Adrianna,in the theatrical version to express her frustration of Anitpholus ,her husband neglecting her. In the film version Alan Jones sing the song to Rosemary lane to express his lover for her. The hays code possibly was the reason why the Courtesan and the bordello was eliminated. What replaced it in the film version was a bar with gambling instead. Comedian of r.k.o films Joe Penner portrayed Dromio of Ephesus and Syracuse with fair humor. What I also like about this film is the song ,"This Can't be love,sang by Rosemary Lane, in a cheerful way Doris Day sang it when it was adapted in the film version of jumbo. Other parts of the story was change from the play. It was vague the reason why Ephesus did not want any one from Syracuse to be in their city and why the cities officials wanted to execute a stranger for being in their city. In the film version there is an excuse. Ephesus had just destroyed Syracuse in a war. The captured ,played by,Samuel s. Hinds, was going to be executed. Alan Lane and his slave played by Joe Penner is in Syracuse to rescue his father. Confusion happen when Antipholus and Dromio of Syracuse are confused by the same in Ephesus by the neglected wife played by Jack Jones mother in real life and wife of Alan in real life. She cannot sing. This is, possibly, why they had to change the character who would sing the song. Now this may not be Martha Ray's best film,but, She plays the slave. Luce, with jazzy humor. Both Joe, when playing,of Ephesus , and Ray are excellent at the song number,"He and She. Alan Mowbray and Eric Blore are funny as the tailors who are trying to get the Syracuse version of Anitipholus to pay his tailor bill cause Charles Butterworth is threatening to excuse them if they don't pay their tax. I found out that it was nominated for an academy award. In spite of the prints state you can say it was fair. It does need remastering. It's worth watching 02/2/22.
Shi shan nu ni (1977)
Finally a restored version
I.m.d.b. Had just a mishap that I had to start all over again. It has been April since the 3D archives have restored this silver age Kung fu classic. It's a sequel to Dynasty. The project has been financed by 3D fans from Kick-Starters through the generous donation of fans,3D fans that is. The first time I saw it was at the martin twin theater, where I lived in 82. The print was good, but, time has not been too kind to it. The 3D archives got it on time. There are some sequences, very quick and short, that just could not be improved by color correction. Like the sequence in which Dr. Choa, played by Shiusen Leong, was at the cave creating his bombs to protect his village from the possible bandit, the tints had shifted to a degree on the pink side. A rape sequence in which one of the girls that thrown behind a bale of hay as the bandits raped her. The color had shrunk way down. These sequences are very short, the rest of the film the color correction is well-balanced. As I said, this is a sequel to dynasty. The same props that were used as a Buddhist temple, Buddhist nunnery. Guess who plays the bad guy again, as he did in Dynasty? The Eunichow gay character, or suggested it from Dynasty, now the leader bandit, played by Ying Bai. The actor who played the older Buddhist in dynasty, Chang Ma, now plays one of the younger bandits. In this film, the bandits had raids the village in the begging and attack all the virgins. Under such customs, no man want them. They end up having to go to a Buddhist convent and become a nun and learn self-defense. How oppressive that was back then. Now another village gets prepared to possibly defends them self. A young artist played by. Cheng Ku, is madly in love with a village girl, played by Hisiang Chin Hang, whom he is painting a picture of her. She is in love with Dr Chow. She and Dr Chow manged to convinced her parents, the father played by Ying Lee, to let them get married by coming up with an Idea that she needs therapy using acupuncture for her breast. You never see how Mr chow does it, but, he gets revenge. He manages to find the bandits, you don't see how he does it, to tell them they could raid the village, but, he wants the girl. This is during the wedding of the couple that the bandits raid their village. This is when the women have been sent to the Buddhist nuns and some other village for protection. The men stay and fight. Before the village daughter's father dies after throwing the bombs on the bad guys and missing the leaders and the others, Ying Bai wants to know who created the bombs. The young women and the daughter all in the convent, after second thought the leader allows them to stay. The Kung Fu in 3D is interesting. The scene in which a sword hits one of the villagers just flies off the screen. The leading nun refuses to fight the bandits as the other nuns are force to fight them, until she has to deal with Ying Bai. He ends in a hair-raising end. The 3d cinema photography was good, although there were some baked in problems due to the nature of the 3d cameras, it was minor. Also, a part of this show included three 3D shorts. Two made in 1953, one made in 73. The first one is in the i.md.b.please turn to that title. The 53 Lippert version. Now back to this. The other short is a strip tease one called Persian slave Market. It shows three different women in black n white doing a strip tease to Beep Bop. The latter tow, one in a 1890s costume and the Arabians costume reveals themselves topless. The last one, Two men from Tick ridge, was more of a test of the 3D cameras A little plot about a man who made it as a film maker in Hollywood and invited his friend to see his new movie. Better to see it in 3D. Fun and entertaining and worth collecting. It contains two versions, Polaroid and anaglyph version, as well as 2D. 11/24/21.
College Capers (1953)
Part of the complile for Revenge of the shogun women
There are some mistakes that the I. M. D. B. made. It was not in color. It's in black and white. Furthermore, it was shot in 3d. The information does not include these facts. This should not be confused with universal's 1954 short that was not in 3d. Dolores fuller introduces the audience. To the anaglyph 3D glass and how to on in her under ware. This when it turns into double image for 3D. This i the first time it was converted from a fading anaglyph Eastman color negative to Polaroid, showing the black n white better. It's the antics of a male fraternity getting their initiator into the girls' fraternity to steal their pants. Their fraternity initiator looks like a dork. As the guy sneaks into the fraternity, you see the 3D affects. One of the women student talking on the phone in the hallway as she's swishing bubble from a bottle as he talks to her boyfriend about pros and superlatives. The men outside have to hide when they see the women students come from a dance. One boyfriend give his Sweet heart a pin, and they are engaged. The female students get into a pillow fight, only to discover their pants missing from the dresser drawer. Dolores plays one of the students who come back from a dance, not much of a role. This is the kind of movie that Ed woods would make, although the 3d would have slowed his film making down. The runt gets caught, but, his friends manage to rescue him with the aid of the students' fiancé. Adequate 3d. Good acting Now back to shogun.11/24/21.
Debbie Does Dallas Part II (1981)
A sequel to a legndary porn classic
Debbie is broke and kicked out of the football cheerleading team in Texas. She was too young, She is hitching a ride from a truck driver played by Richard Bola, who played an owner of the department store owner in the first one. She doesn't even recognize that is the same man who financed the trip to Dallas in party 1. Furthermore, She's going to her Aunt Xaviera whom Debbie believes she's running a ranch. Bola keeps suggesting to her if she wants to freshen up first. In his mind, as the audience sees, He wants to make out with her. As the audience sees, his fantasies as they are in back of the truck, and she's laying on her stomach as he is licking her butt. The next scene would make some audience UN comfortable. It involves dopey cops, played by Alan Adrian and Sean Elliot, who sees Debbie hitch hitchhiking, and they decide they are going to rape her for hitchhiking they arrest her. They manage to stop someone riding their car and try to steal it. Debbie gets rescued when Rod Hudd, the sheriff from the other county, arrive, Then has her arrested. He tries to rape her in the jail cell until she agrees to consent, In real life the cops would get in trouble for it. That's when she tells him about her aunt place. He takes her there. We see the ranch. It isn't a ranch. It's a Bordello. This could not be the porn take off variation of the mainstream musical film that starred Dolly Pardon and Bur Reynolds. That was made in 82. This was 81. Although, the stage version, produced in 79, I don't think this was influenced from the play. I suspect a s.a.g. Actor plays Debbie's Aunt, played by Jinger Jaye. She does not do anything sexual in this film and realistically shows her self as a middle age madam. Rod brings in Bambi, Her aunt does not recognize her until Debbie convinces her. Debbie begs her aunt if she could stay and Xavaiera suggest taking a bath and get some sleep, and they would talk about it tomorrow. The sex workers help Debbie to her room and help her take a bath, with a soap dildo, that's when Debbie learns that her Aunt is a madam and runs a Cat house. Her aunt calls Debbie's mother to confirm Debbie to be her niece. She is not sure if she wants Debbie to stay since she run cat house, but, Debbie still begs to stay. Then The Aunt suggest to look at the activity that happens in her place, Then Debbie can decide for her self if she wants to stay. In one room, a husband, played by, Jamie St. James, goes to Ashley Welles to release his frustration of his real wife. Another is a voyeurs' room frustration on Ashley. Then there's the Voyeur room. Where Daniella is dancing and Lisa Cintirce dresses up as a girl scout while somebody watches, both end up double dong each other. Bambi get so aroused she' imagining being in place of one of those girls. More s.a.g actors playing some high school sports players. Traditionally they go to the ranch Xaviera for fund, but the coach forbids them too. They ignore him. The coach decides to have the place close. Ron Jeremy again plays a prude, as he did in the second version of deep throats two. Ron Hudd informs Xaviera. Debbie want to help them. To stop the shut-down of the house, In One scene Lisa Be shows up and seduce the two cops played by Alan and Sean to put on that she's the owner Xaviera and that she hasn't had sex in a long time. Then Lisa and Bambi take on Ron in the voyeur room. Lisa's deeps throat, Jeremy's big one. Leading to her being plunged anally. The problem is that this film doesn't show what happens to the coach and the police after that. It shows instead Richard Bolla surprising her as the owner of the department store that financed the trip, now a trucker, but, the background is in his truck. This doesn't make sense .the audio is very interesting. Someone interviews Lisa Centrice and Sean Elliot. It seems that Lisa got into it through model photo shoots for the money, and Sean Elliot was a starving mainstream actor. They both left in the 80s. Obviously they were not crazy about the business, All three were ignorant that the adult business still produces features, in smaller budgets and no 35 mm anymore and fewer days schedule. They all thought that the adult business was only sex websites these days. Entertaining and worth a view. I got this version from Vinegar Syndrome. 10/3/21.
Out Yonder (1919)
Finally restored
This classic Olive Thompson classic silent has been restored by Joseph Harvat with the funding from Kickstarter. I was the many ones who contributed to the project. Whether this will be out for all classic silent film fans is a question mark. The Restoration was excellent. Clean digital printed. It was tinted and Sepia toned too. The print that was used came from the Netherlands. Eye Film Museum. The translations of the titles weren't conveying, so new intertitles had to be recreated, This was released under Lewis Selznick. This was Olive Thompson star vehicle 1919. As playing the role of Flotsam, she is convincing as a naive innocent young girl who live on the beach who read fairy tale books in hope that a prince will come. Her Father, who runs a lighthouse, played by John Smiley, does a good portrayal as a lighthouse owner who was a retired captain of a ship. He has a dreadful secret. Edward Ellis plays his rough acting assistant, who also has a secret that more dreadful than. He also is trying to get Olive to marry him, Ellis. John keeps telling Olive that when as a dead child swept up the shore, that's when he named her Flotsam. Now you got your wealthy Characters in a yacht near the lighthouse. Marie Cloverdale , plays the owner of the Yacht, whose husband mysteriously left her. Gordon Huntley, plays her nephew, Elmer. A friend and possibly a love interest, Louise Prussing, plays Clarice Stapleton. While on a row boat, and accident happens to Marie and her friend ,played by Cyril Chadwick, Flotsam rescues them and take them back to the yacht. This is when Olive and Huntley meet for the first time and slowly fall for each other, while Louise gets jealous throughout the film telling that Olive is just a waif. On the day that the ones on the Yacht decide to visit olive and her father, that's when John Smiley starts seeing Huntley Familair based on John's secret that olive is not aware of. Ellis starts seeing Huntley as familiar also. The dreadful secret. Later on, Huntley Proposes to Olive. This is when Ellis gets angry and tries to kill Huntley, but, breaks it up. Marie offers adoption of John's daughter to give her a better life. Then when olive is not around he reveals to Marie and Huntley what he, John did to Huntley father and ask never to let Olive know about it. In a later twist, it is revealed whom cause the murder of Huntley's father because it wasn't John. Accidentally, Louise reveals the secret to olive, thinking Olive already knew. Olive decides to go back to her Father for support, because she can't believe he was guilty. The real perpetrator get his come up ins when the spit of the murdered man shows up. As I said, nice melodrama. A rare Olive Thompson silent classic worth the watch. 09/ 14/21.
Il più comico spettacolo del mondo (1953)
This was not Italy's First 3D movie
Italy's first 3D movie was Nozze Vagabondi. It was also in Polaroid. This was Italy's first official 3D feature. It was Toto's first appearance in 3d. It is a satire of C. B Demille's Greatest show on earth, made a year earlier. Furthermore, it was also released by the same studio, Paramount. Some humor is corny. The Cornell Wild satire, Bastian, played by, Alberto Sorrnetino, As he and Tania Weber go into the ring he starts climbing up the rope. After a few inches, he slips and hits his butt, a sack knocks him down. All of a sudden, his Left arm and hand can't move. It's paralyzed. Then Toto' offers him a job selling balloons to the audience. Later on, you see him selling ties to laid on his paralyzed arm. Then in another scene, his arm is well. This was not funny, but corny and silly. Toto' plays the Jimmy Stewart role of the clown name Tottons, but the clown is the lead star. Not the romantic lead, but, character lead. He is hiding from the law for a crime he did through clown make up. The law, played by, played by Savo libassi, is searching for him by asking everyone to measure their feet on his cardboard cut out of Toto''s foot size. This is another corny joke. Marc Lawrence, play the Chaz Heston role of the circus owner. May Britt plays the circus trainer on both elephants and an assistant to an alcoholic lion tamer played by Mario Castellani. There is a funny scene where the law is chasing Toto'and he hides in May Britt's trailer. She decides to disguise him as the lion tamer, since the real one is passed out, But she tricks him into taming the lions himself. At first, he is scared, but, then as the lion bites his hand, he grabs the lion's face and bites the lion on the one of the animal's cheek. After he succeeds in controlling the lions in the cage, as soon as he walks out and spots a white rat, he faints. He also portrays Totton's mother. In double exposure in 3D, when the clown is performing, he sees his mother watching him and goes up to her and starts to talk to her in the mist of the performance. This was supposed to be funny. This has more 3D gimmicks and less story as those who were produced by Sam Katzmann for Columbia. The scene where May Britt and Tania is having an argument which who is going to work for Bastian. They get Toto' to decide for them. The way it looks is their backs are to the camera, as if they want him to decide what is the best cleavage for Bastian to work with. Britt gives Toto' an apple to toss to which women are best. He looks sat the audience and ask us to choose for him. The two women turn to the front of the camera to reveal their costumes, not their breast. The audience chooses Tania and Toto's throw the apple at the camera. Another scene where he has taken over the ball gallery heads where his disguises himself as an Islamic. Each time the patron throw a ball at his face, he says, Allah! Then you see so many balls being thrown at the camera. After Toto knocks the raving mad lion tamer in the wax museum, the law catches up with him. He gets handcuffed, but, Marc won't let the police take him until he does a little theatrical sketch in the circus ring, which is unusual for a circus to do. In which only half of the audience can see it. In Red Skeleton style, his character plays a person getting a job at a unisex beauty parlor run by a gay character beside the owner having Toto's name changed to sound better it lead to disaster. He keeps an overweight woman client in the reducing machine that look like the cousin of Robot monster too long that she shrinks down to the size of a midget. Then he has to dress up in drag to give a woman client a massage. The close up of embarrassment in his face is funny. He ends up keeping a female client in the drier too long that she become bald headed. He started to over paint male clients' hair. Before you know it, the Neapolitan cousins of the American Keystone cops come to the rescue. It seems that the police gave up in arresting Tottons. Near the end, every performer gathers together while Toto is doing a Eulogy directed towards the lions. Now, the drunken lion tamer was not eater by any of the lions cause the character was there with everyone, so I don't know what the eulogy was all about. Oh, I forget to mention the guest celebrate appearance as the patron of the circus equivalent to the American bob hope and Bing Crosby showed up in the other version. In this version it's Anthony Quin, who would also be in Italy's second or third 3D movie with May Britt, and Silvana Mangano as the patron's. American Cinema photographer Karl Strauss, the one who was shooting I love Lucy that year too, was co shooting this film as well. This may not be the best 3D classic. It's as fair as Babes from Baghdad. It is history and if you don't mind the corn, cause there are some funny scenes. Toto' was a good actor and comedian. He just never made it internationally. Like Roberto Rosellini, Anna Magnanni, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni. Luchino Visconti, Gina Lollobrigida. He still was good and this is worth the watch. 08/31/21.
Nurse 3-D (2013)
Poor 3D subject
I discovered this film on h.b.o first. I could not believe it was a 3D movie. It just didn't look in 3D. I only saw the 2D version a couple of moments. I later spotted it on Amazon in Blu -ray 3D-2D. Furthermore, I ordered it. When it arrived, I played it, well. I am a big 3D fan. This Film produced in native 3D, i.m.d.b stated dual 3D, but, in the making of it, the camera looked like the upgraded version of the single strip top and bottom process originally created by, Michael Findlay. The story was okay. Paz De La Huerta was good at playing a psychotic. Vengeful woman, who wanted to get rid of all married men, won't be sexually monogamous to their wives. Just because when she was a little girl and caught her dad having sex with the secretary. This certainly reminded me when I was a kid and me and my mom caught my drunk dad and his secretary at a drive in bar. She was sitting on his lap, but, I'm not a sexually monogamous adult. You also wonder whether Paz is a vengeful lesbian or bisexual? She has the hots for the new nurse, played by Catrina Bowden. Then you have the sexually harassing main Dr. Played by an older Judd Nelson. He harasses all the nurses. Kathleen Turner, the head nurse. Big. Eighties star has been reduced to small part, The problem is this is a 2D subject. 3D just does not look good in this story. Movies like, Silent Madness, are more appropriate in 3D. Another thing is that it seems that the director does not know how to shoot 3d. Some shots, one scene where 4 hospital attendants are together, they are too close. This reduces the 3D effects, This is dark comedy. She, Paz, Seems to get away with murder. Killing. Danni's father-in-law, portrayed by Larry Cook. She gets Danni Drugged after taking her to a disco. Then proceed to date rape her, taking pictures of her. Uses this for black mail. You got 3D gore in this, but it's not as effective as the gore in my bloody Valentine, the remake. In this film, you have a sarcastic Nurse attendant, staff, played by Niece Nash. Her character is funny. Then you have the leading man, Handsome, Corbin. Bleu. Suppose to be Danni's boyfriend! Who wants her to move in with him, but, she has family problems. Her father-in-law is a drunk, played by Larry cook, who get murdered later on. His character acts a real unprofessional psychiatrist, when he seduces patient ,Paz ,Whom she is going to murder. This movie in away like the movie fatal attraction in way. Everybody fails to stop her, and she ends up in another hospital to terrorize. Some good 3D shot's, but, many just fair. Good story, but wrong for 3d. If you don't mind this, as a 3d fan, watch it that way. 08/12/21.
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
Godzilla vs. Kong 3D ,great!
I'm glad that I had decided not to go to the phony Max 2d version of the film at the theater or watch it for free on h.b.o. Max. Cause I would have missed all the three Dee affects. This action horror film was meant to be seen by two eyes. With this version released on Blu- ray you would think that Warner home video would think about restoring the rest of the golden age of 3d classics they own,m.g.m and Warner brother and R. K. O.,like dangerous mission and son of Sinbad,but that another subject. In this sequel to Godzilla king of the monsters, you have two story's in this films of two different group of character. As the saying goes never the twain shall meet .These characters never meet. It all starts out when Godzilla is so pissed off he goes to Ampex corps and almost destroys the business and many of the employees. Why is he so piss off?. Once again from the other version Milly Bobby Brown shows up and in school she hears about the situation and wonder why god has turned against humanity. She want to find out but her father,once again Kyle Chandler show up , won't let her go. So she with her friend, played by Julian Dennison, decide to find out for themselves. The other characters played by Rebecca Hall ,who looks a little like Barbara Steel ,plays a scientist who is. A part of Monarch who is containing King Kong at scull Island,encased. She has an adopted a little girl king Kong rescued ,who is a deaf mute played by Kaylee Hottle, who is a real deaf mute. Then there's Nathan Lind ,played by Alexander Scarsgard,Who informs The scientist that now they have to the Kong to the inner world to stop Godzilla from destroying humanity. Now in this film the earth has a center or an inner world ,that is the earth is hollow. Now you have your conspiracy theorist played by Bryan Tyree Henry, who spies on some of the corporate offices of Ampex. He becomes part of the other characters Bobby and Juli ,whom they are searching for since he is on the radio. King Kong has gotten tired doesn't care much about action. Ilene Andrews is skeptical about taking king Kong to the the entrance of hollow earth that he may not listen to anyone . Little does she know that there is surprise about the little girl Jia can do. Then there the mad scientist,played by Demian Bichir,who has a sneaky surprise up his sleeve,plays the owner of ampex,I think, and is selling special air ship that can go through the hollow world without destroying hollow earth. The mad scientist daughter,played by Einza Gonzalez, is helping her dad in this devious plot. The exciting action occurs When Godzilla start to fight against king on the ship and end up fighting under water. In 3D they both fly out of the screen. Later the surprise is that the little deaf mute Jia can communicate with Kong through sign language. Well the scientist get Kong ,with the aid of jia to enter the hollow world as when the ships enter to follow him,He ends up battling flying monster with wings and tales on the way and he cracks the skull on one of them and drinks their brain fluids .Later you discover that the devious plot that Demian Bichir. And Einza is that they created a Mecha godzilla to dethrone both King Kong and Godzilla and take over the world. Kong ends up killing his daughter, as he fights ampex. The biggest and last fight was in Godzilla territory ,Hong Kong where Kong and zilla beats each other to a pulp destroying the city. Zilla ends up knocking Kong down and he ends up dying. Now MechaZilla shows up and now God needs Kong's help. Kong regains the strength through electromagnetism .Now the two fight against the robot. In the end the separate characters never meet each other in the end for some reason. They could have. Adam Wingard does excellent direction in the story and plot and the characters. The set are very realistic ,Especially Kong's under ground temple as. The hollow earth set is so realistic .In 3d the effects were so awesome,although in 2D it's good too. The only thing is in the second disc in the making of the film under Kong's development over the ages .They mentioned most of the early titles of King Kong except the 1976 native 3d ape. The director seemed to avoid mentioning that. Well entertaining .Worth a watch 3D or2D. 08/3/21.
Qian dao wan li zhu (1977)
Soon availalble
By the time anyone reads this it will long been available on home video Blu- Ray, by 04/13/21. A year and a half ago there was a fund raiser on kick starters by Bob Furmanek and the 3d archive to raise money to have this restored. It was suppose to be released on 12/20 ,but there were more delays. As a financial contributor ,I just got my copy yesterday. It's great. It the first blu- ray 3d that combines polarized with anaglyph print ,for those who don't have a Polaroid 3D set up. So everyone can see the way it was shot . Earlier I had sent Mr Fermanek email suggested that they ought to use color code ,since it mess up the color way less .I got a respond and he told me that they already tested it with anaglyph. Unfortunately the latter is copy righted so that would have been an expense .Red left cyan right is public domain,but seeing it through red left blu right glasses reduces the color distortion and makes it less green slightly more color detail,but, color code come closer to Polaroid. This was the first Kung fu extravaganza in 3D. Although it is advertised in 4 channel quadraphonic sound,it originally was recorded in mono. The producer probably mixed the tracks that were originally for the mono. Well the music and the sound affects are of oriental in nature .Flutes ,drums japans guitars .The horses galloping sound affects were good .Although the story is minimal the kung fu action is great. Now i don't know which actor plays the prince since all the actors are unknown to me,but Ying Bai plays a corrupt Eunuch Chow who now controls all of Taiwan,were it was shot. The prince wanted to over throw him,but, is forced to go to a monastery for protection,but, that won't prevent Chow to destroy him. Yings character is strange besides being a bad guy. David Wei Tang plays Eunuch's guard protector. The film maker did not give this character name. That was odd. There is a scene where David make a surprise Attack almost to Eunuch,but it turns out he was just practicing cause he want to be a general. The Strange thing is that Eunuch grabs his hand and moves him to Eunuch's bed and starts to put his arms around David and gets' closer to him and next scene. All of a sudden Eunuch gets up it's time to sneak to the monastery and surprise the Prince,Guess who get up out of the same bed ? David. Did he and the Eunuch Chow had gay sex? Sometime Eunuch called Davids character his brother. Tao Liang Tan plays Sao Chin Tan son of a warrior ,who got killed by his enemy, Eunuch ,in a 2d still shot flash back of the brutal murder ,probably the producer wanted to save money on the film. The actor looks very skilled at the portrayal of king fu,but my guess had probably a technical adviser to choreograph it probably. Sao takes off way after the bad guy arrives killing all the monastery priests as they defend themselves. Oh I forgot to say that when Eunuch went to the palace to see if the prince was there they captured an old man played by younger actor Wen Tai Lee. He refuses to answer them and gets his head chopped off,almost flies off the screen .Now poor Sao all alone in the world has seven days to get rid of Eunuch Chow and his Gang. There another character,bad guy ,who plays a general ,who looks likes David character ,Kang Chin ,who plays Lu Kuai. In fact when Sao was scaring Lu Kaiu into the woods ,right next to the city, and surprised attack Lu chopping lu's hands off and Ramming a piece of wood in his chest,suggested,I though they killed David character..Then I realizes he was still alive in another scenes. The 3D cinema photography in the kung fu fights was excellent. The scene where Eunuch's soldiers try to decapitate Sao heads with a claw attach to a chain and he uses his trusty metal umbrella to fight them off,just like the leading character in the 1936 musical the dancing pirate,then more help shows up ,or more help for the bad guys?. The soldiers end up choppy off the head of the extras flying out of the screen instead of Sao's. Eventually ,after a lot of fighting against each other ,David's character has turned against Chow,probably for raping him, and offer help to Sao to overthrow the dictatorship of Eunuch Chow in Taiwan. Although the voices were kind of ridiculous the dubbing was in sink. Too bad the original mandarin language is lost. No there was not one women in this film,except for some servants .Fear not the women will have there turn in the sequel Shogun women coming soon.i remember seeing this in an advertisement at the empire theater in 77,but did not see it at that time .Even though ti was shown on t.v. In 82,but it never came to my station. Fortunately I saw it in Polaroid at the martin twin when it was reissued to the theaters in 83. Extras in this Bu ray disc is a cartoon 3d music video. Mike Ballew discussion of the super touch 3D lens ,which was invented by sexploitaion film maker Mike Findley. More 1950's stereo slides and a slide presentation of a famous department store in Dallas Texas. Worth the buy and watch.04/01/21.