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Originally Posted by Macca

One of my favourites that. A perfect film, a superb work of art.

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Kubrick was a perfectionist: he bought up the (two or three) remaining lenses that Zeiss had developed for NASA, so he could film the candle-lit scenes, without using any additional lighting.

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Originally Posted by struth

The Day The Earth Caught Fire, 1961, directed by Val Guest and stars Edward Judd, Leo McKern and Janet Munro. Also features Arthur Christiansen as the Express editor, a job he had held in real life.
This is the BFI 4K remastered version on 2K bluray.

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In his commentary track, director Val Guest stated that the sound of church bells heard at the very end of the American version had been added by distributor Universal, in order to suggest that the emergency detonation had succeeded and that the Earth had been saved. Guest speculated that the bells motif had been inspired by the film The War of the Worlds (1953), which ends with the joyous ringing of church bells after the emergency (and a nuclear explosion). But Guest maintained that his intention was to always have an ambiguous ending.

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I remember seeing it at the cinema; which would make it 60 years ago! :eek:

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Originally Posted by Barry

I remember seeing it at the cinema; which would make it 60 years ago! :eek:

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you must have sneaked in as it was X rated at the time due to her breasts being flashed(well parts of them):D well it was 61... val guest said there was some cuts for the american version to get by their censor.

I don't remember seeing any 'flashes' of breasts. :doh:

You had to be (or look) 18 to be allowed to see x-rated films. I definitely saw it at the cinema, but I wouldn't have been 18 at the time; maybe 14, but not 18. I think it might have been at a late-night screening, where presumably the age of the viewers was given scant attention.

As well as 'Barry Lyndon', the other two period dramas I remember seeing around that time were 'Angelique' and 'Tom Jones'. Both of which were also very good.

Two Mules for Sister Sara, 1970 directed by Don Siegel and starring Shirley MacLaine and Clint Eastwood.


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Not one of Eastwood's better films but it made a profit.

Oh - I think it a good film. I love the way the Eastwood and Maclaine characters play off one another.

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Oh - I think it a good film. I love the way the Eastwood and Maclaine characters play off one another.

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yeah i like it too, but dialogue isnt great; just a bit lame. but i like it enough to have the bluray lol

Criterion's New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural of THE FOUR FEATHERS.

John Clements as,
Harry Faversham.
Ralph Richardson as,
Captain John Durrance.
C. Aubrey Smith as,
General Burroughs.
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June Duprez as,
Ethne Burroughs.




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Directed by Zoltán Korda in 1939, so its 82 years young.

This is the region A bluray.

49th Parallel, 1941. Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Stars Anton Walbrook, Eric Portman, Glynis Johns, Raymond Massey, Laurence Olivier and Leslie Howard.

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Pressburger won an Oscar for Best Story and the film was nominated for Best Picture and Best Screenplay (including Rodney Ackland for additional dialogue). Powell was nominated for Best Director by the New York Film Critics Circle.

The British Film Institute ranked the film the 63rd most popular film with British audiences, based on cinema attendance of 9.3 million in the UK. It was released as 'The Invaders' in the USA; some scenes and dialogue were removed as being too sensitive racially.