That's a good analysis Paul. I was not impressed with the movie(s), but I'll try and check out the series at some point. It does seem quite dated to be honest, and the presentation of the films is very pedestrian in terms of cinematic appeal. I can't imagine they cost much more than a standard UK T...

Having worked on both of these for EMI, here is what I recall. Ted Childs producer of the television show wanted a version that was a littler “harder” than the broadcast weekly show. Several scripts were optioned and only in my opinion, a contrived script was agreed upon for the first film. All it r...

Andy Any idea if it's the silly theatrical cut with the annoying narration over the top or the Tab Murphy cut without the narration? with luck both so we get a choice. Love the way Savoy had no idea about the film & went with the narration, classic bits are: "never saw him without that hat&...

I'd hate to see a repeat of how A Clockwork Orange inspired copycat crimes in England (which ultimately prompted Kubrick himself -- with Warner Bros. cooperation -- to get the film banned in the UK). Paul Firstly, may I point out I enjoy your posts & comments and this is no way trying to contra...

I can tell you folks that those days were tough as ever & films had to have appeal to last the distance of multiple weeks & hold overs. Plus their campaigns were by & large very costly, but more market orientated rather than mass market which take place today, example a banner on IMDB is...

Andy

Oh, what a flash back!!

I worked on:

ET – CIC + UIP
Amityville 2 – EMI
Pink Floyd The Wall – UIP
Night Shift – Warner Brothers
Rocky 3 – UIP
An Officer & A Gentleman - UIP
Plus helped a friend out on The Best Little Whore House In Texas

Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Regards
Andy

Paul we opened late spring / early summer of 1983. IMDB state February but they are wrong & I know that as I have all my UIP folders from that time. Due to his Muppet contract in the UK it had to go through ITC (Lew Grade's company) & they passed it onto UIP (United International Pictures, w...

Paul & Andy From a European point, Gandhi & Tootsie had massive publicity budgets, due to points made by Andy about small children being up set & adults staying away on the USA release the Euro budget was pulled back quite considerably on Dark Crystal & by & large had to fend for...

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Andy

are the discs 4k or BR the re-release version with the end credit snippets or is that being saved for another day to get everyone to buy it twice?

thanks for the advice

regards

Andy b

Andy as you never saw this back in "81 I can tell you that from Europe the film came over from Embassy & was due to go to VHS. Brent Walker Distributors picked it up for a cinema release from what I recall almost last minute. The film was double billed with Straw Dogs & wow was it a har...

Rutger was a dear soul, I briefly met him on Blade Runner, but had far more contact on The Hitcher. He really wanted The Hitcher to take off as it was a launch for the USA markets, alas with EMI selling off to Bond & then Cannon, the film was badly treated and I feel the studio could of done mor...

Andy Really looking forward to the extended version as in Europe we never got any of them, from reading about the extend TV showings, they seem like rough cuts but obviously cleaned up to be viewed. I hope Sony will let The Deep out as it's always been a favorite & I have kept away from the &quo...

Eric

Thank you for your notes on this, I think as it's very cheap this side of the border I will grab a copy on my next Amazon order.

Most appreciated & thank you for taking the time to give a detailed breakdown.

regards

Andy b

I'll see it because the battle is the only World War II battle I can say I know the story of inside out and that was thanks to my seeing the 76 movie on television and being motivated as a kid to read every book there was on the battle I could find at the time. Eric The 1976 film is a film that for...