Hi Dr. Svet! Gary Gerani here. Thanks so much for your positive review of my commentary for 12 ANGRY MEN. One correction... I'm the writer/producer/director of the award-winning documentary ROMANTIC MYSTICISM: THE MUSIC OF BILLY GOLDENBERG. I had nothing at all to do with the Boris Karloff doc you credited me for. By the way, RM is up for a Best Documentary Rondo this year, and voting ends very soon. Please vote for it, and me (Favorite Commentator)? Couldn't resist a little plug! Take care, sir, and thanks again for the kind words...

There is a pretty significant difference between how The Killers is framed and how Sergeant Ryker is framed on this release. The Killers looks a little tighter but the composition is fine. The composition on the new 2K master of Sergeant Ryker is not right. I do not want to speculate what has been done, but it looks like there is some shifting -- either pre- or after reframing, which is why I made a note in the review. Too much from the upper end of the frame is missing.

Re SERGEANT RYKER: This was made-for-TV, part of NBC's BOB HOPE anthology series, I believe. But it was released theatrically as a feature film afterward, like a good deal of U's late '60s product. RYKER was obviously shot 1.33 (or 1.37), then cropped into a faux widescreen for theatrical presentation. See also DARK INTRUDER and the Japanese release of Don Siegel's THE KILLERS (the latter composed for wide, and it looks great that way). I imagine the commentary would have mentioned all this... and the fact that SERGEANT RYKER also inspired a short-lived TV series, COURT MARTIAL, with Bradford Dillman and Peter Graves reprising their roles... only now their characters are in the Korean War, not WWII, and the hour-long show was filmed in black-and-white. Best, Gary Gerani, writer-producer-director of ROMANTIC MYSTICISM: THE MUSIC OF BILLY GOLDENBERG (included on THE UFO INCIDENT Blu-ray).