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Originally Posted by James Luckard
Very excited to see Our Man in Havana reach BD! This forgotten minor classic reunites Carol Reed and Graham Greene ten years after their success with The Third Man and The Fallen Idol, and was shot on location in Havana just after the 1959 revolution. Hard to believe a studio film with big stars was made there at that point, but it was filmed during the strange, equally forgotten two year period before Castro and the US broke off diplomatic relations.
Article about the filming:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/n...t-fidel-castro
The film was never released on any format of home video for decades, I have no idea why. It first appeared finally in 2005 on a DVD from Sony in the UK, which I bought. I never got around to buying the 2009 US Sony DVD, which I meant to pick up because it was at normal speed, without PAL-speedup, and also had a markedly different transfer from the UK disc, per DVD Beaver. Sadly it quickly went out of print and now goes for $50.
Can't wait to pick up the BD!!!
Source:
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/comm...ements.350403/ |
I have that edition, released as part of Sony's Martini Movies series. Looks quite good so I'm in no hurry to upgrade. Really happy it's making it to blu-ray, though.