Twilight Time Discussion Thread

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Originally Posted by bwdowiak

I would agree. I don't frequent this thread that often, but I've enjoyed the heck out of titles like Heaven Knows Mr. Allison, The Young Lions, The Man From Laramie, etc. Each of those films have stars in them, but I have to admit that I hadn't heard of them prior to Twilight Time. With Mitchum, Brando, Clift, and Stewart, it seems that we mostly hear about the obvious titles.

I don't really know if some of these movies are better than the average modern Hollywood production starring, say, Brad Pitt, but I've really enjoyed seeing those old stars do their thing. Bring on more! I hadn't heard of The Keys to the Kingdom, but will want to see that one now, too!

Welcome, bw......any fan of Heaven Knows Mr. Allison should hang out here more often. Twilight Time has released a lot of fantastic movies, and HKMA is one of the best in the collection that rarely gets discussed. The Young Lions and The Man from Laramie are top shelf also. There are many great classic and semi-classic film discoveries to be found that I think you will like.

[bwdowiak]

Originally Posted by oildude

Welcome, bw......any fan of Heaven Knows Mr. Allison should hang out here more often. Twilight Time has released a lot of fantastic movies, and HKMA is one of the best in the collection that rarely gets discussed. The Young Lions and The Man from Laramie are top shelf also. There are many great classic and semi-classic film discoveries to be found that I think you will like.

thanks! yeah, I'm actually having a lot of fun w/ the "semi-classics," as you put it. knowing that you are a big Fuller fan, that reminded me that I also enjoyed House of Bamboo a good deal, too. Experiment in Terror, Pal Joey were also very good and unexpectedly fun, respectively!

my interest has piqued in Garden of Evil. someone recently said some good words about that one.

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Originally Posted by bwdowiak

I would agree. I don't frequent this thread that often, but I've enjoyed the heck out of titles like Heaven Knows Mr. Allison, The Young Lions, The Man From Laramie, etc. Each of those films have stars in them, but I have to admit that I hadn't heard of them prior to Twilight Time. With Mitchum, Brando, Clift, and Stewart, it seems that we mostly hear about the obvious titles.

I don't really know if some of these movies are better than the average modern Hollywood production starring, say, Brad Pitt, but I've really enjoyed seeing those old stars do their thing. Bring on more! I hadn't heard of The Keys to the Kingdom, but will want to see that one now, too!

Well ... after seeing the stars you mentioned, it will bug me if I don't make one more plug for Guess Who's Coming .... The biggest appeal for me in seeing GWCtD, is seeing Tracy, Hepburn and Poitier together (... especially with it being Tracy's last film). Okay, I think I'm done now.

[oildude]

Originally Posted by bwdowiak

thanks! yeah, I'm actually having a lot of fun w/ the "semi-classics," as you put it. knowing that you are a big Fuller fan, that reminded me that I also enjoyed House of Bamboo a good deal, too. Experiment in Terror, Pal Joey were also very good and unexpectedly fun, respectively!

my interest has piqued in Garden of Evil. someone recently said some good words about that one.

I watched Garden of Evil last night. I think it is excellent. Not your typical actioner; it has a great deal of dread and suspense as the tension builds, while also exploring psychological themes, as a group of men rounded up in a cantina in Mexico by Susan Hayward follow her into Apache country to rescue her husband trapped in a gold mine collapse. The title refers to the name of the volcanic wasteland where the gold mine is located, but we learn the real Garden of Evil is the greed that torments men and makes them do things against their better natures.

The widescreen CinemaScope presentation is stunning; shot on location in Mexico, the movie fills the screen with rugged scenery. There are haunting images and potent symbolism throughout, especially of a church steeple sticking up out of the hardened lava where a volcanic eruption years ago buried a village. The acting is superb all around, Richard Widmark gives another memorable performance as a professional gambler who discovers his conscience, and Susan Hayward as a kind of femme fatale adding a noir-ish element to the proceedings. Garden of Evil also hammers home the realization of just how good an actor Gary Cooper really was. I have seen about a dozen of his films now. The man has screen presence that ranks him up there alongside icons like Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, Burt Lancaster, and Toshiro Mifune.

I really love discovering these 1950s westerns along the lines of The Man from Laramie, Broken Lance, Man of the West (also with Gary Cooper), The Searchers, where we experience Shakespearian-worthy morality plays and powerful themes that explore the strengths and weakness of men. It gives them a depth well beyond what we expect from a western. I think Clint Eastwood captured the spirit of these movies in his Unforgiven.

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I should also add that Garden of Evil has a searing score from Bernard Herrmann. When paired with the images onscreen, it makes this film even more memorable, filling the soundstage with swirling surges of malice and foreboding in a way rarely surpassed in cinema. Like Herrmann's scoring masterpieces for Vertigo and The Day the Earth Stood Still, his work on Garden of Evil is one of the best examples I have seen (and heard) where the score is so integral to the overall production it becomes as essential to the narrative as the characters themselves.

Main Title - Garden of Evil (Ost) [1954] - YouTube

Garden Of Evil: The Chase - YouTube

[Jobla]

Brian De Palma's OBSESSION is another film that's dependent on the great Bernard Herrmann score.

[KyleW]

Originally Posted by Jobla

Brian De Palma's OBSESSION is another film that's dependent on the great Bernard Herrmann score.

Is there a bluray release for Obsession yet?


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[StingingVelvet]

Originally Posted by KyleW

Is there a bluray release for Obsession yet?


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Region-free UK release from Arrow. Not a modern remaster though sadly. Still looks alright.

[Brad1963]

Bobby Deerfield FINALLY arrived today. It looks stunning in 4K. I scanned through a bit of it and took a few shots, but plan on watching tomorrow night.

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[Chiefy]

Originally Posted by Irongod2112

Any word on when Twilight Time is gonna release

THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX (1965)

Thinking of getting the UK import.

Is TT releasing it? I sure hope so, although someone posted in the Eureka Entertainment Blu-ray announcement, that TT said they do not have the rights to the film.

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=19376

[Brad1963]

Originally Posted by Irongod2112

Any word on when Twilight Time is gonna release

THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX (1965)

Thinking of getting the UK import.

They advised on FB that they did not have it and it has been licensed to another label.

[rdodolak]

Just received an email regarding the TT sale and low stock alerts.

October Sale on Selected Titles

A special selection of six titles is now on sale at Twilight Time Movies, including the final inventory of John Carpenter's Vampires, Mindwarp, Alamo Bay, Bonjour Tristesse, Royal Flash and Guess Who's Coming To Dinner.

Pricing:
John Carpenter's Vampires - $19.95
All Other Titles - $14.95

Please note that we have a limited amount these titles in stock, so don't delay - this will be your last chance to own these titles. A title may be available when you add it to your cart, but the system won't reserve it for you, so it may no longer be available when you checkout.

At the time of this email, both Alamo Bay and Royal Flash are at less than 20 copies, and John Carpenter's Vampires is at just under 250 units remaining.

[belcherman]

Originally Posted by rdodolak

Just received an email regarding the TT sale and low stock alerts.

Love is a Many-Splendored Thing is also on sale for $14.95.

[javi92]

Originally Posted by Brad1963

Bobby Deerfield FINALLY arrived today. It looks stunning in 4K.

Glad to hear this, since I just ordered it along with a couple of this month's releases.

[benbess]

Anyone willing to post a mini review of Bobby Deerfield?

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by rdodolak

Just received an email regarding the TT sale and low stock alerts.

"At the time of this email, both Alamo Bay and Royal Flash are at less than 20 copies, and John Carpenter's Vampires is at just under 250 units remaining."

They don't say whether that's just at TT's site, or TT and SAE combined. I'm betting on the former.

[gobad2003]

Originally Posted by jayembee

"At the time of this email, both Alamo Bay and Royal Flash are at less than 20 copies, and John Carpenter's Vampires is at just under 250 units remaining."

They don't say whether that's just at TT's site, or TT and SAE combined. I'm betting on the former.

Thanks for the heads up . I was on the fence about getting Alamo Bay and Royal Flash but you just pushed over the edge and I got another 7 for 70 bundle.

[Baltix]

Originally Posted by Twilight Time Movies

"At the time of this email, both Alamo Bay and Royal Flash are at less than 20 copies, and John Carpenter's Vampires is at just under 250 units remaining."

Alamo Bay and Royal Flash are sold out now at TT. At SAE both are are still available with >50 copies each.

Also, only 35 copies of Demetrius and the Gladiators are remaining on SAE (not available at TT).

[benbess]

A thought about how the casting of Bonjour Tristesse relates to the plot....

[Show spoiler]Because the central male character is to a degree a seemingly almost amoral man, who essentially—admittedly with the aid of plotting from his daughter—drives an intelligent, talented, and loving woman to suicide—the casting of Niven seems crucial. Niven is so likable and charming as an actor (and I think he was as a person as well) that it deflects and diffuses the upset you might feel rather intensely otherwise. Also, Jean Seberg's character is such a spoiled and almost evil (at times) schemer, that her casting is also key. She is so beautiful, genuinely youthful (almost the age of the character, as opposed to the usual of having someone in their early to mid 20s play a teenager), and charming in her own way that she also to a degree diffuses the dislike we have of her actions and her life. She suffers in the last scene, but otherwise, as far as we can tell, the lessons from the Deborah Kerr character seem completely unlearned. She's still studying nothing and living a life of wasteful decadence. Kerr's reaction when she discovers at the end what—even without the plotting Seberg's character—was inevitable is quite good, and rather heartbreaking.

"They're a rotten crowd!"- Nick Carroway says to Gatsby be at the end, and something close the same seems true here: "They were careless people....they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money of their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." We sense at the end that at least Cecile was learning something, and perhaps even her depression will lead to something good, but it's just not clear at the end. The beauty of the setting and the cinematography also helps with the pain of the plot. I realize I'm just saying what's rather obvious, but I was grateful to have Niven and the rest ease the pain of the drama, to somehow to allow me to like the characters and sympathize with them somewhat, even though they weren't really, except for Kerr, very sympathetic imho.

[Baltix]

Demetrius and the Gladiators is sold out now.