The Bible-1966. I saw that during its original release in Times Square in an old fashioned cavernous theater. Great imagery and sound, especially during the Noah’s Ark sequence. The Mysterious Island disc is fair at best. For a really good laserdisc version view the Pioneer disc that was released in the early 90s. Superior sound and picture.
Son of the Morning Star is based on a wonderful book by one of my favorite writers, Evan S. Connell. (He’s best known for Mr. Bridge and Mrs. Bridge: two books that everyone should read.) I’m curious about this TV movie!
Just watched Star Trek Insurrection on Laserdisc the audio was superior to the blu ray, i also believe the same to be true for First Contact. Why didn't they just put the LPCM mixes from these in Stereo on Blu-Ray If not the AC3 tracks? The Goldsmith score is so clean and pure on the Laserdisc for Insurrection its an absolute joy. After watching all the excellent Japanese Star Wars releases, Phantom Menace is so disappointing, though the audio is nice. Forget how orange and smeary it was.
Love talking to you about Laserdisc , you should do more videos and streams, its not a demand but just a wish. Miss you on Originaltrilogy the forum is pretty much dead. Unless you care about fan edits which i don't.
I’m very envious of the Hustler, one of my favourite films of all time. The author of the book Walter Tevis also of course wrote “The Queens Gambit” which is a similar story but focusing on Chess and was made as a critically acclaimed Netflix series in recent times (as a life long Chess player I waited many years for that to get some kind of transfer to screen - there was talk of heath ledger directing a movie at one point before his death). I do actually believe the novel of the Hustler to be superior in terms of story - mainly because the film drags out the character of Sarah (in the novel Fast Eddie simply ditches her when he first goes off with Burt) it’s understandable why it was done, the writers will have felt the film is without a leading lady for too big a portion, but to me she somewhat outstays her welcome in the film. Great performances from George C Scott as the sociopathic Burt and Jackie Gleason as Fats - of course Paul Newman as Fast Eddie too. The novel of the sequel “The Colour of Money” is also well worth a read - totally different from the rather average Tom Cruise movie and starts with an older Fats grudgingly getting dragged out of retirement to help out a broke Fast Eddie, by going on a exhibition match tour of the country.
@@DamnFoolIdealisticCrusader Yeah do it - obviously you can’t replace the pool scenes of the film (and it is a great film) but I feel the story flows better in the novel - I start to get a little tired of seeing Piper Laurie hobbling about in the movie, knowing she should be gone from the story 😂
Lucky you! What a trove! I need to find and watch Donovan's Reef. I'm still not Ford complete, to be honest I've only watched his most acclaimed films. Someone told me 'The Informer' is an underrated one.
