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] Date Posted:22:55:55 07/26/05 Tue
Not only is The High and The Mighty being released on DVD at long last on August 2, but it's being shown on TV for the first time in over twenty years on American Movie Classics this month. The debut was July 18, but it's still being shown a few more times this month:
Date Posted:08:24:10 08/11/05 Thu
I just wanted to make a comment on The High and the Mighty disc set. I received my copy last week and included with the movie is a disc that has several segments that include the making of the movie,scenes from the movie, flying during the fifties, John Wayne's production company, etc.. Anyway Leonard Maltin narrates one segment and during hiscommentary, he goes through the selection of the actors. He mentions everyone from , of course, John Wayne to Pedro Gonzales-Gonzales and makes comments about them, EXCEPT, Robert Newton. He mentions his name as part of the 'All Star' cast but never elaborates on why he was chosen or anything else about him!! I felt it was a tribute to John Wayne (of course it was his production company that made the film) but RN certainly deserved more of a mention than he got. What did everyone else think of this?
Date Posted:23:24:27 08/11/05 Thu
What do you suppose Maltin has against Robert Newton? It's not like he doesn't know who RN was; he had a lot to say about him in his book _The Disney Films_ and wrote an entry on him in his _Film Encyclopedia_ (quoted on the IMDb). I was planning to buy the DVD, but now that I know the extras are for John Wayne fans only, maybe I won't bother!
Date Posted:08:45:01 08/15/05 Mon
You know, I am going to give Leonard Maltin the benefit of the doubt and say that maybe, just maybe, his commentary needed to be 'cut short' to fit it in the disc set. There is a possibility that he may have talked about RN but it was never put on the disc. I don't know how they select who they will talk about and what eventually gets to be distributed to the public. I think that the set is worth owning because it is fully restored and the movie is crystal clear (unlike an old tape that I had that skipped and blurred and made funny sounds). Anyway I was just a little disappointed that RN was not discussed in more 'detail' than just as a member of the cast.
Date Posted:07:41:46 08/18/05 Thu
I seem to be putting duplicate entries in here because I am hitting the enter key too soon after my name. Anyway, I just wanted to say that I looked at the High and the Mighty disc set again with the Leonard Maltin introductions. He did do an introduction on each disc and on the 1st disc he mentioned the cast members by name only, including Robert Newton, but that was all. He did not go into the specifics of why they were selected. On the 2nd disc there is a selection under 'Special Features', 'The Making of the H & M', and 'Stories from the set'. That is where they have interviews from some of the surviving cast members and go into the selection of the cast. This is where I was disappointed that there was not something about RN. So, I thought I had better correct my initial blast of Leonard Maltin because it was not in his introduction but was futher down in the disc.
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