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Post by John Green on Feb 1, 2015 16:50:41 GMT
Let's hope it's good. At IMDB,17 users gave it a disappointing 3.8 of of 10.(Before it was discovered). 17 of the (now) 18 reviewers are under 45... Anyone seen any proper reviews following the recent screening?
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Post by George D on Dec 15, 2015 9:23:14 GMT
Now that is found and released, in curious what the thoughts are
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Post by John Green on Dec 15, 2015 9:28:47 GMT
I believe a lot of people were underwhelmed.Typical!
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Post by Stephen Byers on Dec 17, 2015 18:21:07 GMT
Re: Lux Radio Theater and William Gillette
There's a lot of Lux Radio Theatre (Theater) episodes on Archive.org
This is the response from Yahoo Group [OldTimeRadioResearchersGroup]
On Monday, December 21, 2015 3:18 PM, "jawspinkid@yahoo.com [OldTimeRadioResearchersGroup]" <OldTimeRadioResearchersGroup@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
I just transferred a handful of shows, and cross-checked our library. This show doesn't appear to currently be in our library, although it may be posted elsewhere or in circulation. It is a Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce NBC production of Sherlock Holmes' "The Bruce Partington Plans". From my information, broadcast 11-6-1939.
It is available from DropBox and likely soon from Archive.org
SB
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Post by George D on Dec 24, 2015 3:31:48 GMT
first, the 1935 lux recording with william gilette, is believed lost. While missing radio shows have been discovered during mp3 cataloging, with the strong demand for this episode, if it was in a tape collection, the odds are it would have been known. it doesnt mean its not possible though and i hope one day its found. while I havent finished watching the movie, it has to be viewed in the context. the story is a good story.which has been done by others..while silent may not be as powerful as sound for a stage play, I was not a disappointment to see the originator of the sherlock persona perform it. also, i noticed in the credits that steven moffat and mark gatiss supported the restoration. To them I am eternally grateful and can sincerely say i think it's the best thing moffat has done another obesrvation is that certain scenes were out of place compared to the original play (for example, the meeting with watson is at the beginning rather than in the second act). I do not know if this is part of the movie script or when it was edited into segments for the french release. also they left the dvd as segments as per the french serial. Another thing i noticed is toward the second scene, gillette states the famous line "youre a good boy billy" however the title card reads something different. this makes me wonder if, instead of using the orignal script, they took the french transation and translated it to english. what makes this scene even more noteworthy is a few seconds before the statement the correct phrase is there DURING the scene. this makes me believe the original english version had english title scenes during the running of the movie and not at breaks- making this film technically not complete. I would find it interesting to have a lip reader read what is being said.. i read that the metropolitan museum of art had tried lip reading a bert williams silent and the results were things a gentleman doesnt repeat. However, since gillette actually did perform this play hundreds of times, its possible what he is saying is the actual words. for myself, it is still a momunmental event to finally see gilette's mannarisms as holmes with cast members and to see how he did the fade ins/outs which were innovative at the time. I'm still hoping that someone will marry the scenes with the audios if possible so we can get a better feel on what it was like to see gillette on the stage.
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Post by davidmorgan on Jan 12, 2016 2:29:33 GMT
As an aside, a woman I interned for during my college days was the wife of Burford Hampden, who played Billy in the film when he was 18 years old. Three degrees of separation to Gillette!
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Post by John Green on Jan 12, 2016 2:42:56 GMT
I should have started this thread in the Nexus,of course-if it was around then!
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Post by George D on Jan 14, 2016 13:17:52 GMT
Well the film was missing as is the radio, so it's fine here
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