Coming May 25, 2010


May 25, 2010 the Criterion Collection will release STAGECOACH (1939). One of the special features will be BUCKING BROADWAY. at:

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I just got a preview copy of STAGECOACH on Blu-ray and was going to post about this being on the set.

I'm in fact watching it this second while I type this. Then for night scenes they use a blue tint.

Printed tint, golden. Looks nice. New titles. I suspect they respect the original font but use new solid black background.

I like that at heart this is a relationship film.

But there was some disturbing racism in one scene. Harry Carey goes into a dry goods store to buy a suit of clothes. He finally settles on one and when he goes out of the store he sees a black man wearing exactly the same pants and jacket. Harry walks up to him, sees him standing there grinning in the same clothes, then walks back into the store and slugs the clerk and hands back the clothes. All in all a pretty horrible little scene.

There is another scene where someone is picking out note by note a song on the piano. The accompanist on the film plays along, note by note and you hear that it is "No Place Like Home." The pianist on the soundtrack even misses the same note the guy on the film does. Pretty nifty.

I really, really wish they would do a box set of Harry Carey silents. I'd love to see more of these.

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It could have been that he was sold an original/one-of-a-kind suit, then saw a guy wearing the same one and wanted a refund. Since there were no subtitles, I guess it could be interpreted any way you want. Kind of like a Rorschach test, eh?

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