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A Question Please

posted 14 years ago by janus1921
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I am trying to track down a film I saw on TV when I was a kid (back in the '50 when New York TV stations showed many, many old Hollywood flicks). I think this might be it but the only thing I can recall is one character, C. Aubrey Smith maybe, always bumping is head on the lintel of a door because it had been made too short and he was too tall. If this rings a bell with anyone, let me know here. I want to convince TCM to find and screen it. I remember enjoying it very much, though I have to admit I was very impressionable and more than a bit of an Anglophile when I was a kid. Still, even if it's not the film I hope it is, the reviews make it sound like a great film. And like they say, with a cast like that it would be hard to miss. Thanks.

[–] fsilva 13 years ago

Hi Janus. It is this film indeed, I'm sure, I saw it yesterday and fits that description.

[–] Maureen5 12 years ago

I live in the UK and I saw this film absolutely years ago but it has never ever been on TV since. I've hunted all over the place to get a copy and saw one on Amazon but it was well over £20.00. I wished now I'd bought it because it then went up to over $200.00 (I forget what the English money was now but rediculously expensive). Then a month or so later, it was unavailable to buy and to this day (March 2012) it's still unavailable!! I don't suppose anyone has a copy, please?????

I see that Alfred Hitchcock is also in this film (among over 80 other stars)and you'd think it would therefore be more available?

[–] craigbhill 11 years ago

Hitch is not in it, nor directed any part of it, he prepared a part of the story his schedule disallowed him to make, directed instead by Rene Clair using Hitch's notes, for whcih reason alone i'd like to see it. When i first read that he was part of this project, i thought i'd found a few frames of "lost Hitchcock", but 'twas not the case.

Native Angeleno

[–] Maureen5 11 years ago

Hi craigbhill,

You are right of course and thank you for your reply. I realised this after I read some more about this film. Shame really to have left out such an eminent character.

[–] mauriceterenzio 9 years ago

If after three years you are still interested in a DVD of Forever and a Day, then you are in luck. It was just released less than two weeks ago in the UK by Simply Media from the Cohen Film Collection, both of whom have deservedly excellent reputations, so the quality should be quite good. At the time that I type this, it is currently selling on amazon.co.uk for £8.50

[–] johnshea21 12 years ago

A year or two late, but I'm happy to know that it's the film I thought it was. Like I say, they used to show it on New York TV back in the 1950s so there has to be a print hanging around. I'm going to keep pressuring TCM until they get it and show it. Maybe they have and I've missed it but I don't think so.

[–] hecklejecklelove-665-268403 10 years ago

This film is on TV at around 1:10am on Friday the 21st of March 2014 on Free View Digital in Australia on ABC 1. Im going to record it.

hjl

[–] Julie Southwell 9 years ago

Hello

I missed seeing this on the ABC. I was too ill at the time to watch anything. Did you record it at all? I ask because the ABC tells me that their rights have expired and so cannot repeat it.

Julie (Hobart).

[–] Enrique-8 9 years ago

It's on you tube .com/watch?v=4fLIustoGgE.

Enrique Sanchez