does anyone have a copy of this?
Does anyone know how to get a copy of this?
shareFive years later (December 2013), I find that this exceedingly rare film is available in a quite fine print on Amazon Prime. I have no idea how this happened, as it's so obscure at this point and nobody seems to have a copy. I'm watching it now. Saw it once in the early 1970s and had a good memory of it and voila, here it is. I'm a huge Ulmer fan, and it's exciting to see it again... finally!
shareAlmost Nine months later this film is scheduled to air on TCM on Oct 21,2014 5pm Pacific time.
This movie was SOOO sad. You should put it on Youtube for posterity if you remembered to record it.
shareThis movie was SOOO sad. You should put it on Youtube for posterity if you remembered to record it.
I plan on recording this film off of TCM on Oct 21,2014.
It'll take some good money and on such an old cult film item the backers have to determine if there will be any kind of profit margin. The restorationist has to locate an Oneg or IP element, the original audio tracks, and research on the film stock and edit history (you probably noticed the print TCM was using had several jarring jump cuts), then they have to spend a few thousand dollars replacing footage, cleaning up the image, remastering sound, etc. I did find it an interesting curio for Ulmer--he seemed more sedate and put more of his oddball vision on the backburner in trying to direct women. And yes, the sound was an issue; after the first five minutes I could tell--like many older public domain films--any available transfer prints had been so overused they had sandpapered out details of Ulmer's rushed, quirky, introductory dialog patterns and I had to switch on the closed captioning (it wasn't needed after the first two reels). But we have to be honest--crystal clear sound and perfectly recorded dramatic diction wasn't ever PRC's/Ulmer's goal here; he just needed to put the viewer into an exotic environment where the main two characters lose control for an evening and deal with the consequences later.
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