If you go to the place where you can vote, one of the user reviews says that all the copies have been lost to decay.
Sob.
How could they save a lot of things that were...well, some of them basically just junk...and yet not save this one? Nobody realized that the last few copies were rotting somewhere and falling to pieces until after it was too late and they already had fallen to pieces? >_< How unfair, and what a tragic loss. ~_~ (One keeps hearing of how some old movie or other...sometimes a really good one...was discovered and rescued, and preserved at the last minute just before it fell apart. Where was this one's chance? Too sad. )
I never even got to see it...but I say that ANYTHING Jean Simmons starred in is worth preserving for the future generations...ALL of the future generations...for as long as movies exist! (Everyone else agree? ^_^)
I bet this was MUCH better than the Brooke Shields version. (By the way, I never knew there was a 1923 version either. Anyone with info about that one, please post? ^_^)
Anyway...if it's really true that all the known copies are lost to decay...that explains why it was never released to DVD, and why TCM never shows it. (Still unexplained, however...why, oh why, does TCM seldom or never even MENTION it, except online??? Jean Simmons fans who are too young to have seen it...deserve to at least know that once there was such a movie.) (For one brief shining moment. Quoting from the song "Camelot" from the musical of the same name.) ("Don't let it be forgot/That once there was a spot/For one brief shining moment/That was known as Camelot.") (Those of you who remember the Jean Simmons version of The Blue Lagoon, keep posting what you remember about it...so that at least the rest of us can know that much about it. Your memories might be all that's left of it. Sigh. ~_~) (And if TCM doesn't have a copy, I'd say it's pretty certain that AMC doesn't either. AMC quit showing most of the old black-and-white movies years ago, by now...even the ones they still had copies of...and they fill all their showings with commercials these days, besides! [Hopefully they already sold whatever they didn't want any more to TCM, by now. ^_^] TCM is probably the last channel left that still cares much about such things...and even they don't do nearly enough promoting/mentioning of old films that are lost or little-known/seldom-seen these days. Who knows, if enough people get the word out that people are interested in/looking for some of these old treasures, a few of them might turn up somewhere eventually...once in a while it's been known to happen that one last copy of something turns up eventually, even after all copies were thought to be lost/destroyed/decayed. There may still be some hope left...it's possible...and if there isn't a complete copy left in the world anywhere any more, might there not be at least a partial copy in salvageable condition? Or at least a few clips from it or trailers for it or something? Let's keep hoping...and if anyone knows of such, speak up and let the rest of us know! ^_^)
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vinsane
11 years ago
Actually that person reports it as a second hand statement ( I was told by someone etc) not as a fact. It is possibly true but certainly not just based on that person's post. That person does not even indicate the alleged source or the nature of the source which makes one think it was along the lines of the poster simply postulating in their own words!
Something like your mom asking you, "Someone tells me you have a new girlfriend?"
"Who said that, mom?"
"Nobody. I just wondered."
Do you see how easily some people do that out of habit? If they had posted that they went to an industry event and spoke to blah-blah from the property owning company (Turner) and he/she said that... Then I'd possibly take it as half believable. The boring truth is likely that TCM isn't going to make a return on investment based on 300+ votes globally to release a 60+ year old property when the newer remake "owns" the memory unfortunately.
Sigh indeed!
Eeek!!! I'm getting dressed.
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