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Greetings from California, where temperatures seem finally to be settling into what's expected for late Spring -- the high 80s. Savant is just getting into the Fox Gangster offerings, and hoping that The St. Valentine's Day Massacre still comes in. I know there are plenty of box set bargains out there, but I was impressed by the low price asked on Amazon for Fox's Classic Crime Collection - Street Justice: (Murder Inc., The French Connection, The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, The Seven-Ups). Maybe it's even cheaper elsewhere, but that's pretty low.
Gary Teetzel informs me that Val Guest has died. We saw the great director at Cinematheque screenings of his films, often accompanied by his wife Yolande Donlan; well into his 90s he seemed to be in fine shape. Although Guest made all kinds of films, he was practically alone in the highest ranks of British science fiction movies, with his The Quatermass Xperiment (the film credited with boosting Hammer films to the forefront), the superb Quatermass 2, the thoughtful The Abominable Snowman and The Day the Earth Caught Fire. I cut an interview docu for The Quatermass Xperiment for Greg Carson at MGM in 2003; I hope Sony/MGM somedays sees fit to release it. Guest's remarks on the Casino Royale DVD are priceless. Thanks for reading, Glenn Erickson.
Posted by DVD Savant at May 12, 2006 05:50 PM