Hello! Savant's new reviews today are

Savant's review of Kings Row has been amended with an informative Email with a possible revelation about the film's character Dr. Tower, played by Claude Rains. I'd always skipped over review references to an incestuous aspect to Tower's relationship with his daughter Cassandra, but apparently in the original book, that's indeed the case. Yet Tower is still a loving and concerned physician convinced that Cassandra has inherited a mental illness from her mother. I guess I'll have to read the book now, to straighten it all out.

Paramount has announced a big-deal Savant guilty pleasure, Richard Attenborough's overlong but dazzling Oh! What a Lovely War! It's a musical that alters WW1-era songs to satirical and creepy anti-war effect. The movie stars just about every big English actor alive in 1969 and is said to be coming out on November 7.

UK correspondent Lee Broughton forwarded this funny re-jiggering of High Noon, a You Tube item called High Tech Noon. It's brilliant stuff -- maybe some readers haven't seen it yet.

Another must-see You Tube show steered to us via the If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger ... site: The Existentialist by Leon Prochnik, 1963. This looks simple for the first few scenes, and then I get very confused on how specific shots were done and who was an 'actor' and who wasn't. It's listed as a good example of the "New American Cinema" movement -- Jonas Mekas and company, etc., and is about 8 minutes long. As is the norm for amazing film finds, the IMDB doesn't list The Existentialist under its director or its cameraman, the famous Ed Emshwiller. Thanks for reading! Glenn Erickson