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Hello again ... the fire seems to be mostly finished but there's still clouds of ash over parts of Los Angeles. Thanks for the emails about the picture ... I only watched for a few minutes but it was quite a show.
Three worthy independent pictures up today. On Tuesday I'll have the new double-disc release of The Guns of Navarone, an old favorite that I wish had been preserved better by Columbia in the 1960s. I edited the new extras on the disc, and it was especially fun to work with the exciting Dimitri Tiomkin score. What with The High and the Mighty from a couple of summers ago, interesting new titles like The Well and Angel Face we've been enjoying some great Tiomkin music. Warners has Tiomkin's Land of the Pharaohs on the way on June 26, which has one of my favorite all-time scores .... I remember re-playing a VHS of an old TBS airing over and over again, just to enjoy the music. Now if great work like 55 Days At Peking and The Fall of the Roman Empire would just come out ... I've lost track of who exactly to expect those Bronston pictures from, although I'm reliably informed that The Weinstein Company owns them. Thanks for reading, Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at May 12, 2007 07:33 AM