ForgotPassword?
Sign Up
Search this Topic:
Forum Jump
Apr 18 08 9:01 PM
Mummified Remains wrote: TServo4 wrote: I agree, the release date for the film was extremely bad timing. Nobody realized Aldous Huxley had died, because he had the misfortune of dying on November 22, 1963. If I'm not mistaken, C.S. Lewis also died that day. And Helen Keller died either on the day of the Robert Kennedy shooting or the day he died. Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger is by far the least of the Sinbad films (for one thing, director Sam Wanamaker had nothing but contempt for the material -- and it shows), and Clash of the Titans is certainly uneven, but I've warmed up to each of them considerably over the years (perhaps because they look and feel so good up next to so many of today's films). I saw a big-screen screening of Clash at Grauman's in 2006 and loved every minute of it. Remember that Eye of the Tiger was originally supposed to be the second half of Golden Voyage before the storyline was split in two. I like Patrick Wayne in the right roles, but not here. I really wish John Phillip Law had been asked to return. He was excellent in Golden Voyage and told me in an interview in 2000 that he wanted to reprise the role, but he wasn't asked. When he mentioned that at a convention panel in Chicago that same year, Ray looked shocked and said, "I was told you weren't available!" John said, "Well, I was, and I made my interest known, but the part wasn't offered to me." But then he shrugged and said, "But Pat Wayne's a friend, so I was glad he got to do it." Terry Pace pillaroffire@bellsouth.net "They're going to have to think up a lot of new adjectives when I come back!" -- Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong) in King Kong (1933)
TServo4 wrote: I agree, the release date for the film was extremely bad timing. Nobody realized Aldous Huxley had died, because he had the misfortune of dying on November 22, 1963.
Share This