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pulp novelties	Murder In The Red Barn	Lead	[-]
Jul 25 12 2:28 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I know someone said that the UK DVD of MURDER IN THE RED BARN had a flaw in it, can someone say what the flaw is and where it is? I'd like to see if my copy is affected. thanks
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Jul 25 12 2:37 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Well, this is the precise defect as I described it in an old post to NitrateVille: Jonathan, sorry but I disagree: the Odeon release of MARIA MARTEN is far from perfect... and it's entirely Odeon's fault. Their first release had a defect circa the 55th or 56th minute, a flash of colored pixels. Many of us told them about the defect and the people of Odeon promised to re-release it. Unfortunately this second release was even worse, as unstead re-masterizing the movie, they simply cut off the defectuous image and - to avoid a jump in the middle of a shot - also suppressed the remaining images until the next shot. Moreover, this print (like the one, probably the same, shown on British TV years ago) was also missing some one or two seconds at the beginning of the scene of Maria visiting Squire Corder at his house. (These two seconds are in the US print). A little precision: the "one to two seconds" missing mentioned in the last sentence are at the beginning of the second visit of Maria at Corder's house, not during the first one. The other cut (made by Odeon, this time) is just after somebody gives Tod a shovel, for the "digging" sequence in the Red Barn. For even more precise details, please see post #50 in the following page of this site: http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/1117/Sweeney-Todd-and-Tod-Slaughter?page=3 It's also easy to see if you have the first edition (with pixels) or the second one (no pixels but end of scene cut off). Look at the back of the box. First edition has two stills, NONE of them picturing Tod. In fact they used stills from the 1928 silent version! Second edition has also two stills, Sophie Stewart as Maria Marten, and Tod as Squire Corder. Both are defective as I told - but if by a kind of miracle you have another edition with the end of the "pixel" scene complete, just tell us! Last Edited By: todmichel Jul 25 12 2:59 PM. Edited 3 times.
pulp novelties		#2	[-]
Jul 25 12 3:36 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Looks like I have the first. Oh well, at least it will play through and isn't a cropped, multi-generational mess that my US DVD was.

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