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Apr 23 15 7:46 PM
Apr 23 15 9:14 PM
gene phillips wrote:I think it's demonstrable that the first sound Tarzan had an impact comparable to DOCTOR NO. IMDB's estimate for the APE MAN budget was less than $700,000 , and it reaped about two and a half million at the domestic box office. I don't know if TTAM was thought of as an "A picture" when it started, but that box office sounds pretty "A-level" for 1932. even without factoring in foreign sales.
I think it's demonstrable that the first sound Tarzan had an impact comparable to DOCTOR NO. IMDB's estimate for the APE MAN budget was less than $700,000 , and it reaped about two and a half million at the domestic box office. I don't know if TTAM was thought of as an "A picture" when it started, but that box office sounds pretty "A-level" for 1932. even without factoring in foreign sales.
Apr 23 15 9:27 PM
Wich2 wrote:As in, "through the entirety of MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN," which often looks like a TV Movie!
Apr 23 15 9:51 PM
Apr 23 15 10:13 PM
Ghostwriter wrote:Wich2 wrote:As in, "through the entirety of MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN," which often looks like a TV Movie!Now these are fighting words! I know I'm in the minority on this one, but I LOVE this film. Is it the best Bond film? No, not by a long shot, but I've never really understood the snide "TV Movie" accusations. Aside from Scaramanga's woefully undermanned power station, I don't see any of the so-called cheap production values on screen. Scaramanga's island fortress, the Macao locations, the casino, the sunken Queen Elizabeth setting... Well, they all looked great to me and befitting of a glossy James Bond movie.
Apr 24 15 7:58 PM
delgadosaur wrote:...the Tarzans were never the A pictures that the Bond films were.
Apr 24 15 9:37 PM
Apr 24 15 9:44 PM
Joseph Neyer wrote:delgadosaur wrote:...the Tarzans were never the A pictures that the Bond films were.The first six sound Tarzan films (the MGM ones) were definitely A pictures by any and all definitions (casts, budgets, production values, box office, etc.). No A-film of that era was filmed on location the way the Bond movies would be; MGM's nightmare experience in producing Trader Horn on location in Africa, at the beginning of the talkie era, effectively cured them and the other studios of taking cast and crew to other countries for many years. International filming didn't start becoming common in "big" movies until after World War 2, when international travel had become a lot easier due to the dominance of the airlines.
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Robert Troch wrote:It is also known that Bond WAS very big back in the 60's. Robert T.
Apr 25 15 5:02 PM
Wich2 wrote:Nothing that happened before the last 20 years matters, Robert. Silly boy!
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