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George Slv 6th Nov 2016		Cinema The Spider (Earth Vs The Spider) (1958)	Did anyone see it named Earth Vs The Spider in theatrical release? I never heard of that until video releases. It was a typical teenage B horror movie of the time.
George Slv 30th Oct 2016		Cinema Arthur The King (Merlin And The Sword) (1985)	Internet Archive.
George Slv 26th Oct 2016		Cinema The Happening	Rated 8/10 I think the film is a chuckle, a parody of organized crime and hippies. Well made, everyone did a good job. Faye Dunaway's early breakthru role. What I find interesting is the personality type as related to the time era. At this time she was similar to other newcomers like Cybill Shepherd and singer Connie Smith. The title song existed at Motown before the film, and the producer bought the rights to it. Frank DeVol contributed to the composition. 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 23rd Oct 2016		Vinyl Album David Lloyd And His London Orchestra - Confidential	This was sometime after 1979, considering Moonraker. Dates on the web are wrong. Can anyone tell from the label number?
George Slv 21st Oct 2016		Vinyl Album Eydie Gormé And The Trío Los Panchos - More Amor	Review Her two Latin "Amor" albums with the Los Trio Panchos were superb. Sung in Spanish, expertly arranged with a traditional pop sound, great harmonies by the group. Rated 10. 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 21st Oct 2016		Vinyl Album Eydie Gormé - Blame It On The Bossa Nova	Review Blame It On The Bossa Nova is of course a great classic hit, arranged by Marion Evans, written by the great pop-rock writers Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. But when it came to albums Eydie and her labels adamantly refused to satisfy us with more pop-rock. For pop-rock hit parade fans they were lame pop-jazz collections, not even including her hit singles. For this one they figured the hit suggested Latin music, and they went with the current jazz-samba style of Desafinado. Pop fans can run for the hills. There are reissue collections now that do collect her pop-rock singles. If there was a rating for the entire album I'd give it 2. On the back cover notice Al Caiola doing his guitar session work. He was actually at home with this style, even tho United Artists used him on single releases in a Duane Eddy big guitar style. 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 9th Oct 2016		Cinema Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary (2002)	Review This originated as a ballet by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. There's classical orchestral accompaniment, but I would not call that a "musical". I don't recall comedy that the description here states, and anything incidental would not make this a "comedy". The players are ballet dancers throughout the film, with the camera among them. A well-executed idea relating Stoker's novel. Mainly black and white, with subtitles, harking back to silent films. 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 30th Sep 2016		CD Album Teresa Brewer - 16 Most Requested Songs	Review 1970s recordings produced by Bob Thiele after their marriage. Columbia's title is meaningless, it's just a title of a reissue series. Only 07 and 12 get into her later soft jazz style, the rest are vintage Teresa with the big voice. 05 is the 1960 Gary US Bonds rock & roll hit. Selections chosen by Thiele. The CD is AAD, but they still ignorantly claim it is "digitally remastered" by Tim Geelan. The portrait is a special painting by Robert Bergin. The booklet quotes Julius LaRosa saying "She got to the top in the first place because that chick can really sing". 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 28th Sep 2016		CD Album Teresa Brewer - The Cotton Connection	I now notice the name "Zillion" on my product. This apparently is a record label Zillion Records, I guess in Holland. This seems to be significant info about this release, needs to be figured. The release number on mine is 2611152, Signature not mentionned anywhere, but given at Teresa Brewer Center. I ordered it from Europe. But it does not make this 45Worlds entry wrong.
George Slv 26th Sep 2016		CD Album Teresa Brewer - The Cotton Connection	The cover is the same picture as the LP and cassette but has special effects added. This was a tribute to the music of the late Duke Ellington, conducted by Mercer Ellington. My standout track here is Creole Love Call, where Teresa does wordless multi-tracked vocalizing, and also does a soprano part.
George Slv 25th Sep 2016		CD Album Various Artists - What A Wonderful World	Added shot of May 6 '95 Billboard review of Thiele's parallel book release, which mentions this CD. Bob Thiele died the next year, presumably having fulfilled his destiny.
George Slv 25th Sep 2016		Vinyl Album Elvis Presley - For The Asking : "The Lost Album"	15 songs? I don't believe the 1963 album would have had 15. Only 12. So what was added for this reissue?
George Slv 19th Sep 2016		CD Album Teresa Brewer - Stephane Grappelli And Teresa Brewer	Review One of the jazz albums that Bob Thiele, her second husband, led her to record. These are light versions, with jazz guitars and Stephane Grappelli on violin, casually sung. Meaning she wasn't aiming at the hit market. Now it was the little girl with the little voice. The famous Julie London recorded some of her albums with just a guitar and microphone in her own living room. And the infamous George Slv has been known to try to record a harmonica at home. Or you could just look at her picture. The LP is not hard to find but this CD is. 3 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 19th Sep 2016		Cinema The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)	Youtube preview (alright alright, trailer, hahaha) [YouTube Video] And the movie title screen is the same as in the preview.
George Slv 19th Sep 2016		Vinyl Album ABBA - Voulez-Vous	I believe there always should have been a space in Angel Eyes. That's the way I'm taking it.
George Slv 18th Sep 2016		CD Album Teresa Brewer And Friends - Memories Of Louis	With Wynton Marsalis, Dizzie Gillespie, Clark Terry, Lew Soloff, Roy Hargrove, Nicholas Payton, Ruby Braff, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Freddie Hubbard, Terrence Blanchard, Yank Lawson & Red Rodney. Each one plays on an individual song.
George Slv 13th Sep 2016		Cinema Quatermass And The Pit (Five Million Years To Earth) (1967)	Rated 2/10 What an unsuccessful movie this was in my opinion. Held no interest, let alone suspense. Did not involve me whatsoever. The story is that when excavating the London subway, they reach a spot where an ancient extraterrestrial people had been living. By excavating, they free the spirits, which then create destructive effects on London. Oh .... I don't know. Dig that female reporter in the underground as she questions the scientist. What kind of facetious acting is that when you are creating a sca-a-ary movie? By the way we need a screen of the British title. 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 13th Sep 2016		VHS Invaders From Mars [1953] - UAV Entertainment	Rated 5/10 I would guess that after Wade Williams obtained the copyright to the movie, he took control of this pre-existing videotape release. The back cover declares "Guaranteed Superior Quality". Isn't it funny how the most inferior products like to use declarations like this. First this is from 16mm film rather that 35mm. That would not be bad in itself. There are no scratches in the film. But the tape is made at SLP speed. Low resolution, shaky image, and bad hifi tracking which can't be corrected. They want you to feel that it's your own fault, by instructing "For best results adjust VCR tracking". You could create a fuss by taking it back, but then you wouldn't have a copy. Add to this that they used a full roll of VHS tape for it, so there would have been room for SP speed. There are previews at the end for two other science fiction movies. Of course this is the US edition. Movie length turns out ~1:17. Of historical archival interest. My rating of 5 is for the tape release, not the movie. 3 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 8th Sep 2016		Cinema Scared Stiff (1953)	This is one that seemed too long for the subject. It's about a haunted mansion that someone inherits, but they don't get to it until 1:20 in the film. Then 20 minutes at that house and movie ends at 1:40. You wish they had spent much more time at the house. They could have cut out all that routine of gangsters at the hotel. Carmen Miranda is featured in musical numbers, before the time when she became embarrassed into leaving the US.
George Slv 7th Sep 2016		Cinema The Beast Must Die (1974)	Rated 1/10 Milton Subotsky, one of the heads of Amicus Films, is in Noo Yawk and gets this idea he'd like to make a werewolf movie. He scours his investor friends around the world and mooches enough money. He gets a screenplay put together as much as he can. Peter Cushing is offered it. Pete asks his wife to look it over, and she says there's only about 40 minutes of footage in the miserable thing. Well the producers have to get to work making it a 90 minute movie. So half this movie is like filler, people sitting around chatting and sipping tea. Okay one of the people at this weekend party is a werewolf and we will know who by the end. Just get ready for 90 minutes of lousy movie-making. 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 31st Aug 2016		CD Album Elvis And The Jordanaires - Good Luck Charm	Licenced by Stargrove? All rights reserved? What kind of BS is that? There must be a law against falsely claiming rights. What exactly is the time period of the copyrights in Canada?
George Slv 29th Aug 2016		Cinema Night Of The Eagle (Burn, Witch, Burn) (1962)	A supernatural thriller involving a teacher who is a skeptic and witchcraft in his surroundings. In US it was distributed by American-International and retitled Burn Witch Burn. It is compared to The Curse Of The Demon. My recollection from watching it was that the story was not made understandable in the screenplay. "You had to read the book"? It did not make an impression on me. If you want to try it out, I suggest do not read any descriptions of the story now, not the slightest summary, but see if you understand it on first viewing. But how much better a title can you think of than Burn, Witch, Burn? On Youtube I'm seeing this movie timed at ~1:47, 20 minutes longer than original. Don't know if there is 20 minutes of ads in them?
George Slv 24th Aug 2016		Cinema Those Redheads From Seattle (1953)	Image 1137364 movie poster. See how they publicized Rhonda Fleming in a showgirl costume, but she did not do that in the movie, only Teresa. The others disapproved.
George Slv 21st Aug 2016		Cinema Those Redheads From Seattle (1953)	Interesting to know that you have that professional background. Full-frame 35mm still photography fits horizontally on the strip, so Movie film is like half-frame, fitting across the width of the strip, and running vertically thru the camera. Except VistaVision which was horizontal full-frame. I need to know more about how 4:3 ends up 1.37 22x16mm. The audio is on the sides, which should only affect the width of 24mm.
George Slv 21st Aug 2016		Cinema Those Redheads From Seattle (1953)	Thanks a lot Twistin for more insight. Are you saying the soundtrack overlaps the left image? I didn't think so. This was half-frame photography, 24x18mm, is that right? Full-frame 35mm is 36x24mm. 1.37 was shown as 1.37 in theaters. For 4:3 TV and video the sides were cropped. Don't tell me it was squeezed horizontally. I'm afraid some video releasers may have done that.
George Slv 14th Aug 2016		Cinema Those Redheads From Seattle (1953)	With image 1131469 of the dance scene I wanted to talk about aspect ratios. See if anyone knows this subject well. This is from a 4x3 TV copy I assume, from someone's collection. My understanding is that the basic film is 1.37, and when cropped to 1.33 some of the sides are lost - black sides I've added. When that film was cropped to 1.667 for theaters, assuming the crop was simply in the middle, you get the white outline. If a DVD were issued that's what you should get. So full screen 1.33 loses a bit on the sides but gains vertically. Theatrical will lose some legs in many scenes. (This is my screen capture of my image editor showing a bit of the panel edges.)
George Slv 11th Aug 2016		Vinyl Album Roy Orbison - Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits	Didn't Monument use black labels in the early 1960s, like Canada? This looks like a later reissue.
George Slv 10th Aug 2016		Cinema Zeta One (1969)	Yutte Stensgaard is the main female in the movie, a love interest of James Word outside of his work. This seems like some kind of underground movie, I don't know how it was distributed in UK. Yutte does nudity. The aliens are not all topless, not the famous actresses. There is a squadron of female fighters who are topless, but not attractive or sexy. It's an amateurish production. (Would this site accept pictures?)
George Slv 9th Aug 2016		Cinema L'orribile Segreto Del Dr. Hichcock (The Horrible Dr. Hichcock) (1962)	It seems that we should use the name that's used on screen, shouldn't we? Rather than the name that we secretly know is theirs. Let them correct this as they choose. I also wonder if I should have used The Horrible Dr. Hichcock as the main title.
George Slv 4th Aug 2016		Cinema L'orribile Segreto Del Dr. Hichcock (The Horrible Dr. Hichcock) (1962)	Review One of the Italian horror films of the early 1960s that were released in English, some quite good. This one seems to have a favorable reputation, but I reject that. A doctor is a necrophiliac (relating to dead females), and then plays games drugging his wife so she will be corpse-like for a while. Things go wrong, the living die, the dead walk, fires burn, hero tries to rescue heroine, all dat stuff. Trouble is that the producers were totally inept at making this story clear to the viewer. You don't understand what you are watching. Ya gotta go ta IMDB 50 yars later to find out. This is in the category of "Italian dream logic". Quality junk production in my opinion. England and USA would have been too ashamed to produce this. Canada still would. 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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