YankeeDisc SUBS 30th Aug 2018
| | Rated 7/10...originally a comment, but really should be a review, from 14th April 2016
I saw this movie at the Streatham Odeon, south London in 1970. I was single at the time, always had Mondays off as I worked Saturdays, and would like to catch any film that took my fancy at the afternoon showing, so I'm sitting there in a huge cinema (long before it was converted to multi-screen) on a Monday afternoon, with probably only about 50 people in the whole cinema watching the film.
I'm getting bum-square, as it's a very long film (2 hr 51 min (171 min) ), and the plot is not really holding my attention. There's a scene in the open, some sort of a battlefield and artillery pieces are being fired, when you hear the sound of a shell coming over, whistling over heads and then BOOM!! it sounded as if the explosion was right behind me.......naturally I jumped at the loud noise of the shell exploding......that was my first experience of surround sound at a cinema.
I know that now we have home theatre systems, I have one myself with 5.1 Dolby Surround, and DTS, but the first experience is always memorable.
.....from IMDB, technical spec., the soundtack is available in two versions....
Sound Mix -70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Mono (35 mm prints)
......guess I saw and heard the 6-track version
Although the soundtrack was in English I got the impression that some of the cast were dubbed in English, and I think the film was foreign financed, with lead male Bekim Fehmiu (who he?) as Dax Xenos, the protagonist and love interest. At least I remember Fernando Rey as Jaime Xenos, Fernando memorably played "Frog One" in the classic "The French Connection".tt0067116
Filmed in several countries.......Colombia
Villa de Leyva, Cartagena, Colombia
Bogotá, Colombia
Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy
Grand Canal, Venice, Veneto, Italy
Puerto Rico
USA
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