CineSavant Column
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Correspondent and reviewer Mark Throop sends in this fun link for lovers of westerns — a Youtube ‘Huntley Film Archives’ post with about 10 minutes of behind the scenes footage from the distant location shoot for the 1960 Anthony Mann western Cimarron.
We see the director & producer, plus Glenn Ford, Maria Schell and Anne Baxter on location with a large crew. At the lunch table is a lineup of supporting actors — Aline McMahon, Mary Wickes, Mercedes McCambridge, Russ Tamblyn.
There is more footage of wagon wheel repair than shots of the big Land Rush, but who’s complaining? I can say from experience that the faded transfer on view may not reflect what’s in the vault … a licensee could get lucky, and find that the negative in the stock library has much better color.
Advisor Gary Teetzel points us to the next two links.
It looks as if the disc company Film Masters has a full docket of features coming up in 2025, as indicated by a promo video just posted yesterday.
The two minutes-plus montage of scenes has lots of shots that are vaguely familiar, and a bunch that just make us scratch our heads. Is that Algiers? Monster from the Ocean Floor? The Strange Woman? The Bruce Bennett Tarzan? Invasion USA? Salt of the Earth? What’s the Bela Lugosi picture, and the Sidney Poitier picture, and the one that has what look like zombies?
In other words, it’s an engaging guessing game …
Finally for some serious news, from Gary T. of course.
It’s a legit notice from the International News Desk here at CineSavant Central. Gary says that Argentina is planning to annul a law designed to help protect young men in danger of becoming werewolves.
It’s no joke, the Moroccan news outlet ‘Hespress’ has the story. It has something to do with a 1974 law about the powers of the President, the baptism of 7th sons, the ‘Ley Hojarasca’, and a truly cool Spanish word I didn’t know, Lobizón. Quick, somebody copyright that for a film title.
Maybe Oliver Reed’s luckless Leon has a chance after all … he just has to prove that he’s somebody’s seventh son.
Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson