Hello!

Here’s a video I thought was special, forwarded by David J. Schow :

It’s a lengthy video piece featuring self-described ‘horror filmmaker’ William Malone. If he’s the same Mr. Malone I met in 1975, I tried to hire his homemade copy of Robby the Robot for our UCLA screening of Forbidden Planet. Some of the effects modelmakers on ‘1941’ worked with Malone as well, on his ‘Syngenor’ movie.

Is that a rare German poster of Der Herr der Welt on the wall behind Mr. Malone?  This man thinks like I do.

The ‘Undertaking Cinema’ video is Malone’s explanation of his trials and errors in low-budget filmmaking. He sounds honest and candid, and it’s both amusing and educational. And it has Klaus Kinski, too!

We also want to call out the activities of sometime – CineSavant reviewer Lee Broughton, who began here 20 years ago with reviews of a wide range of Italo western releases.

It’s a simple call-out to note Lee’s new sideline in expert disc added value extras. Our ‘UK Correspondent’ has been picked up by some choice boutique labels. His latest efforts are for Eureka Entertainment and 88 Films:

1. ) The video essay Homelands: German Indianthusiasm and The Sons of Great Bear, which appears on Eureka’s Blu-ray of Josef Mach’s East German western,  The Sons of Great Bear (1965).

2. ) An audio commentary, along with a booklet essay entitled The Man Called Noon and British Gothic westerns, for 88 Films’ Blu-ray of Peter Collinson’s stylish British western  The Man Called Noon (1973).

I for one am curious as to just what a western produced in communist East Germany would look like. Did some beach stand in for the desert?  Lee Broughton’s CineSavant reviews include last year’s  The Borderlands, and we liked his essay in this year’s release of Adilkhan Yerzhanov’s  Steppenwolf. Lee’s home page is  here.

Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson