I've only seen To Be Or Not To Be (1942). But that was wonderful.
It was a while ago--I mainly remember Cary Grant, Peter Lorre, and a guy who everyone said looked like Boris Karloff.
Raymond Massey; Boris Karloff had played the role onstage, which made the joke much funnier, but due to the play's run continuing into filming, he wasn't available to reprise his role. I love Dr. Einstein, though. It has been pointed out by several of my friends that when the character played by Peter Lorre is the sanest person onscreen, there's something very wrong.
I haven't seen Lost Horizon, but I do have it on tape. I'll watch it to-night if I can find tape 165 . . .
Be warned that it's one of those films from which portions have almost certainly been irretrievably lost, since scenes were edited out for the Production Code and the original negatives later deteriorated past the point where they could have been reintegrated. For reasons I don't understand, however, the soundtrack was undamaged, so some newer versions of the film will basically play the complete soundtrack with stills superimposed so the viewer has some idea of the lost scenes. (The tape I own is like this; it's a little jarring the first time you see it, but I'd rather have at least sketches for the missing sequences than nothing at all.) Sadly, one of what sounds like Edward Everett Horton's funnier scenes went this way. Still, there's Ronald Colman.
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I've only seen To Be Or Not To Be (1942). But that was wonderful.
It was a while ago--I mainly remember Cary Grant, Peter Lorre, and a guy who everyone said looked like Boris Karloff.
Raymond Massey; Boris Karloff had played the role onstage, which made the joke much funnier, but due to the play's run continuing into filming, he wasn't available to reprise his role. I love Dr. Einstein, though. It has been pointed out by several of my friends that when the character played by Peter Lorre is the sanest person onscreen, there's something very wrong.
I haven't seen Lost Horizon, but I do have it on tape. I'll watch it to-night if I can find tape 165 . . .
Be warned that it's one of those films from which portions have almost certainly been irretrievably lost, since scenes were edited out for the Production Code and the original negatives later deteriorated past the point where they could have been reintegrated. For reasons I don't understand, however, the soundtrack was undamaged, so some newer versions of the film will basically play the complete soundtrack with stills superimposed so the viewer has some idea of the lost scenes. (The tape I own is like this; it's a little jarring the first time you see it, but I'd rather have at least sketches for the missing sequences than nothing at all.) Sadly, one of what sounds like Edward Everett Horton's funnier scenes went this way. Still, there's Ronald Colman.