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 Posted:   Jan 27, 2016 - 7:24 PM   
 By:   Max Bellochio   (Member)


The "Expansion" clocks in at over 105 minutes.

Very
MaxB


I’m perfectly satisfied with the original album, but happy (not really) for those who wanted an expansion.

The only thing of personal interest in the expansion is the alternate of the secondary espionage theme for clarinet, oboe and xylophone.


That secondary "espionage" theme is one of Horner's best. The new release features not only that cue, but an alternate that has the dialed-out transparent strings and muted duduk.

Very
MaxB

 
 Posted:   Jan 27, 2016 - 7:26 PM   
 By:   Max Bellochio   (Member)


The "Expansion" clocks in at over 105 minutes.

Very
MaxB


I’m perfectly satisfied with the original album, but happy (not really) for those who wanted an expansion.

The only thing of personal interest in the expansion is the alternate of the secondary espionage theme for clarinet, oboe and xylophone.


That secondary "espionage" theme is one of Horner's best. The new release features not only that cue, but an alternate that has the dialed-out transparent strings and muted duduk.

Very
MaxB

 
 Posted:   Jan 27, 2016 - 7:28 PM   
 By:   Max Bellochio   (Member)


The "Expansion" clocks in at over 105 minutes.

Very
MaxB


I’m perfectly satisfied with the original album, but happy (not really) for those who wanted an expansion.

The only thing of personal interest in the expansion is the alternate of the secondary espionage theme for clarinet, oboe and xylophone.


That secondary "espionage" theme is one of Horner's best. The new release features not only that cue, but an alternate that has the dialed-out transparent strings and muted duduk.

Very
MaxB

 
 Posted:   Jan 28, 2016 - 7:40 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

The "Fivehouse Five" look so pathetically subservient! And Lonsdale looks like the Last of the Bloated Roman Emperors! This is what I resent about my beloved shows (including the Fivehouse films) "changing their formula."

Don't forget, by the time that THE FIVEHOUSE FIVE had entered the rhealm of television, Frederick Loftybeck had already "jumped-the-shark" with WHO WEEPS FOR ALAN FIVEHOUSE. It came as no surprise that this mess would follow. This minor issue aside, I still watched it for Alison Doody and Sonya Walger! Anytime Lonsdale, Thewlis, or Freeman would come on the screen, I'd flip the channel and watch old Ernie Kovacs episodes.

MaxB


big grin

 
 Posted:   Jun 16, 2016 - 7:10 PM   
 By:   Max Bellochio   (Member)

TOSHIRO MIFUNE in 1991 on ALAN FIVEHOUSE (through interpreter)

I have no idea what this means. Who is this man?

 
 Posted:   Jun 17, 2016 - 6:07 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

TOSHIRO MIFUNE in 1991 on ALAN FIVEHOUSE (through interpreter)

I have no idea what this means. Who is this man?


The ironic thing about the above quote is I have a video somewhere with Michael Lonsdale saying nearly the same thing about Japanese cinema!

 
 Posted:   Jun 20, 2017 - 8:12 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

There should be a Wikipedia page for All Things Alan Fivehouse. Maybe it could be put up right after the Brown Box gets its release.

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 20, 2017 - 7:39 PM   
 By:   ANZALDIMAN   (Member)

 
 Posted:   Jun 20, 2017 - 8:19 PM   
 By:   Viscount Bark   (Member)

Lonsdale has always been a favorite of mine. Does anyone have a list of all of the AF films? Thanx!

 
 Posted:   Jun 20, 2017 - 9:18 PM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

Lonsdale has always been a favorite of mine. Does anyone have a list of all of the AF films? Thanx!

They're all listed and discussed in detail in this very thread. You may want to print it out or make it into a PDF file.

 
 Posted:   Jun 20, 2017 - 9:35 PM   
 By:   Viscount Bark   (Member)

Lonsdale has always been a favorite of mine. Does anyone have a list of all of the AF films? Thanx!

They're all listed and discussed in detail in this very thread. You may want to print it out or make it into a PDF file.


Ah, yes! And my local library has a couple of them on DVD. Awesome!

 
 Posted:   Jun 21, 2017 - 4:20 PM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

Wasn't there an FSMer who posted under the username "Agent Norman Newman"? I miss their clever, witty, and dedicated insights on All Things Fivehouse.

Sure.

This person last posted on the thread on Jun 2, 2015. Scroll up a bit and you'll see it. I always got a kick out of "Agent Newman" using the cover art of the soundtrack as their avatar.

It's nice to see this thread bumped back once in a while. A true original. I like to think of it as our own "Pomander Walk" amongst all the towering cookie cutter cement and glass structures that continue to spring up around it also known as the Star Wars threads.



I'm fairly certain Sam Waterston, Dianne Wiest, and Carrie Fisher visited Pomander Walk in the "New York architectual wonders" sequence in Hannah and Her Sisters.

As for the rest of the FSM Boarde, I've come to see it as all the buildings Alonzo A. Hawk owned in HERBIE RIDES AGAIN.

This thread, and a few others, are like the small, comforting house the Helen Hayes character owned in that Herbie opus.

 
 Posted:   Jun 22, 2017 - 6:47 PM   
 By:   WILLIAMDMCCRUM   (Member)

There should be a Wikipedia page for All Things Alan Fivehouse. Maybe it could be put up right after the Brown Box gets its release.


There was. Seriously. Don't you remember it? It was mysteriously axed.

 
 Posted:   Jun 22, 2017 - 8:14 PM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

There should be a Wikipedia page for All Things Alan Fivehouse. Maybe it could be put up right after the Brown Box gets its release.

There was. Seriously. Don't you remember it? It was mysteriously axed.


Indeed I do. There is a Maintitles.net thread where a few whiny killjoy FSMers drone on about how they don't "get it." Though to be fair, a couple other posters did. And just as I was thinking that film score nerds were all humorless creeps. wink

http://www.maintitles.net/forum/discussion/335/who-cheers-for-alan-fivehouse/

No, my dear McCrum, I was thinking more along the lines of a separate wiki like the ones that so many TV series, and comic book characters have.

 
 Posted:   Jun 23, 2017 - 1:05 AM   
 By:   Viscount Bark   (Member)

So I checked and found out my library has copies of Revenge of Alan Fivehouse and Who Weeps for Alan Fivehouse (but not the first film, darn it - I'm a Frankenheimer fan) which I've put on reserve. They also have the Edward Norton reboot, but I'm not sure if I should bother with it?

 
 Posted:   Jul 4, 2017 - 3:47 PM   
 By:   Max Bellochio   (Member)

A quick tweet (or twat) back and forth with Gene Loftybeck revealed that there is movement on the "Brown Box" again. Apparently, Fred Loftybeck's Vermont compound has a reported 173 pallets of material, many of which are multi-track tapes of all the sessions from all of the Fivehouse properties. Supposedly, after the few "promotional" copies of the "Brown Box" were sold much better sources were discovered in the "wine cellar/warehouse" on the compound. They are working to get this out for the first film's 39th Anniversary (The Loftybecks don't like even numbers).

Very Gaw Jus
MaxB

 
 Posted:   Jul 4, 2017 - 5:05 PM   
 By:   Viscount Bark   (Member)

My library DVD of Weeps was in horrible shape; it jammed during the last third of the movie. Cleaning the disc was no help at all. Can someone here tell me how it ends?

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 4, 2017 - 11:57 PM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)

My library DVD of Weeps was in horrible shape; it jammed during the last third of the movie. Cleaning the disc was no help at all. Can someone here tell me how it ends?

If I remember correctly, it was the butler

 
 Posted:   Jul 5, 2017 - 12:24 AM   
 By:   Viscount Bark   (Member)

My library DVD of Weeps was in horrible shape; it jammed during the last third of the movie. Cleaning the disc was no help at all. Can someone here tell me how it ends?

If I remember correctly, it was the butler


I should have figured with that actor.

 
 Posted:   Jul 8, 2017 - 12:24 PM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

My library DVD of Weeps was in horrible shape; it jammed during the last third of the movie. Cleaning the disc was no help at all. Can someone here tell me how it ends?

If I remember correctly, it was the butler


I should have figured with that actor.


You may want to "fast forward" to the much better THE SON OF ALAN FIVEHOUSE. It really did save the franchise, you know.

 
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