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One that doesn't sit high in the John Sturges canon. Still a great score though. (MGH, I'd have thought you would have beaten me to this one.)
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We talking elmer?
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Alleluia!! Everybody's got it wrong. Almost sent me by the wrong road.
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Let's consult the 'Oracle' on this one... (or an over-the-top Donald Pleasence).
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Don't know where we're goin' or where we've been!
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Only Burt Lancaster could manage to make gauntlets look sexy, even next to the gorgeous Lee Remick. The composer recalled the gala premiere where dignitaries arrived in horse-drawn carriages.
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One that doesn't sit high in the John Sturges canon. Still a great score though. (MGH, I'd have thought you would have beaten me to this one.)
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Saw this as a roadshow, in Cinerama, at the Warner Theatre in Pittsburgh. Still have the souvenir program. Wonderful, wonderful Bernstein score. Film just dragged, though it did seem to have a penchant for major characters having scenes where they appear in bathtubs... Remember Lancaster in a bathtub, still chomping on his cigar. Funny. Film made me smile a lot, but rarely laugh. Though Martin Landau as a clueless Native American was uncomfortable even back when...
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Sep 21, 2014 - 10:04 PM
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Yeah, great score, so-so comedy western. Like a lot of tough leading men, Burt just can't do comedy. I'd still buy a Blu-ray if the transfer was really good, as I love these big epic films of the sixties, even when they weren't that great. My take on it was John Sturges (like John Huston (BEAT THE DEVIL), Steven Spielberg (1941), Carol Reed (FLAP) and many a film director) was great at integrating comedy into all kinds of films but not when the whole thing is supposed to be funny. Personally I think Lancaster had a wonderful knack for comedy in THE SCALPHUNTERS, THE RAINMAKER, THE PROFESSIONALS and even parts of ELMER GANTRY.
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