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Feb 12, 2017 - 12:33 AM
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Bob DiMucci
(Member)
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LONELYHEARTS marked the first independent production for Dore Schary after his departure as the head of production at MGM. The United Artists release was initially registered for copyright in 1958 by Schary Productions, Inc., and the copyright was renewed on 3-6-1986 by Schary Productions. Then, curiously, the copyright was also renewed 9 months later, on 12-16-1986 by some outfit called Film World International.
On that very same day, Film World International (FWI) also "renewed" the copyrights on three other films that were originally copyrighted in 1958: THE GREAT ST. LOUIS BANK ROBBERY (with Steve McQueen); THE PROUD REBEL; and THE DEEP SIX (both starring Alan Ladd). Both THE GREAT ST. LOUIS BANK ROBBERY and THE PROUD REBEL have appeared on numerous public domain labels, and it appears as if FWI was trolling the copyright records looking for unrenewed titles to pick up for possible video release. Apparently, FWI didn't notice that Alan Ladd Enterprises had transferred its copyright on THE DEEP SIX to Lorimar in 1985, or that Schary Productions had renewed its copyright to LONELYHEARTS earlier in 1986. (Warner Bros, who now control many of the Lorimar holdings, released THE DEEP SIX as a MOD DVD in 2014 as part of the Warner Archive Collection.)
In 1992, MGM (who controls United Artists films) released LONELYHEARTS on videotape. It is currently available as a made-on-demand DVD from Amazon, although the provenance of that DVD seems suspect.
https://www.amazon.com/Lonelyhearts/dp/B00O968XX2/ref=pd_sbs_27_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=NEY2Y58DF558NATY5NXS
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I still haven't seen it, but for years I've been reading that it wastes a great cast by messing up the adaptation of a great book.
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SNAFU
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FWIW, from J. R. Jones' (no relation) recent biography, "The Lives of Robert Ryan":
"... Unfortunately, no amount of rehearsal could compensate for Schary's script, which suffered from a playwright's verbosity and a Jewish writer's indifference to a deeply Catholic work. ... Schary updated the story ... and got rid of ... the novel's dark ending. ... 'The picture was a misfire -- a compromise,' Ryan would later say. 'It would have been much more interesting, and equally commercial, if they had made it really like the book.'"
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