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And a great score it is by Bernstein.
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I love them both.
The original for Frederic March's two-hour Charles Boyer impression, and the remake for the most messianic portrayal of Andrew Jackson we are ever likely to see.
Who else but Heston could convincingly deliver a line like:
"By the lord God, I'll kill the next man who moves."
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But nobody noticed until they were in post-production that they had given Heston a white wig which was way premature for the Jackson of this time period.
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. . . and that in his case he should have known better especially since this was his second time in the role.
Hey, that's right! He'd just played Jackson five years earlier!
Another interesting footnote regarding the '58 version . . .
IMDB lists Majel Barrett (then known as "Majel Leigh Hudec") appearing in "The Buccaneer" as a "Townswoman."
I've never been able to pick her out, though. Anyone know what scene she's in, or what she looks like?
She would have been about twenty-six years old.
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Olive films will be releasing THE BUCCANEER on DVD, however I don't believe it has yet been established that this DVD release will carry a stereo mix, either the laserdisc one, or a newly created one. We'll have to wait and see.
I'll be happy if the DVD is in the widescreen VistaVision ratio, which the laserdisc was not.
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But nobody noticed until they were in post-production that they had given Heston a white wig which was way premature for the Jackson of this time period.
That wasn't the only hair-related news from the film. Many reviews of "The Buccaneer" commented on Brynner’s wearing of a brunette wig and mustache, which marked the first time he appeared onscreen with hair instead of his trademark bald pate.
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And a great score it is by Bernstein.
Reportedly, Mack David added lyrics to one of the film’s musical themes, written by Bernstein, to produce the song “Love Song from The Buccaneer (Lover’s Gold).” Used to publicize the film, the song was recorded by Mitch Miller and his orchestra and choral group. Has anyone heard this song?
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Independent distributors Olive films will release on Blu-ray Anthony Quinn's The Buccaneer (1958), starring Yul Brynner, Claire Bloom, Charles Boyer, Charlton Heston, and Inger Stevens, and Herbert Ross' Nijinsky (1980), starring Alan Bates, Leslie Browne, and George De La Pena. The distributors have not yet revealed the exact technical specs, supplemental features and region coding status for these releases. However, both will be available for purchase on February 28th.
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=7833
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And a great score it is by Bernstein.
Reportedly, Mack David added lyrics to one of the film’s musical themes, written by Bernstein, to produce the song “Love Song from The Buccaneer (Lover’s Gold).” Used to publicize the film, the song was recorded by Mitch Miller and his orchestra and choral group. Has anyone heard this song?
Yes, Bob. I have it on a 45rpm single on the Columbia label...
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Dec 2, 2011 - 11:10 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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"The Buccaneer" was a remake of DeMille’s 1938 Paramount production of the same title, also about Jean Lafitte. In April 1956, the Hollywood Reporter stated that DeMille would remake "The Buccaneer" as the first musical of his career. A June 1956 Hollywood Reporter article announced that DeMille had signed Chinese actress Li Li-hua to make her American motion picture debut in the film, which was to be directed by Yul Brynner. In December 1957, the New York Times reported that longtime DeMille collaborator producer-actor Henry Wilcoxon stated that the plans to stage the remake as a musical were abandoned “because it was apparent that we had too good a story to tell.” After Brynner decided not to direct the film because it was going to be a larger production than he wanted to attempt for his directorial debut, DeMille turned to actor Anthony Quinn.
Quinn, who was married to DeMille’s daughter Katherine from 1937 to 1965, had never directed a film before, and recommended that DeMille hire director Budd Boetticher instead, but DeMille insisted that Quinn do it. Quinn, who had played the part of “Beluche” in the 1938 version of "The Buccaneer," accepted reluctantly, noting in his autobiography that DeMille chose a first-time director so that he could maintain control over the production. Quinn stated that he hired Abby Mann to rewrite the screenplay that DeMille had given him initially, but that the producer rejected Mann’s version as “too dark” and “too political.”
"The Buccaneer' received fair reviews, but was a disappointment to Quinn, who never directed another picture. In his autobiography, Quinn asserted that after he produced a “far more intimate” film than anything DeMille would have done, DeMille, who preferred more epic dimensions, recut the picture completely. Quinn stated that the re-edited film “was nothing like the picture I had shot…the whole feeling was different. The pace I had carefully established was gone, replaced by frenetic jump cuts and wide shots.” Quinn summed up his reaction to the released film by saying “I did not like it at all.”
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