If you do a Google search for [UNCHAINED] you will find a link to the full movie online. It used to be on YouTube, but I couldn't find it there at present.
UNCHAINED has not been released on any home video format. Although the film was distributed by Warner Bros., Hall Barlett was the original sole copyright holder of the film. Upon renewal of the film's copyright in 1982, ownership was transferred to National Telefilm Associates. That would make it the current property of Paramount.
It's on Arthur Grant's list of the most wanted films on DVD/Blu-ray.
"The Shadow of Your Smile" has proven itself to be an enduring standard. The film, "The Sandpiper," is almost universally considered to be dreck, and not even enjoyable on a camp level.
Any similar examples?
This seems to be the ONLY song that meets your strict criteria ; bad film, classic song CASINO ROYALE may also...
I think a few of you could use a refresher on the meaning of the word "enduring," though!
Well, the first time I read this thread title, I thought it might be that board member Mukrim was searching for a some very long songs used in a Turkish movie from the 70ies, so I'm glad I understood it as it is.
I have one for you...the movie was BANNING a stinker with Robert Wagner & Jill St. John...the song -- which was nominated the same year as The Look of Love -- The Eyes of Love by Riz Ortolani & Bob Williams and sung by Trini Lopez! It is on youtube...??
Whitney Houston had a monster hit with Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" from The Bodyguard. The song still plays on pop radio to this day.
The film was a big box office hit but still got terrible reviews as I recall.
You may not know this but that song was originally written for the Dolly Parton - Burt Reynolds movie The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas back in the seventies. So I guess that the song does belong in the category of enduring songs from turkey films.
Dolly wrote I Will Always Love You to/for Porter Wagoner after she split from him. 1974. The movie came out in 1982. You are incorrect.
Whitney Houston had a monster hit with Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" from The Bodyguard. The song still plays on pop radio to this day.
The film was a big box office hit but still got terrible reviews as I recall.
You may not know this but that song was originally written for the Dolly Parton - Burt Reynolds movie The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas back in the seventies. So I guess that the song does belong in the category of enduring songs from turkey films.
Dolly wrote I Will Always Love You to/for Porter Wagoner after she split from him. 1974. The movie came out in 1982. You are incorrect.
Though it was re-recorded for the movie. And became a hit again.
Looks tricky because THE SANDPIPER was a hit (made money) but critically trashed. SANDPIPER got 6.3 on IMDB and so did A STAR IS BORN (1976) and it's beautiful song "Evergreen" also won an Oscar.
Alan and Marilyn Bergman, no? Johnny Mercer... there were others.
Yes, of course (as I said "for the most part").
It just seems curious that Webster was the lyricist for so many Fox and MGM films; Mack David worked with Bernstein a lot; Sheldon and Sharper worked with Goldsmith.
Did studios assign lyricists? Did composers select their favorite? I was just wondering how that process works.
"The Shadow of Your Smile" has proven itself to be an enduring standard.
Even if this song has proven itself, when do mainstream commercial radio stations broadcast this (and these types of) song?
Pop music from the '80s & '90s is now considered "oldies" and music written prior to the late '70s tends to currently be ignored (by radio, block parties, DJs, etc.) in favor of hip-hop and rap.
Future generations will likely have no truck with so-called 'enduring' popular songs from the 1920s through 1950s (the approximate time period of American Standards).
The one that sticks out in my head is "The Prayer" from QUEST FOR CAMELOT. Both Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli have performed it live many times, sometimes together, sometimes with other partners. But hardly anyone seems to remember what it was from.
Also, depending on who you ask, the film PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID doesn't quite fit the "turkey" label, though it did flop pretty badly when first released. It's become something of a cult classic, but it also contains what might be the ultimate example of a song completely transcending its origins - Bob Dylan's "Knockin' On Heaven's Door."
