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Jan 21, 2020 - 10:24 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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Following the opening credits of THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION, this written statement appears: In 1891 Sherlock Holmes was missing and presumed dead for three years. This is the true story of that disappearance. Only the facts have been made up. The film opens on 24 October 1891, when “Dr. John H. Watson” (Robert Duvall) receives a telegram from his former landlady asking him to see “Sherlock Holmes” (Nicol Williamson), the great detective. When Watson arrives, Holmes is paranoid. He points a gun at Watson while raving about the evils of “Professor James Moriarty” (Laurence Olivier), whom he believes is the "Napoleon of Crime." With the help of Sherlock’s brother “Mycroft” (Charles Grey), Watson convinces Moriarty to go to the house of “Dr. Sigmund Freud” (Alan Arkin) in Vienna, Austria, so Holmes will follow. While there they run into “Baron Von Leinsdorf” (Jeremy Kemp), who makes anti-Semitic remarks, asks Freud if he made love to his mother, and challenges Freud to a duel.
Jeremy Kemp in THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION
In this film, while suffering from cocaine withdrawal, Sherlock Holmes has flashbacks to "The Adventure of the Speckled Band". His hallucinations feature a snake slithering down a bell rope towards Holmes' bed. In 1984, Jeremy Kemp would play the villain in the adaption of "The Speckled Band" in the ITV series “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, starring Jeremy Brett. Herbert Ross directed THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION. John Addison’s score for the 1976 film was released on a Citadel LP, but has not been re-issued on CD.
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Jan 22, 2020 - 10:48 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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THE WINDS OF WAR was an epic 1983 television mini-series that chronicled the exploits of American naval officer "Victor ‘Pug’ Henry" (Robert Mitchum)--who becomes Ambassador to Germany--and his various family members’ activities from 1939-1941. Concurrently, the film also charts the rise of Germany’s Fuhrer Adolf Hitler (Gunter Meissner), and the effects his growing influence has on not only Germans, but the rest of the world, and especially the Jewish people. Polly Bergen is "Rhoda," Henry’s increasingly bored, gauche wife. When her husband is away for long periods of time, Rhoda starts to see an awful lot of widowed uranium scientist "Palmer 'Fred' Kirby" (Peter Graves), who is working on the atomic bomb.
Henry is stationed in Berlin, London, Rome, and even Moscow, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Ralph Bellamy), to be his observer. But ‘Pug’ has got the charming young Brit "Pamela Tudsbury" (Victoria Tennant) to hero-worship him. Jan-Michael Vincent is the family ‘black sheep’ son "Byron," who goes to Italy to work as a research assistant for famed American author "Aaron Jastrow" (John Houseman). There he falls in love with Houseman’s stuck-up, stubborn, rich-girl niece "Natalie Jastrow" (Ali MacGraw). Jeremy Kemp plays the fictional “Brigader General Armin von Roon,” who serves as a member of the German High Command, in direct contact with the Fuehrer, and sees the gradual deterioration of Hitler as the war goes worse for Germany.
Herman Wouk's script ran 962 pages and contained 1,785 scenes. It was shot in 267 locations, in six countries and on two continents, and took 34 months to film and 12 more to edit. There were about 50,000 costumes, and Robert Mitchum alone had 112 changes. When the cameras stopped, producer-director Dan Curtis had one million feet (185 hours) of film, which he cut down to 81,000 feet. The 7-episode series covered 16 hours of air time (including commercials). Originally, the idea was to produce a 12-hour show. At the time it was made, this was the most expensive television production ever mounted, at a cost of $40 million.
The mini-series was scored by Dan Curtis' favorite composer, Robert Cobert, who's soundtrack was originally released by Varese Sarabande and re-issued by them in 2017. On June 3, 1991, a federal jury in Los Angeles ruled that the WINDS OF WAR theme song had been plagiarized from John Woodbridge, a professor of history at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois. He sued in 1986, claiming the theme was actually a song called "Sans Vous" ("Without You"), which he had composed in 1965. Terms of the settlement are not known (to me anyway).
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Jan 23, 2020 - 4:35 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL follows a group of long-time friends, all single, who watch and participate over a period of months as one by one those among them step up at last to the altar. Of them all, “Charles” (Hugh Grant) seems the most likely-- and at the same time the least likely-- to be next. Young, handsome and charismatic, Charles has no problem developing a relationship (he's had a number, in fact, as we learn in one particularly hilarious scene), but sustaining one is seemingly beyond his grasp. Until, at the wedding of one of his friends, he meets “Carrie” (Andie MacDowell), an American, and she quickly enchants him. Jeremy Kemp has a supporting role as “Sir John Delaney,” a participant at the second wedding.
Mike Newell directed the 1994 film. Only a few minutes of Richard Rodney Bennett’s score appeared on the London records song-track CD.
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