Monday July 19th SUPER CHEESE DAY!
6:00 AM The Manster Have you seen this one? You’ve got to!
7:15 AM The Killer Shrews
8:30 AM Wild Wild Planet Essential, utterly insane ‘60s Italian sci-fi!
10:15 AM War of the Planets Same deal!
12:00 PM THE GREEN SLIME! It on TCM, so it will undoubtedly be LETTERBOXED! Set your Tivos or whatever!
1:45 PM Soylent Green
Then, if that sort of thing is your bag:
3:30 2001: A Space Odyssey
6:00 PM 2010
Oh, and King Kong, the Hunchback of Notre Dame (Lon Chaney) and Seventh Seal are on tonight.
#1 by Scott Hamilton on July 19, 2010 - 10:49 am
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Sadly, the Green Slime is the same full screen print I think they’ve shown before, with window boxed credits. I wonder if the widescreen master has been lost.
#2 by The Beeerman on July 19, 2010 - 1:33 pm
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I feared as much. They showed a pan-n-scan of “Close Encounters” not that long ago. I know The Trash Palace used to sell a widescreen bootleg of this, but at last check it’s no longer on the menu. So, it is out there, somewhere.
#3 by Scott Hamilton on July 19, 2010 - 4:44 pm
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I fear that, being a co-production, the widescreen master may be in Japan. Available, but probably too expensive to be worthwhile for the US market.
#4 by Ken Begg on July 19, 2010 - 5:19 pm
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Sorry to hear it. I fear Scott is correct, and that the widescreen master of the American version is perhaps lost. Otherwise surely MGM would have released it as part of their Midnite Movies line, right?
Toho put out a R2 widescreen DVD of the Japanese version, which is much shorter (apparently the head butting between the males leads is radically truncated) but only in Japanese without even English subtitles.
Let’s hope whoever buys out MGM eventually stumbles across the letterboxed American master when they do inventory and actually decides to release it.
#5 by Braineater on July 21, 2010 - 10:49 am
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And there’s no title song in the Japanese version, either. The movie isn’t quite as much fun without the title song.
#6 by Scott Hamilton on July 20, 2010 - 9:59 am
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Considering some of the complete crap MGM/Sony/Whoever-Owns-the-MGM-Library-This-Week has remastered, I can’t imagine why they’d skip Green Slime. Green Slime would probably sell better than a lot of movies.
#7 by Ken Begg on July 20, 2010 - 10:49 am
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That’s always been my thought, too. I mean, stuff like Monster Island comes, but not Green Slime? It’s a weirdness.