Classic Criterion Cathode Collection

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Classic Criterion Cathode Collection
Topic Started: Aug 16 2009, 06:56 AM (114 Views)
Laughing Gravy	Aug 16 2009, 06:56 AM Post #1
Revered in the UK Posts: 11,062 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: August 31, 2005	Well, okay, they didn't call it that, but they could have. In November, Criterion (spine #495) will be releasing a 3-disc set ($49.95) called "The Golden Age of Television", which will include the following 1950s TV plays... Marty (1953) by Paddy Chayefsky, with Rod Steiger & Nancy Marchand Patterns (1955) Written by Rod Serling, James Costigan and JP Miller, with Everett Sloane & Elizabeth Montgomery No Time for Sergeants (1955) Teleplay by Ira Levin, with Andy Griffith A Wind from the South (1955) with Julie Harris & Donald Woods Requiem for a Heavyweight (1956) with Jack Palance, Keenan Wynn, Kim Hunter, & Ed Wynn Bang the Drum Slowly (1956) with Paul Newman The Comedian (1957) with Mickey Rooney Days of Wine and Roses (1958) with Cliff Robertson & Piper Laurie



panzer the great & terrible	Aug 16 2009, 03:48 PM Post #2
Mouth Breather Posts: 10,325 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: September 3, 2005	Some of the best TV dramas ever. Days of Wine and Roses is more harrowing and realistic than the Blake Edwards movie. The often underestimated Piper Laurie's absolutely great in it. The TV Marty is waaay superior to the movie. Bang the Drum Slowly is better than the fillum too; and they're all three good pictures. The only TV DVDs I've ever bought are The Adventures of Superman, but I'm buying this whatever it costs. Yay Criterion! This is a real coup.
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JazzGuyy	Aug 17 2009, 06:09 AM Post #3
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 2,173 Group: Members Member #110 Joined: June 1, 2006	Heavyweight is excellent too. The only one where the movie may be better, but I'm only working from memory, is No Time For Sergeants. The movie version has never been out on official DVD but Warner has said they are working on it. I think there are some issues with the estate of one of the writers. I'm not sure whether it is the writer of the original novel or the play.



panzer the great & terrible	Aug 17 2009, 07:32 AM Post #4
Mouth Breather Posts: 10,325 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: September 3, 2005	As I recall the play was better than the TV show or the movie, but that was 50 years ago. I remember being bothereded that they left some of the jokes out in the TV version, but I was 12 and still innocent about censorship.
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Black Tiger	Aug 17 2009, 12:31 PM Post #5
Charter Member Posts: 1,813 Group: Members Member #50 Joined: September 15, 2005	I've seen Marty and Requiem for a Heavyweight - both really good. One tv drama/musical I'd love to see released is Evening Primrose by Sondheim starring Tony Perkins. It's based on the story by John Collier and has to do with a bitter young poet who secedes from the horrors of the world to find sanctuary secretly living in a large department store. Little does he realize there is a whole subculture of people who already live there. "Dummying up" by day, living by night. And if you break the rules, they send for the Dark Men. After they are finished with you, you are really stuffed. Some of Sondheim's most haunting songs ("I Remember" and "Take Me To The World") and a very creepy plot that has been remade a few times for Twilight Zone and others. The Museum of TV and Radio in NYC allows free screenings of this if you visit them. Crude live tv, but powerful.



panzer the great & terrible	Sep 14 2009, 01:17 PM Post #6
Mouth Breather Posts: 10,325 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: September 3, 2005	I want to see that too. I'm a Sondheim fanatic.
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