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| The Shadow Serial - From Mill Creek Entertainment | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 11 2016, 05:07 PM (3,527 Views) | |
| CliffClaven | May 25 2016, 12:39 PM Post #46 |
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As of now it's $12.98 from Amazon, so I ordered. |
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| Laughing Gravy | May 25 2016, 07:41 PM Post #47 |
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More on The Shadow serial HERE. |
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| Frank Hale | May 27 2016, 02:29 PM Post #48 |
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I've never seen the serial before. After seeing chapter one of the new release, I offer the following: I didn't see any Horne influence other than some severe undercranking. How did Veda Ann Borg, the original ha-cha girl get into this? Good print, but the original end Columbia credit was replaced by a new one with "a Sony Pictures company" or something-or-other mentioned (not Screen Gems, as Gravy suggested, but still absolutely disgraceful; nevertheless I guess we have to roll with it.) I gather, based on earlier comments, that the serial will seriously go down-hill in the next few chapters. I'm hopeful, but consider me sufficiently warned. |
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| The Batman | May 27 2016, 03:16 PM Post #49 |
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It's not so much it goes down hill, Mr Hale, as it goes sideways and not in a wacky way. Many cliffhangers are repetitive and dull, but I still find some charm with this serial. |
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| riddlerider | May 27 2016, 05:23 PM Post #50 |
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My copy finally arrived today and I've just sampled it. A significant upgrade, to be sure! Chapter One looks a tad contrasty and just a wee bit murky, and the master shows a little more grain due to sharpening, but I can live with that. The crisper sound helps, too. It's amazing that a recent release mastered from 35mm elements escaped us all until just now. The Horne touches are there, all right. Everybody overacts and rushes about. You don't have the full-out, fever-pitched lunacy of The Green Archer or The Iron Claw, but The Shadow is unmistakably a Horne serial. Forty-some years after I first saw it, I still have a love-hate relationship with the thing. But I'm delighted to have a professional-looking DVD of it at last. |
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| The Batman | May 27 2016, 05:53 PM Post #51 |
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I can't believe it flew under the radar, either, but a shout out to Tarzan for pointing it out. I just don't get why I can't get it on Amazon North for a reasonable price, like you fellers. The cheapest third party seller is over $70! |
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| Laughing Gravy | May 28 2016, 06:44 AM Post #52 |
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Mill Creek told me that it was a special project and not sold from their own website so they did not promote it. Obviously, Amazon didn't know how to promote it - you'd think they'd have recommended it to us, since we've bought serials before. An odd, odd release. |
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| The Batman | May 28 2016, 12:11 PM Post #53 |
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Definitely, LG. Mill Creek could have at least sent out an email to their subscribers, one must assume they are making some profit on each sale or why bother? |
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| Don Diego | May 28 2016, 01:55 PM Post #54 |
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You can get it from Amazon south inc shipping for 20 or so dollars |
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| The Batman | May 28 2016, 05:32 PM Post #55 |
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Did you get it that way, Don? |
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| Don Diego | May 29 2016, 08:02 AM Post #56 |
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ordered it and is in transit $20.97 total |
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| The Batman | May 29 2016, 02:33 PM Post #57 |
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Thanks, is that total in Canadian funds? |
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| Don Diego | May 29 2016, 04:42 PM Post #58 |
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no the Yankee dollar |
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| The Batman | May 29 2016, 04:45 PM Post #59 |
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Thanks, guess that's the best we'll get. $25 is better than $80 on Amazon North. |
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| Don Diego | May 29 2016, 04:48 PM Post #60 |
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I was the rave reviews that sold me - its tough to find great prints especially of the Columbias |
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