The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, The Weird
First Review by Adam-Troy Castro The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (original title: Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo; 1966). Directed by Sergio Leone. Screenplay by Age and Scarpelli, Sergio Leone, and...
View ArticleInaction Movies: the two versions of REAR WINDOW
First Commentary by Adam-Troy Castro [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kCcZCMYw38&w=448&h=252&hd=1] Rear Window (1954). Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Screenplay by John Michael...
View ArticleWhen Your Husband Drives You Crazy: the two versions of GASLIGHT
First Commentary by Adam-Troy Castro Gaslight aka Angel Street, The Murder in Thorton Street, A Strange Case Of Murder (1940). Directed by Thorold Dickinson. Screenplay by A.R. Rawlinson and...
View ArticleWe Can Remake It For You Wholesale: The Two Versions of TOTAL RECALL
First Commentary by Adam-Troy Castro Total Recall (1990). Directed by Paul Verhoeven. Screenplay by Ronald Shusett, Dan O’ Bannon, and Gary Goldman, from a story by Shusett, O’Bannon and Jon Povill,...
View ArticleSeven Stolen Loaves Of Bread: The Problem With Filming LES MISERABLES (Part One)
First Commentary by Adam-Troy Castro Les Miserables (1934). Directed by Raymond Bernard. Screenplay by Raymond Bernard and Andre Lang, from the novel by Victor Hugo. Starring Harry Bauer and Charles...
View ArticleRemake Chronicles: It’s Time To Forgive David Soul’s CASABLANCA
Originally published on Facebook 21 October 2014. Despite it being accepted as a given by everybody who ever mentions it, the CASABLANCA TV series starring David Soul was not some one-of-a-kind,...
View ArticleThe Two Versions of MILDRED PIERCE
Recent discussion of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, in the context of the TV miniseries FEUD that retells the story of their considerable personal conflict, brings up thoughts of Crawford’s signature...
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