Animal movies aren't just for kids anymore, but nobody made one better than this French production, which stars a pair of talented Ursine thespians doing their thing amid more beautiful mountain scenery than seems decent. It's guaranteed perfect 'watch something with the kid' material, and more than intelligent enough for consenting adult fans of the great outdoors. The Bear 25th Anniversary Collector's Edition Shout! Factory Savant Blu-ray Review 1988 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 96 min. / 25th Anniversary Collector's Edition / L'ours / Street Date September 29, 2015 / 19.99 Starring Bart the Bear, Youk the Bear, Tchéky Karyo, Jack Wallace, André Lacombe. Cinematography Philippe Rousselot Film Editor Noëlle Boisson Original Music Philippe Sarde Animal specialists Dieter Krami, Steve Martin, Doug Seus, Lynne Seus, Clint Youngreen, Jean M. Simpson. Written by Gérard Brach from the novel by Jame Oliver Curwood Produced by Claude Berri Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Bear charmed big audiences...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Bear charmed big audiences...
- 9/8/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Directed by: Herbert L. Strock
Written by: Tom Taggart and Richard G. Taylor, from a story idea by Ivan Tors
Cast: Richard Egan, Constance Dowling, Herbert Marshall, John Wengraf
The science might be a bit dated, the Cold War paranoia a bit thick and the sexist behavior wince-inducing at times, but 1954's Gog is still quite entertaining.
A combination of an Agatha Christie novel and a Disney's "World of Tomorrow" documentary, the film delivers a taunt mystery and some suspenseful moments, while giving modern audiences a glimpse of the future our parents and grandparents envisioned for us.
Gog opens during a suspended animation experiment that results in the death of the lead scientist and his assistant. Both become trapped within the chamber when the door mechanism and control panels activate and trap them inside to freeze solid. Sure, you suspect the two could be revived, but the scientist falls out...
Written by: Tom Taggart and Richard G. Taylor, from a story idea by Ivan Tors
Cast: Richard Egan, Constance Dowling, Herbert Marshall, John Wengraf
The science might be a bit dated, the Cold War paranoia a bit thick and the sexist behavior wince-inducing at times, but 1954's Gog is still quite entertaining.
A combination of an Agatha Christie novel and a Disney's "World of Tomorrow" documentary, the film delivers a taunt mystery and some suspenseful moments, while giving modern audiences a glimpse of the future our parents and grandparents envisioned for us.
Gog opens during a suspended animation experiment that results in the death of the lead scientist and his assistant. Both become trapped within the chamber when the door mechanism and control panels activate and trap them inside to freeze solid. Sure, you suspect the two could be revived, but the scientist falls out...
- 3/14/2012
- by Chris McMillan
- Planet Fury
Creator of film special effects who turned an 18-inch model ape into King Kong
In the history of cinema, many children have followed their mothers or fathers into the film business, but few offspring pursued the path of a parent more slavishly than Harry Redmond Jr, who has died aged 101. Like a master craftsman, Harry Redmond Sr passed on the skills of his trade to his son, the trade being the creation of special effects for films. Most notably, they worked together on King Kong (1933), in which a giant gorilla captures an actor, Ann Darrow, played by the "scream queen" Fay Wray.
The Redmonds were important members of the King Kong technical team under the supervision of Willis O'Brien, the pioneer of model animation. Part of their job was to integrate the stop-motion models and animatronics into live-action sequences by means of back projection and travelling mattes. Although the model...
In the history of cinema, many children have followed their mothers or fathers into the film business, but few offspring pursued the path of a parent more slavishly than Harry Redmond Jr, who has died aged 101. Like a master craftsman, Harry Redmond Sr passed on the skills of his trade to his son, the trade being the creation of special effects for films. Most notably, they worked together on King Kong (1933), in which a giant gorilla captures an actor, Ann Darrow, played by the "scream queen" Fay Wray.
The Redmonds were important members of the King Kong technical team under the supervision of Willis O'Brien, the pioneer of model animation. Part of their job was to integrate the stop-motion models and animatronics into live-action sequences by means of back projection and travelling mattes. Although the model...
- 6/28/2011
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
By Lee Pfeiffer
If you've never seen the 1966 Ivan Tors adventure film Around the World Under the Sea, you're missing a real gem. The premise finds a dedicated group of scientists on a death-defying undersea mission to plant earthquake warning devices on seabeds around the globe. The film has an eclectic cast including Lloyd Bridges, James Bond girl Shirley Eaton, Man From U.N.C.L.E. star David McCallum, Marshall Thompson of Daktari!, Brian Kelly of Flipper -with Keenan Wynn thrown in for good measure. The real star of the film is the late underwater photographer Lamar Boren, whose talents add immeasurably to the movie. The effects are still very effective by today's standards and it's a real joy to see so many charismatic stars in one movie. The film had a brief release on VHS by MGM in the 1980s but has yet to be released on DVD- c'mon guys,...
If you've never seen the 1966 Ivan Tors adventure film Around the World Under the Sea, you're missing a real gem. The premise finds a dedicated group of scientists on a death-defying undersea mission to plant earthquake warning devices on seabeds around the globe. The film has an eclectic cast including Lloyd Bridges, James Bond girl Shirley Eaton, Man From U.N.C.L.E. star David McCallum, Marshall Thompson of Daktari!, Brian Kelly of Flipper -with Keenan Wynn thrown in for good measure. The real star of the film is the late underwater photographer Lamar Boren, whose talents add immeasurably to the movie. The effects are still very effective by today's standards and it's a real joy to see so many charismatic stars in one movie. The film had a brief release on VHS by MGM in the 1980s but has yet to be released on DVD- c'mon guys,...
- 6/16/2010
- by [email protected] (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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