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Gian Luca Mario Loncrini
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1948
From: Verona (Italy)
Registered: Jan 2009

posted January 15, 2010 06:04 PM

I have recently (last week) found a copy of Argento's L'UCCELLO DALLE PIUME DI CRISTALLO (The Bird with the Crystal Plumage), the very first feature he directed in 1970.

It's unfortunately a terrible print on a reddish Eastman (I would probably never post any screen shots of that copy here on the forum [Frown]

) but my happiness is immeasurable: another title I had been after for very longime and I did want to own on 8mm. Not interested at all in its condition.

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Lars-Goran Ahlm
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 205
From: Åmål, Sweden
Registered: Jan 2010

posted January 17, 2010 04:46 PM

I don't know how rare they are, but I have hardly ever seen any of these in used lists.

Firstly it is four features from Marketing. "Grease", "Airplane!", "One-Eyed Jacks" and "The Godfather".

I also have the two Universal/John Wayne features "The Conqueror" and "Jet Pilot".

And lastly a Harold Lloyd feature "The Sin Of Harold Diddlebock"

Have not run any of these for years, so I don't know what shape they are in.

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Keith Ashfield
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 997
From: U.K.
Registered: Dec 2006

posted January 17, 2010 06:46 PM

Hi Lars. I also have the two Wayne features. They were released by Universal 8 and if yours are like mine, they will have started to turn "pink". Mine are still very watchable, even if some may say that they are two of the "Duke's" worst films. If you are a Big Duke fan then you just have to have them in your collection.

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Osi Osgood
Film God

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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005

posted January 17, 2010 09:37 PM

I would love to find a full length Marketing print of "True Grit", as I heard that they released it as a full length feature!

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David Kilderry
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 963
From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Registered: Feb 2006

posted January 18, 2010 01:21 AM

Lars,

One-Eyed Jacks would be a rare print. I have come across a copy once in all my collecting years - I think it was a Derann or other UK used list.

A strange film to release on Super 8. An indulgent Brando western thought of much more highly today.

David

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