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Topic: WITCHFINDER GENERAL- RESTORATION
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Hugh Thompson Scott
Film God
Posts: 3063
From: Gt. Clifton,Cumbria,England
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted January 14, 2013 01:49 PM
I have always been at a loss as to why Walton Films,who I have
great respect for,chose to play about with the titles on the film
"Witchfinder General".The end titles are placed up front, and the
end is the Walton logo.Very poor, and I wasted no time in telling them.So after many years, I finally tracked down the German
version, both extracts,that contained the prologue with the
old lady hanged as a witch, that leads nicely into the main title,
and the axe hacking end, that has some wicked blows that no
doubt John Trevelyan thought we should'nt see, this is a short
sequence, but does add to the impact.I was fortunate a couple of years ago when given a lot of film etc,that there was three spools of "Witchfinder", and the previous owner had placed the
end titles in the proper place,so these were transposed to my
print, and as soon as I've rerecorded the end music, it should
be as close to the complete feature as possible,except for a
scene in the Tavern,when Hopkins tells Stearne that the old
priest must hang and Stearne laughs, in the German cut, there's a wench topless,in the English cut he is alone,there's
no cutaway so I can't include it, but does prove that versions
were made for export.
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Hugh Thompson Scott
Film God
Posts: 3063
From: Gt. Clifton,Cumbria,England
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted January 15, 2013 06:59 AM
I remember when features of Deranns "Twins" & "Circus" came
out, one dealer warned me off saying "if you've got the Walton
features, stay with them, at least you can see whats going on".
The nicest colour feature I felt was their "Years B.C." which had
perfect contrast and colour,retained all the key scenes and had
beginning and end titles complete, only missing the creation prologue.I haven't experienced any fade in any of their titles yet
Brian and I hope yours are the same.The almost companion piece to "Witchfinder" was "Satan's Skin", which Derann did,
managed to keep all the front and end titles,but missed the
very important beginning and seduction scene, the running
time was a stingy 60 minutes or so, and could easily have accommodated them.Sometimes I wonder what criteria dictate
the editing of some of these films,as it is annoying when key
scenes are left out of so called feature length editions.I wonder
if there might be a foreign edition of this somewhere?
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