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Maurice Leakey
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From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted January 22, 2014 02:51 AM
I checked out the titles available for sale and was delighted to find one which I had on 16mm some fifty years ago, not realising its importance and rarity I sold it, never to be regained until now.
It's "Forever And A Day" made in Hollywood in 1943 in aid of the Red Cross' British war effort. All stars and technicians gave their services free.
It is the story over one hundred years of a London house and the families who lived there, until the London Blitz started.
Here are the featured 34 stars. Brian Aherne, Billy Bevan, Eric Blore, Nigel Bruce, Clyde Cook, Gladys Cooper, Robert Coote, Donald Crisp, Robert Cummings, Reginald Gardiner, Edmund Gwenn, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Haydn, Edward Everett Horton, Ian Hunter, Buster Keaton, Cecil Kellaway, Elsa Lanchester, Charles Laughton, Gene Lockhart, Ida Lupino, Herbert Marshall, Jessie Matthews, Vistor McLaglen, Ray Milland, Anna Neagle, Merle Oberon, Clause Rains, C. Aubrey Smith, Kent Smith, Arthur Treacher, Ruth Warrick, Dame May Whitty, Roland Young.
Quite a cast list you'll agree. I can't wait to see again the sequence of Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Buster Keaton as two totally inept plumbers.
I will report in due course after the DVD has been received and run.
http://narkoverselusivefilms.com/usa-films-1940-1950/?Page_ID=3610&refpid=7678&id=13953
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Maurice Leakey
Film God
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posted January 27, 2014 03:12 AM
"Forever And A Day" has now been received and I am very pleased with the DVD.
The standard DVD case uses a coloured poster for its front and the back has eight coloured lobby cards. There are no notes or any details of origin. The disc itself has a coloured copy of the front poster.
The quality is as described in the ad, 8/10. Picture is very good, still containing the original change-over cues. The sound is slightly lower than most of my discs, but entirely acceptable.
The original opening and closing RKO logos have been removed. The disc now starts with the FBI warning, followed by "Image Entertainment Inc" in colour, then (in black & white), "A Janus Films Release", then, "Raymond Rohauer Presents" and then into the original title. The bottom of the title contains "Copyright RKO Radio Pictures Inc 1943" and below it, "Copyright Renewed 1970".
Image Entertainment was founded in 1981 and began by distributing Laserdiscs so perhaps this copy began its issue on Laserdisc.
As regards Raymond Rohauer, I am sure that most collectors know the name but for further information I have started a new topic.
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Maurice
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