Herbert Böehm is driven mad by his attempts to keep daughter Elfy (Scilla Gabel) alive in the Euro horror classic, MILL OF THE STONE WOMEN.
respects, he loves women... He is about to change his mind.” Grimaldi also added canned mu- sic in places where there was none and further emphasized the drugged nature of Hans’ delirium sequence with orange-tinted op- tical overlays; the later variant can be found here as a supple- mentary bonus, preserving the main feature in the form its direc- tor approved. Grimaldi was already an experienced hand at this sort of thing, having previously Ameri- canized the second Gojira film as GIGANTIS, THE FIRE MONSTER and the West German science fiction film Der Schweigende Stern as FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS, and his amendments to Ferroni’s work are in no way spoilsome; his supervision of the English dubbing is actually out- standing. The film can also be watched in a French dub with English subtitles, which may seem more authentic but really isn’t; Brice and Carrel spoke French, but Italian, German and
English were also evidently spo- ken. The French title sequence is also included, along with the US trailer and an extensive stills and poster gallery of international materials. Pete Tombs and oth- ers contribute detailed cast and crew notes, with the material on Scilla Gabel including a number of nude glamour photographs. The film, which we can re- member buying in the mid-1980s as a big box Beta pre-record for $59.95, looks decidedly superior here to that earlier, washed-out version. In much of the 1.62:1 anamorphic presentation, the color looks a little dim, especially during the location shooting in Amsterdam, but this is an illu- sion conveyed by wardrobe choices and the wintery setting; the quality of the color itself is often of Technicolor intensity. The two-channel mono audio is quite healthy-sounding, though not directional enough to qualify as “stereo,” as the packaging would have it. A must-see.
OEDIPUS REX “Oedipus the King”
1957, Image Entertainment, DD-1.0/16:9/LB, $24.99, 87m 31s, DVD-1
By Rebecca & Sam Umland
Surely one of the more bizarre legacies the ancient Greeks be- stowed upon the modern world is the singular story of Oedipus, the unfortunate tragic hero doomed by a prophecy to murder his fa- ther and marry his mother. Fear- ing that the prophecy will come true, Oedipus’ parents, the king and queen of Thebes, leave their infant son to die of exposure on a rural hillside. A shepherd takes pity on the helpless infant, who is sub- sequently adopted by another childless pair, the rulers of Corinth. When Oedipus is grown, he hears of this prophecy con- cerning himself and, not know- ing he is adopted, flees Corinth in an effort to dodge such a hid- eous fate. Unknowingly, Oedipus nonetheless fulfills the prophecy.
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