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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 27, 2017 21:04:33 GMT
Well, I have found at least one movie that have gone in the opposite direction. Big Jim McLain 1952, where John Wayne and James Arness is chasing communists on Hawaii, but in at least Austria, West Germany and Italy it was rebranded Marihuana in Austria, Marihuana in West Germany and Marijuana (La droga infernale) in Italy, and with the help of dubbing, cutting and script changes Wayne and Arness didn't chase communists anymore, instead they chased marijuana smugglers. Just Google John Wayne and marijuana, there I have at least seen the Italian poster, with a girl dozing with a joint and smoke in the background. It could only be an improvement. As Red Scare-era agitprop, Big Jim McLain is cringe-inducing from beginning to end. Against the background of a raging storm complete with lightning strikes and attendant thunder claps, the text of each title overlay is "blown" from the screen by gale winds as bombastic musical accompaniment interpolates bars of everything from "Yankee Doodle" and "Columbia, Gem Of the Ocean" to "Dixie." The action opens in a D.C. HUAC hearing room as sober narration intones, "Undaunted by the vicious campaign of slander launched against them as a whole and as individuals, they have staunchly continued their investigation, pursuing their stated beliefs that anyone who continued to be a communist after 1945 is guilty of high treason." That "after 1945" qualifier is noteworthy in the most cynical of ways.
As a witness invokes his 5th Amendment protection, investigator John Wayne glares daggers while his partner, James Arness, seethes, soon having to be restrained from physically attacking the witness. These first 3 1/2 minutes signal what to expect from the following 87. Toward the end, we're brought full circle, when - following the requisite Wayne slugfest - witnesses in a Honolulu HUAC hearing room take the 5th while Wayne looks both thunderstruck and crestfallen, and observers in the room buzz in amazement. Dejectedly walking away later, an associate muses to Wayne about a now-dead colleague, "I wonder how Mal would have felt about this...5th Amendment." Wayne answers, "He died for it," and in the very next breath delivers this assessment: "There are a lot of wonderful things written into our Constitution that were meant for honest decent citizens. I resent the fact that it can be used and abused by the very people who want to destroy it."
Pretty much everything that goes between follows a similar pattern, the sledgehammer overstatement of which ultimately leaves the viewer - this one, anyway - feeling as though beaten and bruised as soundly as anyone involved in the climactic fisticuffs.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Apr 27, 2017 21:28:30 GMT
Is it only Americans that rebrands movies? Well, I have found at least one movie that have gone in the opposite direction. Big Jim McLain 1952, where John Wayne and James Arness is chasing communists on Hawaii, but in at least Austria, West Germany and Italy it was rebranded Marihuana in Austria, Marihuana in West Germany and Marijuana (La droga infernale) in Italy, and with the help of dubbing, cutting and script changes Wayne and Arness didn't chase communists anymore, instead they chased marijuana smugglers. Just Google John Wayne and marijuana, there I have at least seen the Italian poster, with a girl dozing with a joint and smoke in the background. Thanks teleadam that's an excellent find and post A example of rebranding, re-jigging a film, to de-sensationalize the original premise for those European markets mentioned... The insightful & scathing review from Doghouse6 gives much understanding as to why...
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Post by teleadm on Apr 29, 2017 12:50:30 GMT
Is it only Americans that rebrands movies? Well, I have found at least one movie that have gone in the opposite direction. Big Jim McLain 1952, where John Wayne and James Arness is chasing communists on Hawaii, but in at least Austria, West Germany and Italy it was rebranded Marihuana in Austria, Marihuana in West Germany and Marijuana (La droga infernale) in Italy, and with the help of dubbing, cutting and script changes Wayne and Arness didn't chase communists anymore, instead they chased marijuana smugglers. Just Google John Wayne and marijuana, there I have at least seen the Italian poster, with a girl dozing with a joint and smoke in the background. Thanks teleadam that's an excellent find and post A example of rebranding, re-jigging a film, to de-sensationalize the original premise for those European markets mentioned... The insightful & scathing review from Doghouse6 gives much understanding as to why... I was just watching that Italian Poster again, and it has the Warner Brothers Shield, so unlike anything Levine imported and changed, the changes must have been given a green light and aprooved by the WB Head Office.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Apr 26, 2018 22:57:52 GMT
UK release title... USA rebranded title... The Concrete Jungle
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Post by fangirl1975 on Apr 29, 2018 19:54:47 GMT
Hammer Films' The Devil Rides Out was rebranded The Devil's Bride when released in the U.S.
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Post by manfromplanetx on May 22, 2020 22:05:22 GMT
Related to london777 latest thread ...a rebrand title but also a fraudulent one , no slasher here ! Cosh Boy (1953) UK Dir. Lewis Gilbert Juvenile delinquent in the backstreets of London Roy (James Kenny) becomes The Slasher in the USA... In the UK Cosh is a kind of truncheon used to hit someone with the sensationalist American poster even has a razor which is not seen in the film !
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Post by bravomailer on May 22, 2020 22:15:33 GMT
Duck, You Sucker became A Fistful of Dynamite which had a familiar sound to it.
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Post by Reynard on May 22, 2020 23:47:26 GMT
Poor Pretty Eddie (1975), a very low budget exploitation movie, was renamed Redneck County and Redneck County Rape when distributed in the American south, and then again rebranded Black Vengeance for urban black audiences.
However the strangest thing connected to film film is the alternate version called Heartbreak Motel, which cuts out pretty much all exploitation elements and replaces them with additional dialogue scenes to make it an Elvis-inspired drama about a struggling singer-songwriter.
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Post by OldAussie on May 22, 2020 23:55:14 GMT
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Post by Reynard on May 23, 2020 0:22:43 GMT
Daddy's Deadly Darling (1973) has probably the strangest history of different titles and different alternate versions, with new footage trying to turn a serial killer movie into an Exorcist ripoff:
Known AKAs Menu for Murder The 13th Pig Blood Pen Wild Boars Pigs Horror Farm Daddy's Girl Roadside Torture Chamber The Secret of Lynn Hart The Strange Love Exorcist Lynn Hart, The Strange Love Exorcist
IMDb has this to say:
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Post by manfromplanetx on May 23, 2020 0:59:01 GMT
Daddy's Deadly Darling (1973) has probably the strangest history of different titles and different alternate versions, with new footage trying to turn a serial killer movie into an Exorcist ripoff: Hi there Reynard Thanks for the great examples and interesting info, an extraordinary range of titles for DDD going under the title Pigs at wiki !
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Post by manfromplanetx on May 23, 2020 1:14:00 GMT
北斎漫画 , Hokusai Manga (1981) Directed and Written by Kaneto Shindo. An excellent biographical drama based on the life of Japanese artist Hokusai (1760-1849) famous for his woodblock prints especially his Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji... The film was rebranded for a marketing in the USA & Italy with an exploitive title Edo Porn...
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Post by cynthiagreen on May 23, 2020 17:31:13 GMT
AIRPORT 79 was an August 1979 release in USA In the UK it was an October release... as the distributors were worried the title would "age" quickly harming Box Office it was swiftly rebranded as... ,,, and most of europe. A stinker in any year or language though for sure
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Post by cynthiagreen on May 23, 2020 18:34:12 GMT
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Post by manfromplanetx on May 25, 2020 22:40:26 GMT
UK film release The High Bright Sun (1964) Directed by Ralph Thomas. Action and political intrigue set in Cyprus during the EOKA uprising against British rule in the 1950s. starring Dirk Bogarde, George Chakiris and Susan Strasberg. In the USA released with titles.. McGuire, Go Home & A Date with Death
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Post by manfromplanetx on May 25, 2020 22:59:27 GMT
ANGEL ANGEL DOWN WE GO This trashy potboiler about a charismatic hippie and his acolytes inveigling their way into the mansion of rich Hollywood jet setters (including Jennifer Jones as a retired porn star!) and destroying their lives, was re- released a few months later in 1969 under the more "come hither" title of CULT OF THE DAMNED,, to cash in on the Tate/Manson murders. Classy! A groovy beyond belief experience and a great double bill with ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD.. it had official release a couple of years back. A great example of a blatant rebrand to "cash in on"... I recently re-watched Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) trashy and in extreme poor taste was the films exploitive finale matching those Manson murders...
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Post by cynthiagreen on May 26, 2020 3:39:39 GMT
ANGEL ANGEL DOWN WE GO This trashy potboiler about a charismatic hippie and his acolytes inveigling their way into the mansion of rich Hollywood jet setters (including Jennifer Jones as a retired porn star!) and destroying their lives, was re- released a few months later in 1969 under the more "come hither" title of CULT OF THE DAMNED,, to cash in on the Tate/Manson murders. Classy! A groovy beyond belief experience and a great double bill with ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD.. it had official release a couple of years back. A great example of a blatant rebrand to "cash in on"... I recently re-watched Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) trashy and in extreme poor taste was the films exploitive finale matching those Manson murders... Thanks - BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS may well be the only film in cinematic history to be "geoovier" than ANGEL ANGEL - it's one of my all time favourites! As Billy Wilder said "What's so great about good taste?"
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jan 16, 2022 0:52:33 GMT
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