Have you ever seen a movie that's now considered lost?
Jul 16, 2018 23:50:47 GMT
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Post by Salzmank on Jul 16, 2018 23:50:47 GMT
Thanks, fellas.
Aj_June, he might well have actually seen London After Midnight, and if so I’d love to talk to him about it. Again, I apologize for rushing instantly to sarcasm; I’ve just seen the claim so much that I’m almost reflexively skeptical. There was an Australian guy on the Classic Horror Film Boards who insisted for months that he’d seen it and lambasted anyone skeptical.
He didn’t have many concrete details, but he did have more than “Chaney walked like Groucho,” and a specific date and time when he’d seen it—and an explanation for why the print had it in the ‘80s. (He said that another copy had been sent to Australia, and the theater-owner had bought it without knowing it was a lost film.) The story was strained, but he himself was fairly convincing (he was a film historian, with apparently no reason to lie about any of this).
Except…then people started doing some checking, and found out the theater he’d named didn’t exist, and had never existed. Nor was there any evidence for the elderly theater-owner whose name he’d given us. And the story became more and more absurd as he went on.
All very unfortunate.
BATouttaheck
I’ve seen the restoration and just couldn’t get into it much, for better or worse. Oddly enough, despite the famed Chaney-Browning collaboration, I tend to agree with William K. Everson that the best Chaney works were without Browning and the best Browning works were without Chaney!
Doghouse6
Very true!
I’m starting to become skeptical of my own memories for the Columbo episode (which I’ve now been assured is not a Columbo episode). I don’t see how the three of us all could have dreamt it up, but… Oh, well, that’s for that thread.
Aj_June, he might well have actually seen London After Midnight, and if so I’d love to talk to him about it. Again, I apologize for rushing instantly to sarcasm; I’ve just seen the claim so much that I’m almost reflexively skeptical. There was an Australian guy on the Classic Horror Film Boards who insisted for months that he’d seen it and lambasted anyone skeptical.
He didn’t have many concrete details, but he did have more than “Chaney walked like Groucho,” and a specific date and time when he’d seen it—and an explanation for why the print had it in the ‘80s. (He said that another copy had been sent to Australia, and the theater-owner had bought it without knowing it was a lost film.) The story was strained, but he himself was fairly convincing (he was a film historian, with apparently no reason to lie about any of this).
Except…then people started doing some checking, and found out the theater he’d named didn’t exist, and had never existed. Nor was there any evidence for the elderly theater-owner whose name he’d given us. And the story became more and more absurd as he went on.
All very unfortunate.
BATouttaheck
I’ve seen the restoration and just couldn’t get into it much, for better or worse. Oddly enough, despite the famed Chaney-Browning collaboration, I tend to agree with William K. Everson that the best Chaney works were without Browning and the best Browning works were without Chaney!
Doghouse6
Very true!
I’m starting to become skeptical of my own memories for the Columbo episode (which I’ve now been assured is not a Columbo episode). I don’t see how the three of us all could have dreamt it up, but… Oh, well, that’s for that thread.