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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 13, 2018 23:03:38 GMT
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Post by vegalyra on Mar 14, 2018 12:56:03 GMT
I keep hoping for a restored blu ray of this film (i still buy physical media). As mentioned above, most of the other Ranown cycle films are being released in the UK on bluray in a nice package. This is the one hold out. I believe it's because of the rights holder. The others were all Columbia and this one was Paramount/WB.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Mar 14, 2018 15:00:35 GMT
Never much a viewer of westerns, I think my entire exposure to Randolph Scott - unlike most posters here - has been by way of his more urbanized roles: Supernatural (1933)  Roberta (1935)  Follow the Fleet (1936)  My Favorite Wife (1940)  Pittsburgh (1942)  Even from those, it's easy to see how well suited he was to "oaters." In this way, his career trajectory - and to some extent, his persona - rather resembled that of Gary Cooper, who also successfully straddled the disparate atmospheres of tuxes or ten-gallon hats and sophisticates or sagebrush for many years, and always as a simple and plain-spoken American archetype making himself at home in whichever one he happened to land. It strikes me that if Ralph Bellamy had been unavailable for The Awful Truth, Scott would have made a fine substitute for him (also making My Favorite Wife a reunion). |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 14, 2018 15:17:25 GMT
RE: Casting of Scott as Ashley
With the casting of Leslie Howard we have to wonder why Scarlett prefers the gentle and un-obtrusive Ashley over Rhett Butler.
If Ashley were played by a guy like Scott the plot would possibly have to be "which of these incredibly virile and handsome men will she end up with" and that is a whole 'nuther movie. (imo)
Aternate universe:
If Gable had not been available ...
Randolph Scott as Rhett Butler ?
100% Different ~ but possible ?
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