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| It's About TimeBefore Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and George Clooney, there was Troy Donahue.
At long last, Mr. Donahue's career and legacy are being honored in what I consider some of his most famous films--Parrish, Susan Slade, Rome Adventure, and Palm Springs Weekend. (Somehwere in between, he also appeared in My Blood Runs Cold and A Distant Trumpet).
A bit of Trivia---Carroll O'Connor has a bit part (and I mean 'bit' part) in Parrish; Palm Springs Weekend was written by Earl Hamner, Jr., who, as you all know, went on to development a little gem called 'The Waltons'.
Great Stuff!First saw these romance 'classics' on TV when channel 7 in NYC showed them after school at 4:30 amidst tons of commercials. After 30 years, it'll be like seeimg them for the first time (and in wide screen!) I do remember Parrish's wonderful music. Wish these were released in blu ray.
Finally !!!!!I remember all these films as a kid in the 60's. I loved them all and had a few of them on video but now it's coming on DVD. I'm really excited. All the comments are already made about the films but i'll chat a little about the music by Max Steiner. This is something that lacks in todays films. You'll notice that each star will have it's own background music. Steiner was well known for this and all of his background music is beautiful. I have the DVD of "A Summer Place" and the clean up that they did was great. I'm sure these four will also be as good as A Summer Place.
I just hope we can get my other favorite "The Miracle" starring Carroll Baker and Roger Moore from 1959. I have this on 35mm and 16mm film but they are starting to fade and getting brittle. I hope this will be released soon too.
Horray for Warner Brothers!FINALLY! I thought I was going to pass out when I rec'd an e-mail notification that almost all my favorite films from the 60's were finally coming to DVD, especially since Susan Slade never saw the 'light of day' on VHS. I own the other 3 titles on VHS and have watched them hundreds of times, with great pleasure for an uncomplicated time in our lives. These movies were always shown on Saturday nights when I was a pre-teen. I was shocked each and every time I watched "Susan Slade", that this unmarried girl had a baby!!! Boy, oh boy have times changed....my own twenty something children would laugh at me now for my innocent views- But my enjoyment over bounds with each viewing, so this 4 movie set is like getting a birthday and Christmas gift all rolled into one! Now....if only we could get `A Rage to Live', `Youngblood Hawke', `Summer Love', 'Claudelle Inglish','The Chapman Report' and `My Blood Runs Cold' on DVD my life would be complete! (no, not really but it sounds good) - I am so proud of Warner Brothers for taking a leap of faith that there is still an audience for these fun and classic 60's films! Bravo, Warner Brothers....you did good!
Finally Troy,Sandara,and Connie on DVDI have been waiting for years for these movies to be issued on DVD. I saw them all first run and loved them. I only hope that unlike the Gidget collection that these will all be issued in in their original widescreen format.
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