Asphalt Jungle - Huston intro cut?

[basaro]

I just watched the John Huston intro on the Asphalt Jungle dvd which comes in the Warner Noir boxset #1.

The audio is missing from the first few seconds of it, so it jumps into the middle of a sentence as he is speaking. Is this a known issue, it seems like it is a trailing excerpt from a much longer introduction, and may be just how it is supposed to be?

Just want to make sure I don't have a defective dvd. Anyone have any info?

[David Cornelius]

Nope, your DVD is just fine. That's a problem with the source material itself.

Judging from the poor quality of the audio itself, I'm guessing that the silence is an issue of no usable audio being available for the clip used. Probably Warners used the only part of this footage they could.

Not sure where this footage came from, or when it ever could have been shown, but reading lips, his first words are "The Asphalt Jungle," so it looks like that might be the very beginning of the clip. But of what...? (Savant's review (http://http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=11298&___rd=1) of the disc gives us only this: "The film has been given an 'introduction' by utilizing the tattered remains of an old interview with director Huston.")

[basaro]

Awesome, thanks for the reply. I figured as much, and that's cool with me.