LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT found??
11-21-14, 10:35 AM
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Re: LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT found??
They also found tons of lost Doctor Who episodes, the Magnificent Ambersons uncut and the full version of Stroheim's Greed.
11-21-14, 11:11 AM
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11-23-14, 05:20 PM
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11-23-14, 05:38 PM
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Damn! This thread was started in 2002 and they STILL haven't found the fucking thing!
11-23-14, 05:43 PM
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Anything is possible.
I'm not sure why it's reputation is what it is. It wouldn't surprise me that if it is found one day that it doesn't nearly live up to expectations.
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11-23-14, 05:44 PM
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TCM did like a 45 minute version from stills of the film. Not sure how that worked out. I guess it could be a neat experiment.
Didn't MGM lose the only known print in a fire in the 1960s? I'm not sure. Fuck. I love film history.
Didn't MGM lose the only known print in a fire in the 1960s? I'm not sure. Fuck. I love film history.
11-23-14, 06:17 PM
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Hopefully it's out there somewhere. The long-lost Ted Healy and His Stooges short Hello Pop! was found in Australia last year after being considered lost since the 1967 MGM vault fire, where the last known print of London After Midnight was also reported to be.
Anything is possible.
I'm not sure why it's reputation is what it is. It wouldn't surprise me that if it is found one day that it doesn't nearly live up to expectations.
Anything is possible.
I'm not sure why it's reputation is what it is. It wouldn't surprise me that if it is found one day that it doesn't nearly live up to expectations.
11-23-14, 06:58 PM
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11-23-14, 10:19 PM
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It was quite a somber experience to go through this thread again. Not because of the film still not being found yet (Or so we think) But the memories when TCM premiered the Reconstruction that Halloween night. Since starting this thread, I had gone out of town (Stayed with my uncle) for the remainder of that month and we had taken my neice & cousins trick/treating (Which explains why I "Abandoned" this thread when the reconstruction aired) Coincidentally, that same uncle just passed away last week. Man. Anyway...
Yeah, expectations have definetly been lowered thanks to what we've seen in both the Reconstruction and it's remake, Mark of the Vampire. But I've just gotta see if Forry Ackerman was correct in saying that Groucho Marx "Stole" Chaney's duck-walk from this film. Which brings me to...
The one thing that I still have a hard time believing is how all copies of the film just seemed to have completely vanished between 1927 and the vault fire.
Weren't there ever no revival showings of the film during the 30's-60's?
Why didn't footage or clips of the film never appear in any documentaries or shorts during that whole time? (Like BOO!)
Was it ever shown on TV in the 50's? (When monstermania was all the rage)
Or better yet, does anyone own a copy of this mag?
If so, what was said about the film? Wasn't it available to see at that time?
It just seemed like the only people who ever saw the film was in 1927 and 1927 only. Then again, this is MGM we're talking about and they didn't champion their horror films the way Universal always did.
Weren't there ever no revival showings of the film during the 30's-60's?
Why didn't footage or clips of the film never appear in any documentaries or shorts during that whole time? (Like BOO!)
Spoiler:
Was it ever shown on TV in the 50's? (When monstermania was all the rage)
Or better yet, does anyone own a copy of this mag?
If so, what was said about the film? Wasn't it available to see at that time?
It just seemed like the only people who ever saw the film was in 1927 and 1927 only. Then again, this is MGM we're talking about and they didn't champion their horror films the way Universal always did.
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11-24-14, 08:41 AM
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Re: LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT found??
Hopefully it's out there somewhere. The long-lost Ted Healy and His Stooges short Hello Pop! was found in Australia last year after being considered lost since the 1967 MGM vault fire, where the last known print of London After Midnight was also reported to be.
Anything is possible.
I'm not sure why it's reputation is what it is. It wouldn't surprise me that if it is found one day that it doesn't nearly live up to expectations.
Anything is possible.
I'm not sure why it's reputation is what it is. It wouldn't surprise me that if it is found one day that it doesn't nearly live up to expectations.
