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You right. I didn't think of the timeline before but Welles was holed up in Europe til about the mid-Sixties, hiding from creditors, drinking good wine and squirreling away his treasures in various French chateau's to be discovered later.....like his print of TOO MUCH JOHNSON. And doing a bit more ...

Gary Johnson wrote:What with this and the Langdon discovery, you've been on quite a roll this past month solving your own lifetime film mysteries.

No, I 've had this print quite awhile, I just noticed yesterday that we had a thread talking about this from ages ago.



RICHARD M ROBERTS

Reviving another ancient thread, I can now state that I indeed have found a true Hal Roach print from Onyx Pictures! A print of THE MYSTERIOUS MYSTERY that I picked up awhile back has an Onyx Pictures THE END title on it! A nice print, with original opening and inter-titles, but the replaced Onyx en...

I would hazard a guess that Orson was among Deans annual twice-yearly guests for the duration of the shows run. And even afterwords. Many of those same guests ended up on Dean's silly Roasts in the '70's -- including Welles. Welles had met Greg Garrison back in the forties when Garrison was a teena...

Ron Fields was already busy humanizing his great-grandfather back in the mid-70's when his book came out. And he probably had a rougher road to hoe at that time since WC Fields was at the height of his revival popularity, his films played constantly in the major markets and his personae was known b...

Part of the problem with both Curtis's Spencer Tracy and James Whale books was that he was writing about people who were frequently assholes, you just really don't want to spend that close a company with those guys. Yes, totally. Tracy, in particular, came across as an unlikeable bore. But, Curtis....

Aw, Jeez.....I hated Curtis' s Spencer Tracy and James Whale books. His style doesn't agree with me at all....both those books were a trawl for me. Is the Fields, perchance, any more readable? It is. Curtis is a very thorough researcher, but he is a little dry and humorless (he doesn't "get&qu...

The guy over at Nitratevile who has been scanning his 35mm nitrate fragments posted two new ones yesterday: http://nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=18051 The ones that do not have Sessue Hayakawa, but have Otto Fries and Joseph Belmont appear to be from the 1928 Pathe' Smitty Comedy CAMPING ...

Just re-watched Mississippi . Only he could make the repetition of the "...wall of human flesh..." business funnier each time he repeats it. I read the Louvish book a few years ago. Is this the best available on Fields? No, James Curtis's book, simply called W. C. FIELDS is the one to get...

It's high time I re-watched this. My favourite Fields from the mid-30's would be You're Telling me and The Old Fashioned Way . Mississippi is a film I've seen once only. Incidentally, for any UK mafiosi on here, this set is the bizness: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-W-C-Fields-Collection-DVD/dp/B000V...