is the hideous 1973 remake of the 1937 classic, Lost Horizon. Thanks to the miracle of YouTube, curious or masochistic viewers can actually see clips from this piece of crap.
"Living Together, Growing Together":
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"The World is a Circle" (Liv Ullmann lip synchs Diana Lee's singing):
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Absolutely rancid. OF COURSE I have downloaded these clips to my iPod.
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Oh god oh god oh god. I've never seen this much of this movie before, having been scared off by the reviews at the time.
It's even worse than I had heard.
I can tell a small story about this wreck of a movie. When I was in Junior High School (as it was then called), we went on a field trip to the Burbank Studios -- the Warner Brothers lot. (Yes, they really have a prominent water tower, just like you see in the Animaniacs cartoons.) We saw some pretty amazing sets that day. For example, the Baker Street set built for "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" was still standing. It was in forced perspective, which means that the buildings got progressively smaller.
The "Lost Horizon" Shangri-La set (as seen in your first clip) was actually a redressed version of the castle built for "Camelot." If you look closely, you can see that the basic architecture is the same. I have to admit that it was all very impressive-looking.
Nevertheless, the studio guy giving the tour apologized for "Lost Horizon" -- then of very recent (and unhappy) memory -- and advised us never to see it. I never did.
He should have apologized for "Camelot," too.
Burt Bacharach's career never recovered, did it?
What is tragic is so many of these classic turkeys (not to mention many "real" classic films) are not yet on DVD.
I had a lot of movies on pre-recorded VHS, but they are gone thanks to my being unable to pay for the storage at a storage unit I had.
I would upload "At Long Last Love," but all I could do there was link to the YouTube, for the person posting the movie excerpts wouldn't provide the embed code. It's another one which has NEVER been out on video, period.
I can think of many films I want in my collection that I can't get yet on DVD. YouTube and other sharing sites are good to get the clips. I have been uploading a lot of them on iPod including those you see here on the blog.
Thanks, Joseph, for providing that insight about "Lost Horizon." I am kind of doing a "tribute" of sorts of selected bad movies, and I think it's a good break away from all of the crap going on in the world.
Obviously, I am uploading some classic film clips, too, not just the turkeys.
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