Fox is currently doing a fabulous job with its "Cinema Classics Collection" DVDs, well "Journey to the Center of the Earth" is a film that certainly merits a special edition with commentary track(s). Pat Boone, Arlene Dahl and Diane Baker are still alive and active and could contribute. I'd also like to see a featurette on the making of this classic film. If any fan of this film wants to see such a DVD, let Fox Home Video know!
shareIt's allright for me. This one is a pure masterpiece of the genre... along with fleisher's "20000 leagues", "jason and the argonauts" and "thief of bagdad" the one with sabu, directed by korda, powell etc... "time machine" by george pal, also... and a few others maybe... well... i saw it on tv (journey i mean) when i was a kid, and it was one of the few i remembered... I saw it again a few years ago, and the magic is still there... i definitely love it. 12 i would give, but the maximum is 10... so i give 12 anyway...
shareThis film truly is magical. Great sets, good performances, Great score. Full of wonder and imagination. Fun. They just don't make them like this anymore.
shareDVD talk has a confirmed, but no other details of an SE of JTTCOTE.
Actually, this is all but guaranteed-FOX is putting out an 2 disc SE of Irwin Allens cheeseshow-THE LOST WORLD-and it comes with the 1925 silent version as bonus!
IF they can do that, then a new Journey SE is all but guaranteed
Thats marketing genius, FOX -TLW would never have sold on its own.
If true, that's great news about a S.E. of JTTCOTE. Let's just hope they bother to contact Pat Boone, Arlene Dalh and Diane Baker, as I for one would love to hear their rememberances. By the way, I rented, but did not buy, Fox's recent "The Loat World" S.E. DVD. It was nice, but no isolated score or commentary track, though I doubt anyone would have much good to say about it. (The commentary track to Irwin Allen's "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" is a joke. Very amateurish.) The good things about it were an extensive still, ad, and art gallery, a vintage featurette (which was nothing much), and a Fox Movietone News segment on the New York City premiere, with a smiling David Hedison signing autographs for an audience of mostly little kids. Hedison has stated how depressed he was doing "The Lost World," so I guess this shows just how professional he was. Anyway, another great feature extra was an "interactive" pressbook. Let's hope Fox does at least these things for JTTCOTE, though they had bloody better do an isolated score and commentary track!
shareyou can get the complete score on CD of JOURNEY on Varese Sarabande label....so why worry about isolated score on the DVD?
shareI would love to see a "special edition". I have this movie on DVD because it is one of my earliest childhood memories. My older brother took me to see this movie in his 1957 Chevrolet and we sat in the balcony. Quite a treat for a young 6 year-old. Ahhh, those were the days...
On my DVD the music score seems to drown out the dialog in a lot of places. I would like to have a cleaner version sound and picture-wise.
Oh, I've had the Varese CD since it came out, but what Fox is doing now is isolated scores WITH commentary between the cues. It's a great new feature and I think JTTCOTE deserves it.
shareMy fav film with North By Northwest just behind, there are so many good films that i like, but i never get bored by this one. And if you look in film books it always gets 3-4 marks. So i would like to see a special edition dvd, and it has been 49 years since it was made?, so now or never i think.
shareFOX re-did a couple years back:
1. VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA (RM)
2.FANTASTIC VOYAGE (RM)
3 THE LOST WORLD (1st time)
4 THE POSIEDON ADVENTURE (actually not quite in the same era)RM
while THE FLY and THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL are classic and have been redone-thees are my top FOX
sci fi classics
Dec, 2009 is the 50 th anniveresary JTTCOTE
It is a great film, a steady seller, considered a classic, and has the well regarded Bernard Herrman score
I knew they had to be waiting for something
It has to come out this fall, economic collapse or not
ARLENE DOLL(sic) is SOOOOOOOO luscious-and as a model, she was game to go thru the dirt grime, water and other "dangerous" situations; No wonder (Alex) Pat Bone had a thing for her...er BOONE, sorry!
Apparently her relationship behind the camera with James Mason was close to as presented in the film
Masons sexism is halarious ("Typical female question...Lava will melt......")
Is it me but for 1959 these seemed to be a lot of subtle sexual innuendos
I find the double takes a bit corny- lift blanket, dead man- moves on-then it strikes him-alex
The Dimetrodons were great-and the screen writters didnt make the mistake of calling it a TYRANNOSAURUS REX
WONDER IF THERe IS ANY CUT FOOTAGE
I have the recent UK copy and its odd they didnt use the alternate "alma matter " songs shown in the previous edition