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RELEASE DATES? QUESTION

posted 20 years ago by dextermovies
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Since this movies pretty old I'm hoping I catch someone visiting this movies site who knows a little about it's release dates. I would swear that I remember my Grandfather taking me to see this - I know I was pretty young, maybe seven or so but I wasn't even born in 1962 so it couldn't have been the original release. What I'm wondering is does anyone know if and when this film was re-released in theaters? I'm kinda curious if what I think I'm remembering was real or if it's just some event I mixed up with something else since I was so little. Thanks for any help!

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[–] BijouBob8mm 19 years ago

A number of George Pal's films were re-released over the years. (For example, in the wake of the success of STAR WARS, WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE and WAR OF THE WORLDS were reissued on a double bill.) And some theatres would occasionally have kiddie matinees, where they would book a print of an older classic for weekend afternoons or holiday showings. I don't know if that was the case with GRIMM or, if so, when this would have been done, but it's possible. With the new Terry Gilliam BROTHERS GRIMM film in theatres, I would love to see the Pal film get a deluxe DVD treatment, letterboxed. (It was shot using the 3 camera/3 projector Cinarama process.)

[–] jmrobbins42 18 years ago

I saw this movie in Syracuse NY at the Cinerama theater in the Fall of 1962.
I was in the Air Force then and went to Germany in 1963 where I visited every location for that film. The plaque is still on the bench at the park in Rothenburg, Bavaria.

[–] covergirlpageant 18 years ago

I saw this movie in a Cinerama theatre in Nashville in 1962. It was a major movie even that year - I remember there was a billboard for the film on Brainard Road in Chattanooga at the same time, and tie-in merchandise included the soundtrack album and the jizsaw puzzle you could buy. I saw it again at a non-cinerama theatre in 1963, where it was shown without the three-strip process.

Although the MGM video of this film is full frame, MGM did release a widescreen laserdisc version of the film which has almost (if not all) of the original three-strip image. This laserdisc is long since out of print, so I'm glad I bought a copy while it was available.

[–] Ken K. 14 years ago

During the early '70's, MGM started to re-release several of their roadshow movies to neighborhood theaters as a series of films to be shown, I believe, about one every other week. I remember this because one of them was my wife and I's first date, "Doctor Zhivago." I remember them doing this twice and one of them included "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm."

[–] Ken K. 14 years ago

Oh, and another thing MGM did. They did a series of Saturday afternoon family movies during this period played on consecutive weekends and this was definitely one of them also.

[–] trhickey 13 years ago

Growing up on the West Coast, we made only one visit Back East to see relatives in July 1964. During that trip, my aunt took us to see The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, so it was clearly playing as a feature film in movie houses several years after its original release. This might reflect the limited number of Cinerama films available for those venues.