My favorite A&C film,I first saw it in the 50's when it was released to television. Even as I grew up realizing it was corny,dumb,etc.it still has always stayed with me.Perhaps because I was also a Universal Horror film fan of the 30's & 40's and this picture was more or less the closing chapter for the Universal Monster pictures.
I was still so fascinated with it I bought the condensed 16mm Castle film version and then when the advent of Beta & VHS came on the scene in the late 70's early 80's I remember paying around 50 bucks for a VHS video which I still possess today. Of course when DVD's came along I had to buy those also. The DVD was especially cool because it had all the extras that never came on VHS tapes. Lobby Cards,cut scenes,narration by people that worked on the film, etc.Now with the Digital technology that has come about you can probably see a better quality image than theater audiences saw back in 1948.
I even like the colorized version. It's kind of sad when you go into the IMDb site and look up the film actors from the film and discover that they are all Dead now....
One thing about film is it keeps these actors with us as if they were still alive on this earth, entertaining us and not growing old as we all eventually do and staying the way we visualized them when we were kids....s.m.
I was still so fascinated with it I bought the condensed 16mm Castle film version and then when the advent of Beta & VHS came on the scene in the late 70's early 80's I remember paying around 50 bucks for a VHS video which I still possess today. Of course when DVD's came along I had to buy those also. The DVD was especially cool because it had all the extras that never came on VHS tapes. Lobby Cards,cut scenes,narration by people that worked on the film, etc.Now with the Digital technology that has come about you can probably see a better quality image than theater audiences saw back in 1948.
I even like the colorized version. It's kind of sad when you go into the IMDb site and look up the film actors from the film and discover that they are all Dead now....
One thing about film is it keeps these actors with us as if they were still alive on this earth, entertaining us and not growing old as we all eventually do and staying the way we visualized them when we were kids....s.m.