Other decent bonuses on the DVD include a behind - the - scenes Still Gallery, Advertising Gallery, 4 postcard still / lobby card reproductions, and a short featurettes that briefly chronicles Tyrone Power's appearances in various swashbuckling actioners, with clips from a number of films extant on DVD, and a few likely on the horizon (like
the CinemaScope epic King of the Kyber Rifles), plus comments from the son of director John Cromwell — actor James Cromwell (the benevolent father figure in Babe, and Jack Bauer's monster dad in Season 6 of Fox» TV series 24).
Jean - Luc Godard's subversive foray into commercial filmmaking is a star - studded
Cinemascope epic.
Oh, did we mention that the neighbor's apartments are atop the local cinema, The Orpheum, wherein
the Cinemascope epics of the day seem to be on constant rotation?
Not exact matches
Artistically, this historical
epic, the first to be released in
CinemaScope is mediocre due to Kostler's pedestrian direction.
-- as her neighbor Giles, a closeted gay illustrator who lives with his cats in an apartment over a struggling movie house, currently showing a double feature of the
Cinemascope Biblical
epic Land of the Pharaohs and the Pat Boone musical Mardi Gras.
According to the three historians on the DVD's excellent commentary track, the film did enjoy strong box office returns and was anything but a creative failure, but Castile is symbolic of the
epic productions studios couldn't indulge in as often, until TV forced a return to bug budget
epics during the fifties, in the form of pseudo-moral Biblical sagas in
CinemaScope and stereophonic sound.
Once again in
CinemaScope, but now in Metrocolor, Home from the Hill is
epic melodrama.
How strange is it, then, that both 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days and Beyond the Hills are shot in a widescreen aspect ratio — the 2.35:1 often associated with the grand, expansive
CinemaScope Hollywood
epics of the 1950s?