Posted on 07/31/2004 9:41:51 PM PDT by det dweller too
The original movie, which was taken out of release [ie hidden] for 25 years is on PBS NOW. Started at 12:30 EDT
It may be a local broadcast.
I get 2 different PBS channels from 2 states and neither are showing it.
Is the new version a PC remake, or authentic?
Hidden for 25 years? I've seen it on cable 100 times.
I have it on DVD. Frankenheimer made some great stuff.
After Kennedy was shot, Sinatra bought the rights and locked it up. People thought it may have caused the assasination. It was released again around 1986. That's what I have read.
Gad! How many light years from Earth are you? It played last night on the Dallas PBS (P of Boiling S) station...
PBS here in s texas is showing an Iraq War propaganda movie starring Edward Olmos.
Same here. Sounds like someone has been in hiding for 25 years.
I saw it, I loved it! Way cool, way creepy - the Senator's wife is most definitely Hillary!
Sinatra did, in fact, keep it buried for 25 years. But the 25 byears ended over a decade ago.
I love this movie. Janet Leigh fall for a neurotic Frank Sinatra on a train. Only in Hollywood. Well, I hope the new version flops. It's a total bastardization of the old script.
Typical of leftist hollyweird.
I saw it in a theatre on the big screen sometime between 91 and 93 so it cant be 25 years.
The first movie implicates the far-left wing in planting a commie in the presidential race.
For 2004, the far-left wing movie industry rewrites the move to have an "evil" right wing plant for the presidential race.
I guess Hollywood is too worried that the original story mirrors John Kerry's campaign too closely.
A classic that is still a very scary movie...too bad the remake decided to make out the bad guys as being the nebulous corporate fat cats instead of the real enemies which are still North Kprea China and Russia...the original may well have been intended to suggest that the right wing was overly paranoid but seen now some 40 years later I consider it to be a prescient film.
Just saw the new one. Basically the subtext is an anti-Bush campaign ad. Really took away from my ability to critique the film. Suffice it to say the first one was far more coherent and believable.
"How about a game of Solitaire?"
Saw the remake this afternoon. Not bad, but nowhere near as powerful as the original. Other Freepers may disagree, but I liked the idea of the McCarthy-esque Senator actually being a tool of the ChiComs.
Actually, the Meryl Streep character reminds me a lot of Hillary, albeit with a khaki pantsuit. The "candidate" himself is a "war hero" who spouts platitudes about "equality."
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