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Coloured version

posted 17 years ago by XxHengxX
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I heard that there is a coloured version on tape.

[–] emilymadison 17 years ago

Yeah, there is a colored version out there somewhere... it's really rare and hard to find, though.

[–] vpilutis 13 years ago

Never saw that one, what a stink was made back when with that colorzation business.

update they talk about film noir which is fine, however point in fact back then it was too costly to shoot in color and so most studios shot in B & W.

TAOE is the first of two films in a roll in B & W for Jim the other being 36 HOURS (1965)
also having to do with D DAY.

This was the 2nd time for the 2 Jims (Coburn & Garner) the first being of course

THE GREAT ESCAPE also about WWW II

I like to think Bret Maverick was an an Ancestor of both Charlie (TAOE)
and Hanley (TGE)

See some stars here
http://www.vbphoto.biz/

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[–] murph24 13 years ago

The colorized version is pretty ghastly.

Philip Lathrop's sharp black-and-white cinematography is one of the film's chief assets. The colorized version robbed the images of their clarity.

[–] liscarkat (16750) 3 years ago

By 1963, black-and-white was an aesthetic choice, not a budgetary one. The movie should be seen in black-and-white.