Third Man on the Mountain
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Movie Reviews of Third Man on the Mountain
Movie Review: Great for Michael Rennie fans!
Summary: 4 Stars
This Disney film, based on a true story of a young man's quest in the mid-1800's to conquer a mountain in the Swiss Alps that claimed the life of his father 16 years earlier is visually stunning, realistic, and an exciting story. For those of us who are Michael Rennie fans, we get very few films in which Rennie has a featured role. In this one, as famed British mountain climber John Winter, who takes a liking to the young man and who helps him (James MacArthur) to reach his goal, Rennie shines and makes this 1959 movie a must for his fans.
The combination of Rennie, a rollicking adventure story, and the location filming in the Swiss Alps make this film a treat all around.
Movie Review: Third Man
Summary: 4 Stars
The movie was interesting to watch. I enjoy especially for looking for special effects and how well they are done and the realism displayed in the acting. I thought the movie was well done.Movie Review: I like this movies true stories of about a small town and a Mountain.
Summary: 4 Stars
I like this movies true stories of about a small town and a Mountain. When they lost a man years ages. The boy son was well play as going after his father dream.Movie Review: Mountaineering adventure
Summary: 4 Stars
Excellent family movie, all good clean adventure with a moral, with many very realistic period Alpine climbing sequences. One of the best of its kind.Movie Review: Gret Old Classics/Poor Video Transfers
Summary: 3 Stars
I love this movie and was delighted to see it appear at last on DVD. That is until I watched it. I was going to comment on the picture quality of this new DVD, but someone in New York beat me to it. All I can do is agree with that individual.
I worked at the Disney Studios in the 1970's in 16mm film distribution (just prior to the coming of home video). I distributed 16mm prints of this title. A new 16mm print struck at that time had a much better picture quality than the element used to make this current DVD transfer. The main problem is negative dirt. It's like watching a film in a snow storm. The N.Y. reviewer also correctly observed that the color correction was uneven.
Some audiences do not notice these technical flaws. Yet those in the industry have spent decades trying to improve the quality of how to present film product. DVDs are marketed on this very point. After all, what else do studios have to offer but their inventories? If all the Hollywood studios can agree to spend millions of dollars over the years investing in the latest technology, then they must care how to present their work in the best possible light. Or not, apparently.
For over three decades, video equipment has existed that can electronically "clean up" much of the dirt and some of the scratches that show up on video from a poor original source. The best way is to strike a new interpositive from the camera original negative (the original should first be chemically "washed"). You color correct when you make the digital transfer. I have overseen this process many times during my years in the video trarnsfer business. In this way, you will create the absolute best transfer possible. Otherwise, why bother?
I must also observe that this problem exists with many new Disney DVD transfers, and from films far more recent than THIRD MAN. Unfortunately, Disney isn't the only studio going "on the cheap." I just saw a new DVD of MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS. I think the print/negative they used must have first been run over BY the Orient Express.
This is now almost an exact science. It also isn't that cost prohibitive when you consider the length of time a DVD will last. Don't you want your name on the BEST quality product? Poor workmanship shows. I must say that this transfer does not show the pride the Disney people put into their work when I was at the Studio (in the pre-Eisner days).
On the plus side, the soundtrack is fairly clean, although here, too, great advances have been made in "cleaning up" and fully restoring audio elements. Just having THIRD MAN ON THE MOUNTAIN available on video again isn't enough, especially when you don't care (and here I'll borrow a tag line) "to send the very best."