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Re: Russian Mysterious Island Movie

From: Craig Weatherhill <craig~at~agantavas.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:21:27 +0100
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Many, many thanks for making that available to us, Terry. It's the
finest adaptation of the book I've ever seen and I hugely enjoyed
every minute of it. So many scenes faithfully reproduced the original
illustrations, too. Wonderful!

Craig


On 7 Gwn 2011, at 17:39, Terry Harpold wrote:

> On Aug 30, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Garmt de Vries-Uiterweerd wrote:
>
>> Do a search for "таинственный остров 1941", which
>> yields a bunch of
>> results, including online versions of the film:
>>
>> http://io.ua/ve8440b880a972a18e218b4cfef18fc4c
>> http://teramult.org.ua/mult/1941_su_film_tainstvennyj.ostrov
>>
>> and a torrent for a DVD rip:
>> http://nnm-club.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=320969
>>
>> It's amazing how faithful and watchable some of these really old
>> films
>> are....
>
> Yes, I've been watching it again to prep for an essay I'm working
> on. It's a fine, faithful adaptation in many respects, but most of
> all in its visual design. Heads and shoulders in that regard above,
> for example, the Endfield/Harryhausen and Bardem/Colpi (Omar Sharif)
> versions. And, apart from the fidelity of the adaptation, just a
> better movie than those films.
>
> TH
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> Terry Harpold
> Associate Professor
> Dept. of English, University of Florida
> <http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/tharpold/>
>
> "We shall pick up an existence by its frogs."
>
>
>
>

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Craig Weatherhill

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