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The Cecil B. DeMille Collection - 5.31.06

post #1 of 2
1/19/06 at 3:49am
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I know this may excite only three people - but goddamit I'll be a eunich if this didn't make my loins rise.

From Various DVD websites:
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Universal Studios Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of The Cecil B. DeMille Collection for 23rd May 2006 priced at $59.98 SRP. This five-disc set includes the following films directed by Cecil B. DeMille: Sign of the Cross, Four Frightened People, Cleopatra, The Crusades and Union Pacific.

All films are presented in 1.33:1 Full Frame with English DD2.0 Mono audio and optional English SDH, French and Spanish subtitles. Bonus features are TBC.
I love most of these films - Four Frightened People I have yet to see. Still, Cleopatra! The Crusades! Union Pacific! Now I need Story of Dr. Wassle and the rest to be satiated.

View the artwork here.
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post #2 of 2
2/7/06 at 1:02am
I am going to preorder this.
"Union Pacific" is a particular favorite of mine,since the topic facsinates me.
Granted, it treatment of Native Americans is bad....and I am not one a fanatic on the subject....but it still a enormously entertaining film, and although the main characters are ficititous the costuming and physical production are damn accurate,and the recreation of the Golden Spike ceremony is dead on accurate.
BTW, one of the locomotives used in the film is on display about three miles from me in the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, and is still in working order, and is still used in several films.
And I note "The Plainsmen" is missing from the collection.
I wonder if "Sign of the Cross" will include the prologue that De Mille made in 1944 for it's rerelease,in which a group of US Airman flying a mission in Italy see Rome from the air, and make comparasion between Nero and Hitler, and then goes into the main story. This prologue was in when I first saw this but when the AFI restored the film in the early 90's, it was left out. I can understand going with the original, but the 44 prologue would make a interesting extra.
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