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Quo Vadis is being restored.

posted 19 years ago by dalbrech
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Warner's, which owns the MGM pre 1970 catalog, has stated that "Quo Vadis" will need a major restoration job before it can be released with the visual quality that Warner's wants for it major release of Classic films. So it is coming out on DVD, but it will be a couple of years since that is how long these restoration jobs take.
SO much for the conspiracy theories by a few Fundy Christians.

[–] furienna 19 years ago

Well, goody goody!

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[–] furienna 18 years ago

So Peter Ustinov was knighted? Well, he seems to have deserved it, if he always was as good, as he was in "Quo vadis"!

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[–] DoctorStrangelove 18 years ago

Thanks for the info.

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[–] mel_bru 18 years ago

""Warner's, which owns the MGM pre 1970 catalog, has stated that "Quo Vadis" will need a major restoration job before it can be released with the visual quality that Warner's wants for it major release of Classic films. So it is coming out on DVD, but it will be a couple of years since that is how long these restoration jobs take.""

Great, and I've just ordered the "Official release" South Korean DVD version. Apparently it's in 'widescreen' format. Looking forward to receiving it.

[–] cwente2 18 years ago

"Quo Vadis" was not shot in a widescreen format. It was released in 1951, before such processes were developed.

[–] dalbrech 18 years ago

"Quo Vadis" was not shot in a widescreen format. It was released in 1951, before such processes were developed.

Not quite accurate.They actually had a widescreen process in 1930,but the first film to be released in it "The BIg Trail" was a huge bomb and killed any interest in the process until the advent of Television. (It also killed the career of it's star,John Wayne for about eight years. It was his first starring role,and he was stuck in grade b Westerns until "Stagecoach" in 1939 because of the failure of "The Big Trail".)
But you are right that Quo Vadis was not filmed in widescreen. Ironically enough,it's huge sucess is what caused Fox to produce the first Cinemascopt film "The RObe".
Any release of Quo Vadis in widescreen is a marketing gimmick.