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'WWE' will be in a 4-film TCM sci-fi compilation due 2/2/10


Warner Home Video, which has been recycling already-released films in four-film sets under the TCM label, will be doing a second such sci-fi set of four to be released on Feb. 2, 2010.

The four films are World Without End, Satellite in the Sky, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms and Them!. The first two were of course released on the two-film disc now available. The second pair have been released both as singles and on a previous joint DVD. Since none of these movies is new to disc, the only reason to get this set would be to have all four at a good price, $19.95 SRP, and obviously cheaper when you look around.

All this is fine, and this is a good set, but it would be nice if Warner would devote its resources to issuing still-unreleased films on regular DVD instead of recycling the same things over and over...though this hardly makes them unique in the film world.

And incidentally...I saw a copy of the cover for this set, with small illustrations of all four movies, and the one for World Without End is weird: it appears to show Hugh Marlowe and a couple of the women confronting a beefy, bare-chested man in a black hood, wielding an ax or something, like a medieval executioner -- but most definitely nobody seen anywhere in World Without End, that's for sure! (It's absolutely not a mutate.) Who draws this stuff anyway? Updated 2/7/10: Okay, my mistake. I finally saw the DVD at a store today and upon close examination the illustration for WWE does in fact show a mutate (apparently Naga) wielding a stone ax at Borden, Garnet and Deena (a paste-up scene obviously not in the actual film). He's only shown from behind, with just a big shaggy head of hair that looks from a distance (or if reproduced only in a tiny picture) like the hood covering for the medieval executioner I mistook the guy for. (Even the ax doesn't look right.) So in terms of the film, while it's not a great illustration, it's reasonably accurate to the picture. As Mories said when his plot was discovered and he was running away to the safety of the great outdoors, Never mind.

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<Who draws this stuff anyway?>

Naga, maybe? Oh, sorry: he won't be around for another 500 years!!

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Yet amazing that he etched all the artwork in his cave equipped with only one tono and one caborra. And with a notable eye for detail....

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Hey, gary, I was wrong about Naga's picture. Check the green-print addendum in my OP.

Damn those mutates' post-modern art!

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Yup, I bought the four-film DVD a few days ago at Costco. $9.99 for four '50s SciFi movies, works for me. Bought it for Them! and Rod Taylor. Saw Them! when I was little and just watched World Without End, enjoyed it immensely. I have yet to watch Beast or Satellite, but if they're anywhere near as good as Them! or as entertaining as WWE, I'll count myself a happy customer.

I love those TCM movie packs.

"He's already attracted to her. Time and monotony will do the rest."

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It sounds like you hadn't seen World Without End until you got this set. Glad you liked it -- it's always been one of my favorites, since I first saw it on TV in the early 60s. And I too am a big Rod Taylor fan.

I think you'll like Beast, which is extremely well done -- great Ray Haryhausen effects, good story. Most people don't like the British-made Satellite in the Sky very much. I had only seen it twice, in a black & white, pan & scan, very poor print, until this DVD came out. The difference in that respect was enormous, seeing it in crisp color and letterboxed, but the film itself is only so-so: not bad, but a bit plodding, not anything special or particularly interesting, though its British origins and efforts at realism make it a bit different. Worth having for its obscurity if nothing else.

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