This week’s “Overlooked Films” contribution will be found in
the post directly below you (1953’s
Niagara);
I had originally planned to have my essay for
The
O Canada Blogathon finished Sunday but I had a few things get in the
way…and so I figured that if I completed it by Tuesday I could kill two blog features with one stone.
(I do not
recommend you make a habit of this, by the way—it gets a little messy.)
Actually, I’m really killing
three features with
one stone—
Niagara is the latest
acquisition to the Rancho Yesteryear’s expanding Blu-ray library…which makes
this a…
…yes, “Adventures in Blu-ray”—I’ve been meaning to return to
this ever since I inaugurated the semi-regular feature back in February with
And
Then There Were None (1945).
I’ve
been adding Blu-ray discs here and there, and a couple weeks ago I got one of
those “Deal of the Day” e-mails from Amazon announcing that the
Classic
Marilyn Monroe Collection was on sale for (trumpet fanfare) $34.99.
This is too good a deal to pass up, says I; sure, there are
some Marilyn movies that I’m not particularly a fan of (There’s No Business Like Show Business, River of No Return) but the set does contain Niagara, Gentlemen Prefer
Blondes (1953), Some Like it Hot
(1959) and The Misfits (1961)—those movies
alone would justify the cost of the collection.
With nine movies (the others are How
to Marry a Millionaire, The Seven
Year Itch and Bus Stop), it
works out to about $3.89 per flick…no freaking way was I going to sit that one out. And I made it so.
I had planned to supplement my
Niagara piece with a screen capture of a beautiful rainbow near the
falls in the movie but I learned to my disappointment that screen caps
apparently don’t work with the Blu-ray/DVD writer I purchased for the computer
back in December 2013.
(So that’s why
the stills are all black-and-white even though the movie is in
Technicolor.
I don’t feel so bad—the movie’s
trailer is in black-and-white, too.)
I’m
going to try and not be such a stranger with the “Adventures in Blu-ray” thing
but I’m one of those people who’ll only shell out money for that format if it’s
a movie I don’t have or to “upgrade” only those essential films already in my
collection.
Tomorrow: another entry in
TDOY’s “On the Grapevine” series.
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