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...Flying Saucers" - ineradicable images of wrecked saucers slicing through the Capitol Dome - and "20 Million Miles to Earth," where Rome's Coliseum stood in for the Coney Island roller coaster. But by the end of the decade, the genre Harryhausen helped define was dying at the box office. Pop cinema was getting sexier and a lot more violent. As Ray later said about his unsuccessful 1969 picture "Valley of the Gwangi," "A naked dinosaur just was not outrageous enough...
...producer-director Merian C. Cooper had cut the sequence after the first preview. It seemed to him that it had stopped the picture cold.) Like Welles' cut of "Ambersons" or the original release print of Cukor's "A Star Is Born," the spider sequence has passed into the Missing Cinema Hall of Fame. It is still the subject of Internet rumours 78 years after it was first reported missing; the web fanatics insist it will appear on the long-delayed American...
...else in cinema ever imbued rubber and fur with the lifelike feel O'Brien achieved in "King Kong." The only other man who came close was Ray Harryhausen. But as Paul Jensen notes, "[Harryhausen] worked hard to make good, imaginative pictures, but he never worked with a person who could take him further than he might go alone, as Merian C. Cooper did for Willis O'Brien." Harryhausen was the aging animator's apprentice on his last great picture, "Mighty Joe Young," for which O'Brien won the Oscar. One of the lessons he learned was not to do things...
...owners--previously the theatre's projectionist and office manager, respectively--have no plans to alter the program of this historic site that has gone from debutante hall to playhouse to cinema in its one hundred and eleven year history...
...Friday, the Brattle Movie Theatre passed into the hands of two new owners. Ivy Moylan and Ned Hinkle are the third set to own the historic building in its current incarnation as a cinema...