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List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $21.99 You Save: $2.96 Features • Color • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 27 April, 1963 DVD Release : 11 February, 2003 |
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The Day of the Triffids description This 1962 version of The Day of the Triffids has been a TV staple for many years, more probably because of a lasting affection for John Wyndham's original novel than any high regard for the film itself. The premise--a meteor shower blinds almost all of humanity, just as a space-borne strain of ambulatory killer plants begins to proliferate--is so strong that it's easy to overlook the frankly messy realization of it. The film opens well, sticking close to the book, as Howard Keel awakens in a London hospital after an eye operation and takes off the bandages to discover that he can see but most of the rest of the population can't. There are unsettling, effective bits with a plane literally flying blind and the beginnings of panic among the fumbling survivors, and one good Triffid encounter in a fog. Then the film is strangely compelled to stray all over the map, with trips to France and Spain that have no discernible purpose. Director Steve Sekely's original cut was adjudged so disastrous that an uncredited Freddie Francis was brought in to shoot a whole new subplot, featuring Keiron Moore and Janette Scott in a vine-besieged lighthouse, to thread through the old footage. The results are less satisfying than the later BBC serial adaptation, but it still has some irresistible end-of-the-world and killer-plant material. --Kim Newman |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS?---WELL, SORT OF. |
| I'm a HUGE fan of John Wyndham's books LIKE [[ASIN:0812967127 The Day of the Triffids (20th Century Rediscoveries)]],[[ASIN:0237526891 The Midwich Cuckoos: Fast Track Classics (Fast Track Classics Series)]], and [[ASIN:0140010750 The Kraken Wakes]] so movie versions of ANY of these have to be pretty faithful to satisfy me. So far, I have been made happiest by [[ASIN:B000TSTEO6 The Day of the Triffids]] which was a six part mini-series that ran on the BBC back in 1981 and stuck rather closer to the book than this movie managed to do.
Still and all...we have Janette Scott (forever immortalized in the opening song (along with the Triffids) "Science Fiction Double Feature" from [[ASIN:B00006D295 The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Widescreen Edition)]] who was married to Kieron Moore at the time she made this and my other favorite of her films CRACK IN THE WORLD which co-starred Dana Andrews (of LAURA fame). But the other thrill is seeing Carol (Carole) Ann Ford as "Bettina" a blind French girl. I'm thrilled because, of course, she played "Susan" the grand-daughter of William Hartnell's character on the first season of DOCTOR WHO waaay back in 1963. No...this isn't a great movie---but it has some hidden treasures. |
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