tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843634353855656183.post622445735780805898..comments2023-07-27T04:47:43.897-07:00Comments on Fleapit of the Mind: JANUARY 1, 2013Weavermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09833233577048591427noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843634353855656183.post-78590965868697237692013-01-03T20:10:01.655-08:002013-01-03T20:10:01.655-08:00Actually the musical monkeys, I think, was always ...Actually the musical monkeys, I think, was always in the picture and I don't think one has to lay that at Florey's doorstep. But yes your thinking that "something went wrong in the editing" was indeed the case as the film we have today does not correspond to the order of the scenes in the shooting script. The aforementioned magazine article took the shooting script as a departure point in reconstructing how the film was originally supposed to run. I really really must try to find that article so I can see if there is an improvement when re-ordering the scenes.Cerptshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07788317865445255338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843634353855656183.post-76610250249739075332013-01-03T12:38:17.172-08:002013-01-03T12:38:17.172-08:00ROGUE'S REGIMENT can be viewed on You Tube. I ...ROGUE'S REGIMENT can be viewed on You Tube. I didn't know that about MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE. I don't actually dislike the film but it has always seemed to me that something went wrong in the editing. Many of the scenes are striking although those closeups where the gorilla becomes an angry chimp are disastrous. Perhaps Universal put those in and it is unfair to blame Florey. He remains an interesting figure.Weavermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09833233577048591427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843634353855656183.post-5043692662016634712013-01-02T18:09:43.451-08:002013-01-02T18:09:43.451-08:00ROGUE'S REGIMENT is one of those films I read ...ROGUE'S REGIMENT is one of those films I read about in books on Vincent Price and never hoped to get a chance to see. However, as for MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE, are you familiar with the original scene order which we never saw because the studio rearranged the scenes? One of those horror film magazines like MONSTERS FROM THE VAULT or MIDNIGHT MARQUEE or some such actually published an article listing each scene's original order so that one may shuffle the scenes to play how they were meant to be seen by Florey and apparently the film is better for it. I never tried it (especially since I can't remember what magazine it was in to get the scene list LOL) but I do remember the first scene in the film was supposed to be the scene in the fog with the two men knife-fighting and Bela waiting in the coach. Ah well. I'll have to dig out that magazine and give it a try.Cerptshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07788317865445255338noreply@blogger.com