Ten Day's Wonder

[dmolson]

Orson Welles' Ten Days Wonder is due out Mar. 4 on dvd, so says amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec....5735966

Anybody know anything about this?

[jaime marzol]

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my local vid store for the artsy crowd has 10 DAYS WONDER. i rented it. i didn't make it 20 minutes into the film. some one else might like it, i didn't.

[Obssessed_with_Orson]

i just can't find it anywhere. so i decided to read it.

i didn't know that about mr ellery queen. that he puts himself in as the detective in the story. when he brought up all the proof against the character orson played, oh man, i was actually wondering how all that had happened myself.

oh man...orson's character in the book was one big bad boy.

and that was the perfect part for mr perkins to play too. as much a nervous wreck in that story as he was in psycho.

bye now!

[maxrael]

there's a (possibly snidey) version of Ten Days Wonder available on DVD which lists the language as 'english dubbed'...

Am i correct in thinking the film was originally shot in French?.. does anyone know anything about the dubbed version?.. i.e. was it dubbed by original cast members or terrible voice-over artists?! i don't think even i could sit through a film where OW's voice has been dubbed by someone else!!

i wonder why they didn't just include subtitles!!

[ToddBaesen]

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Watched the DVD of TEN DAYS WONDER, and although I'm sure it's not everybody's cup of tea, I thought it was a superb movie. Claude Chabrol directed brilliantly, and he comes up with some beautifully mesmerizing color camera work, although he does overuse the zoom lens a bit too much. It certainly contains Welles' best performance out of all the seventies films he appeared in. Just the fact that he is the major character in the film helps, since by this time, he usually did brief cameo's in which he clearly wasn't too interested in the roles he was playing. This is a part like that of Harry Lime where Welles dominates all the action, but unlike in THE THIRD MAN, he has a lot of screen time.

The film is admittedly very slow for a thriller, but it seems very much in the same style as Welles' own work on THE TRIAL. In fact it opens with a little homage to THE TRIAL, with a beautifully recited Welles' voice over, before we see Anthony Perkins waking up from a nightmare in a strange Paris hotel room, in a out of focus shot like the opening of THE TRIAL. Later, the character Welles play, Theo Van Horn, refers to a Labyrinth, and it's almost as if this very rich man is a composite of Mr. Clay from THE IMMORTAL STORY and MR. ARKADIN, in his attempts to play God with the life of his adopted son (Perkins).

Also, Welles appears in several scenes wearing his trademark black cape, smoking his cigar, as if he stepped right out of F FOR FAKE. Just for Welles performance alone, I'd say this is highly recommended viewing.

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[TheMcGuffin]

I have seen the DVD available at various places and have put it in my Netflix queue but have not watched yet. From what I hear the transfer is horrible but the movie itself is supposed to be good. The dvd edition that i saw had a commentary track on it that looked interesting, it was by a critic that I had heard of but cannot remember at this moment. I'll post something when i get around to watching it.

Rob