Page 2 of 2
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 12:16 pm
by Roger Ryan
Store Hadji wrote: Any unique footage under the narration could be played silent, with ambient sound made from other bits of the soundtrack, or use actors to speak the lost lines...
Actually, the dialogue and/or sound effects removed to make room for the narration can be found in the earlier "European" cut.
One more interesting note: in both versions, the scene where Frank Readick's character tells Graham about attending a socialist meeting has been edited in immediately after Graham leaves the captain's quarters. In the preview version (and as originally scripted), this scene came later, following the one where Graham secretly meets with Kuvetli. I believe the new reconstructed version of the film returns the "socialist meeting" scene to its originally intended position in the running sequence, improving both pacing and continuity.
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 2:44 pm
by Terry
Didn't Welles say that Kuvetli is seen peering out from a porthole after his character had been murdered? I've always looked for whatever it was that Welles was talking about and have never been able to find it.
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 3:21 pm
by Roger Ryan
Store Hadji wrote:Didn't Welles say that Kuvetli is seen peering out from a porthole after his character had been murdered? I've always looked for whatever it was that Welles was talking about and have never been able to find it.
Welles didn't mention Kuvetli specifically, but since that character is the only one to die on board the boat, he must be the one Welles was talking about. It's possible that this continuity error is in the earlier "European" edit, but I don't recall seeing it the one time I viewed that version. That's the one Welles probably saw when he was brought back into the project in the fall of '42. As I mentioned in another thread, the whole death of Kuvetli plays sloppily in the Welles' salvage version (the American release), so either Welles made some poor choices with this segment or more cutting took place after he was through with it.
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 3:26 pm
by chrissie
Being trivial, about that mole. I think I first noticed it in The Third Man, maybe even a still from it. But he has it in everything, even when he was old. It just doesn't always show up too much. The black makeup in Othello emphasises it a bit.
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 3:57 pm
by Terry
I hate to say this, but now I'll have to look for it every time I see the films or any photos.
Oh well. Since Welles now has me hearing baby-talk whenever I watch a John Wayne film, I guess it's only fair that I'm looking for his mole...
Re: Random Banter about some Rare Things
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2023 3:39 pm
by Joe G
It's a pity Stefan Droessler's longer version of Journey into Fear was never released on DVD. Hopefully someday it will be.