Director John Ford was
nominated Best Director by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences on
five different occasions (winning for The Informer, The Grapes of Wrath, How
Green was My Valley and The Quiet Man) so you would think
that if he made a film it would only be reasonable that those who hire him
would simply stand back and enjoy the fruits of his labor.
That was not the case
with his 1946 Western, My Darling Clementine, which is
being released as a new 4K digital restoration on Oct. 14 as both Blu-ray and
double-disc DVD product offerings.
Legend
has it that then 20th Century-Fox studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck took
a look at the pre-theatrical cut of the film during a test screening and ordered
30 minutes of cuts and then brought in another director to reshoot connecting
footage. The result was a film that
clocked in at around 97 minutes.
Even with the cuts and
tinkering My Darling Clementine remains a masterpiece of filmmaking …
Criterion will be presenting both the “Zanuck” theatrical cut and the 1995 UCLA
Film Archives version, which runs roughly six minutes longer and features some
of the excised footage.
Other bonus goodies
include a newly-prepared commentary from John Ford biographer Joseph McBride
(“Searching For John Ford: A Life”), the 1916 silent short film, A Bandit’s
Wager, NBC News features on the history of both Tombstone and Monument Valley
and the 1947 Lux Radio Theatre presentation with Henry Fonda and Cathy Downs.
Also on the October
release calendar from the Criterion Collections are DVD and Blu-ray editions of
La
Dolce Vita (newly restored, Oct. 21), director Orson Welles’ F for
Fake (Oct. 21) and director George Sluizer’s 1988 thriller, The
Vanishing (Oct. 28).
Lastly, on Oct. 28 the
Criterion Collection will be releasing a seven-disc Blu-ray collection, as well
as a 12-disc DVD box set, of The Complete Jacques Tati. Included is this collectible set(s) are: Jour de Fete, Monsieur Hulot Holiday, Mon
Oncle, Playtime, Trafic and Parade, plus seven of the
filmmaker’s short films — On Demande une Brute (1934), Gai
Dimanche (1935), Soigne Ton Gauche (1936), L’école
des Facteurs (1946), Cours du Soir (1967), Forza
Bastia (1978), and Dégustation Maison (1978).
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