VHS : The Royal Hunt of the Sun
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Rating:  - Interesting Drama / Wretched DVD
This is an astonishingly bad transfer to DVD for a film that I don't believe is in the public domain -- it's very tough to get through. It's a pity, as this is still an intriguing take on religion and imperialism. Shaw's performance as Pizzaro is both commanding yet convincingly conveys his credulousness in his new surroundings. Plummer as the Incan ruler with his petulant keening is more of a distraction. He sounds like Olivier and looks like Cher.
If this were ever restored, I'd give ... Read More
Rating:  - Would Be Fantastic in scratchy B&W
Superb story, superb acting, superb inspiration, superb mental stimulation. If this movies was grainy and snapped, crackled and popped like one of those 1920s talkies, it would still be among the very best in my collection. I've watched this movie many times, and have never noticed the picture quality. Criticising this movie on the basis of picture quality is like finding your favorite book less and less interesting because of the growing number of rips, stains and earmarks. There's not enough stars ... Read More
Rating:  - Excellent film - or at least it was originally
Others have mentioned the poor picture quality of this DVD - and it certainly seems to have been mastered from an NTSC video. The quality is therefore nothing to get excited about (the colours seeming weak) - but it's OK - and at least the film is in scope. However, this is not the film I originally saw in london in 1969 - which was approximately two hours long. The present version on DVD is getting on for half an hour shorter - and is the worse for the cuts. It may be that this abridged print was ... Read More
Rating: - Magnificent
This film adaptation of Peter Shaffer's play does complete justice to the intelligence and power of the original. While staying very close to historical truth, it is at the same time a timeless and haunting meditation on cultural differences, religion, loyalty, greed, power and friendship. The acting is absolutely superb: Robert Shaw's Pizarro weaves strength, doubt, lust for adventure and riches, and cunning combined with honesty and involuntary admiration for the Inca god-king he has taken prisoner. ... Read More
Rating: - A DVD zone DISCOVERY
If Imdb is right, THE ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN should last 118 minutes but the Similar DVD I own runs only 95 minutes. I have to assume that the missing 20 minutes of the copy have been buried somewhere in an anonymous warehouse. Too bad.
Too bad because what it's left of this film is really good. The english cast is superb with a special mention to Christopher Plummer whose performance as the Inca Atahualpa is really haunting. The slow motion technique used for the battle isn't gratuitous at all ... Read More
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