mmcgee282 Review of September Storm

September Storm (1960)

Flamico dance of Ernesto and Charita is not lost

[9/10 · 28 March 2017]

The poster of the movie gave an Impression that it was an added 3D short to adventures of Sam space,no.The dancers were in the film.This film was practically entertaining.There was a strong focus on story plot and characters rather than throwing things at the camera .This movie is fun in 2d too.When Asher Dann's boss,played by Jean Pierre Kerien, go back home from his trip in Majorca, young handsome Asher has the boat to himself.He meets Joann Dru ,playing a model on vacation.They both decide to go underwater scuba diving for sea shells.Comes Mark Stevens and his side kick Robert Strauss,looking for adventure and excitement checking the ship.They all meet in surprise and decide to go looking for treasure,without Dann letting everyone know that this bosses ship and he ,Dann, does not own it.The 3D cinematography is excellent,although in the scene in which mark is talking about searching for gold to Jo,all her close up shots are flat,there are one or two other scenes with the same problems.Guess?the second print was missing or there was a camera problem at the time. Even though it was mono,the scene where Jo is playing her records in the yacht,the music sounds stereo,the music goes on the left side of the speaker as the scene she is on the left of the screen.The second scenes of the music is very stereo.The archivists must have tweet that part of the sound.Robert Strauss always plays small parts in films and disappears.In this case he show case how much he was a good actor in playing longer scenes in this film as Steve's best friend ,still plays the heavy.I don't know how they did this, but, Mark gets stung by a jelly fish and I think they used a real one.How did they prevent him from being stung?There are several music number in this film,as I stated one of them earlier.The band that was in the film was popular at the time and a record ,the song of the film, had come out.It was restore and played a s part of the ending credits in restoration .Asher is interviewed,shot in 3D,although older and has changed still handsome.I am not being personal neither,but, general.He does not remember that it was being played in theater in some areas in 3D .He remember that it was decided to show it flat.In the disc you got the 3D puppet animated short Adventures of Sam space,cause it was a part of the original release of the feature,but, you also got something added as extra.It's a British black and white variety short in 3d.Harmony Lane.It's not even on the i.m.d.b yet.It is the first time that it's being played in 3D .The theatrical release was not put out until year later ,when 3d was dead.The best parts of the revue,the ballet dancers.The Beverly sisters singing the standard side by side.Max Bygraves playing a record salesman in a skit and the customer wanting the records of Tennessee Ernie,Ford?and he does not have it,breaks out in a song.The Scottish kilt chorus dancers.In an interview the director,Lewis Gilbert,under the name Byron Gil stated that years later ,when he took his young son to a charlie Chaplin film ,that this short,in flat ,was second part of the show.The audience,of the time, did not like it and were booing it.He was glad that he did not use his real name,when he shot the short .This was worth the wait.I'm surprise that more 3D prints did not go out to more theaters.It was good.There was no 3twentieth century fox log.It was independently produced.03/28/17