Never a truer word Franc. It would be interesting to know how some movies
would have fared without a title change, and why some titles were only changed
in some regions. Out Of The Past, for example, was released in the UK under
the original book title Build My Gallows High. Going the other way, A Matter Of
Life And Death became the more optimistic Stairway To Heaven in the US.
Perhaps us Brits were thought to have a more lugubrious temperament!
A well-known post-release re-think was Billy Wilder's Ace In The Hole/The
Big Carnival with materials printed for both - the movie still flopped at the
time I believe. And personally I much prefer I Wake Up Screaming to Hot Spot.
I was surprised when Heritage managed to turn up a lobby a few years ago for
Before The Fact, the working title for Hitchcock's Suspicion. In that case,
the change of title was surely the right way to go.
On the Hitchcock theme, I have a Notorious Quad in my collection (not for
sale) which has been curiously re-titled with a large customised snipe. I've
put an image at this link:-
_http://www.movieposterstudio.com/tmp1/NotoriousQuad.jpg_
(http://www.movieposterstudio.com/tmp1/NotoriousQuad.jpg)
If anyone knows why, or has seen this done for other Notorious material, I'd
be interested to know. I assume it's from the 1954 re-release, as it has
similarities with the US posters. My own pet theory, probably rather fanciful,
is that it resulted from Ingrid Bergman's scandalous affair with Roberto
Rossellini following 1949. Perhaps the genteel and polite British censors
thought
it poor taste to have a picture of Ms Bergman right up against the word
Notorious. Or perhaps it's just a dreadful mistake by some cinema-owner
(Bergman's
1936 film Intermezzo was known in Europe as Interlude).
Paul
_www.movieposterstudio.com_ (http://www.movieposterstudio.com)
In a message dated 19/10/2008 17:49:33 GMT Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm always thrown by this sort of thing because I begin to wonder is this
poster with a slightly different title from a re-release or is it a UK title?
Or was the title changed after the distribution materials were printed? They
simply did strange things at the studios in bygone days. FRANC
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