Shirley Yamaguchi
Stuart Galbraith IV
tothenamerobby at my-deja.com
Thu Aug 12 12:07:05 EDT 1999
The picture was released by 20th Century-Fox, and has turned up in letterboxed format (it was filmed in CinemaScope) on their classic movie cable channel, FXM.
A 35mm print has also been screened within the last year at the Los Angeles American Cinematheque.
Stuart Galbraith IV
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On Thu, 12 Aug 1999 01:52:20 Lang Thompson wrote:
>>(1952, King Vidor) on video, although there may be a copy of "House of
>>Bamboo" somewhere.
>
>
>There is (or was a few months back) a poor quality tape of "House of
>Bamboo" available. It looked like it came from a panned-and-scanned 16mm
>print and even had a visible hair during 15 minutes of the film! The
>company was something like Hellfire Video and they released a few other
>similar titles. Undoubtedly these are bootlegs but were a tad more
>sophisticated than the usual bootleg companies. (For one thing, it showed
>up in a local video store.)
>
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