Terry Southern
VIDEOs and DVDs
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Doctor Strangelove LIMITED EDITION DVD Includes the amazing, rarely screened TRAILER by Pablo Ferro special appearance by Nile Southern (Executor) and Carol Southern in the 'making of Dr. Strangelove' film. End of the Road--practically impossible to see anymore! No prints known to be in existence! Order while supplies last! Read more about this historic first feature!
Easy Rider!
Good Grief, its CANDY!
NOTES ON THE FILMS
End of the Road--See the appraisal by Lee Hill
CANDY (DVD) Reviewer: A viewer from Canada
To paraphrase Brando in a much much better movie, this film could have been a contender. After its mainstream publication in 1964, the source novel by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg was initially under development at United Artists with Frank Perry (hot off David and Lisa)as director. Southern wrote an early screenplay with the hope that an American actress like Hayley Mills, Tuesday Weld or Jane Fonda would be cast. Well, as often happens in La La land, things change. French actor and Brando pal, Christian Marquand, became interested in the project when things went into turnaround. He managed to convince Brando and a cast of A-list talents - Coburn, Burton, John Huston, Matthau - to enlist. However, he jettisoned the idea of an American actress for the pretty, but woefully inept Ewa Aulin. By the time shooting commenced, Southern had moved on to Barbarella and Easy Rider. Buck Henry gets the script credit, but appears to be doing little more than exercising damage control as Marquand set up a series of sub-Fellinesque riffs. The first and last five minutes of Candy are promising bookends for a garish series of painfully unfunny episodes that are pale distortions of the novel's picaresque brillance. Still as a case study of how not to adapt a cult novel, Candy is still worth watching. The transfer is very good, but even the talent files admit the film is pretty awful. --This text refers to the DVD edition.