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Directed by J. Lee Thompson
USA 1978
She was the most famous woman in the world. He was a peasant, a pirate, a shark. The Greek Tycoon is the story of their fiery romance. Anthony Quinn (Zorba the Greek, The Passage, Lust for Life, Lawrence of Arabia) portrays Theo Tomasis - the world’s richest and most flamboyant shipping magnate. He’s a man who seemingly has everything he could want - who reaches out and captures his final prize: lovely, expensive, legendary Liz Cassidy (Jacqueline Bisset, Bullitt, The Sweet Ride, The Deep, The Grasshopper), widow of a president of the United States. This lavishly mounted drama, which focuses on the international jet set’s continual struggle for love and power, also stars Charles Durning (Twilight’s Last Gleaming, Dog Day Afternoon, Stand Alone), James Franciscus (Killer Fish, The Cat O’ Nine Tails, Beneath the Planet of the Apes), Edward Albert (Butterflies are Free, Galaxy of Terror, The Domino Principle), Raf Vallone (The Italian Job, Cannon for Cordoba, Harlow), Luciana Paluzzi (Thunderball, The Green Slime, The Klansman), Camilla Sparv (The High Commissioner) and directed by the legendary J. Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone, The Passage, Cape Fear). Now see the film for the first time in the U.S. in widescreen and from a brand new 2K scan! *** Set somewhere in a timeless Martini-land, The Greek Tycoon is an everyday love story of a shipping magnate and an assassinated president's widow - a sort of Harold Robbins out of TitBits tabloid biopic. Quinn's ageing Zorba is certainly no Citizen Kane, and Bisset's contribution rarely veers beyond the soulful pose, but it matters hardly a jot to a publicly rehearsed, pre-sold jet-set jamboree. Upmarket exploitation pics tend to make it (ie. profit) on the merest smell of money, sex and scandal, and this effort just reeks. Trashy it may be (though classily trashy, on a $6 million budget); vulgar it ain't - the Tomasis and the Cassidys are at bottom really ordinary, unhappy folks who just happen to have untold wealth and power. Your sympathy is earnestly solicited; it would be better spent on anyone tempted to sit through this glossy travesty. Excerpt from TimeOut located HERE |
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Theatrical Release: May 12th, 1978
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Runtime | 1:46:24.208 | |
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2.35 :1 1080P Single-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 23,509,134,393 bytesFeature: 19,622,068,224 bytes Video Bitrate: 21.99 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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DTS-HD Master
Audio English 1125 kbps 1.0 / 48 kHz / 1125 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 1.0 /
48 kHz / 768 kbps / 24-bit) Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps |
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Subtitles | English (SDH), None | |
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Release Information: Studio: Scorpion Releasing
2.35 :1 1080P Single-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 23,509,134,393 bytesFeature: 19,622,068,224 bytes Video Bitrate: 21.99 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Edition Details: • Audio Commentary by Howard S. Berger, Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson• Alternate Opening and End Credit Sequences (5:48 / 3:08) • Theatrical Trailer (2:21)
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On their
Blu-ray,
Scorpion Releasing use a DTS-HD Master mono track (24-bit) in the
original English language (with some Greek.) The audio is authentically
flat without much bass but a decent score by
Stanley Myers
(The
Wind,
The
Wilby Conspiracy, Eureka,
Cimino's
The Deer Hunter, Roeg's
Insignificance, Harold Becker's
The Boost, Pete Walker
House of Mortal Sin and
Frightmare, etc.)
sounding clean with consistent dialogue. Scorpion Releasing offer optional English
(SDH)
subtitles on their Region 'A'
Blu-ray.
The Scorpion Releasing
Blu-ray
The Greek Tycoon
is not J. Lee Thompson's best. But it's a film that I strongly remember
seeing from
a few decades ago. Maybe it was
Jacqueline
Bisset or Quinn's dominating performance. Anyway, despite its
imperfections, I still kinda like bold expression of The Greek Tycoon. Scorpion Releasing's
Blu-ray
has the 'interesting' film and the excellent commentary. I encourage
seeing it, it's lavish-ness, the performances and... don't be
too judgmental. You may enjoy it more than you think even with the
lackluster video. There is still some value here. |
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