{"id":6907,"date":"2013-08-14T23:51:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T03:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=4208"},"modified":"2013-08-14T23:51:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T03:51:34","slug":"reassessing-the-only-game-in-town-1970-the-staircase-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=6907","title":{"rendered":"Reassessing The Only Game in Town (1970) +The Staircase (1969)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 510px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/OnlyGameTown_Staircase_poster_combo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4211 \" title=\"OnlyGameTown_Staircase_poster_combo\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/OnlyGameTown_Staircase_poster_combo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"383\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Impression of original ad campaign: Not Impressed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Instead of filming Frank Gilroy&#8217;s play in its natural  setting of Las Vegas, Vegas was rebuilt in Paris at a cost of $11 for <strong>The Only Game in Town<\/strong> so Liz Taylor could  be closer to husband Richard Burton as the filming of <strong>Staircase<\/strong> was winding down.<\/p>\n<p>Both films proved to be costly duds for studio Fox, but  they\u2019re neither the disasters nor full-blown embarrassments one would expect. Taylor was too old for  the role of a leggy Vegas chorus dancer, but director George Stevens didn\u2019t  make a mess in what was his final film before an unnecessary retirement. Burton and co-star Rex  Harrison were actually tolerable being theatrical in Stanley Donen\u2019s filmed  version of Charles Dyer\u2019s play as a cruel couple whose 30-year  relationship is further taxed by a looming court date.<\/p>\n<p>As I often do at KQEK.com, I try and pair the available with  the should-be-available, so alongside a review of Twilight Time&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/n2o\/4097_OnlyGameInTown.htm\">The Only Game in Town<\/a> <\/strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=6897\">M<\/a>] Blu-ray is a review of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/s\/4098_Staircase1969.htm\">Staircase<\/a><\/strong> [<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=6901\">M<\/a>]. TT\u2019s BR features a separate  (mostly) stereo music &amp; effects track of Maurice Jarre\u2019s jazzy score, while  Dudley Moore\u2019s original music for <strong>Staircase<\/strong> has yet to appear anywhere. Rather surprising no one\u2019s assembled a compilation  CD pairing <strong>Bedazzled<\/strong> (1967), his  prior score for director Donen, and <strong>Staircase<\/strong> on one CD.<\/p>\n<p>Now we come to a slight pause whilst I switch to rendering the Big Head  Amusements logo in After Effects so the <strong>BSV  1172<\/strong> teaser trailer + a film festival entry have classy intros.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coming next<\/em>: a review of the bloody <strong>Hands of the Ripper <\/strong>from Synapse Films.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>,  Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com <\/strong>(  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/Main_Index_Page.htm\">Main Site<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php\">Mobile Site<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of filming Frank Gilroy&#8217;s play in its natural setting of Las Vegas, Vegas was rebuilt in Paris at a cost of $11 for Fox&#8217; The Only Game in Town, so Liz could be closer to husband Richard Burton as filming of Staircase was winding down. As I often do at KQEK.com, I try and pair the available with the should-be-available, so alongside a review of Twilight Time&#8217;s Only Game Blu-ray is a review of Staircase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[2163,2159,1691,2161,2160,429],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-1Np","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}