Colorized Casablanca and The Thing. Where are they?

I'm pretty sure I saw the colorized version of Casablanca. Don't know about The Thing... pretty sure I'd remember if I had.

I have also seen Casablanca on dvd in color, came from Family Video, as a rental.

Found "The Thing" colorized on Utube.  Casablanca in color,  alittle harder to find. 

Their Directors probably pulled the bastardizations out of circulation.

There is nothing worse than 'colorizing' other than perhaps bad sync dubbing into an irrelevant language....;p

 

Thanks Jafo, almost just fell out of my chair laughing. I love the terminology. Is that a word, bastardazation? If not, it should be, and I agree, hate colorized,

 

 

Wizard of Oz{2nd half},, Far Country has that look, but is actaully Technicolor I believe. One of the first color films of its kind, I believe. and didn't Sound Of Music get colored, maybe someone knows.

The Wizard of Oz was created that way on purpose...beginning black and white, then color for the *fantasy * part, then back to reality with black and white. 

Sound of Music was never in black and white. 

I don't know about Far Country. 

It is not only a word, it is a way of life we Americans know all too well. We didn't invent to word or the concept, but do seem Hell bent to perfect it.

I checked out the colorized version of the Thing on youtube. All I found was 3 minute episodes in about 20 parts. No 'full' movie.

   Yes, that was all I found also.  I have The Thing on VHS (taped the color verson off of TNT back then).  I also had the colorized Casablanca but  taped the Mike Tyson-Buster Douglas fight over it thinking Casablanca in color would be released someday soon and I don't have a blank tape right now anyway!  Big mistake...Mike who???

 

One other high crime against films: producers who take finished films and recut them. This happened a great deal, especially back in Hollywood's so-called golden heyday. Orson Welles' The Lady from Shanghai, for instance, has this magnificent scene where the hero and villain are shooting it out in an outdoor entertainment park's mirror-land. Welles' version was otherwise creepily quiet. The producer added pulse-pounding romantic music under that sequence.

Dubbing Australian films into "American".

 

Well, but that's easy enough. Just cut out every instance of "wanker."

 

remaking them when they were previously spot on...

the most recent remakes of Jane Eyre and Wuthering heights were diabolically deplorable... 

 

very few have ever cut the mustard...

Quaintly....the version of 'Mad Max' I have came from America....and just for a giggle you can set it for 'American English' [the original oxymoron ...akin to 'Military Intelligence'].

Mel Gibson with a dubbed 'yank twang' even before he knew where America was.   In spite of that, this $300,000 movie has pulled 300 Mill.

...and spawned a squillion imitators....;p

I remember Mad Max. Pretty awesome movie. What I'd like to see is a re-release of some of the sci-fi classics like Forbidden Planet or Day of the Triffids. Not a 'modern' version, sometimes they suck, but the originals on a DVD. Some good actors got their start in Forbidden Planet. I wonder...maybe I'll do a search on youtube and see if one of them is there. Speaking of classics, who remembers Abbot and Costello's gay nineties (Who's on first) or Time of their Lives. 

 

if you are looking for DVDs try Amazon instead of YouTube. the two movies you mentioned are available on DVD since more than a decade.