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Post by neferetus on Dec 15, 2004 18:10:13 GMT -5
For all interested parties, there's a VHS tape of VIVA MAX! currently listed on eBay with an opening bid of $9.99. This movie is becoming more and more scarce, as the years go by. Too bad it is not out on DVD yet!  |
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Post by Bromhead24 on Dec 15, 2004 18:18:28 GMT -5
I have never seen it. I read somewhere that the DRT wasn't too happy with the production and tried to get it shut down.
Didn't Peter die recently>
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Post by neferetus on Dec 15, 2004 18:37:05 GMT -5
I have never seen it. I read somewhere that the DRT wasn't too happy with the production and tried to get it shut down. Didn't Peter die recently> Well, it's worth the investment. If only for the novelty of having a sort of 'home movie' of the San Antonio of 1969. And the Alamo set itself (built in Rome, Italy on a soundstage) is really impressive. Only the Alamo exteriors were actually filmed in San Antonio where a fortified wooden gate was added to cover the wrought-iron convent yard gate. Yeah, the DRT was not too pleased when John Astin, as General Max's faithful sergeant, lowered the Lone Star flag from the church's pole and then replaced it with the Mexican tricolour. (For the first time since the actual fall of the place, in 1836!) |
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Post by Greg C. on Dec 16, 2004 6:51:50 GMT -5
they should put it out on dvd
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Post by neferetus on Dec 21, 2004 15:03:49 GMT -5
 Poster for "VIVA MAX!" (1969) |
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Post by neferetus on Dec 21, 2004 15:11:29 GMT -5
 Pamela Tiffin, Max's (Peter Untinov's) leggy, love interest in "VIVA MAX!" (1969) |
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Post by Bromhead24 on Dec 21, 2004 20:16:01 GMT -5
Pamela Tiffin, Max's (Peter Untinov's) leggy, love interest in "VIVA MAX!" (1969) I think i'd be interested in that too..  |
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Post by grislyexponent on Dec 29, 2004 1:51:56 GMT -5
just got the viva max tape today from ebay, i think iwas the only bidder, pretty funny and pamella.........dont think ide seen it since 69 the year it was made. got time tunnell version of the alamo, a couple weeks ago. still looking for "the alamo you are there"
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Post by neferetus on Dec 29, 2004 10:05:22 GMT -5
got time tunnell version of the alamo, a couple weeks ago. still looking for "the alamo you are there" Aha! So it was YOU who outbid me on the TIME TUNNEL tape! What's with that episode, anyway? There doesn't seem to be a copy of it anywhere for under thirty dollars! |
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Post by grislyexponent on Dec 29, 2004 23:43:54 GMT -5
always wondered who on these sites i might be bidding against,sorry. time tunnel, its pretty bad, but one i suppose we should have. best parts are last command scenes. must be ya put up a strong bid i think i paid 15 or 20$, a little more than i was hopeing. aiming to get a dvd recorder, may play with that abit and send some feelers out, on quality.
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Post by Bromhead24 on Dec 30, 2004 0:35:14 GMT -5
I think my favorite Peter Ustinov film is "Billy Budd".
I'd like to find that on DVD..
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Post by grislyexponent on Dec 30, 2004 0:49:36 GMT -5
i would be of no help yet' basically an alamo fan and el duque. noticed you and nef sent a lotta pics that i download.ed. hopefully will be able to respond respectfully.
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Post by grislyexponent on Jan 13, 2005 12:38:41 GMT -5
Aha! So it was YOU who outbid me on the TIME TUNNEL tape! What's with that episode, anyway? There doesn't seem to be a copy of it anywhere for under thirty dollars! there is another time tunnel vidoe up for bid on ebay, it ends later today 9$ rite now. good luck |
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Post by Greg C. on Jan 15, 2005 9:30:08 GMT -5
is it worth it?
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Post by grislyexponent on Jan 15, 2005 12:46:33 GMT -5
used to watch time tunnel as a youngster and being about the alamo, it was worth it to me, but i dont see me watching it over much. it does use clips from the last command for battle scenes. biggest thing i guess is just bein able to say you have it. still would like to get the {you are there} episode of the alamo. any one remember it or know how to get?
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Post by AlamoGUy on Jan 15, 2005 17:06:57 GMT -5
i think that was on ebay too.
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Post by TexasMac on Jan 17, 2005 9:34:05 GMT -5
Jiminy Xmas! - Viva Max. I saw this when I was 11. I remember on the march to San Antonio the Mexican soldiers had to disguise themselves and one of the soldiers was wearing a Baylor sweatshirt. Ustinov, Jonathan Winters, and John Astin were the best.
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Post by neferetus on Jan 21, 2005 11:24:22 GMT -5
 Max (Peter Ustinov) draws the line. This set of the convent yard and back of the Long Barrack arcade was constructed upon a soundstage in Rome, Italy. (Notice how there is no grass,or shrubbery growing anywhere?) When I first saw "VIVA MAX" I'd assumed that everything was filmed on site at the real Alamo. The lack of shrubbery had me confused. My incorrect assumption was that there must've been some re-landscaping going on during the time of filming. |
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Post by Greg C. on Apr 13, 2005 16:42:20 GMT -5
cool screne shot. are the mexicans the ones hold up in the fort?
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Post by neferetus on May 2, 2005 9:05:18 GMT -5
used to watch time tunnel as a youngster and being about the alamo, it was worth it to me, but i dont see me watching it over much. it does use clips from the last command for battle scenes. biggest thing i guess is just bein able to say you have it. Finally got a copy of the "Time Tunnel" (1968) version of the Alamo and it is a hoot. The nicest thing about having it however, is that most of the scenes lifted from "Last Command" are outtakes, taken from different camera angles and perspectives. In "Time Tunnel" Jim Davis, from "Last Command": portrays a pretty good Jim Bowie. He even grimaces like Sterling Hayden. |
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