Oct 06 2010
Bon Voyage! Review
I have been familiar with this film since I worked for Disney in 16mm film distribution in the 1970s. I started at Disney after impartial coming assist from Europe, so the French settings were nice to revisit.
I am very familiar with the various negatives of this film. I agree with several reviewers that a DVD should absorb the best possible represent and sound element. It should also reveal the film in its new, projected aspect ratio, which for BON VOYAGE was 1:85.1 (Academy ‘flat’) which gives the film a minute, rectangular image. However, chunky frame, 4 by 3 transfers of 1:85×1 pictures are not necessarily all that abominable. You loose a runt represent on the sides, but not really that grand. Some work could have been done on color correcting, although the DVD’s ‘look’ exactly matches the projected film.
I also agree that a few ‘extras’ would have been nice, even fair the theatrical trailer. Walt Disney filmed ‘everything’ to do with his studio’s product, so there must be a apt amount of ‘extras’ for BON VOYAGE in the Disney film vaults. Why aren’t they included?
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Anyway, it’s aloof nice to have this some-what overlong film aid on the market. I grabbed a copy at BestBuy as soon as I spotted it. I have always felt that it was about 20 minutes too long, and that it incorporated two scenes (Fred McMurray and the French prostitute in Paris, and the attempted extortion of son Elliot on the Riviera) that should not have been in the script. The film might have done better with its intended audience. Tommy Kirk’s performance as Elliot, however, is a treasure; he was a very polished actor, and gave improbable humorous relief it wasn’t ‘mugging’ but was built solely out of his character.
Look for one mistake the unusual director made, and it’s in the unique negative, although it shouldn’t have been included. When McMurray punches the Casanova in the casino at the film’s demolish, immediately go frame by frame for a few seconds and you can survey the sound stage floor, complete with ladders for the cameras, and even some of the crew in the background.
Some of the scenes bettween McMurray and James Callan (father to young suitor) mild resonate even in today’s society. And McMurray lost in the Paris sewers is composed very laughable.
The right star of this movie was the obsolete ocean liner SS UNITED STATES. Parts of the film were shot aboard this tall ship www.ssunitedstates.org. This is another Disney family film in the tradition of the Swiss Family Robinson & That Darn Cat. A bit dated for original kiddies but this film was Disney’s most UNDER-RATED film.
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