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Twilight Time | 1972 | 100 min | Rated PG | Oct 08, 2013
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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC (36.00 Mbps) Resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1 Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
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English: DTS-HD Master Audio Mono (48kHz, 24-bit) Music: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: DTS-HD Master Audio Mono (48kHz, 24-bit) Music: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 (48kHz, 24-bit) ( less)
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English SDH
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Blu-ray Disc Single disc (1 BD-50)
Packaging
Booklet
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2K Blu-ray: Region free
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The Other (1972)
The Other Blu-ray delivers stunningly beautiful video and great audio in this excellent Blu-ray release
Down in the farm country of the US twins are born. One of them turns out to be good, while the other becomes rather evil. For more about The Other and the The Other Blu-ray release, see the The Other Blu-ray Review published by Jeffrey Kauffman on October 10, 2013 where this Blu-ray release scored 4.0 out of 5. Director: Robert Mulligan
Writer: Tom Tryon
Starring: Diana Muldaur, Chris Udvarnoky, Uta Hagen, Martin Udvarnoky, John Ritter, Victor French
Producers: Robert Mulligan, Tom Tryon, Don Kranze
» See full cast & crew
The Other Blu-ray Review
This is no mere game. . .
Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, October 10, 2013
Thomas Tryon seemed to be on the fast track to stardom, at least for a little while. Following the time honored tradition
for young actors, Tryon appeared in television in the late fifties, including his own recurring series Texas John
Slaughter that appeared on The Wonderful World of Disney, as well as occasional horror and science fiction
B-movies, like I Married a Monster From Outer Space (isn't it wonderful how those cheesy old films gave the
audience their high concept in one deliciously camp-tastic title?). But then Tryon started getting better roles, in films like
The Story of Ruth and The Longest
Day (even while occasionally toiling in such less stellar fare as Moon Pilot). Tryon co-starred in the ill-
fated Something's Got to Give, the film Marilyn Monroe had begun shooting before her untimely death, something
that might have temporarily halted Tryon's trajectory, but in 1963, he was cast in what would become his signature role,
the title character in Otto Preminger's The Cardinal. While the film wasn't especially well regarded, Tryon's work
in it was largely praised, but his subsequent film appearances became more and more sporadic as the decade wore on.
And then something quite remarkable happened—Tryon reinvented himself as a bestselling author. The Other
was instantly hailed as a modern classic when it appeared in 1971 and Tryon himself co-produced and wrote the 1972
film adaptation. Many years ago I had the pleasure of meeting Harrison Starr, who had a long and rather quirky
producing career, but who had been Production Manager on Preminger's The Cardinal. Starr was a tenant of my
late Uncles in New York City, and knowing of my interest in the film industry, they arranged for me to have lunch with him
one day in Manhattan. I had fallen in love with both the novel and film versions of The Other and, knowing of
The Cardinal connection, mentioned Tryon to Starr. Starr countered to me that Tryon had never been really
happy as an actor, and that this "second" career choice seemed to be much more up his alley. Strangely The
Other, despite its overwhelming success on the bestseller charts, didn't really seem to connect with movie
audiences at the time of its release, but it's since achieved a certain cult status. The film remains a kind of oddity in
director Robert Mulligan's oeuvre, a sort of Twilight Zone reimagining of the same feeling Mulligan
brought to To Kill a Mockingbird
, but it is graced by uniformly excellent performances (including a rare film role for stage icon Uta Hagen), and it also
features gorgeous music from Jerry Goldsmith and cinematography from Robert L. Surtees.
The Other is not a traditional horror film, and in fact is more of a psychological drama with horror underpinnings.
Tryon's novel was an interesting study in dissociation, veering between first person observations and more traditional
third person narrative, something that hinted at the fractured nature of a central character. Tryon's screenplay
obviously can't quite duplicate that gambit, and yet he and director Mulligan deal with what is the story's central conceit
brilliantly. No actual spoilers will be posted here, but pay close attention to how many characters are in the frame at
any given moment for a rather stunning example of just how smart Tryon and Mulligan played the tricky hand
they were dealt.
The story of The Other is ostensibly about two twins, Niles (Chris Udvarnoky, who sadly passed away in 2010)
and Holland (Martin Udvarnoky)
Perry, who live on their family farm in the mid-1930s. Their troubled mother (Diana Muldaur) is a recluse, obviously
suffering from some kind of mental anguish and confining herself largely to her upstairs bedroom. The boys'
grandmother, Ada (Uta Hagen), is a Russian émigré who has taught the boys a mystical "game" where they, a la "Wart"
with Merlin in The Once and Future King, are able to inhabit the consciousnesses of other beings.
What seems to be a case of one twin being good, the other being evil, plays out in a series of increasingly disturbing
murders, one of which echoes the then current Lindbergh baby kidnapping (something which is explicitly referenced in
the film itself). Mulligan plays his cards fairly close to the vest until slightly past the one hour mark, when a major reveal
is offered, but even then, the palpable sense of dread which has already been established is not mitigated, and in fact
builds to almost unbearable levels of tension. All of this is despite the fact that very little violence is shown in
The Other. This is one of the most discursive "horror" films in memory, one which establishes its spooky
ambience almost entirely through implication rather than outright depiction.
Believe it or not, Thomas Tryon also wrote a lyric for a slightly tweaked version of Jerry Goldsmith's main theme for
The Other. I was
thrilled to get the music in an Armed Forces Song Folio that my sister sent me when she was managing a U.S. Army Base
Service Club in
Germany back in the day. It may not exactly be Academy Award material, but it's a fascinating attempt to make a lovely
theme into a more or
less traditional love song, something that perhaps seems a bit odd given the film's subject matter. For those who have
never seen/heard it,
here's Tryon's work:
Yes, I know your eyes
They're the same eyes
And for me they hold no surprise
Yet how strange from to time they change
Till they become two other eyes
And just now and then
When you're speaking
There's a different voice, unfamiliar
And I think when it reaches my ear
It's a stranger's voice that I hear
And I know your smile
Seldom varies
It's the same sweet smile I recall
Still at times for a just a little while
It's really not your smile at all
Now and then your face
Seems another
It's the other face I discover
But your face is the face I adore
There's no other face I love more
It's the dearer face
The nearer face
It's your face
The Other Blu-ray, Video Quality
The Other is presented on Blu-ray with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 1.85:1. This is a near perfect accounting
of the film's theatrical look, with the original soft, filtered, dewy ambience that cinematographer Robert Surtees brought to
this
project. Mulligan tends to use the then trendy zoom lenses for a number of shots, and that may seem to add even a bit
more of softness as
the frame quickly changes, but in fact it's an accurate representation of the theatrical exhibition, one which I actually saw
several times as a child (my parents thought I was patently crazy when I kept asking them to drive me back to the
theater so that I could see The Other again—and again—and again). The elements here are largely pristine, and
color grading, while perhaps just a trifle too pink (at least for my tastes), offers a wonderfully bright and ironically sunny
palette that contrasts
beautifully with the darker underpinnings of the story. There are no egregious artifacts to report and the film retains a
completely natural looking grain structure.
The Other Blu-ray, Audio Quality
The Other offers a lossless DTS-HD Master Audio Mono mix which recreates the rather surprisingly overall quiet
ambience of the film quite well. Goldsmith's score sounds fantastic (I actually prefer this accounting to the isolated score, as
that one's highs are too strident to my personal taste), and the dialogue is presented cleanly and clearly. A couple of
horrific moments add a bit of dynamic range, but this is by and large a rather subdued outing from an aural perspective.
The Other Blu-ray, Overall Score and Recommendation
As is probably obvious by this time, I have loved The Other since I was a kid, and it's a joy to see it looking and
sounding so fantastic. Don't be fooled by what may seem like an "obvious" reveal late in the film. The Other is
actually open to interpretation, and I refer you to Ada's "game" for one way to approach what's really going on. This is
not a typical horror film, which in fact may be one reason that it failed to connect with audiences in 1972, but it is
nonetheless a relentlessly disturbing piece that offers the flip side of the relatively halcyon childhood Mulligan portrayed in
his classic To Kill a Mockingbird. Highly recommended.
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