We have just learned from the BBC web site that director Ronald Neame died on Wednesday, aged 99.  Ronald Neame was the director of Irwin Allen’s The Poseidon Adventure.

BBC Tribute to Ronald Neame

Author Arthur Herzog III who wrote The Swarm died yesterday, 8th June 2010, at the age of 83.

New York Times Tribute to Arthur Herzog III

Steven Cateris has sent us the following link which illustrates that Irwin Allen’s movie The Swarm may have been truer to life than we might have thought!

The bees that ate Wall Street

We have noticed today that the limited edition (3000 copies) Poseidon Adventure CD is already sold out at La-La Land Records.  A lot of them have probably been bought up by dealers planning to resell them on, so you may still find them available elsewhere.  Worth comparing prices though as we’ve seen some being sold for over 3 times the original price.

Ray Harryhausen (Animal World) is scheduled to be at todays Fan Festival in London (at the London Film Museum/County Hall by the London Eye) as well as many famous James Bond stars.

Ray Harryhausen at Fan Festival

THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (STEREO): LIMITED EDITION LLLCD 1133
Music by John Williams
Limited Edition of 3000 Units

SHIPPING APRIL 27th
RETAIL PRICE: $19.98

ORDER “THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (STEREO): LIMITED EDITION” April 20th at La-La Land Records

First time entire score is presented in STEREO! Presenting the premiere stereo release of John Williams’ (JAWS, STAR WARS, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, SCHINDLER’S LIST) classic score to the legendary 1972 Twentieth Century Fox adventure film THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, starring Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelly Winters and Red Buttons, produced by Irwin Allen and directed by Ronald Neame. Williams’ epic orchestral score expertly intertwines the film’s examination of heroism and tragedy. Produced by Nick Redman and Mike Matessino, mastered by Daniel Hersch, and remixed and sequenced by Mike Matessino, this superb-sounding special limited edition release features never-before-released Bonus Tracks, including the film versions of “The Morning After”, source cues and alternate versions of the main title. In-depth liner notes by Jeff Bond take you behind the scenes of the film and its music. This is a limited edition of 3000 Units.

For this release, the 2″ 24-track tape containing the original 35mm 6-track mag was transferred into Pro Tools, and restored and mixed with the advantages of another decade’s advance in sound processing technology.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Main Title (2:12)
2. Rogo And Linda (1:34)
3. The Big Wave/The Aftermath (4:02)
4. Raising The Christmas Tree (1:28)
5. Nonnie And Red/Up The Tree (1:59)
6. Death’s Door/The Upturned Galley (2:01)
7. Through The Galley (1:13)
8. The Other Survivors (1:37)
9. Search For The Engine Room (2:51)
10. Barber Shoppe Scene (1:46)
11. Saving Robin (1:24)
12. The Death Of Belle (3:25)
13. Hold Your Breath (3:08)
14. The Red Wheel (1:25)
15. Rogo Takes Command (1:38)
16. End Title (The Rescue) (3:36)
Total Time: 35:18

Alternates and Source Music:
17. Main Title (alternate #1) (1:58)
18. New Year’s Party (version 1) (0:58)
19. To Love (3:12)
20. New Year’s Party (version 2) (2:11)
21. Main Title (alternate #2) (1:59)
22. “The Morning After” (version 1)* (2:10)
23. “Love Is A Many Splendored Thing”* (2:19)
24. “Give Me The Simple Life”/”A Certain Smile”* (1:49)
25. “The Morning After” (instrumental)* (2:09)
26. “Auld Lang Syne”* (1:34)
27. “The Morning After” (version 2)* (2:10)
28. End Title (alternate) (2:38)
Total Time: 25:13

Total Running Time: 60:39
* Not published by Warner-Tamerlane (BMI)

Poseidon Adventure at La-La Land Records

The Daily Telegraph has a feature today with film maker Nick Park paying tribute to Ray Harryhausen (Animal World):

Tribute to Ray Harryhausen

We have been re-organising the location of many areas of the Irwin Allen News Network (IANN) site recently, so you may find that several productions and galleries have moved.  Here are quick links to the major changes we’ve made to the location of individual shows and movies.

Production Pages

• Adventures of the Queen
• Alice in Wonderland
• The Animal World
• Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
• The Big Circus
• Cave In!
• City Beneath the Sea Reel
• City Beneath The Sea
• Code Red
• Dangerous Mission
• Double Dynamite
• Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen
• Fire
• Five Weeks in A Balloon
• Flood
• A Girl in Every Port
• Hanging by a Thread
• Irwin Allen Show
• Land of the Giants
• Lost in Space
• The Lost World
• Man from the 25th Century
• The Memory of Eva Ryker
• Night the Bridge Fell Down
• Outrage
• The Poseidon Adventure
• Return of Captain Nemo
• The Sea Around Us
• The Story of Mankind
• The Swarm
• Swiss Family Robinson
• The Time Travellers
• Time Tunnel
• The Towering Inferno
• Viva Knievel!
• Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea Movie
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
• When Time Ran Out
• Where Danger Lives

Here’s something for the Christmas stocking – The Lost World DVD (2 disk set).

The Big Circus is to be shown on BBC2 in the UK on Saturday 5th December at 2.45pm.  This is the first British airing of the movie in many, many years.

The Big Circus stars Victor Mature, Vincent Price, Rhonda Fleming, Peter Lorre, Kathryn Grant, Red Buttons, and was the first Irwin Allen movie that costume designer Paul Zastupnevich worked on.