6/28 at 3:30 A.M. I hope they show it with the correct aspect ratio.

http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=96433

TCM has occasional slip-ups involving bad prints being used (CONTEMPT the most glaring recent example), but they're at least indicating that it's letterboxed.

He is the man from future, a man of mystwee!

I have the RCA/Columbia VHS that I picked up used for $2 a few years ago, but I'll gladly DVR this and take in a letterboxed viewing of Reb Brown's first, and probably last, appearance on TCM. Hell, I'll record it just for proof that YOR actually aired on Turner Classic Movies.

In my fantasy world, YOR would play back-to-back with STRIKE COMMANDO.

"Americanski!!"

Doran? What is the correct aspect ratio for this film? Wasn't this a mini-series of some sort on Italian television? I remember seeing it at the drive-in when it was released (good times!), but can't rmember what ratio it was presented in....

I don't actually know the OAR for Yor. The IMDB entry doesn't say what it is. For some reason, I assumed that it was 2.35:1 (were Italian genre films still being shot in Techniscope by 1983?) but that could be wrong.

I don't see anything on the IMDB entry indicating that it was a tv miniseries (other than the comment at the bottom of the page):

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084935/

I forget where I read it(it may have been an interview with Margheriti himself), this was years ago, but I'm pretty sure this was some kind of miniseries in Italy that was trimmed down to feature length for international relese....

Perhaps someone more "in the know" could clear this up....

Well, here's what I could find.....


http://www.antoniomargheriti.com/English_V.../Sci_Fi/Yor.htm

When I saw YOR in the theaters, it was 1.85:1.

I've been curious about the longer version for years. It's available as a bootleg, but to my knowledge, has never been given a proper release.

It was presented in approximately 1.75:1 ratio on TCM last night. :) It'll look pretty good zoomed out on a 16x9 monitor. Haven't had a chance to check the running time yet.

If anyone's interested, here's a link to an mp3 to the catchy theme song from Yor, "Yor's World." I just put it on my iPod.

http://www.bmoviefilmvault.com/breviews/yo...the_future.html

It ran the usual 88 minutes. Would you want it any longer? Bad movies, good times back then in the late summer of 83--and YOR is goofy, dinos-and-laserblasts fun.

And there is a chance that the same year's UNCOMMON VALOR might air on TCM, if it hasn't already. That's two Reb Brown movies on TCM's schedule; one or two more, and we have the makings of a tribute evening someday in the future, when the 60-year-old Brown shuffles off this caveman coil. :)

I watched it yesterday afternoon. It's an enjoyable enough Italo-Turkish caveman/sci-fi movie with a slight Edgar Rice Burroughs flavor, but probably not something I'll ever need to watch more than once (I did get a pretty good laugh out of the part where Yor kills the pterodactyl and uses it as a hanglider and we get another burst of "Yor's world! He's the man!" on the soundtrack [ http://youtube.com/watch?v=jrYxLSSSRd0&feature=related ]). There's definitely a reason why TCM relegated it to a 3:30 am slot. While I can't imagine sitting through a 4/3 1/2 hour version of Yor unless I was very bored or having a bad bout of insomnia, I was a little bit curious about what was missing from the 88 minute version since it felt like it had a few gaps.

One thing that I enjoyed about Yor was the way that the Turkish locations sometimes looked like some kind of weird mutant version of the American Southwest from another dimension (If there's ever a movie adaptation of Stephen King's Dark Tower series, maybe that's where part of it should be filmed). How many other movies were shot on similar-looking locations? Of course, there's "Turkish Star Wars" and Aldo Lado's The Humanoid (Margheriti worked on the special effects for this movie and recycled some of the costumes in Yor), how many others are there that provide comparable entertainment value?

Am I the only one who has been going around singing "There's a man from future! A man of mystery!" and giggling hysterically for the past 24 hours or so? :P I love all of those "Oliver Onions"/Guido & Maurizio De Angelis theme songs for old Italian flicks.

Here's a fun tv teaser trailer:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=cxniHJbzQOw&feature=related

BTW, has anyone read the graphic novel Henga, El Cazador that Yor is based on? How close is it to the movie?

I ended up watching YOR Saturday night, though I hadn't planned to. It was one of those things where I went to show some friends a minute or two, and we were too fascinated to turn it off. Of course, it was after midnight, which is the only time to watch YOR.

Considering the drubbing American Movie Classics has received for drastically dumbing down its schedule, I guess we should be ripping TCM a new one, yet I can't bring myself to do so. It did look fine zoomed in on my 16x9 set.

YOR is part of its TCM Underground schlock series, so it fits right in. Maybe next June, following its gay and Asian programming, the channel will run a "Caveman Images on Film Series," co-hosted by Robert Osborne and the Geico neanderthals. :)

The Neanderthals could also do a film series of musicals with an emphasis on dancin': SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, URBAN COWBOY, CABARET, SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, FOOT LOOSE, ALL THAT JAZZ, etc. :P