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Re: 214 All That Money Can Buy (AKA The Devil and Daniel Webster)
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2023 6:35 pm
by Roger Ryan
swo17 wrote: Fri Dec 15, 2023 5:36 pm
The title change is dumb--it only initially went under that title to avoid confusion with the same year's
The Devil and Miss Jones
Yes, but I believe this new restoration uses the title card of “All That Money Can Buy” (digitally recreated as I recall), so it wouldn’t make sense to just use the better and more recognizable title on the cover. There may be a good reason for going with “All That Money Can Buy” in that the full length version of the film only screened with that title - later, when the title was changed to “The Devil and Daniel Webster”, scenes began getting deleted as well.
Re: 214 All That Money Can Buy (AKA The Devil and Daniel Webster)
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2023 1:22 am
by FrauBlucher
Does this no longer belong to Janus? It has been removed from their website. You would think with the new restoration Janus would be promoting it. Maybe Chris has an idea about this
Re: 214 All That Money Can Buy (AKA The Devil and Daniel Webster)
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2023 3:07 pm
by HitchcockLang
Roger Ryan wrote: Sat Dec 16, 2023 6:35 pm
swo17 wrote: Fri Dec 15, 2023 5:36 pm
The title change is dumb--it only initially went under that title to avoid confusion with the same year's
The Devil and Miss Jones
Yes, but I believe this new restoration uses the title card of “All That Money Can Buy” (digitally recreated as I recall), so it wouldn’t make sense to just use the better and more recognizable title on the cover. There may be a good reason for going with “All That Money Can Buy” in that the full length version of the film only screened with that title - later, when the title was changed to “The Devil and Daniel Webster”, scenes began getting deleted as well.
I mean, there is kind of already a precedent of Criterion releasing a film with one title on the cover and a different title on the title card (The Irishman / I Hear You Paint Houses) but that's a whole other can of worms.
Re: 214 All That Money Can Buy (AKA The Devil and Daniel Webster)
Posted: Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:26 am
by dwk
Re: 214 All That Money Can Buy (AKA The Devil and Daniel Webster)
Posted: Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:32 am
by FrauBlucher
Re: 214 All That Money Can Buy (AKA The Devil and Daniel Webster)
Posted: Thu Feb 29, 2024 2:35 am
by therewillbeblus
If you look at it like a logic proof, he's just saying money is the devil
Re: 214 All That Money Can Buy (AKA The Devil and Daniel Webster)
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:07 pm
by FrauBlucher