Aldrich's first feature, though he'd done quite a lot of TV. Startled to discover he continued working with this editor, because it seems to be spliced together with woeful insensitivity.

Yeah, I was looking at his credits and thinking "How would THAT work?" but clearly it did.

Better than Quantick of Solace.

The Dawn of Man it ain't.

I'm still reeling from the bit I saw of Griffith's HEARTS OF THE WORLD in which Gish looks horrified and we cut to some real war footage, it looks like, showing half a corpse lying in the road.

Yes, my favourite film! Though I personally heard the late Pierre Rissient describe Alloy Orchestra's score as "Fucking shit!" Excited to hear Antonio Coppola's alternative accompaniment, as he errs more on the side of subtlety.

And a very clear forerunner of THE BED SITTING ROOM's design asthetic!