Turkish Lawrence of Arabia is a bit of a muddle, though.
The 1969 Star Trek movie
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Turkish Lawrence of Arabia is a bit of a muddle, though.
Based on what I could glean from the first quarter or so of it (I haven't had time to finish it) and without understanding the dialog, it's obviously a version of "The Man Trap".
Thank you! For the life of me, I couldn't follow it.
I always thought the "Man Trap" copying was pretty obvious, even without subtitles. There is also an "Amok Time" Kirk-Spock fight scene over a T'Pring-like Vulcan woman and "I Mudd" type androids (in swimwear).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAjACjXff0w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAjACjXff0w
Turkish Star Wars is the funniest. The starfield visible through the spaceship windows is lifted straight from actual Star Wars scenes, but the editing is so shoddy that it sometimes cuts away from the starfield to live action from SW. So one second there's a starfield outside the ship window, the next second the starfield disappears and the ship appear to be flying in front of a giant movie screen showing Star Wars the movie.
I'll admit I've never made it through the whole movie, but from Wikipedia:
What a 1969 trek film might've looked like:
http://cargocollective.com/nickacosta/Star-Trek-in-Cinerama
http://cargocollective.com/nickacosta/Star-Trek-in-Cinerama
Wow. You know, for being stitched together from images that were originally filmed with no intention of having a widescreen composition, these look awfully good. (Granting that scenes that didn't work at all wouldn't be included on Nick Acosta's site. But many of them look good for that.)
Since "Star Trek" was never really a top 30 Nielson show back in its original run and the ratings only got worse from one season to the next, other than Roddenberry thinking about it....I seriously doubt anyone would have been willing to finance it.
Add to that, Bill Shatner, having lost his series and his marriage in 1969, also put on a good 10 plus pounds after "Star Trek" went off the air and he looks a good 5 years older when the 1969 TV film "Sole Survivor" starring Vince Edwards and Bill debuted.
If you look at any of the stuff Bill was in from post-Trek 1969 to about 1974 when "The Barbary Coast" premiered on ABC, Bill looked puffy and out of shape and the hairpiece was awful.
By the premiere of "ST:TMP" nearly 10 years later...Bill has gotten into the best shape of his life. His hair looks much more hip and stylish. He even looks younger in the next 2 films as he gets a tan and continues to stay in good shape thanks to all the running and jumping on "TJ Hooker".
So a 1969 "Trek" film however exciting it may have been...was just not going to happen IMHO.
Add to that, Bill Shatner, having lost his series and his marriage in 1969, also put on a good 10 plus pounds after "Star Trek" went off the air and he looks a good 5 years older when the 1969 TV film "Sole Survivor" starring Vince Edwards and Bill debuted.
If you look at any of the stuff Bill was in from post-Trek 1969 to about 1974 when "The Barbary Coast" premiered on ABC, Bill looked puffy and out of shape and the hairpiece was awful.
By the premiere of "ST:TMP" nearly 10 years later...Bill has gotten into the best shape of his life. His hair looks much more hip and stylish. He even looks younger in the next 2 films as he gets a tan and continues to stay in good shape thanks to all the running and jumping on "TJ Hooker".
So a 1969 "Trek" film however exciting it may have been...was just not going to happen IMHO.
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