King Vidor
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Oct 14, 2026
Philip D. GibbonsHOST
By then, Victor Fleming was long gone, having been transferred at the request of Clark Gable to another MGM headache, Gone with the Wind.
Philip D. GibbonsHOST
Another quality director, King Vidor, was brought in to film the monochromatic Kansas scenes, and over five months after it began, the film was a wrap.
Philip D. GibbonsHOST
But the post-production and publicity that was always part of such a major production was just beginning.
Philip D. GibbonsHOST
Numerous special effects, like the 35-foot-long rotating motorized canvas sleeve that simulated the twister in the film's opening moments, no, it wasn't a woman's stocking, as subsequently reported, or the electrical sparks superimposed on the ruby slippers when the witch attempts to remove them, needed to be added.
Nat SegaloffGUEST
But they were out there if you knew where to get them, and Roddy and Rock and a few other people, uh, were the recipients.
Nat SegaloffGUEST
But I'll say this, and I think King Vidor said it in some interview: if it were not for the film Pirates!, the studios were so lackadaisical about preserving their films, were it not for The Pirates, we probably wouldn't have some movies.
Adam LongHOST
And that's a very happy note to end this conversation on.
Adam LongHOST
[laughs]
Patrick RankinHOST
RKO assembled the island village from pieces left behind by other pictures.
Patrick RankinHOST
Parts of it, like the huts, came from King Vidor's Bird of Paradise.
Patrick RankinHOST
At one end, the enormous Temple of Jerusalem wall from Cecil B. DeMille's 1927 silent epic The King of Kings stood in for the village's wall, an ancient barrier the islanders relied on to keep Kong out.
Patrick RankinHOST
Rising above the village was Skull Mountain, a distant peak in the shape of a skull, painted on glass for the long shots of the island.
SarahHOST
yeah yeah yeah for sure so really love this I think the two movies that I'm gonna branch out you know to see extracurricular definitely the Betty Davis remake and then just something of her maybe the one with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are you
AbbyHOST
sure you don't want to watch Birds of Paradise which is directed by King Vidor and produced by Selznick
SarahHOST
oh my god that's a that's a caring
AbbyHOST
quote Oh, no.
AbbyHOST
When I
SarahHOST
read
AbbyHOST
it in 1932, Selznick entrusted filmmaker King Vidor with a new and ambitious project.
AbbyHOST
Selznick told Vidor, quote, I want Del Rio and Joel McCree and a love story in the South Seas.
Matt FractionGUEST
big big floral arrangements in front of everybody's faces all the time yeah
John SiuntresHOST
Well, and also like, unfortunately, because I mean, you go back to like King Vidor and the crowd and some of these amazing panoramic things that they were doing in the silence before sound.
John SiuntresHOST
And then movies got small for a while again, because they wanted to take advantage of sound.
John SiuntresHOST
Buster Keaton really suffered, you know, in those early sound days.
ColeHOST
No, no, no.
ColeHOST
I refuse to believe King Vidor made that movie.
ColeHOST
It's eight hours long.
ColeHOST
It's the longest movie ever made.
Thomas MirusHOST
the whole of Russian life during the period around the invasion of Napoleon in 1812 with a lot of different characters, but particularly one really main character, Pierre Bezahov, and also Prince Andrei Volkonsky and Natasha Rostov, who are kind of the main three characters in this film insofar as it was released in four parts, and three of the parts are named after characters, and those are the characters that they're named after.
Thomas MirusHOST
So in 1959, King Vidor, a great Hollywood director, made this adaptation of War and Peace starring Audrey Hepburn.
Thomas MirusHOST
And it was a huge hit in Russia, not because they thought it was accurate, but because they loved Audrey Hepburn.
Thomas MirusHOST
But this is a bit of a problem because, like, you know...
Dave MaherHOST
It's
YuiGUEST
not like you're watching a late Jean-Luc Godard film and there's some cryptic reference to a very strange King Vidor movie that no one's ever seen before.
YuiGUEST
He's not doing this.
YuiGUEST
He's very much like, yep.
Dany JoshuvaHOST
So first, Adi Bach, the film critic that I mentioned, she gives some kind of background where Mitsuguchi got it from, where she says he started it using it in the early 1930s.
Dany JoshuvaHOST
And she says one of the influences was King Vidor's 1929 film called Hallelujah.
Dany JoshuvaHOST
Oh, really? Yeah.
Dany JoshuvaHOST
which apparently he liked.
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