David Geffen, Samuel Goldwyn and the Search for the "Holy Grail" of Missing Movies. It was 2. 00. 8 when David Geffen started pressing producer John Goldwyn to arrange a screening of Porgy and Bess. The 1. 95. 9 musical, based on the George Gershwin opera, was produced by Goldwyn's grandfather, legendary Hollywood pioneer Samuel Goldwyn. Geffen implied that the mogul's grandson had vowed to set up a showing of the film, but if so it had slipped Goldwyn's mind. In any case, though his family still controlled the rights, Goldwyn did not have a print and did not know how to get one. Prints of Porgy are beyond rare. It probably is the most elusive film that not only got a studio release but a prestige studio release," says Todd Hitchcock, director of programming at the AFI Silver Theatre near Washington, D.

C. Foster Hirsch, author of a biography of the picture's director, Otto Preminger, calls it "the holy grail of unavailable films." Many archivists and some of the rights holders don't know if a complete, quality print even exists. With an astounding cast, including Dorothy Dandridge, Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey and even a young Maya Angelou in an uncredited appearance, Porgy was broadcast nationally on television only once, when ABC aired it March 5, 1. There are dubious bootleg copies online, but it is not possible to buy or rent a legitimate full- length quality version in any format. And even if a pristine print were discovered today, significant obstacles prevent it from being shown in theaters. Perhaps Geffen was possessed with a burning desire to see Porgy simply because of the difficulty involved in screening it.

Or maybe the movie had been important to the 7. The Unspoken Full Movie Part 1. He would have been 1. Geffen isn't saying. But as he continued to prod, Goldwyn decided it would be best to accommodate him, quietly. Any attempt to find a print of Porgy and Bess turns into an epic exercise in bafflement and frustration. The movie is coveted by aficionados even though few see outstanding artistic merit in it.

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But those very flaws help explain why this film has been charged with emotion for nearly everyone with a connection to it (and why stage revivals, like a 2. Broadway production, reignite new rounds of controversy): The history of Porgy is a tangled tale of good artistic intentions gone awry and lasting recriminations among the Gershwin and Goldwyn factions. Still, that does not explain why prints of the film have all but vanished. It turns out finding the rarest studio movie of all time is easier than unraveling that mystery.••• Thefilmversion of Porgy was snakebitten from the start. Based on Gershwin's 1. South Carolina enclave of Catfish Row between the disabled Porgy (Poitier) and Bess (Dandridge), who is struggling to break free from an abusive relationship and the snares of drug- pushing pimp Sportin' Life (Davis).

The rights to Gershwin's opera long were pursued by many big- name producers, and for Sam Goldwyn, it was a dream project. His moment to make the film, when he was in his late 7. Many African- American actors, including Harry Belafonte, declined roles because they thought the story promoted demeaning stereotypes. Both Dandridge and Poitier appeared only reluctantly. Watch The Times Of Harvey Milk Mediafire here.

Davis wanted to be in the movie, but Goldwyn wasn't interested, finally relenting under pressure from Davis' Rat Pack buddy Frank Sinatra. Much of the dialogue in the stage version was changed from song to spoken word; singing was dubbed for Dandridge and Poitier.

Of course the film included such classics as "Summertime" and "I Loves You, Porgy."Rouben Mamoulian, who had directed the stage version, was hired to make the movie, but before shooting began, the sets and costumes went up in flames. The rumored cause was arson by those who objected to the film's portrayal of African- Americans.

By the time production resumed, Mamoulian had been fired over creative differences and replaced by Preminger. Biographer Hirsch says the director previously had an affair with Dandridge and treated her abusively during the shoot. Preminger clashed with Poitier, too. The film was a commercial failure; reviews were mixed.

The New York Times praised it, but Time lashed its "cinematic monotony." (THR proclaimed it "a monumental Hollywood milestone.") Poitier is said to despise Porgy to this day. It was nominated for four Oscars but received only one, for the score by Andre Previn and Ken Darby. It was a deep disappointment for Samuel Goldwyn — a memory that seems to have resonated for decades with his family.

He never produced another film. The movie was not greeted with joy in the Gershwin family, either.

George had died years earlier, in 1. Ira lived until 1. According to Michael Strunsky, the trustee and executor of the Ira Gershwin Musical Estate and Ira's nephew (by marriage), the main reason Porgy is so hard to find comes down to the fact that Ira and his wife, Leonore, didn't care for it. Or in Strunsky's words, "They both thought it was a piece of shit."And so, continues Strunsky, "They did something they had a right to do. After 2. 0 years, they had the right to have Goldwyn call in all the prints and destroy them." And that, says Strunsky, is "absolutely what happened."While the musical rights reverted to the Gershwins, it's less clear they had the power or will to demand the prints be destroyed. Singer and pianist Michael Feinstein worked as Ira's assistant during the period in which this destruction allegedly occurred.

Ira would never have done it," he says. On the other hand, Feinstein muses, "It's the kind of thing Leonore would say at a dinner party — 'I had it destroyed' — to emphasize her dislike of it."Whatever she or her husband did or did not do, Porgy and. Bess became a phantom movie.••• As. John. Goldwyn tried to find a print, his first stop was Barbara Boyle, who teaches at the UCLA film school. She expected it would be in the university archive, the second- largest in the country with 3. But archive director Jan- Christopher Horak told her it was not there. Even today, Wikipedia reports that UCLA has a copy, but that is incorrect.)But Horak heard that one surviving Technicolor print — perhaps the only one — was in the hands of a quirky collector.

That was Ken Kramer, the owner of a place in Burbank called The Clip Joint for Film. Dennis Bartok, the GM of American Cinematheque, calls Kramer's shop "a magical place, one of the most beautiful private movie worlds in existence." Packed with posters and memorabilia, the shop had a small screening room. On Tuesday nights, Kramer would fire up his popcorn machine and hold viewing parties. He sometimes would show his rarest possession, a 3.

Porgy. (While Porgy was shot in 7. In that format, the Technicolor of the day is comparatively stable, while 7. Some of his collector friends sometimes would tease him, saying that it wasn't a great movie, but he always defended it. He loved the people in it, and they never got enough screen time in that era. And he loved the music," says his widow, Kathy Losso. How did Kramer get his copy? He died in March 2.

Losso says he acquired it from a collector friend. It probably wasn't a quite- legal acquisition," says Horak.

Studios don't willingly give up those kinds of prints. But in the past, things wandered off the loading dock." Some believe Kramer's copy was assembled from different fragments. When Kramer heard Geffen's request, he had two conditions: He would bring the film only if it were to be shown at UCLA's state- of- the art James Bridges Theater. Watch Online Watch Life-Size Full Movie Online Film. Also, Kramer wanted to meet Geffen. And so, on Sept. 2. Geffen met Goldwyn for dinner at Toscana in Brentwood, and they set off to see Porgy.

The next day, Horak emailed a colleague that the screening went "smashingly well" and the print looked "very, very good."Like Horak, Bartok believes Kramer had "the only good screenable print that exists anywhere in the world." Bartok tells THR that he has heard of a 7.

Banned: World: Recently banned films. Australia: Effectively banned as too violent for X1. R1. 8+ See  article. Banned by the very censorship it sought to expose. A politically charged documentary film, deemed suitable for inclusion in Australia's national film archive, which examines the ethics of censorship has found itself unable to be shown publicly after seemingly falling foul of the very laws it.

Unable to obtain a rating or certification, the film is now effectively banned by the very censorship it sought to expose. Since the early 2. Australia under an R1. Films like Michael Winterbottom's 9 Songs , John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus , Lars Von Trier's Anti- Christ , Gaspar Noe's Irreversible. Nagisa Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses can be shown. However, while the X1. R1. 8+ rating allows for an aesthetic combination of hardcore sex, violence.

Anything they want to ban or cut they describe it as a high impact, and then say it is banned. The intent of Confidential Report: an Australian Transgression is an exploration of these aesthetics and the censorship agenda that supports them, in the context of the specific underground Adelaide, South Australian community that deploys. The film thus deliberately includes examples of all prohibited content - - actual sex, assaultive language, violence, sexual violence, blasphemy - - but staged in such a matter as to be constantly self- referential and, in terms of the impact test. In so doing, the film depicts (interpretively) exactly the offensive aesthetics that straddle the R1. X1. 8+ and RC classifications. As Confidential Report film includes sexually explicit scenes as well as both violence and sexual violence (and sexually assaultive language in performance), it deliberately includes taboo aesthetics as delineated in the Australian Film. Classification Board Guidelines as prohibited.

It arguably falls between Australia's two adults- only ratings R and X (for non- violent erotica).