![]() ![]() Instead of deciding for herself who she should marry, Hazel (Jones) let’s magic dictate who she should love. ![]() Magic in movies is often a force to be reckoned with, but in Gone to Earth it’s Hazel’s glorification of magic that causes her undoing. Some of Cyril Cusack’s best scenes get cut short in The Wild Heart, and both films underutilize actors like Hugh Griffith and George Cole. While not all of these changes are harmful, they are unwarranted and the ending of The Wild Heart doesn’t compare to the ending of Gone to Earth, which ends on a shock while The Wild Heart provides too much lead-up, so you know what’s coming. Jennifer Jones was his wife and it was Selznick’s opinion that Powell and Pressburger didn’t feature her enough using his own money to shoot new scenes (directed by Rouben Mamoulian) and make other changes to Gone to Earth. Their release of The Wild Heart includes the original movie, Gone to Earth.ĭirected by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (who, as Troy Howarth explains on his commentary track for The Wild Heart, shared directing credit, even though Powell was more responsible), Gone to Earth is twenty-eight minutes longer than The Wild Heart, and came out two years earlier, in 1950. Same as they did with The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre, however, Kino Lorber doesn’t force you to decide. Given the choice between watching a movie the way its directors intended or watching a version that was tampered with by one of the producers, it’s hard to think of a circumstance when the latter would be preferred. ![]()
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