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Maybe it shouldn't have been made but it was, nonetheless. The film was never released in the United States. It began as Milly Goes to Budapest but the title was changed to The Golden Head, which was probably a more marketable title but one having a variety of connotations. Cinerama, Inc. began production in 3-strip Cinerama but almost immediately changed to Technirama (AKA Super Technirama 70), much as George Stevens had begun The Greatest Story Ever Told in three-strip Cinerama and changed to Ultra Panavision 70.
Be that as it may, we are fortunate enough to have some production stills from the film that show the gigantic Technirama camera in its European sound blimp. The pictures are courtesy of Jim Kroeper, Epic Proportions.
The Curator has never seen The Golden Head but Dave Strohmaier and John Sittig recently screened a 70mm print at the Cinerama Dome and Dave reports that it's not all that bad. With a cast headed by George Sanders and Buddy Hacket with direction by Richard Thorpe, it couldn't be completely terrible. And with Technirama photography it had to look good, at least before the color dyes started to fade.
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Martin Hart, Curator
