The Caves of Steel (1964) - movie

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Has anyone watched movie The Caves of Steel (1964)? I have read the novel and would like to watch the movie but it doesn't seem to be available. So I was just wandering is it any good. Anyone seen it?
 
Can you give a reference or link to the film - I have never heard of it, and I just checked Phil Hardy's book on science fiction films, and he does not have an entry either
 
Seems the BBC wiped the tapes years ago

Along with over 100 episodes of Dr Who. One of the great BBC scandals.
 
icundell said:
Seems the BBC wiped the tapes years ago

Along with over 100 episodes of Dr Who. One of the great BBC scandals.
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Very true, however it is my understanding that a lot of those tapes where recovered in other countries such as Australia - and the list of episodes is now virtually complete.

With Caves Of Steel, it is a shame, because Terry Nation wrote the screen play - so it would have been interesting to say the least
 
I wonder if the scripts are knocking around somewhere
it would be fantastic if they were recovered and a new version with modern special effects could be made

there is a very good chance that I saw the follow up based on the Naked Sun. I started reading Asimov because my father had a large and varied collection of SF books including CoS and tNS and no doubt he would have watched both when they aired on TV.
I would only have been 4 when tNS was screened but I was quite often allowed to watch similar programs (Quatermass etc)
 
Sai Baba said:
Has anyone watched movie The Caves of Steel (1964)? I have read the novel and would like to watch the movie but it doesn't seem to be available. So I was just wandering is it any good. Anyone seen it?
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edit to add I should have read the rest of the thread before replying :eek:

I know there was a BBC dramatisation of Caves Of Steel in the 1960s with (I think) Peter Cushing playing Lije Bailey (or was it R.Daneel Olivaw?) Is that what you are referring to?

I doubt that it is available anywhere - knowing the BBC they probably wiped the tapes in the 1970s. :rolleyes:

If you really are Sai Baba, couldn't you just 'apport' a copy of the programme from the mystic realm? :)
 
Oh Man!!! This would have been brilliant! Peter Cushing no less! I had no idea it had ever ben made for television. I'm pretty sure the BBC no longer have it - though someone might know - David J Howe and Andrew Pixley have loads of old BBC documentation on telefantasy - They frequent the Outpost Galifrey message board.

This would be great to see.

I have the BBC Radio version and play it in the car a lot!
 
Urlik said:
I wonder if the scripts are knocking around somewhere
it would be fantastic if they were recovered and a new version with modern special effects could be made
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I might be mistaken but I thought I heard that a new version of Caves of Steel is going to be made into a film.

Yes, it might be fun to have a slightly 'glammed up' version made - though I'm sure purists would not agree. And, being me, I would enjoy a hint of parody too. The human-robot relationship, with its scope for mishaps and misundertandings, plus a robot learning how to be as human as possible, could provide a lot of that.

I also thought there was some idea of making 'Foundation' into a film as well.

Clever digital effects, where appropriate, can be brilliant - so long as there aren't too many corny Hollywood-style explosions and guns on every corner just for the sake of it.

I hope any might-be film producer/director would also consider enhancements such as exciting scenery and vistas and other visuals (even fashions of clothes and decor) - Asimov wasn't much good at this, not being visual himself.

But, as with anything, this should never be overdone just for the sake of it.
 
It was a segment of a tv series , only clips of it still exist.
 
Maybe there is a surviving print somewhere out there? Why not?
 
Its disappoint that the priest for this one did not survive . Id like ot have see it.. :(
 
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