"Lionpower from MGM" (1967) is an exciting 60's promotional short subject, which showcases MGM's releases for the 1967-68 film season under a "five seasons" theme--fall, winter, spring, summer--plus a "fabulous fifth season". The main music is set to the rousing theme from "The Magnificent Yankee" composed by David Raksin in 1950. The promo is narrated by some of the best voice-over actors of the time, and is an excellent time capsule of a by-gone era.
Score
Raksin's Magnificent Yankee theme doing WAY too much heavy lifting.
Production
Five seasons gimmick is deranged commitment to the bit.
Alan Alda
Self - Lt. j.g. Morton Krim (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robert Aldrich
Self (uncredited)
Carroll Baker
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alan Bates
Self - Gabriel Oak (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dirk Bogarde
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jim Brown
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Doris Day
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Angie Dickinson
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Roscoe Lee Browne
Self - Petit Pierre (archive footage) (uncredited)
Richard Burton
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Godfrey Cambridge
Self - Benny (archive footage) (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fred Foy, main narrator here, was the legendary voice of The Lone Ranger radio and TV intros.
This promo accidentally documents the exact moment old Hollywood started drowning in New Hollywood's wake—note the desperate 'relevance' grabs.
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