Talk:No Highway in the Sky

message: I must admit that I am now more puzzled than usual by the standards being applied to this film. After editor BZUK made a convincing case above that this film is "universally recognized by its US title" with it having been financed, produced, and distributed by a US movie studio (20th Century Fox) under a US producer (Louis D. Lighton), a US based (although a German born exile) director (Henry Koster), and with a iconic US actor as the lead player (Jimmy Stewart), as soon as I accepted this determination as it clearly being a US title and corrected the article to reflect that status the very same editor immediately claimed that it is now a British film presumably because it was filmed in Great Britain. If that is the standard to determine the "nationality" of a film, then presumably "The Train" would have to be reclassified as a "French film", the "Paths of Glory" as a "German film", "Saving Private Ryan" as a an "Irish film" ,and "Apocalypse Now" as a "Philippine film" as those are the countries in which each of these films were made.
Really you can't have it both ways so please tell me what standard you intend to apply? Centpacrr (talk) 03:20, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Read further expanded statements above. It's a British film produced by Twentieth Century-Fox Productions [GB] which now is more often known by its US title, see: WP:Common name. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 03:28, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: BTW, The Train is indeed, a US/French/Italian film. FWiW, Twentieth Century-Fox Productions [GB] has a long and storied history of 47 productions dating back to 1937, which include primarily British productions but also include co-productions such as Alien. Bzuk (talk) 03:34, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The only logo and musical theme that appears at the start of the credits is that of Twentieth Century-Fox, the legend that appears above the film's title reads "Twentieth Century-Fox presents", the copyright notice reads "Copyright MCMLI by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation", and the only seal of approval displayed in the credits is that of the US based "MPAA". Conversely the credits do not carry the words "Twentieth Century-Fox Productions [GB]" anywhere, there is no British Board of Film Censors certificate that would be required to be displayed if it were a British film produced prior to 1983, and a search of the British Board of Film Classification data base returns no results for the title "No Highway in the Sky". That being the case, even if this picture were filmed in the UK it is self identified in its credits as being exclusively a US film and not a British one. Centpacrr (talk) 05:07, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The film as No Highway is produced by Twentieth Century-Fox Productions [GB], the subsidiary of Twentieth Century-Fox. When released in the US (See: The New York Times, it used the name No Highway in the Sky and that name eventually became its common name. See: The First of the Few for another period piece, again produced by a British production company but released through MGM, which promptly changed the title to Spitfire for US distribution, a name which did not become its common name. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 13:03, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Which is it?