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Location: New York City
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Early-retired Windows programmer married to a great, cute lady in marketing and publishing. A long background in theater arts and film history. The mrs and I are long-time fans of classic films, both old and new. I confess to having a mis-spent youth spent in every movie theater in my home town, where I saw so many of the great films featured at Amazon. Other interests: photography and astrolo… Read moreEarly-retired Windows programmer married to a great, cute lady in marketing and publishing. A long background in theater arts and film history. The mrs and I are long-time fans of classic films, both old and new. I confess to having a mis-spent youth spent in every movie theater in my home town, where I saw so many of the great films featured at Amazon. Other interests: photography and astrology.
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Not much can be added to the praise of others here, or to the film's enthusiastic reception by the public. I feel that this is one of those rare films that is simply perfect from beginning to end. Even if you don't develop an affection for the characters, and even if you don't care for the story line, it's a stretch to fault this movie in any way. The Special Edition DVD is preferred (not many extras, but those included are worth the effort). After watching my copy 7 times and trying to get really picky with it, I juist can't find anything amiss with Beresford's beautiful production. SO why didn't he win a Director Oscar? Must've been the competition that year, but he certainly… Read more
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The $15 box lacks special features, but if you can live without the extras you still get the same DVD print as in the Deluxe issue. GWTW (one of very few films whose title is so well known that it can go by an anacronym), though dated, certainly deserved all 10 of its Oscars. Considering the limitations of 1938 Technicolor, the photography is phenomenal. The script and story, a remarkable achievement in its day, literally swims in Victorian sentimentality -- as, indeed, did the 1860's. The DVD print, remastered from original negatives, is very slightly murky but is a vast improvement over the original and miles ahead of the flawed VHS edition. I know many who consider this classic to… Read more
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
The extra features on this DVD edition are highly desirable -- get the DVD for the features, but get a recent VHS tape for a better print. The DVD release is so grainy it's fuzzy and often seems out-of-focus. Contrast is murky is many scenes. In one specific scene: when Joan Crawford enters a dark room and discovers Beery standing over the baron's corpse; the grim heaviness of the textures and depth of shadows, the stark horror on Crawford's face -- these are lost in the fuzzy grain of the DVD but are clearly preserved on VHS. Having seen this film many times on the big screen and on tape, it appears that the DVD seriously lacks the smooth, almost lush visual quality of earlier issues… Read more
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