WONDERFULL, I recently saw it on the big screen and even though I'd seen it many times before it is one of my favourite films, well into the Top 5. The only slight concern is that no way would the pretty Jean Simmons have turned into Valery Hobson. John Mills was very good but a little weedy compared to the excellent boy who played him as a young Pip. Finlay Currie was fantastic, so scary & even though he was a 'very naughty boy' we still like him, especially when he turns up on Pip's door one wet & windy night after his disappearing act , brurrr!
So if you buy the DvD you'll not be disappointed, if you are then you is without soul or heart, 'Dear Boy!'.
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The film itself: Fabulous rendition of the classic by Charles Dickens. John Mills plays the part with elegance and style. Great.
Quality: Compared to a normal DVD this Blu Ray disk is very crisp. However (not a bad thing), if you are familiar with photography jargon, the film appears to be shot with a very high ISO throughout. But worth getting the Blue Ray version.
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It's been a long time in coming to Region 2 UK DVD, which is great, but a lot of people are complaining about it being 4:3 instead of widescreen, and yes, it would have been better in Widescreen, I don't know why anyone would release it like that, bit of a mystery, but don't despair, there are actually many old movies which 'pretend' to be widescreen and fool many people, for instance Hammers latest release of Frankenstein Created Woman is a blatant 4.3 picture that they simply enlarged and stretched into an anamorphic widescreen picture, ignorance is bliss. Well you can do the same thing on your own tv with this, just set the pic to your own editable widescreen, every widescreen tv has this function, and then enjoy!
This film, made during World War II is pure escapism. The story: Lady of the Manor by day, highwaywoman by night, is basically inaccurate, for in reality few travellers would have ventured to journey after dark, due to the atrocious condition of the roads. But this does not matter, for the romance and adventure contained in this picture is such that one can afford to take such liberties.
Gerry Jackson (James Mason) and Lady Skelton (Margaret Lockwood) compliment each other perfectly. One scene in particular, is a both humourous and poignant. It happens when they are robbing a coach, and Jackson sees a noblewoman whose blonde good looks are such a contrast to the dark-haired beauty of his beloved partner. He therfore gives a passionate kiss to the ... Read More:
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The use of black and white versus colour to reflect the desert of her present life compared to her previous golden existence is notable, true. The story is simple, almost simplistic, and the film joggles because of the alternately stiff or almost sing-song delivery of lines. It shows more like a stage play than a film. But it's more the era in which the film was made rather than poor acting, I think. It's worthy, but still worth watching: Cecile as the gamine social butterfly is luminous and mesmerizing; Raymond as the feeble, immoral bon vivant, pathetic. The film, for all its faults, is rather better made and has more wistful charm and punch (cf. the final scene) than some of the drivel one pays to see in the cinema these days.
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The use of black and white versus colour to reflect the desert of her present life compared to her previous golden existence is notable, true. The story is simple, almost simplistic, and the film joggles because of the alternately stiff or almost sing-song delivery of lines. It shows more like a stage play than a film. But it's more the era in which the film was made rather than poor acting, I think. It's worthy, but still worth watching: Cecile as the gamine social butterfly is luminous and mesmerizing; Raymond as the feeble, immoral bon vivant, pathetic. The film, for all its faults, is rather better made and has more wistful charm and punch (cf. the final scene) than some of the drivel one pays to see in the cinema these days.
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BEWARE! - The quality is poor, I thought I was watching a bootleg DVD and am still not sure about this. Also you cannot turn the subtitles off, so you are stuck with them all the time - very annoying. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
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BEWARE! - The quality is poor, I thought I was watching a bootleg DVD and am still not sure about this. Also you cannot turn the subtitles off, so you are stuck with them all the time - very annoying. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
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WONDERFULL, I recently saw it on the big screen and even though I'd seen it many times before it is one of my favourite films, well into the Top 5. The only slight concern is that no way would the pretty Jean Simmons have turned into Valery Hobson. John Mills was very good but a little weedy compared to the excellent boy who played him as a young Pip. Finlay Currie was fantastic, so scary & even though he was a 'very naughty boy' we still like him, especially when he turns up on Pip's door one wet & windy night after his disappearing act , brurrr!
So if you buy the DvD you'll not be disappointed, if you are then you is without soul or heart, 'Dear Boy!'.
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"Do you know what this is?" asks the cook at the Little People's Garden School as she ladles a white liquid into bowl after bowl.
"Why, it looks like junket," says Ann Lake, who arrived minutes before to deliver her little girl, Bunny, to the nursery school.
"It not only looks like junket, it is junket...junket is junket. And no matter what you do with it, it still tastes like swill and swallows like slime."
This exchange is one of the many pleasures of Otto Preminger's Bunny Lake Is Missing...a movie made up of a collection of eccentric and creepy performances, dialogue by John and Penelope Mortimer which is unexpectedly witty, an atmosphere of foreboding and dread, photography that keeps us in the mood for the worst to happen, and a steady performance at ... Read More:
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