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 enlarge | Director: Harold Prince
Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Len Cariou, Lesley-anne Down, Hermione Gingold
Studio: Henstooth Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 32742
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 120
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: HEND4108D
UPC: 759731410823
EAN: 0759731410823
ASIN: B00003CWT3
Theatrical Release Date: March 8, 1978
Release Date: June 5, 2007
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 A Little Scratched, a Little Faded but Still Wonderful. July 10, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Maybe one day there will be some billionaire benefactor who appreciates Sondhiem enough to want to truly preserve this gem that was made in a time when musical were no longer being made. When I went in 1977, my father invited me to see it for my 18th birthday. We sat in the theatre alone. Rex Reed compare it to Gigi and he was right. This musical takes an intelligent and humorous look at love. The wit and musical genius of Stephen Sondheim. Those who criticize Liz Taylor being to fat for the role, this is a period piece and for the year that the piece takes place in, Liz would not have been considered fat at all. She would have been thought of as a type of Mae West. It wasn't a time of thin boyish types that didn't happen till the 20's.
It is a good film and very watchable. Buy and enjoy.
How about the PBS version July 8, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Well, there isn't a lot to say about this film that isn't covered elsewhere. So I'll ask if someone will issue instead the PBS film of the City Opera production with Sally Ann Howes, which is superior even if it's a taped stage production (the production values and talent were high). George Lee Andrews (who understudied Cariou and did the national tour) had grown old enough and into the part by then and Howes was very good. Too bad there isn't film of the best Desirees from many productions, Sian Phillips, Judi Dench and Glynis Johns (who someone mistook Howes for in another review). There is a clip of Johns and Cariou doing a scene for a Broadway benefit on an issued video and it's stunning. Taylor isn't all bad but Rigg would have been better in the lead, she's somewhat wasted. Taylor looks bored in some sections and over-directed in others.
Prince's other film, the unissued on DVD "Something for Everyone", is in a similar state or worse apparently, but within the vessel are a great comic performance by Angela Lansbury, supported by Michael York and a wonderful cast and a very dark comic story, as if Charles Addams and Brecht collaborated on an operetta and cut the music. If Hen's Tooth is the only label that will put that out as well, so be it.
You want Sondheim on film? Get "The Last of Sheila".
Yes disappointing print, but....... July 5, 2007
Yes this is not a good print, it is inaccurate advertising-- it is not widescreen as several people point out and is really just a pan and scan TV print with scratches. Yet with such an aobscure movie musical that hardly ever received a theatrical release, its better than nothing and probably as good as we will ever get. It is a little easier to watch than the Video print by a small margin.
Night Music smiles.... June 26, 2007
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Night Music was a beautiful film with a leading lady who was charming but couldn't sing, but dispite that the movies is still a joy to watch. As for the quality of the DVD, some reviwers said their copies were bad...Mine was not. The Sound was great and the music beautiful and the picture cleat and the color beautiful. As for the clame of wide screen that is not quite true, But over all the DVD and it packaging were lovely and quite enjoyable and far better than my old VHS copy....Buy it you will enjoy it !
 Keep your VHS. June 12, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This DVD is not good, not that the quality of the original film was all that good, either. Yes, the film has mono sound- it always did. Yes, the picture quality is not good- it never was. This DVD looks like it was put together from a best-available positive print. Both the DVD and the packaging look like fairly well done home-grown bootleg product. Don't ANY original negatives still exist? The worst part of the DVD is that, unlike the VHS, it has been remastered at a slightly accelerated speed, resulting in ALL the music coming out a half tone higher in pitch- MOST disconcerting.
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