An Evening With O Henry

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Rank amateur.......2004-07-16

I had ordered this DVD so I could show it to my students who are reading O Henry stories. I was disappointed; the acting is so amateur; and the "frame" for presenting the stories is so corny. So I hunted for the 1951 film "O Henry's Full House" (Fred Allen, Marilyn Monroe) and finally found it on eBay. It may be 50 years older, but it's much better!

An Evening With Sherlock Holmes - Boxed Set

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Very Poor Quality
Sherlock Holmes
Disappointing quality from a huge Sherlock Holmes fan.
I love it!
Happy with Basil Rathbone, and Extra DVD Features

An Evening With Sherlock Holmes - Boxed Set
Starring: Basil Rathbone , Nigel Bruce , Hillary Brooke , Henry Daniell , and Paul Cavanagh
Director: Roy William Neill
Manufacturer: FOCUS FILMS
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00004RF4W
Release Date: 2000-05-02

Customer Reviews:

Very Poor Quality.......2004-09-19

This DVD collection is the worst quality of any DVD I've ever seen. It looks like a bad VHS tape copied off of a TV broadcast and then copied multiple times. Don't make the mistake and buy this FOCUSfilm version. A real fan should spend more money and buy the MPI restored sets.

Sherlock Holmes.......2002-07-30

This set has its good points and its bad points. As other reviews have stated, the quality of the films isn't great. However, some of the reviews tend to exagerate the poor quality of the discs. The movies certainly don't look and sound perfect, but the quality is not atrocious either. "The Woman in Green" and "Terror by Night" are the best in quality. They actually look and sound quite decent, although there is a scene missing from "Terror by Night". "The Secret Weapon" varies in quality. About half of it looks and sounds fairly good but then other parts look a bit grainy or have black dots on the screen. However, the picture problems are not so bad as to make the film unwatchable. "Dressed to Kill" is the worst in quality. It looks a little fuzzy and the sound, while audible, could be better. This one is watchable as long as you don't demand perfect quality. The extras included in the set are great. The radio shows and the interview with Doyle have already been mentioned so I won't go into that in any detail. But this set is worth buying if you're interested in the extras. If not, then I wouldn't recommend it as the films themselves are not really worth the money.

Disappointing quality from a huge Sherlock Holmes fan........2002-07-17

First of all, I am a huge Sherlock Holmes fan. In the early 1980's a local LA television station played the entire Basil Rathbone series, one per Sunday, over a period of months. I taped the entire series. I purchased this DVD collection believing that I would have equal or better technical quality than my 20+ year old tapes. WRONG!! The sound quality is so poor as to be difficult to hear. Video is worse. I attribute this to lack of interest by the technicians. In this age of digital manipulation, the sound could, at a minimum, have been stabilized from the source. It actually should have been remastered. No, unfortunately, this set is a production by folks who just didn't care. Really disappointing.

I love it!.......2002-07-03

I'm really glad that I ignored all the negative reviews of this product and bought it anyway. I could not be happier with the purchase. First of all, the set is worth buying for the extras alone. Each disc contains 3 1/2 to 4 hours of radio shows with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce reading the parts of Holmes and Watson. The shows are awesome and the sound quality is excellent. It was worth the money just for the radio shows. This set also contains the interview with Arthur Conan Doyle in which he discusses, among other things, why he created Sherlock Holmes. Each disc also contains a movie trailer and a photo gallery. And secondly, the overall quality of the films is not that bad. It's certainly not great. Don't get me wrong. But I did not find it to be as bad as some of the other reviews say. The films are quite watchable. This set is definitely worth buying, assuming that you want the radio shows and the interview with Conan Doyle. However, if you are looking for great quality movies and aren't very interested in the extras, then don't buy this.

Happy with Basil Rathbone, and Extra DVD Features.......2002-07-03

I'm surprised a higher rating hasn't been assigned to this boxed set of 4 Rathbone adventures.
If you're interested in old time Radio Drama, there are 15 hours of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" with classics like "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" along with "The Notorious Canary Trainer" spread throughout the DVDs.
I had some time ago seen an old movie of Sir Arthur on TV, and lo - here it is on the DVD! I'm really quite delighted by the whole set; very satisfying for my Sherlock Holmes Collection

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