Product Details

• Format: Black & White
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 9
• Run Time: 1960 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0015AOBOA
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,166 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

STARRING PENNY SINGLETON AND ARTHUR LAKE-based on the popular comic strip of the same name- set includes 9 discs, with 28 movies and interactive dvd motion menus. comes packed in sturdy dvd case. GREAT QUALITY SET- Film series ran from 1938 to 1950. Each film is an hour and ten minutes long. This is the complete set of the movies that were originally shown in theaters. Disc #1 Blondie Blondie Meets the Boss Blondie Takes a Vacation Blondie Brings Up Baby Disc #2 Blondie Plays Cupid Blondie on a Budget Blondie Has Servant Trouble Disc #3 Blondie Goes Latin Blondie In Society Blondie Goes to College Disc #4 Blondie's Blessed Event Blondie For Victory It's a Great Life Disc #5 Footlight Glamour Leave it to Blondie Blondie Knows Best Disc #6 Life With Blondie Blondie's Lucky Day Blondie's Big Moment Disc #7 Blondie's Holiday Blondie's in the Dough Blondie's Anniversary Disc #8 Blondie's Reward Blondie's Secret Blondie's Big Deal Disc #9 Blondie Hits the Jackpot Blondie's Hero Beware of Blondie

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47 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A pleasant glimpse at a bygone age, August 31, 2008

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William E. Byrnes (Carbondale, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: BLONDIE-COLLECTORS EDITION-9 DISC BOXED SET-28 MOVIES W/ INTERACTIVE DVD MOTION MENUS (DVD)

This box set was my second purchase of a Blondie set. This set includes what I believe are all the films made between 1938 and 1950. The last of the set has a new Mr. Dithers (not Jonathan Hale) who suddenly reappears as Dagwood's boss. In the previous film, Mr. Radcliffe was the boss, as he had been since the business was sold to him by J.C. Dithers. It made me wonder if there was a missing film.

Neverthenonetheless, this is a wonderful box set. The Bumsteads go from the parents of one child, Baby Dumpling, and one Dog, Daisy, to the parents of Alexander, the grownup name of their son, who's insisted on it since he started school, Daisy, and her little family of five pups, and Cookie, their daughter who was accidentally named by a policeman who stopped them for traveling too slowly on their way home from the hospital with their new addition. He called her a cute little cookie and Dagwood and Alexander picked it up, protested by mother of course, but it gradually became her name.

In my earlier review I've extolled the virtues of the talented performers in this series. Arthur Lake, the perennial klutz who still manages to hold on to his job as the assistant designer of a construction firm through creative ideas and the help of a very clever wife. Penny Singleton, a talented young actress with a great singing voice and a brilliant sense of comedic timing carries her little family through the Depression and the War with humor and humanity, and Larry Simms, who grows from a cute little toddler, identified in the credits for Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as "Baby Dumpling" into a young man. Daisy, the "pin-up pooch" who seems to turn up in films all over the screen in this period of time (in Capra's Meet John Doe, she's the dog who creeps out of the way when she hears Gary Cooper apologize for dripping his wet raincoat on the floor, like she thought she'd be blamed for the puddle)manages everything from fetching the paper to helping coax a little girl out of her wheelchair and learning to walk.

The supplier of the DVD set was very helpful. Her service was prompt and courteous. While it took only a short time to receive the set after I ordered it, I found I was savoring the viewing over a course of weeks.

All in all, it was a very pleasant way to spend the summer.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Movies - Fairly Good Copies, January 27, 2009

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Vincent Summers - See all my reviews
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This review is from: BLONDIE-COLLECTORS EDITION-9 DISC BOXED SET-28 MOVIES W/ INTERACTIVE DVD MOTION MENUS (DVD)

I have waited for years for the complete Blondie series. I was not disappointed. However, the DVD seems to consist of DVD from video with curious occasional timing adjustments. It was claimed the sound was enhanced, but I believe the timing adjustments may have been made to synch the video and sound.

While the effect was strange, if you are the kind of person who wants the Blondie movies you will be the kind of person who will put up with the timing adjustments just to enjoy the opportunity to have them.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not the greatest presentation of this fine series, October 22, 2010

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L'escribe (ohio USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: BLONDIE-COLLECTORS EDITION-9 DISC BOXED SET-28 MOVIES W/ INTERACTIVE DVD MOTION MENUS (DVD)

I read up on this product before purchasing on Amazon, as I am an ardent Blondie-phile. I taped most of the series on VHS when shown on various networks about twenty five years ago. When one of the tapes recently came unwound I decided to purchase this set. I had read various reviews of this stating that the sequencing was off somewhat and that these DVDs were recorded from VHS versions. They are not the movies released by Columbia, they are recorded from the versions released by television. It was also stated that many people found this problem with the pacing irritating, (by the pacing it means that the film may slow somewhat - it's not playing at normal speed). Also the soundtrack was a little creaky as well. I played the first Blondie episode from this set and found the pacing problem very irritating. I have much better quality in my VHS tapes. The second and third episodes that I played from this set weren't as bad as the first, but, there were some pacing problems as well. However, I can live with it as I really love this series. Wish that Columbia would release a REAL version DVD set from their master copies. THAT would probably be superb. Buy this set if you are a true Blondie-phile but be prepared to be irritated.