Product Details

• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Kultur Video
• VHS Release Date: October 22, 1996
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 6304254326
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #443,346 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars As good as possible, under the circumstances, April 1, 2000

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Diego Banducci (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Famous Authors Series: Samuel Johnson [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Were it not for James Boswell's account of their joint "Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland" (1775) and his subsequent monumental "Life of Samuel Johnson" (1791), we would know very little about the man often described as the major English literary figure of the latter half of the 18th Century. As it is, the biography focuses upon the mature Johnson that Boswell knew, a superb conversationalist whose witticisms remain a staple of books of quotations to this day.

This short film dutifully traces the geograhic course of Johnson's life and provides all of the basic chronological details, but does little to enhance the viewer's understanding of the man or his life's work.