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General Hospital: Luke & Laura (Lover's on the Run) Volume 1 [VHS]

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I was caught up in the Luke and Laura saga in the late 70's early 80's with the rest of the country.Although I was a kid at the time,I rushed home everyday after school to see Luke and Laura on General Hospital. This brings back many wonderful memories!! Their Summer on the run was when their romance began.It's a must for every Luke and Laura fan, but the only problem is it leaves you wanting more so Vol-2 is also needed to complete the collection. I hope someday they will release these again!!

I have been a GH fan for many years, but missed how Luke & Laura began so I bought this video. This was a great video showing significant events on how they first met & how their affair got started. This video is so much better than the events they show on Soapnet - Soapnet shows entire episodes, while this just shows Luke & Laura. Throughout the video, it has some narration detailing events which is helpful as well as Anthony Geary & Genie Francis talking about their characters. This was a great video & really helped me to understand some of the events in Luke & Laura's lives.

I have both Luke and Laura videos and they are just fantastic. The only thing I might criticize about it is that some scenes are edited and parts are missing from scenes because of time. Too bad because some scenes such as Luke's seduction of Laura on the sailboat should not be spliced together and should be seen in it's entirety.

ABC should have released many more volumes of Luke and Laura because these two videos leave out so many important, memorable scenes such as Luke asking Laura to marry him. Still, it's a nice look back at the greatest soap love story of all time. And volume 1 has interviews with Tony Geary and Genie Francis which are a nice touch.

Oh my gosh, i just really love this movie! i am a huge Luke and Laura fan, and i just completely loved this movie!!! I bought it right off of amazon, and i had a great seller! the shipment went smoothly and i was totally satisfied when i received the movie! ever since i got volume 1, i've been serching for volume 2! i definitely recommend this movie!!!! :)

Luke and Laura are soap opera history. This video gives an in depth starting place for newer generations to the greatest super couple of all time!!!

Definition of chemistry: "Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire dancing together; Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracey acting together; Faith Hill and Tim McGraw singing together; Genie Francis and Tony Geary doing anything together..."

It was 28 years ago today that Daytime's most celebrated couple married before 30 million people, in what remains, to this day, a record in soap opera history. What is noteworthy, is that this dynamic duo can still generate buzz, and the viewing audience still clamors to see Genie Francis and Anthony Geary tell the tale of Luke and Laura Spencer.

In Lover's on the Run, the viewing audience is treated to snippets of the back story of why Luke came to Port Charles; how Luke and Laura met; the infamous "rape" scene and all the tumultuous moments in between that led up to that glorious, HOT, summer in 1980 when this dynamic duo changed the face of daytime. It was the summer that Laura Baldwin placed her hand in Luke Spencer's and off they went on an adventure-filled, romantic summer, as they told "The Left-Handed Boy" story, which remains many viewers favorite among all the stories that Luke and Laura have told over the years. [It's Genie and Tony's favorite story too.] It was classic.

Who could ever forget one of the most romantic moments in daytime, when Luke and Laura spent the night in Wyndam's department store and the couple danced to Fascination as well as dined on champagne and caviar? It was magic! They are magic!

This is a story about true love trumping impossibility, over-coming seemingly insurmountable odds to be together, forgiveness and redemption. It was an unlikely coupling: the tragic princess and the wise guy, but it made for riveting watching. It was an interesting unfolding - how they began as friends, how Luke became obsessed with Laura as it turned into love for him, how Laura was fascinated with him early on - attracted and pulled to Luke because he listened to her - valued her opinions which was something appealing for her. Luke treated her like an adult, when everyone else treated her like a child. She didn't look down on him as others did because he came from the wrong side of the tracks. The pairing was a stroke of genius on Gloria Monty's part.

It was painful to watch Luke's desperation and desire to have Laura collide during the rape episode. As Tony noted, it was a tragedy for both because Laura became Luke's victim in that moment, but Luke also became his victim. Many critics were not thrilled with the notion that Laura fell in love with her rapist, but I don't feel that's a fair analysis of all that happened. There was a rich, powerful sub-text to the story which was that Laura was already falling in love with Luke, though she didn't admit it to herself, before that incident happened. It was drama at its finest. The story is complicated, complex and layered with so much of the human condition - good and bad - that it truly is a remarkable tale in any form of media, albeit daytime, night time or the big screen.

The story continues with the couple returning from Beecher's Corners; after the Walls of Jericho came down and the cigar-band vows were exchanged to be pulled apart, as we knew they would be because it's a soap opera and no couple can never not have angst when it's a soap. Yet, that mis-step in story takes us on more of the passionate and heated journey between these two as we watch the couple re-build their relationship, trust and love. In the process, the snippets touch on the second summer of adventure with the Ice Princess story. It was edge-of-your seat viewing which culminated into that glorious, long-awaited wedding.

Genie and Tony also give their insights into the characters and story which is very interesting. They define the motivation and essence of this couple and this love story, and I enjoyed listening to them almost as much as I did re-visiting these memories. These two refer to each other as acting soul mates, and it's evident when you watch them. It's in the eyes. They convey so much spoken and unspoken between their eyes. It's exciting, fascinating and heady to watch. There is a very real electricity that flows between them that transmits so well to the small screen. If you want to know what lightening in a bottle looks like, just watch Genie Francis and Tony Geary. They spin gold and make magic. It's a shame that ABC won't give the viewing audience the treat of seeing Genie and Tony together again as Luke and Laura. It is a love that, in the hearts and minds of their fans, can never be denied nor extinguished. It is as Luke said to Laura and she responded to him. "I've never seen anything like you...." "...and you probably never will again..." Indeed! Daytime has never seen anything like Genie and Tony before and won't again. Lover's on the Run shows it all and spells it out so clearly. It's must see for anyone who wasn't alive when it was actually happening and wants to see what all the hoopla was about. For those of us who were there, it's just a warm, fuzzy trip down memory lane. Get a bowl of popcorn, pop this baby in and feel the magic! It will make you a believer and a fan.

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