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The Jackie Gleason Collection

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I agree. I can't believe "Gigot" is not in this collection!! It was one of my favorite Gleason films!

I purchased this set because I wanted some of Jackie's work. This set is truly deceiving as the footage is blurred and pieces of work from Jackie are certainly not his best, example; Jackie appears on the Frank Sinatra show, Frank and Jackie are barely recognizeable.
Passport Video should be ashamed to put anything like this out and profit from it.
Purchase at your own risk, I don't know who these other reviewers are
( relatives or employees I would assume ) but it is a sad and wasteful piece of $#!T !

This dvd set of jackie gleason is a very slim example of great dvd quality,it certainly was not the a@E special of jackie gleason,I would tell everyone to skip this dvd set and wait for the set of the jackie gleason show coming out from MPI Video the distributors of the dark shadows sets..

I so love Jackie and continue to watch his antics where I find them;
but I must say, this collection was really not what it could have been.
I was very unhappy with the content quality. Please! Jackie lovers unite
and insist upon a product worth his weight, in gold, please! Just sayin'...

I was searching on amazon.com for the movie "Soldier in the Rain." This item came up #1. That movie is not on the DVD at all! Instead, what you get is a 1-hour movie made in 1942 and two 1/2-hour appearances on TV variety shows. I returned the DVD.

Gigot was one of his best films. It was broadcast on Cinemax in the 90's and I recorded it on VHS. I too wish they would release it on DVD.

I am a big Jackie Gleason fan and am looking forward to the September release of this DVD to complement the Classic 39 Honeymooners DVD set I bought last month. I wish I new the content of this two-DVD set (running time 120 minutes). I assume (and hope) that it is the two-hour A&E Biography program from 2001 that did an excellent job of covering Gleason's personal life and professional career-including a variety of film clips showing the evolution of the Honeymooners' cast (from Pert Kelton on Cavalcade of Stars, to Audrey Meadows, and finally Sheila McCrae). It would really be great to find some of the complete early Honeymooners sketches with Pert Kelton. One thing that puzzles me about this set is why, at 120 minute running time, it can't be packaged on one DVD rather than two.