Product Details

• Actors: Robert Stack, Marisa Pavan, Charles Coburn, Erin O'Brien, Bette Davis
• Directors: John Farrow
• Writers: John Farrow, Ben Hecht, Clements Ripley, Jesse Lasky Jr.
• Producers: Samuel Bronston
• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• VHS Release Date: July 7, 1994
• Run Time: 126 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303039588
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #74,994 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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The swashbuckling adventures of the 18th century American war hero.

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars John Paul Jones, January 18, 2000

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james j. neri (Berlin, CT United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: John Paul Jones [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The only movie portrayal done to my knowledge of John Paul Jones. That alone makes it worth while for any American history fan. Robert Stack does a pretty good job as the man and soldier. The movie is fairly historically accurate with some "Hollywood artistic" liberty taken and a bit of swashbuckling too. An entertaining movie all in all.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Bad, January 31, 2007

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J. Christian (St Louis, MO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: John Paul Jones [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Hollywood has certainly done much worse than this movie. John Paul Jones was a major naval figure in the American Revolution, though seagoing operations in that war were overshadowed by land operations. His life is covered with an acceptable degree of historical accuracy in this movie. (It appears to me that the script was probably based on Augustus C. Buell's 1900 two volume "biography". For the facts, trust Samuel Eliot Morison's unsurpassed 1959 biography of Jones.) The normal artistic liberties are taken without changing the overall story. The filming and color are quite good. However, it suffers from very stiff acting, particularly from Robert Stack. The VHS tape has also suffered the cutting room floor treatment by trimming a widescreen movie to fit the 4:3 TV screen. Worth seeing once, it might be wisest to either rent or check it out from the library.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars where's the DVD version?, June 27, 2010

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Bobby D "Bobby D" (Miami, Fl) - See all my reviews

This review is from: John Paul Jones [VHS] (VHS Tape)

It surprises me that so many terrible movies have been converted and released to a DVD format, while this excellent classic along with so many others have not for whatever reason.