Product Details

• Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Len Cariou, Lesley-Anne Down, Hermione Gingold
• Directors: Harold Prince
• Writers: Hugh Wheeler, Ingmar Bergman
• Producers: Denis Holt, Elliott Kastner, Otto Plaschkes
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 1.0)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Henstooth Video
• DVD Release Date: June 5, 2007
• Run Time: 124 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00003CWT3
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,165 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "A Little Night Music" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC - DVD Movie

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76 of 81 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Collectors, Beware!, June 7, 2007

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Tom S. "filmfan3" (New York City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Little Night Music (DVD)

This DVD is a major disappointment. Like so many other Sondheim fans, I'd been looking forward to this release because the 1978 film is--for better or worse--a rare record of one of my favorite Broadway shows. But, the film itself aside, this DVD is a problem. It is not professionally done. It's supposed to be a new, widescreen print in Dolby stereo, but it isn't. It's a terrible, scratchy old print, and the "widescreen" is apparently stretched out from a fullscreen TV print. The framing is so bad that the opening titles are all cut off, like on an old TV print. And the soundtrack is mono--not even very clear mono. There are more glitches and scratches and sudden jumps (indicating reel changes on old movie theater equipment) than you can count.

I swear, this looks and sounds like it was taken from a TV broadcast with second-rate equipment. Try pausing the picture, and you'll see the horizontal lines that indicate a broadcast on an obsolete TV. And there's a vertical slash down the entire center of the picture for much of the running time, projector damage from long ago. They didn't use the laser disc or VHF recordings, both of which are in much better shape, to make this DVD. Is this legal? Who is "Hen's Tooth Video," anyway?

I don't know what we can do about this, but you really want to think twice before ordering this title. I'm furious, and you will be, too. What a rip-off!

43 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars To watch it more helps you to appreciate it more, October 18, 2004

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KerrLines ""Movies,Music,Theatre"" (Baltimore,MD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Little Night Music (DVD)

Having seen the stage play several times I can appreciate the movie for what it is.The movie is much slower and less funny than the stage play, yet the movie has some much more tender moments and dramatic flair.I love being able to see the held close ups of Taylor and Cariou and the chemistry these two have.The movie fills in parts that cannot be done on stage.Yes,songs are cut from the stage version, but new lyrics for WEEKEND IN THE COUNTRY ,GLAMOUROUS LIFE and EVERY DAY A LITTLE DEATH make this interesting for Prince-Sondheim fans.It definitely is different than the original show, but I love it and watch it often.I always laugh when Cariou and Taylor are chortling about "her Dragooooooon!"

40 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PBS please, March 11, 2000

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Carl Downs (st louis missouri) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Little Night Music (DVD)

Actually I want to have a dvd edition of the musical play that was broadcast (too long to video tape,) a few years ago on PBS! The movie was fine, but art lovers everywhere want the real thing! I think mankind deserves real broadway masterpieces shown as they exist on the stage!