Customer Reviews

Miss Tatlock's Millions

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(10)

 

 

A lovely screwball comedy, with an excellent cast and a clever script as you would expect from Charles Brackett and Richard Breen. John Lund shows a deft comedy touch as the stuntman hired to impersonate the dead idiot heir but who falls in love with his supposed sister. Lund and Wanda Hendrix have some very good scenes together while Ilka Chase, Barry Fitzgerald and Monty Woolley give great support. Even Robert Stack gives a good performance. Only director Richard Haydn's small part as the lawyer is totally over the top (played under the name Richard Rancyd - enough said).

It is a shame that this is only available as a very poor quality video. Why do so many good films never get released on video or DVD when so much rubbish does?

Don't buy this video, it is taped from the tv and is not that good quality. If you are anywhere other than america it will be a complete waste of money. The movie is a great comedy unfortunatly the seller ruined it. -

Actually, Mad Phat Enterprises, Inc, in my defence i did write to amazon once i received this video and before i wrote the review. I asked them to take it back and give me a new one with better quality. They sent out a brand new video in which i was told was of top quality and yet it was the exact same copy. So now you say only one bad copy may have sliped through, well i seem to have been very unlucky getting two bad copies. Perhaps you should review your reviewing tactics as i don't think there working for you. I did the right thing and contact people before writing the review and i did receive money back however i was out shipping cost, time and a birthday present and as a customer i would have prefered to know just what i was buying and that is why i wrote the review. Obviouly i'm not the only one as i see someone else wrote about the poor quality of your video. So perhaps instead of saying it was my fault that i didn't write to you before writing a review you should check your paperwork or hey here's is an idea perhaps instead of trying to make yourselves look better how about making sure you have good quality items so people get what they paid for and don't have to write warning people against your products. Just a thought.

Before purchasing this video, I read a negative review posted by another purchaser. The review referred to the quality of the tape; not the content. I contacted the seller before purchasing and was told (practically verbatum) the reply that is listed in the sellers response to the original review. I was guaranteeed a refund if I was not happy. I bought the tape and the quality is TERRIBLE!! I DO LIVE IN AMERICA and that doesn't help. Twice the screen completely blacked out, multiple times the channel it was taped from flashed across the screen, and there is much "snow" in the picture. While I intend to keep the product, it is ONLY because it's easier than trying to catch this movie on the late, late show. FOR THE QUALITY, THE PRICE IS RIDICULOUS!!

My sisters and I could not wait for Paramount to release this movie. Apparently they didn't. The quality I received was horrible. I wanted the movie to surprise my sister. She had gone five years without returning breast cancer. I planned the party and sent for the movie and didn't watch it until we all could see it together for the first time in many years. Imagine our horror when the movie I paid way too much for was the poorest quality I've ever seen. I live in America also, that doesn't help. I didn't ask for my money back because even though the quality is horrible, we were able to see bits and pieces of our favorite parts. It blanked out several times and you couldn't track it to make it clearer. For a poor quality VHS tape they're asking way too much!

This film looks as if it was taped directly form a television broadcast. I am surprised Amazon is selling this very poor copy. I couldn't watch it.

Richard

I've been looking for this movie on DVD for literally YEARS, so was ecstatic at finding it available thru my trusted first-choice vendor, Amazon.com. But when it arrived, I was appalled to find that it is a 'homemade' DVD, recorded from who-knows-what source. Clear plastic cover with a computer generated UPC code and the title of the movie on it was the ONLY "cover art". Printing on the disc itself is plain-jane black block letters on a white background -- obviously NOT a studio issue.

All that was bad enough, and THEN we tried to watch it.

The content of the disc was some horrible old British stage play entitled "A School for Scandal", and (ignoring the fact that it wasn't even CLOSE to being "Miss Tatlock's Millions") the recording quality was absolutely the WORST I've ever seen. It looked like it had been dubbed from a VHS tape recorded from TV and transferred from tape to tape repeatedly before 'mastering' the DVD. This is some BAD stuff.

To say I am disappointed is a serious understatement. I'm OUTRAGED that they can't even get the right movie on the DVD! I just finished printing up the return authorization, and will send this back ASAP.

I guess my first clue should have been the absence of an image for this offering where one would expect to see cover art. NO IMAGE AVAILABLE is quite probably CODE for "steer clear of this piece of crap". Hopefully, I'll know better next time.

Amazon, I'm VERY disappointed in you for even pretending to offer this movie. I'd give it ZERO stars if I could, but that isn't an option.

This DVD is without a doubt the worst one i have ever seen . The picture quality is dreadful ; the sound if possible is even worse . I am most disappointed that Amazon wouls sell a dvd of such poor quality and feel that they are not doing themselves a lot of harm by doing this .

I have loved this film since it first came out and it took me years to find a not very good tape of it. I still like to look at it, however, for the sheer joy of seeing this marvelous comedy again and again. (This would be 5 stars if tape quality were better!)
Big suprise is John Lund who is absolutely hilarious as the a man pretending to be the childishly mad Tatlock heir. I had liked Lund as a handsome leading man with a rich voice, but this performance revealed a far more versatile talent than I had imagined. Everyone is great in this, from the acid Monty Wooley to Richard Haydyn himself (director) as the aggravatingly slow lawyer. Barry Fitzgerald, Robert Stack, Wanda Hendrix--all are great at keeping the pace moving and the laughs coming. This was one of those forgotten films Paramount did with some of their lesser contract players and with little publicity. It was far better than the offhand way it was presented in theatres.
Lund's career was destroyed when Paramount insisted he make that dreadful disaster, 'Bride of Vengeance'. He tried to resist, as did several other actors who had read the script but were forced by contract to perform, and for their pains, they were tossed out after the film bombed. 'Tatlock' was one of Lund's last at Paramount but as a Lund fan, I can only say, 'Tatlock's Millions' was his best!

I agree with the first reviewer. This looks homemade and is basically unwatchable. I also can't believe Amazon is selling this. I actually would give it zero stars. Too bad, because it is a very good movie. The transfer is worse than when I transferred my Betamax tapes to VHS.

This is a pure state of the art black and white movie....the first time [and the last time] that I saw this, I thought that John Lund was the most wonderful leading man....I was 17 years old the first time and was 65 the last time....he was sooooo handsome ....and even though he was so poignant as "Schuyler"...it ia still difficult not to find him totally sexy....and his scenes with the beautiful and always "innocent" Wanda Hendrix were Hollywood.....Robert Stack was the spoiled rich boy and played it wonderfully....but as much as I came to like him over the years....he was always that spoiled rich boy in everything he ever did ....Barry Fitzgerald and Monty Wooley were the ones that made this whole farce believable.....WHY OH WHY CANNOT THESE MAGNIFICENT PIECES OF AMERICAN CINEMA BE RESTORED AND RE-ISSUED INTO SOMETHING WATCHABLE.....MAYBE SOMEDAY......nas