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The Next Man

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Since this is the only version of this rather fine movie available, it is a pity that the buyer and viewer have to sit through a version whose DVD video transfer is so poor it looks like a VHS dupe of a slow speed VHS dupe shot through somebody's screen door. The audio quality, lo-fi for its day, would be acceptable if not for the incredible THD distortion especially noticeable on background music: even at low volume.

Furthermore, the 108 minutes running time claimed is not what you get: you get 90 minutes, period. Somebody decided to excise quite a lot of this movie. This was probably taken from a VHS tape edited by a TV studio for content and running time. In short, this DVD never saw, got next to, in any way associated with, nor ever had the chance to contemplate what its filmic potential might have been with a decent transfer. I could make a better slow speed VHS dupe from a VHS dupe than this piece of visual drek. The image quality is so poor I had some difficulty reading the opening credits due not to small font size, but rather to fuzziness.

There is no mention of running time on the box, not surprising, and no inside the box literature. Shame on Amazon for marketing this piece of cinematic disingenuousness and not giving more detials and accurate information.

You've got to watch what you are buying these days.

I like the movie, it is a very decent film and one not seen on the market for a long time. Too bad this is what we have to settle for. Someone should take the video distributor to task for their work.

deadaztec

This so-called remastered DVD version of "The Next Man" is not a technical improvement on the original VHS version. In addition to highly distorted sound and fuzzy picture quality, the film was poorly edited.The tech info provided by Amazon is skimpy and misleading at best, and deceptive at worst. This a better-than-average movie warrants a higher quality transfer and Amazon customers deserve more reliable and detailed product information.
Shame on Amazon!

The box for the DVD says new digital transfer and yet the video on screen was nearly unwatchable it was of such poor quality. Definitely not truth in advertising. I love this movie and couldn't wait to see it again after all these years, so this was a major disappointment.

It's a pitty, I have been searching for a DVD version of this movie for so long.
And when I finally find it, I discover it is a copy of a bad VHS version, with a picture and sound
quality that it's a shame to put on the market on a DVD.I allready have an VHS copy at home, that is fare
more better than this DVD.I can off course bear the loss of the money, but with the sincere hope, that this
movie some time in the future could be released in a propher quality version on DVD, and
this time for real!From a propher master and with subtitle.
This film is worth it!!!

Amazon is trying to get people to "Buy this DVD with Arab Conspiracy DVD ~ Patrick Bedford today!" Well, I hate to tell on Amazon but these two DVDs are the same movie released under two different titles. I own both of these DVDs and the transfers on both are so bad it looks like I am watching it on a video tape that was recorded from a video tape. Buyer beware.

This is a VHSrip-something and not a DVD proper. Quality of the sound is not acceptable and the video could be way better as well.
Don't buy it. It's only disappointing.

One thing you must credit Sean Connery with for the years between superstardom and omnipotence was his willingness to undertake projects that were more interesting than infallible. This film earns its low rating on a realistic scale beacuse it does fail to live up to its potential. The drab edges of a small-scale production budget spent on a small-scale film from small-fry film-makers show in every frame. Yet the concept is one that better thriller-makers should have adopted, and at the centre of things is Connery, a Sheik for the second time is his film career, and obviously from the same family line as the Raisuli, for his sheikness here is also blessed with a Scottish accent. Connery has long-ago given his justification for the refusal to disguise the accent with a tirade on the universality of film, piqued towards the swamping of the world with characters of all makes and nations all delivered with an American voice. Yet here, the major speech the Sheik makes at an Arab summit in full Scottish roar demands your affection for the actor for credibility to remain. Beyond this, the film becomes a neat enough little thriller, admittedly of television dimensions, which remains tight till the twist at the very end. Connery is cool and commanding as he should be. Leading lady Cornelia Sharpe was well-known to be the leading lady of a studio executive, the only means she had of earning her few screen roles, but she is decorative enough, surely as competent as other models who believed looks can act. This isn't a great film, it's a fair enough diversion, but Connery completists, it is a must, and not entirely sn embarrassment.