Customer Reviews

The Romance Collection: Special Edition (Pride and Prejudice / Emma / Jane Eyre / Ivanhoe / Tom Jones / The Scarlet Pimpernel / Lorna Doone / Victoria and Albert)

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This collection is absolutely wonderful. I have enjoyed every one of the productions. My husband happened to come by while I was watching Lorna Doone and he decided to watch every one of them. It took a while to watch them; however, it was time well invested. The very best are Pride and Prejudice, Lorna Doone, Emma, and Tom Jones. Jane Eyre and the Scarlet Pimpernel are almost as good. It took us a while to warm up to Ivanhoe, but we did. You get a set of movies that will give you hours and hours of viewing pleasure for a very reasonable price. The quality is excellent - I already owned Pride and Prejudice and Emma and the quality in this set is exactly the same as the quality of my dvds. I definitely recommend it.

By far, a great amount of entertainment for the money! They have taken the best of the best, great acting along with incredible scenery and put it together so there are hours of escape into times long gone.

What can I say...this is the most wonderful version Pr.&Pr. ever made. I have seen many other version but always come back to this one for its QUALITY of acting,directing, scenery,etc. This is the very reason I purchased the Romance Collection. Haven't seen them all yet,but am not disappointed with what I have seen....as I said in the beginning...QUALITY.

There is absolutely no doubt that this is a superb collection of period films and well worth acquiring. But I was more than a little shattered to note the comments referring to the inclusion in the collection of 'The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling' and indeed what it may suggest about our current age. The film is firmly based on Henry Fielding's classic novel 'The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling' published in 1749 in a period noted for its directness and ability to call a spade a spade, even within the highest social circles. Lusty Tom balanced a hearty appetite for beautiful women with a warm heart and an essential goodness, strayed not entirely as the result of his own faults, and was finally rewarded with the girl he had always loved. In many ways a moral tale. Those films in the collection which were based on 19th century novels were written in the context of an entirely more conservative and prim society, evidence of the pendulum that moves historically between high conservatism and liberalism.

Made in 1963 and now reaching its fiftieth year, this romp of a film, one of the glories of British comedy, was the run-away winner of film accolades for that year taking out the Oscar for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Score and Best Screenplay as well as the British Film Academy Award for Best British Film, Best Film From Any Source, and Best Screenplay. The film was a showcase of great British actors of the period including among many a brilliant young Albert Finney, the delicious Susannah York as his great love, Joan Greenwood, Edith Evans, David Warner, David Tomlinson, seductive Diane Cilento, Hugh Griffith, and Lynn Redgrave.

As the title of the collection is 'The Romance Collection', personally I applaud the inclusion of this great film classic. Romance occurs in all ages, not least the 18th century. This film provided a refreshing balance to a very high quality offering.

How can you go wrong with a collection of these wonderful romances?!

The collection is beautifully done and definitely a keeper. I keep thinking of people I should give them to because they would love them, but I just can't give them up.

There are times in my life when I just want to slow things down and enjoy a romantic novel that I don't have to read. Those are the times when nothing good is on television and I'm just too tired from working on my computer for hours to want to read anything.

This collection has a permanent place in my home.

I bought this for Pride & Prejudice, but the bonus is that you get all of these other excellent movies, like The Scarlet Pimpernel, Emma, Jane Eyre, etc. It's well worth the cost!

Love most of the videos. Tom Jones might be rated R, though and wasn't expecting one nude scene. Everything else has been great and fun to watch!

As a huge fan of Pride and Prejudice, I have been watching the VCR version for years. I thought I would update my collection with the DVD version. What a disappointment. The colorization is HORRIBLE. Faces are washed out; backgrounds are faint. It is very distracting to watch and very disappointing because this was the primary reason I bought this collection.

This is a real shame and a disservice to such an excellent production of this wonderful book.

So far the other movies that I watched aren't affected by this unfortunate problem.

Film quality and sound aren't too great on some of these, but they're enjoyable for the most part. Worth the money to get so many movies.

This Romance Collection is Amazing! All 8 of these mini series are Must See Classics! Totally worth the money!