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TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Broadway Musicals (Show Boat / Annie Get Your Gun / Kiss Me Kate / Seven Brides for Seven Brothers)

5 star:		(34)
4 star:		(13)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Build your collection of classic movies quickly and save lots of shelf space at the same time! These TCM/Warners classic movie packs are to be applauded for giving us some of the best movies ever made for one small price!

SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS: Jane Powell and Howard Keel star in this lusty musical favourite with a particularly sweeping Johnny Mercer/Gene DePaul score. Special Features: audio commentary with director Stanley Donen, and a Donen musicals trailer gallery.

ANNIE GET YOUR GUN: Musical dynamo Betty Hutton fires on all cylinders with her performance as sharp-shootin' Annie Oakley in the celebrated screen version of the Broadway musical, co-starring Howard Keel. Special Features: all-new introduction by Susan Lucci, deleted musical number "Let's Go West Again", three songs with original star Judy Garland ("Doin' What Comes Natur'lly", "I'm An Indian, Too" and "Colonel Buffalo Bill"), audio session tracks.

SHOW BOAT: The most beloved and popular screen version of the Broadway musical, starring Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel as lovers Magnolia and Ravenal, torn apart and reunited on the Cotton Blossom. Ava Gardner aquits herself nicely in a rare musical role, although her singing was dubbed by Annette Warren. Special Features: trailer.

KISS ME, KATE: Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel are again paired in this solid movie version of the Cole Porter musical, about a divorced pair of actors forced to work together again in a stage production of Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew". Special Features: all-new featurette "Cole Porter in Hollywood: Too Darn Hot" hosted by Ann Miller, vintage short "Mighty Manhattan, New York's Wonder City", trailer, behind-the-scenes notes.

The reason I rated this product three stars is because of the packaging. The movies are great and the price can't be beat. My only complaint is that all 4 discs were on the same latch - one on top of the other. I have bought sets such as this, from other manufacturers and usually each disc is on a separate place. The way these are packaged could cause discs to be scratched. They are good copies why skimp on the packaging and possibly cause damage?? I will be hesitant to buy any other TCM compilation such as this for that reason.

These are four delightful movies and they look great on DVD. "Kiss Me Kate" has a great extra with scenes using the 3-D effect. It is moderately priced which is a plus. They are also contained in a standard size DVD case. It has only two discs with a movie on each side Well worth adding to your collection.

Leave it to Turner Movie Clasics to bring to the public collections of classic films for a great price. The video transfers are quite good, the best the TMC archives have to offer, and it makes for a very affordable way to build your Home Video Library.

I first purchased the set with Singin' in the Rain, Easter Parade, Meet Me in St. Louis, and the Easter Parade. That set came with two discs, none of which worked. This set has 4 DVDs, and are clearly marked (the former set looked like blank DVDs...I had to put the title on them with a Sharpie). However, only 3/4 titles work. Still a great deal for $10, but it would've been much better if all the DVDs worked!

This DVD is wonderful if you like the Musicals of the mid 20th century. Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, Betty Hutton and Jane Powell are names my mother used to rave about and I still love to watch. I have an old VHS of Seven Brides for Seven brothers and have worn it out.

I bought this so my grandson could enjoy it with me and he loves the shows.

The ONLY fault I have with this DVD is that the "SOUND" has to be almost all the way up to hear the "talking". Wonderfully remastered for color, it could have better audio.

The main reason I bought the 4 film dvd is for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and that was great! My granddaughter loves dancing! However, The opposite side, Annie Get Your Gun, skipped, stuttered and just didn't work.

I suppose I could have sent it back but that's always such a hassle.

Four classic musicals for a low price. Ordinarily this would get 5 stars from me but they made a mistake in formatting when they put "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" on the DVD. The people are too skinny at 4:3 and are too wide in all other formats. 16:9 is the closest but it is still just enough off to bug me. I didn't have this problem with "Kiss Me Kate" or "Annie Get Your Gun" (I haven't watched "Show Boat" yet so I don't know if that has the same problem).

So, worth getting but it isn't perfect.

Overall, these "TCM Greatest..." collections are nice sets (I have several others along with this one). They are clean copies, have a little bit of nice bonus material (not greatly in-depth like some people like, but nice), and they're more than reasonably priced. The only disappointment is that they're panned & scanned versions of the films. For all TCM promotes the letterbox/widescreen versions of films - "as the films' directors intended them to be seen" - it's a little disappointing for them to put their name on these. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, for example, is one of the films TCM uses as an example in its own material on why people should be watching films in letterbox. I'll still watch these films over and over, but I expected just a little better from TCM.

This arrived and is actually 4 seperate disc instead of the 2 double sided as advertised. All 4 disc just stack on each other in the case. Good movies.