Product Details

• Actors: Shelley Duvall
• Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 9
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: KOCH VISION
• DVD Release Date: September 6, 2005
• Run Time: 457 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000A0D1MY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #160,825 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Tall Tales & Legends - The Complete Series" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

This 9 DVD set contains the complete live-action series, including Annie Oakley, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Ponce de Leon, Davy Crockett, Casey at the Bat, Pecos Bill, Johnny Appleseed, Darlin’ Clementine, and John Henry. Weaving American folk heroes into "larger than life" stories, Shelley Duvall’s Tall Tales & Legends is the award-winning, live-action series that is perfect for the entire family to enjoy together.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Shelley goes All American!, August 22, 2008

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Compusurge (New York City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tall Tales & Legends - The Complete Series (DVD)

As a huge fan of Ms. Duvall's work on Faerie Tale Theatre, her second body of work, Tall Tales & Legends, took the same approach production wise and pointed her skills at tales of American Folklore.

Live-action and star-empowered, these tales are equally as enjoying for both young and old alike, as are the acclaimed Faerie Tale Theatre stories. Johnny Appleseed is my kids absolute fav (Martin Short as Johnny), but Casey at the Bat, John Henry... they all ad up to a wonderful body of work that interestingly plays beautifully in/around first and second grade when American Folklore is taught in the public schools (at least in our area it is). The Appleseed tale took my little girl from watching the show to wanting to, and successfully reading the tale to then... writing a little book report for her class.

Thank you Ms. Duvall, for playing a positive role in teaching my kid to read. Kudos again to you for your work.

PS: The upcoming release of Faerie Tale Theatre as a set that includes a book deserves TWO THUMBS UP, as they say. Watch them, read them. How well was THAT idea thought out??? Kudos to KOCH Vision for such great products for our children.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Classic Family Fun!, May 31, 2008

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Dawn M. Schell - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tall Tales & Legends - The Complete Series (DVD)

These are classic tales told by and All-star cast! Perfect for teaching today's children all about American Folk Lore.

17 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great work, January 15, 2006

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Roland (Idaho) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tall Tales & Legends - The Complete Series (DVD)

Shelley Duvall has given perhaps the best contemporary treatment to fairy tales in the last 100 years - no joke!
She has captured the true essence of the tales, and has not made them cheesy or expurgated the darker elements of the tales, like Disney always does.