Product Details

• Actors: Jaclyn Smith, Tony Curtis, Red Buttons, Alan Feinstein, Joan Fontaine
• Directors: Joseph Hardy
• Format: NTSC, Color, Mono
• Language: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Starmaker Entertainment, Inc.
• Run Time: 125 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000ANH438
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #181,478 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Users, November 9, 2011

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Christopher F. Nelson (mystic,ct usa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Users (1978) (VHS Tape)

This movie produced by the man who did so many tv series and movies Aaron Spelling stars the beautiful Jaclyn Smith. Miss Smith is part of an all star cast that includes Tony Curtis, Red Buttons, John Forysthe , and Joan Fontaine. I found it to be enjoyable to watch.

5.0 out of 5 stars A LIST ACTORS - NOSTALGIC MOVIE, February 5, 2011

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This review is from: The Users (1978) (VHS Tape)

I remember watching this movie on tv when it first aired. Subtle sexuality, triple threat actors and actresses in addition to their good looks, high end clothes,cars, Beverly Hills homes, etc. I've been looking for this movie to come out on DVD, and thankfully, I have found it on an excellent VHS tape. Good movies, writers and actors/actresses seem far and few in between these days - thank goodness classics never go out of style.

4.0 out of 5 stars Spelling-style '70s glitz, December 28, 2010

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This review is from: The Users (1978) (VHS Tape)

The copy that I recently received of THE USERS is a mid-1980s VHS on the PRISM label. In quality it is far superior to the STARMAKER tape pictured here. This is from an era when videos each cost $70 or more, and the quality shows. It's sturdily made, twice as heavy in weight than the final flimsy VHSes MGM issued in the early 2000s.

The tape is stored in a durable oversized clamshell case. Although a quarter-century old, my copy plays flawlessly, is recorded in SP mode, has clean HiFi audio and a nice full screen picture. Graphics added by PRISM to a preview of the 1978 Dyan Cannon TV movie LADY OF THE HOUSE are a total hoot. An on-screen label of the film's title looks like it was done with an old camcorder.

An early scene in Aaron Spelling's soapish melodrama has Hollywood superagent Warren Ambrose (Buttons) and a couple of ingenues frolicking in his enormous outdoor jacuzzi. Warren, who's notorious for "interviewing" starlets in his backyard hot tub, is the original dirty old man.

In typical soap opera fashion, men are often shirtless here. There's a number of bedroom scenes, upscale locations (like Beverly Hills clothiers), beautiful people catching rays poolside and situations aimed at appealing to glamor-crazed ladies. The film shows its age in a nightclub scene where Curtis gets hit on by a stud. The music playing is reminscent of the Trammps' "Disco Inferno," which was popularized a year earlier in SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER.

The picture is produced and in-part adapted from Joyce Haber's novel by Dominick Dunne. In the mid-90s the bespectacled Dunne became one of many talking head commentators frequently seen during O.J. Simpson's so-called "Trial of the Century." Maurice Jarre provides an appropriately elegant music score.

Parenthetical number is a 1 to 10 imdb viewer poll rating.

(6.9) (TV-1978) - Jaclyn Smith/Tony Curtis/Red Buttons/Michelle Phillips/George Hamilton/Joan Fontaine/John Forsythe/Darren McGavin/Carrie Nye/John Pleshette/Army Archerd