Product Details

• Actors: Annette Kellerman
• Directors: James R. Sullivan
• Format: NTSC, Digital Video Transfer, Limited Collector's Edition
• Region: All Regions
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: AnnetteKellerman.com
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000PGA3MO
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #646,567 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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See the original Million Dollar Mermaid, Annette Kellerman in her sole surviving feature film!

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars NOT A DVD, August 8, 2011

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This review is from: Venus of the South Seas (DVD)

Annette Kellerman was an Australian swimmer made famous by her role in Neptune's Daughter, in which she appeared nude, or, in some scenes, apparently so. This was rather daring in 1914, although nudity was an occasional event in American films until the Hayes Code. Unfortunately, that film is lost, and only a couple of reels remain, which are included on this disk. It's enough to make you realize how provocative the feature must have been, and constitute the main reason for buying the disk. It's nice that at least this much has been preserved. Unfortunately, her only surviving film is Venus of the South Seas, made 10 years later, after she had lost most of her allure and, apparently, her daring (she swims a lot, almost fully clothed). The film is very old-fashioned, even by the standards of the time; Van Dyke's White Shadows of the South Seas is a better expenditure of your time.
I would nonetheless heap praise on Grapevine Video for making these films available, except for the fact that this isn't a DVD. It's a DVD-R, with all the limitations and vulnerabilities that entails (my copy was scratched badly after becoming loose in transit). Maybe the fault is Amazon's, I don't really know, but I think it is deceptive to market DVD-Rs as DVDs; the quality differential is significant, unless you watch them on very small screens.
All things considered, however, the prints/transfers are reasonably good, especially given the age and rarity of the films. If you are interested in film history, it's a worthwhile buy (all things having been considered).