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• Format: NTSC, Supratitled
• Subtitles: Chinese
• Region: All Regions
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001R28D2M
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #141,590 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Description: Production Note: Director: William A. Wellman Starring: Clara Bow .... Mary Preston Charles 'Buddy' Rogers .... Jack Powell Richard Arlen .... David Armstrong Jobyna Ralston .... Sylvia Lewis El Brendel .... Herman Schwimpf Richard Tucker .... Air commander Gary Cooper .... Cadet White Gunboat Smith .... The sergeant Henry B. Walthall .... David's father Roscoe Karns .... Lt. Cameron Julia Swayne Gordon .... David's mother Arlette Marchal .... Celeste

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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars wait for a worthy DVD, August 1, 2010

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Col William Russell (Springfield, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wings (1927) (DVD)

This is yet another of the Asian plundering of classics movies, putting them onto cheaply made DVDs with no quality control whatsoever. Wait for a release that has been professionally remastered by the studio or a quality firm like Criterion or Kino. This release is merd.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Classic Outsourced, January 30, 2010

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Garman Lord - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wings (1927) (DVD)

For most cinema buffs whose interest extends to exploring the riches of BW/Silent movies, the 1927 "Wings" is a treasure trove worth plundering and replundering. It features the "It" girl, Clara Bow, whose fame had gone viral with her other 1927 starring role in "It," the delightful comedy about a social climbing flapper shop girl out to marry her boss. As it happens, the best commercially available restoration I could find of "Wings" is this Chinese version, which is pretty good, and of course the movie is a gem. My only reason for four stars instead of five is that the Chinese subtitles, though no worse than a minor distraction once you are used to them, nonetheless can't be turned off and are uneditable.

"Wings" was a groundbreaker in many ways. The first film, and only silent film, to win an Oscar for "best production" (later "best movie,") it marked the official screen debut, in a walk-on, of Gary Cooper, depending on whether his brief unbilled appearance in "It" may have been shot first. "Wings" is an epic length WWI era romantic tragicomedy in which Clara, as girl next door Mary Preston, surreptitiously follows boy next door Charles "Buddy" Rogers (who thinks he is in love with someone else) overseas as a volunteer civilian ambulance driver, as Rogers goes on to become an air ace of the Lafayette Escadrille. For aficianados of aerial acrobatics featuring swarms of dogfighting motorized box kites, this is as good as it gets until the far more pretentious Howard Hughes "Hell's Angels" extravaganza of 1930. For sufficiently quick-eyed fans of celebrity nudity, Clara's costume change in a Paris hotel room even features a nanosecond nipple-slip wardobe malfunction.

Clara Bow was, notoriously, no prude, and nowhere near as popular among her peers in the Hollywood cinematic community, who thought she was "common" and loved to diss on her partying Bohemian lifestyle and Brooklyn accent, as she was with the moviegoing public, who couldn't get enough of her natural spontaneous "flapper" persona. She was a natural actress and the camera loved her too, though Clara's popularity with fans depended on nothing more strenuous than reliably playing herself. Her life and career were turbulent with ups and downs, she retired from film-making in 1933 to become a wife and mother, and died of a heart attack in 1965 at age 60, ironically while watching a Gary Cooper film. Clara's personality cult lives on today, particularly as reincarnated in the cartoon character she inspired, Betty Boop. Today, Clara Bow's films, such as "Wings," are charmingly dated pop-cultural curiosities; by contrast, her appearances in them are anything but, being as electrically alive today as the day they were shot. Back in the day, Clara Bow had the indefinable "it." She still does.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good Movie but a Bad Format, November 2, 2005

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Roger Loria "Rog" - See all my reviews

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The DVD of this classic silent movie leaves much to be desired. The entire menu is in Chinese and there is apparently no way to access different scenes. Unless you read Chinese, the DVD menu is inaccessable and useless. The actual copy of the film is reasonably good, but has Chinese subtitles.