Product Details

• Actors: Kent Jackman
• Directors: Tom Davenport
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1983
• Run Time: 40 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 1888522194
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #37,171 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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This 40-minute retelling of The Master Thief is set in the 1930s with African American actors. In a small American town, a poor laborer's son named Jack falls in love with the dentist's daughter and wishes to marry her. When Jack asks her father, the dentist, if he may have her hand in marriage, he is told he must first have money, so Jack sets off to find his fortune. He outwits a farmer and a band of thieves and earns the reputation of being a "master thief," as well as acquiring a lot of money. Jack returns to claim his bride, but the dentist, still not wanting Jack to marry his daughter, gives Jack several "impossible" tasks to perform. When Jack succeeds at all of them, the dentist has no choice but to allow him to marry his daughter. This tale is full of humor and ingenuity. However, during one of Jack's deceptions, he pretends to lynch himself, which is a disturbing visual. Jack and the Dentist's Daughter is a beautiful production in the From the Brothers Grimm series, and is a video that parents and children age 7 and older can enjoy together. --Peggy Maltby-Etra

Product Description

A poor black farm boy named Jack asks the dentist's daughter Emily to be his wife. When the dentist learns of this he tells Jack he will never amount to anything and not to come back until he has a thousand dollars. Jack fails to find a job but he does meet a group of robbers and bootleggers who agree to spare his life if he will steal for them. Using clever tricks, Jack proves to be a "master thief," steals the bootleggers' and robbers' money, buys himself a car and new clothes and heads home to claim Emily's hand. But the dentist sets more obstacles in Jack's path to true love that call on him to proves his persistence and ingenuity. No longer able to put off the wedding, the dentist sees them off on their honeymoon saying, "I always knew that boy would amount to something!"

Winner of the Parents Choice Award The Silver Medal at the Houston International Film Festival

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5.0 out of 5 stars Jack & the Dentist's Daughter, September 16, 2000

By	"p112346" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

You know the story, but you will be on the edge of your seat and watch every minute to be sure. A very delightful take on an age old story. The Davenport version brings reality to the fairytale.