Review(s): DVD The Gary Cooper Collection (Design for Living / The Lives of a Bengal Lancer / Peter Ibbetson / The General Died at Dawn / Beau Geste)
Poor quality and NOT restored..!!!
I agree completely with "Ohio Guy"........these are some of Gary Coopers best movies BUT the studio, instead of spending a little on restoration and packaging them individually, chose to go the CHEAP way and made them a set. The transfers are marginal at best and the picture quality is no where what it should be to be viewed on big screen TV's. Come on Amazon.com.....pay attention to YOUR customers and force the studios to do a better job of restoration. There really are customers out here who don't want knock-offs and who consider what is being done to these great films a true injustice and also a RIP-OFF....!!!!!!!!
I Hate Multipacks! But...
Actually I just wanted "Design for Living" , the Noel Coward comedy which suffered almost fatal loss by the American Board of Censure's cuts of the dialogue, but is rescued by Lubitsch's direction and the non-cutable performance of Gary Cooper and Frederic March. The rest is bonus material, as far as I'm concerned. But all in splendid DVD-transfer. A Must-Have for any Gary Cooper fan. Just to watch him start his career which took him to the grim sheriff in "High Noon".
The Gary Cooper Collection
A great mix of Cooper movies showing his versitility with adventure and lighter attractions. Bengal Lancer and Beau Geste are two of my all time favorites, that gave me a thrill a minute when I first viewed them many years ago in my youth.Peter Ibbetson was a little too abstract for me although Cooper did a fine job in the roll. For those who are collectors of older DVD movies this is a must to add.
Related DVD's The Gary Cooper Collection (Design for Living / The Lives of a Bengal Lancer / Peter Ibbetson / The General Died at Dawn / Beau Geste)
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