DVD : The Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection [Remastered] (The Sound of Music / The King and I / Oklahoma! / South Pacific / State Fair / Carousel)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rated by buyers G (General Audience)
Type of bind: DVD
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
EAN num: 0024543382294
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Quantity: 12
Publishing house: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: November 07, 2006
Running Time: 956 minutes
Sale Popularity Level: 3032
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: March 19, 1958
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Disc 1: Carousel Special Edition Disc 2: Carousel Special Edition-Bonus Disc Disc 3: King and I Special Edition Disc 4: King and I Special Edition-Bonus Disc Disc 5: South Pacific Special Edition Disc 6: South Pacific Special Edition-Bonus Disc Disc 7: Sound of Music Special Edition Disc 8: Sound of Music Special Edition-Bonus Disc Disc 9: State Fair Special Edition Disc 10: State Fair Special Edition-Bonus Disc Disc 11: Oklahoma Special Edition Disc 12: Oklahoma Special Edition-Bonus Disc
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The Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection contains film versions of the five major works by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, who helped define the American musical landscape and rewrite the direction of musical theater. After enjoying extremely successful careers working with others, Rodgers and Hammerstein very first teamed up in 1943 for the prairie tale Oklahoma!, with songs including 'Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'' and 'People Will Say We're in Love.' The subsequent 1955 film starred Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones, who teamed up again for 1956's Carousel. While that film's dark nature made it less popular than its predecessor, the score ('If I Loved You,' 'You'll Never Walk Alone') was Rodgers's favorite. The King and I (also 1956) featured stage star Yul Brynner as the King of Siam and Deborah Kerr as schoolteacher Anna Leonowens, who must learn Asian customs even as she tries to instill some of her Western ones. The somewhat bloated version of South Pacific (1958) follows two couples during World War II and features standards such as 'I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair' and 'Some Enchanted Evening' from stars Mitzi Gaynor and Rossano Brazzi. The last film, The Sound of Music (1965), proved to be the most popular, with Julie Andrews winning the hearts of seven children and their father with her blissful songs. And if the perhaps saccharine music and plot may test the patience of some, there's no doubt that songs such as 'My Favorite Things' and 'Climb Ev'ry Mountain' have charmed audiences around the world for decades. Accompanying the Big 5 in this set is the relatively minor State Fair from 1945 (though it does have 'It Might as Well Be Spring' and 'It's a Grand Night for Singing'). Some may expect and prefer other entries in the R&H canon such as Flower Drum Song or the television production Cinderella, but those were produced by different studios.
This 12-disc set from 2006 includes the two-disc special editions of each film, remastered and anamorphically enhanced for widescreen TVs (except State Fair, which was shot in traditional 1.33:1 aspect ratio). Bonus features include the Todd-AO version of Oklahoma! (which should look better than the CinemaScope version but doesn't); 40th-anniversary bonus material for The Sound of Music, including a commentary track by Julie Andrews; Lilliom, the 1934 film based on the same story as Carousel; and the 1962 version of State Fair starring Pat Boone and Ann-Margaret. --David Horiuchi
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This is the greatest purchase of all times. Good, clean movies - unlike most of what we have today.
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These R&H films are enjoyable presentations of great musicals, and I won't disagree with any of the more detailed positive comments about them.
But I do wish that the very first version of State Fair, from 1933, had been included. It's currently unavailable on DVD, and really deserves to be more widely known. While it's not an R&H musical -- which I guess gave the '62 Pat Boone musical re-make an edge for inclusion here -- it's probably the most accurate screen production of the best-selling novel by Phil Stong. With Will Rogers, Janet Gaynor, and Lew Ayres as the stars, and a very low-key, gentle sense of humour that brings out the warmth of the story, I'm sure that many would see it as the real inspiration for the excellent R&H musical film from a dozen years later. Heck, the 1933 film even includes extensive background shots of the actual Iowa State Fair, although I don't think the stars were photographed on location. (Frankly, I could live without the Pat Boone version, which unaccountably transfers the state fair from its Iowa origin to Texas, although I do like Tom Ewell and Alice Faye very much.)
I hope that Fox will soon release State Fair (1933) -- perhaps as part of the highly anticipated (by me, anyway) third Will Rogers box set.
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I bought the boxed set for myself several years ago and have loved it. When I took it on a family vacation, I discovered an adult family member also loved these musicals and this last purchase was a birthday gift for that family member.
It's great to have these wonderful movies all together in one package and I expect them to provide me with hours of pleasure over the coming years.
It's so nice to have something you can watch and leave the "real" world, with all its problems, for a few hours.
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Quality is almost as good as HD, We are playing on an HD-DVD player that upconverts. We already knew and liked the movies. Would recomend to any one with a good player.
Tom
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This collection was great. Got this for my husband's parents and they are throughly enjoying it.
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