SuperHeroBooks - Sherlock Holmes - The Definitive Collection (14 Films, Digitally Remastered) [NON-US Format, PAL, Region 2, Import]

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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Format: Special Edition Number Of Items: 7 Region Code: 2 Running Time: 974
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: galland26 Comment: The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection IF YOU ENJOY THESE CLASSICS AS MUCH AS I THEN YOU WILL LOVE THIS SET. I FELT AS IF I WAS VIEWING THEM FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE IMAGE WAS AS IF I WAS IN THE THEATER. FOR I ONCE PAID TO GO SEE "THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES" AT THE OLD ORSON WELLES CINIMA IN CAMBRIDGE MA. IT WAS A TRUELY A GREAT EXPERIENCE TO SEE IT AS IT WAS MENT TO BE VIEWED. DON'T WAIST TIME GET THIS SET NOW. YOU WILL NEVER REGRET IT! SOME HAVE COMENTARYS THAT TAUGHT ME THINGS I NEVER KNEW, A SHORT AND A CARTOON, AS IF YOU WERE IN THE MOVIES. galland26 Customer Rating: Summary: Excellent Quality! Comment: These films are of excellent quality-- they are crispy clear and do not have the grainy appearance of previous releases. This particular set is PAL, though, and you must have a region-free dvd player to play this (or a PAL player!). In the U.S., the set is called The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection and is available for one hundred and nineteen! So, obviously, this is a better deal at almost half the price of the U.S. version if you have the correct player to play the dvds. However, if you go to Amazon.UK, this set is only £27 with £3 postage. That works out to about sixty dollars total. And, they ship right away-- you will receive it within a week. Some of the sellers on here are selling the set for almost seventy dollars USED! The best thing to do is to purchase it new through Amazon UK. Also, when I purchased it, it was selling for only £23, plus £3 shipping. That made my total only about fifty dollars-- so watch out for a couple of days to see if there is a price decrease. Customer Rating: Summary: Brilliant Comment: This is a marvellous set of all 14 films that Rathbone and Bruce made together. The remastering is excellent and the difference is quite dramtic compared with some other versions of the same films that I have. Recently I made a direct comparison between the two versions of "Terror By Night" and the improvement is dramatic. As previous reviewers have said Rathbone and Bruce work very well together and Dr Watson has some wonderfully funny lines, which if not Conan Doyles original lines, still work very well nevertheless. Some of the acting is occasionally a bit wooden, and sometimes the plots are a bit contrived (again I don't think this is Conan Doyles fault) but even so these are classic films regardless. This set makes all previous boxed sets of Rathbone and Bruce (of which I own one) completely redundant. Buy this one!! More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Featurette with Robert Gitt, Head Preservation Officer at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Discusses the multi-million dollar film restoration project for the series. (5 minutes) Audio Commentaries with Sherlock Holmes Expert David Stuart Davies (author, publisher of numerous books on Holmes and Rathbone) on the following films: -The Scarlet Claw -The Woman In Green -Sherlock Holmes Faces Death -The Hound of the Baskervilles Audio Commentary with Sherlock Holmes Expert Richard Valley (Acclaimed author and publisher of Scarlet Street Mystery Magazine, currently penning a book on Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes). -The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes Extensive Production Notes by Holmes Expert Richard Valley for all 14 films. Photo Gallery/Original Movie Posters