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Summary: Great Bonus Disc
Review: The bonus disc includes....Silver Screen: King of the Jungle, an all-new feature length documentary about Tarzan on screen, featuring interviews with Maureen O'Sullivan and Johnny Weissmuller, Jr., as well as several noted film historians and "Tarzan experts."Vintage vault treasure: Jimmy Durante as Schnarzan the Conqueror (from Hollywood Party)Two shorts featuring Johnny Weissmuller 1. (The filming of "Tarzan Finds a Son!") 2. Rough DoughTheatrical trailers of all six Weissmuller/O'Sullivan films
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Summary: Check DVD's for dirt, smugges
Review: The discs I received in this package are full of fingerprint smugges and some kind of grimy dust. One disc has a scratch near the center hole. Please CHECK the conditions of your discs. I had a similar problem with another MGM title "Green Acres Season 1" and had to go through 3 sets before I found one that was somewhat acceptable. Some players, like mine, are very sensitive to these anomolies. Someone at MGM Home Entertainment is not watching their quality control very carefully.
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Summary: Check DVD's for dirt, smugges
Review: The discs I received in this package are full of fingerprint smugges and some kind of grimy dust. One disc has a scratch near the center hole. Please CHECK the conditions of your discs. I had a similar problem with another MGM title "Green Acres Season 1" and had to go through 3 sets before I found one that was somewhat acceptable. Some players, like mine, are very sensitive to these anomolies. Someone at MGM Home Entertainment is not watching their quality control very carefully.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This is a great set of old Hollywood films. All the prints are nice and the sound is good. The documentary on disk four is excellent for its historical perspective. I'm very thankful to MGM for releasing these films.
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Summary: Exactly as Stated
Review: This product is exactly what it states it is. The movies are the original classics, from start to finish. The film picture and sound quality is at least, if not better, than when the movies played on TV. The movies are very watchable. I found them very entertaining. These movies were made between 1932 and 1942 and are still timeless. The bonus features are very informative and add to the value of the package. I am very pleased with this collection. I guess because of size differences, the 2nd movie is on the 2nd dvd. I suggest watching the movies in the original order. First is Tarzan the Ape Man. Then skip Tarzan Escapes and put in the 2nd dvd. Watch Tarzan and His Mate. Then go back to the 1st dvd and watch Tarzan Escapes. The others are in proper order. Enjoy, I know I sure did!
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Summary: AaaaH -- Eee -- AaaaH!! EeeH -- Waa -- Au -- Wau -- AoooW!!
Review: Umgawa! This DVD boxed set is great! Love these classic old movies. Tarzan was to the 1930s what James Bond was to the 1960s -- a cultural phenomenon. Sure these movies are preposterous and even silly -- an African Never-Never Land, but they're still splendid entertainment. 1934's "Tarzan and His Mate" is one of the greatest fantasy/adventure films of all time. Johnny Weissmuller is still an icon. I've owned all six of these movies before on VHS and laserdisc, and they look best here on DVD. The early '30s pictures aren't in as pristine a shape as the later ones from 1939 to 1942, but they still look damn good for their age. The documentary on disc six is an excellent one as well, and the packaging is some of the best ever done for a classic film series on DVD. A nice big banana to Warner Home Video for this one!
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Summary: A man ahead of his vine!
Review: What a great year it is for collecting box sets of your favorite
vintage movies Abbott & Costello,The Marx bros,The Airport series
and now it's Tarzan's turn. Edgar Rice Burroughs brainchild and mgm
favorite jungle swinger are finally on disc. Johnny Weissmuller is
the fan favorite for wearing the loin cloth and good enough to play
in twelve Tarzan films, this box features the first six in order.
and that's Tarzan the apeman, Tarzan and his mate, Tarzan escapes
Tarzan finds a son,Tarzan's secret treasure and Tarzan's New York adventure. To start off with the box features the original art from the movie
poster which is always a plus with collectors and by theory if the
set contains four disc then that's two films per disc leaving the 4th
for extra suppliments like trailers and such. I know I'm speaking
ahead of time and out of place but I love it when stuff like this
comes out.
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Summary: WEISSMULLER-The ONE, The ONLY TARZAN! At Last!
Review: What great value! All 6 great M-G-M Tarzan classics starring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan in one collection for an outrageously great low price. What a great value! I can't wait for this collection. It also includes a bonus disc with a new feature-length documentary, and Warner Home Video's DVD documentaries are the best in the industry when it comes to classics. I can't wait to have this one in my hands!
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Summary: Law of the Jungle Not Applicable for These Dismal Transfers
Review: Who can forget Johnny Weissmuller's immortal yodel as the vine swinging he-man gleaned from the pages of Edgar Rice Boroughs? All six of the original Tarzan films are included in this collection. Each represents a variation on Boroughs' intriguing novel about a human baby that is raised by animals in the deep dark jungles after its parents have been killed. The baby grows up to be a man, but the man is void of all human instinct and intellect. Thus, when Tarzan reaches adulthood and stumbles across the shapely figure of Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan) he is moved to visceral prowess by his own curiosity. It's really quite an erotic concept that takes the old premise of love with a stranger to even `stranger' heights. Jane is at first attracted to Tarzan as a fascinating specimen of study - to learn from and teach in the ways of human history. But as the series progresses she grows from genuine infatuation to romantic love for her bo-hunk of the boondocks and develops an affinity for the "really" simple life of loin cloths, wooden tree huts and chimpanzees. The first four films (Tarzan the Ape Man, Tarzan and his Mate, Tarzan Escapes and Tarzan Finds A Son) are of a cinematic perfection in exploring the exotic romance and adventure between these two characters. But the final two installments ("Tarzan's Secret Treasure" and "Tarzan's New York Adventure") are idiotic derivatives of the formula in which the series not only shows its age but glaringly misrepresents the original vision of Boroughs' novel. THE TRANSFER: There's little to celebrate in this DVD collector's edition. Most of the films in the series suffer from a barrage of age related artifacts that create a very grainy, harsh visual presentation. The diminished picture quality improves moderately between each subsequent installment in the series. The gray scale seems poorly rendered and balanced on "Tarzan and his Mate" - much more so than on any of the other films in the series. The image suffers from lower contrast levels and a decided loss of fine detail in many of the scenes. There's also considerable shimmering in the background information, as though everything were shot on a matte process screen. Edge enhancement and way too much pixelization are present throughout most of these films as well as a hideous example of misregistration on Tarzan Finds A Son. For the rest of the batch - the balance and contrast is considerably better off. Ditto for the age related artifacts. In all cases the audio is mono and nicely balanced, though the critical ear will detect hiss and popping present in "Tarzan the Ape Man" and "Tarzan and his Mate". The movies are spread across four discs. EXTRAS: There's a fantastic feature length documentary on the Tarzan phenomenon that is both comprehensive and compelling as well as some vintage short subjects. It is indeed a pity that no one thought to have an audio commentary track included for at least the first film in the series. BOTTOM LINE: Though the MGM films take certain artistic liberties with Borough's original text, they remain the benchmark of cinematic Tarzan. The transfers, however, are below par.
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