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Summary: Good movie made unwatchable by POOR DVD production
Review: Life w/ Father was an enjoyable film but the production of this DVD is beyond bad. The color was washed out, the sound muffled and in one portion of the film the sound completely dropped out for 10 seconds. It's unfortunate that these great old films are getting distributed in such poor quality. It may technically be in the DVD format, but there has been no effort taken to present a superior product.
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Summary: Classic stage comedy with excellent cast. Amateurish DVD
Review: I concur with the viewer from Iowa. It is a beautiful funny story with an outstanding cast marred by technical faults. Watch for a young Martin Milner as son #2! The picture is pastel but not distracting. The sound is awful. The sound level is about 20 db higher than any other DVD I own and is in clipped overload the whole time. Very distracting and annoying. There are also a few blanks in the voice track of a few seconds each. Although the chapter index on the disk is right, the enclosed card has chapters from an obviously different film! Madacy should be called Klutz productions if this is the best they can do. I have a DVD of another 1947 film "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" with Danny Kaye as an example of what a release of that vintage should be re picture and sound. It is excellent. I'd love to see a new release of "Father" done right. This is a classic which shouldn't be destroyed in the lab.
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Summary: excellent,funny movie
Review: william powell is great.myrna loy is fantastic in this story of a family run by a strict dad..but really run by a not so strict,but smart mom
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Summary: Good movie, weak video, poor sound
Review: "Life With Father" is an enjoyable movie. Unfortunately, the video on the DVD is not that good (though better than a VHS version I've seen). What makes this DVD a real disappointment is the sound quality. Aside from only coming through the left channel, the sound is rather muddled and fuzzy. I suppose one shouldn't complain too much given the low price, but it was still dissappointing.
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Summary: Good movie, weak video, poor sound
Review: "Life With Father" is an enjoyable movie. Unfortunately, the video on the DVD is not that good (though better than a VHS version I've seen). What makes this DVD a real disappointment is the sound quality. Aside from only coming through the left channel, the sound is rather muddled and fuzzy. I suppose one shouldn't complain too much given the low price, but it was still dissappointing.
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Summary: Different Cover
Review: I have this movie DVD, in a different cover that I bought years ago, my first DVD purchase. The color is wonderful and I don't understand the complaints, perhaps someone else is making the transfer now. For instance the living room blues are electric. Anyway, this is one of my favorite movies, if not the favorite and worth watching many times over if just for William Powell and Irene Dunne alone.
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Summary: Charming Story Deserves Better
Review: This is a charming, well-acted, warm story that deserves better than the poor quality reproduction here. The color is washed out, the sound dull. Too bad, because it could be a real joy to own.
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Summary: Terrible transfer and sound
Review: Although this is better than the unwatchable Madacy DVD, it still is horrible. There is 60 Hz hum throughout the audio, audio that is distorted and clipped, and a rather grainy, noise full video print. Max Steiner's inventive variation-on-a-theme music score is ruined.
If this is the best that can be done with this delightful movie, it is a true pity.
Someone, please restore this to glory.
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Summary: A terrible desecration of a classic film.
Review: This movie is an all-time classic and easily rates five stars. The DVD version, however, is absolutely atrocious. Very poor sound quality and a washed out picture with color so bad it looks almost like it's in black and white. This movie was filmed in sumptuous Technicolor, but you'd never know it from this DVD. The VHS release of several years back is far superior. No DVD extras either, just a lousy print and nothing else. Is this the best they could do?
This is a perfect gem of a movie that screams for a major restoration! Until that happens, steer clear!
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Summary: Winning movie deserves better presentation.
Review: Despite the anomalies of this DVD version, "Life with Father" is still a winning, wonderful movie suitable for viewing by all ages. William Powell stars as the combustible, but essentially kind and loving patriach of a late 1800's family in New York City. A wife and three adolescent boys round out this colorful family. Powell lends irascible charm to his role while Irene Dunne plays the slightly ditsy, well meaning wife marvelously. The supporting cast includes a young and very beautiful Elizabeth Taylor as a flirtatious visitor as well as the future star of the television series "Adam 12", Martin Milner, as the middle son. "Life with Father" has plenty of warmth and humor to make it well worth seeing. It just needs a better presentation than in its current DVD format. Catch it when it airs on television for an optimal viewing experience.
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