Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre -The Complete Collection Gift Set

Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre -The Complete Collection Gift Set

Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre -The Complete Collection Gift Set
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Actor: Charlie Dell, David McCharen, John Achorn, Patrick DeSantis, Shelley Duvall
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 717 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Starmaker II

DVD Reviews of Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre -The Complete Collection Gift Set

DVD Review: A treasure to keep!!
Summary: 5 Stars

I was so exited when the episodes were realised in a giftset. Not only it brings back many childhood memories it also made me realize so many talented actors took part in it. Who would've thought that the chinease emperor in the episode 'Nightangle' was played by Mick Jagger!! Thankyou amazon for this wonderful gift.

DVD Review: Where's Alice?
Summary: 3 Stars

The reason I looked up Duvall's Theatre was to get "Alice in Wonderland". I watched it when it first came out on TV and taped it on VHS, which is now gone. However, it seems it is missing on all the "Complete" and "Definitive" DVDs available. This makes the set all but worthless in my mind, because "Alice" was the greatest of all Shelly's Faerie Tale productions. (Robin Williams, Whoopie Goldberg as the Chesser Cat, the actor who played Gandhi, who did Alice?, many more).

DVD Review: Childhood memories revisited through the Faerie Tale Theater
Summary: 5 Stars

What a delight to find this collection! My children grew up watching Shelly Duvall's Faerie Tale Theater and loved seeing the stars portray faerie tale characters! Can you imagine Jeff Goldblum as the Big Bad Wolf and Billy Crystal as the brick laying pig? How about Robin Williams as the Frog Prince! It is even more fun now to look back and see how many of them were just starting out!! I was thrilled with the timely arrival of my order and would recommend them and this series to anyone especially one with a child like heart! God Bless and Enjoy!!

DVD Review: classically entertaining!
Summary: 5 Stars

I enjoyed watching this classics with my three daughters when they were young. I now enjoy seeing them again with my three grandsons, they never go out of style.

DVD Review: Shelley Duval
Summary: 5 Stars

I bought this for my grown daughter's Christmas gift in 2007, as she loves fairy tales. These are real actors in the fairy tales and is enjoyable to watch.

Description of Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre -The Complete Collection Gift Set

One of the first gems of the cable TV age, Faerie Tale Theatre brings 26 classic tales to life. Produced over a five-year span (1982-87) for Showtime, FTT brought together creative dramatics and whimsical writing with some of the top talents of the day. Executive producer/host Shelley Duvall (who was coming off her breakout role in The Shining) shepherds this mix of theatrical simplicity and grand storytelling for these oft-told tales ("Goldilocks and the Three Bears," "Little Red Riding Hood," "Hansel and Gretel," "Sleeping Beauty," and the like) for kids and their parents. Since they are not elaborately produced, FTT may be a hard sell for some smaller members of the family at first, but most should be hooked, even older kids who may pooh-pooh fairy tales. There's always a slight twist that makes these productions fresh.

The cast is amazing, especially when you think how lightly cable television was thought of in the '80s: Jeff Bridges, Bud Cort, Liza Minnelli, James Coburn, Susan Sarandon, Christopher Reeve, Klaus Kinski, Billy Crystal, Matthew Broderick, Gregory Hines, Eric Idle, Robin Williams, and Mick Jagger are some of the talented--and varied--actors appearing. Crystal's take on the smart "Little Pig" (with Jeff Goldblum as the wolf) and Williams's "Frog Prince" are two comic gems. Malcolm McDowell, right in the middle of his career high-point of playing baddies, brings flair to the Big Bad Wolf, while his then-real-life wife Mary Steenburgen beautifully counterpoints as Red Riding Hood. The casting of Vincent Price and Vanessa Redgrave in "Snow White" is inspired. Also impressive are the directors Duvall pooled: Tim Burton ("Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp"), Francis Ford Coppola ("Rip Van Winkle") Peter Medak (three episodes), Nicholas Meyer ("Pied Piper"), and Roger Vadim ("Beauty and the Beast"). You can go on for days about these wonderful tales, most totaling around the 45-minute mark, but it's better just to get the set and start wherever you'd like; you will get to the end sooner than you think. --Doug Thomas

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