The Elizabeth Taylor Signature Collection (National Velvet / Father of the Bride / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / Butterfield 8)
by Clarence Brown, Daniel Mann, Richard Brooks, Vincente Minnelli
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Actor: Burl Ives, Eddie Fisher, Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Paul NewmanDirector: Clarence Brown, Daniel Mann, Richard Brooks, Vincente Minnelli
Brand: WARNER HOME VIDEO
Writer: Albert Hackett
Writer: Charles Schnee
Writer: Edward Streeter
Writer: Enid Bagnold
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 435 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-10-12
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- The films included in the Signature collection are National Velvet (1944), the movie that made her a star, Father of the Bride (1950), theic that garnered 3 Academy Award* Nominations including Best Picture and Best Actor for Spencer Tracy, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958), Tenessee Williams'ic play about a southern family torn apart by greed with Paul Newman co-starring as the iconic Brick, and Butte
DVD Reviews of The Elizabeth Taylor Signature Collection (National Velvet / Father of the Bride / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / Butterfield 8)
DVD Review: MISSED CHRISTMAS
Summary: 2 Stars
This was a Christmas present and Amazon failed to deliver on-time, making it a late Christmas present. Guess the movies are okay - they are classics so I am not reviewing the movies - only Amazon's (lack of) service on this one.DVD Review: A nice fan for Lizzy
Summary: 5 Stars
Four excellent DVDs are contained in this box, This is Elizabeth Taylor's box, and although our fascination goes more to the boxed set of the Legendary Duo: Taylor/Burton, this nevertheless is a must buy too.
It covers almost thirty years of Liz Taylor's career, starting with "National Velvet" in 1944, followed by "Father of the Bride", the original version of 1950 which actually has Spencer Tracy starring in it, Elizabeth just having a secondary role there, cued by the mythical "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1958) and ending with the melodrama "Butterfield 8", the only one in which Liz played opposite her own then husband: Eddie Fisher and co-starring Laurence Harvey in 1960.
The first two come in a full screen presentation (Cinemascope and Panavision widescreen presentations were only introduced in 1953). The other two come in their correct theatrical ratio.
There are no frills here, like specials, interviews or some other fluff, but the movies were decently transferred and the sound, although mono on all four, is fairly crisp and well polished.
Well worth its price if you asked me, and you did not...
DVD Review: Fine collection
Summary: 5 Stars
What a great way to view the first half of her career all in one fell swoop. In National Velvet, of course, she plays young Velvet Brown, the most beautiful little girl ever born, with a love for her horse that knows no bounds. What a shame injury prevented her from playing in International Velvet for Bryan Forbes many years later, though Nanette Newman was very good in the part as well. In FATHER OF THE BRIDE, Taylor is all of a sudden very grown up, and Vincente Minnelli really showcases her youthful beauty and high spirits and passionate nature. The movie is wonderful with details, and although it is really Spencer Tracy's story, both Taylor and her look-alike movie mom, Joan Bennett, have some great scenes and both look ravishing. Yes, Liz was all grown up but the movie doesn't really go to the place of sexuality in the same way that Richard Brooks' CAT ON A HIT TIN ROOF does. Taylor kind of wears that white slip, otherwise it looks like it's falling off of her, and Paul Newman seems suitably aroused, and yet the whole premise of the picture is that for some reason, and what could it be, he's just not up to having sex with her. It's a very funny movie despite its torrid plotline and the sterling performances of all concerned. While Taylor received the Oscar for BUTTERFIELD 8, the final movie of our quartet, she really should have been handed the statuette for her superior work in CAT. As Maggie she created an indelible image that ranks with her finest work (such as PLACE IN THE SUN and WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF).
This DVD set is a good bargain and the films themselves have rarely looked better, though there is some flaking around the edges during early reels of BUTTERFIELD 8.
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