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Price: $37.95 as of 11/23/2009 00:23 EST details
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9786304610374
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 6304610378
Label: Simitar Ent.
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguagePCM Stereo
Manufacturer: Simitar Ent.
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Simitar Ent.
Release Date: August 29, 1997
Running Time: 124 minutes
Studio: Simitar Ent.
Theatrical Release Date: 1978-07
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
A true diamond in the rough. Pay no attention to the glossy romance cover for this film--inside is a great little movie. Based on an 1885 novel by Gaetano Carlo Chelli, it stars Dominique Sanda (who also appeared in The Conformist and The Garden of the Finzi-Continis). She plays a scheming gold-digger who has her eyes on the prize of the Fiormonti fortune. The money was made by Papa Fiormonti (played by Anthony Quinn), a lousy SOB who in the first scene disowns his three adult children. Sanda marries the most loutish child but is soon having an affair with the rakish one. It's a great, evil (and oddly sympathetic) performance, and for her role Sanda won the Best Actress award at Cannes in 1976. Even the DVD quality can't mask a poor transfer, however, as this film still has a grainy quality, but the luster of this Machiavellian tale still shines through. --Keith Simanton
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
main actors and actress (D>S>) were terrific; story gives a lesson about greed (recall the subprime mess); setting and photography is also highly rated.
Rating:  -
Four stars for the movie, zero for the transfer. There is a good story in there, coupled with good performances. Overall a good movie. The DVD transfer is really, really bad. Pan and scan with a disturbingly ugly result. Grain, bad color. Watching it on a large screen is outright unpleasant. Did I say the sound is bad too (dubbed). Looks like Simitar Video copied a VHS tape to DVD. Simitar Video should not be in the DVD transfer business. Hope someone else brings this otherwise fine movie ... Read More
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