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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543399230
Feature: This collection of films featuring the ever-popular entertainer Will Rogers includes the titles AMBASSADOR BILL, DAVID HARUM, MR. SKITCH, and TOO BUSY TO WORK. See individual titles for details. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION Rating: NR Age: 024543399230 UPC: 024543399230 Manufacturer No: 2239923
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 95
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitled
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
MPN: 2239923
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 12, 2006
Running Time: 296 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: March 02, 1934
Features:- This collection of films featuring the ever-popular entertainer Will Rogers includes the titles AMBASSADOR BILL, DAVID HARUM, MR. SKITCH, and TOO BUSY TO WORK. See individual titles for details. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION Rating: NR Age: 024543399230 UPC: 024543399230 Manufacturer No: 2239923
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This collection of films featuring the ever-popular entertainer Will Rogers includes the titles AMBASSADOR BILL DAVID HARUM MR. SKITCH and TOO BUSY TO WORK. See individual titles for details.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/CLASSIC UPC: 024543399230 Manufacturer No: 2239923
Amazon.com:
Movie fans unfamiliar with the great wit of Will Rogers are in for a treat. The second volume of the Will Rogers Collection features some of Rogers' lesser-known talkie titles, but all showcase the humor and plainspokenness that America in the '20s and '30s ate up by the heaping spoonful. Included in this set are Ambassador Bill (1931), a Marx Brothers-esque romp through the world of international relations; David Harum (1934), in which Rogers plays horse race enthusiast betting on revenge against those who've pull fast ones on him; Mr. Skitch (1933), with the bubbly Zazu Pitts as Rogers' wife, a screwball comedy of the highest order; and Too Busy to Work (1932), in which Rogers re-creates his fan-fave role as Jubilo, a '30s-era hobo who tramps from town to town, avoiding work while trying to track down news of his missing family. The films are as valuable for their snapshots of the early years of the Depression as they are as showcases for the humor of Rogers. The boxed set includes several small, not-to-be-missed featurettes, including "Jane Withers Remembers," all of which are a tribute to a golden bygone era. "People are kind of funny," says Rogers as Jubilo. "They'll believe any kind of a lie if it sounds like the truth, but they won't believe the truth if it sounds like a lie." --A.T. Hurley
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The Will Rogers collection seems to be going in reverse; volume 1 highlights his last 4 films he made before his tragic death. Volume 2 continues to explain why Rogers' appeal was so universal, and why he became one of the top box office stars in the Thirties.
"Ambassador Bill" (1931) is an early Rogers vehicle as he plays the title role. Sent to a foreign country and at first, shocking the officials with his down-home diplomacy & etiquette, he then teaches its boy-king how to be a regular ... Read More
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This is another great Will Rogers set that is much welcome. Absolutely great films and DVD quality. Extras are good and I always wish there were more. I would request Fox to release at least 2 more sets of their Rogers films(in fact, I demand it).
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Will Rogers was a prominent figure in radio and in the movies. He often talked politics, a relevant topic in the Depression years, but always managed to spin the discussions with a bit of humor. His "hometown folk" personality won him plenty of favor with the public, and despite his plain appearance and less-than-polished grammer, he was a top star. Unfortunately, he met an early end in a plane crash in 1935.
The first movie in this set is a short and fun one. Ambassador Bill shows off ... Read More
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In less than a year's time we've gotten TWO Will Rogers movie collections, so it seems a bit petty to complain, but--couldn't the titles have been selected a bit more judiciously for Vol. 2? If the plan is to release all the Rogers talkies, fine; but if we're only to get a few of these boxed sets, let's get serious: "Mr. Skitch?" It has a fine cast, some funny moments, a rattle-trap excuse of a plot, and production values so cheap you can hear the pennies jingling--both of 'em.
"Too Busy ... Read More
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