Bette Davis Centenary Celebration Collection (All About Eve / Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte / The Virgin Queen / Phone Call from a Stranger / The Nanny)
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i am a big bette davis fan, and the selections that are on the box set are great films, of a great star, and bette davis fan will love this box set of her best movies
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My title refers to the fact that the Joan Crawford "Hush,Hush Sweet Charlotte footage is absent despite one poster claiming that there was more than ten minutes included.There are quite a few production stills of Joan Crawford on the set and in scenes.
Since Bette Davis is always worth watching, the set is worth having. If you are buying it (as I did) mainly for Crawford footage; there a'int any!!!
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I ordered this set through Amazon, and when it arrived, three of the films (Charlotte, Eve and Phone Call) didn't play at all. They just kept spinning in my dvd player as if my player couldn't read the discs. So I sent it back, and the new set arrived today. Same exact problem with Eve and Charlotte; they don't play at all, although the supplemental disc for Eve does. Now, my dvd player is almost seven years old, but it plays everything, including new releases just fine. I'm at a loss. Guess I'll try playing these discs on a friend's dvd player and see what happens. If they still don't play, then there some majorly defective discs out there!
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20th Century FOx doesn't hold many Bette Davis movies so they stash all of them in this fine box. But how? In slimline cases, so kinda cheap, maybe not, but what kind of idiot packs a two-disc edition in slimline case WITH a booklet inside that obvisouly is going to be punched through in the middle several times because that's how the casing works? Only idiots approve these. It's really a low low shot and I would not expect this from ANYONE, not even the cheapest studio ever. It's just unbelievable. And that's supposed to be the special edition movie of the pack!!!!
As for the content, no complaint there, and love the extras on Hush Hush where for the first time I see more than one still of Joan Crawford on the set and there's even a featurette on the backstory.
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Did we really need to reissue "All About Eve" and "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte" again? The new "extras" in these (especially those in "Eve") aren't worth forking over the extra bucks.
I was looking forward to the "Charlotte" extras but found them disappointing. There are stills of Joan Crawford's scenes but the actual filmed footage of her as Miriam is not included being either lost or they just didn't include it. There are interviews here with Michael Merrill, Bruce Dern, and Robert Aldrich's daughter but again, it isn't worth buying the box set for this.
The rest of the films are Davis "lesser" films..."Phone Call From a Stranger", "The Virgin Queen" and "The Nanny". Of these three, "The Nanny" is the most entertaining but other than a theatrical trailer and photo stills, no extras are included.
I would rather they have included "Beyond the Forest", "The Sisters", and "Dangerous".
This boxed set is a disappointment. If it was on sale for $20.00 I'd say go ahead and buy it, but at $40.00 to $50.00 for films that have already been released on DVD and for mediocre films, I do not recommend this set.
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