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Re: WB Announces BURT LANCASTER Signature Collection
The trouble with DVD collections of a star, director or genre is that only films owned by the studio or company issuing them can be released. We've had several such collections already by Warners, and most have brought together several excellent-to-satisfying films (though I've yet to pick the absolute majority of them myself - dammit!).
Both this and the Barbara Stanwyck set, however, show a severe drop in quality (of the films themselves) as Warners really seem to have scraped the bottom of their vaults to release what are, for the most part, lackluster - or, at best, inessential - vehicles featuring these two great stars. Mind you, Columbia and Universal did the same with last year's Boris Karloff Collections...
As others have commented, Lancaster's TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING (1976) is yet to be released - and many more of Stanwyck's - so, one would have hoped that the selection of titles for either set had been done more judiciously! Luckily, though, the discs will be available individually - so I can still purchase THE FLAME AND THE ARROW (1950; I've acquired and watched a DivX copy of this one only recently!) and EXECUTIVE ACTION (1973; which I recall liking quite a bit, but whose VHS copy taped off local TV I had subsequently erased) from the Lancaster Collection and EXECUTIVE SUITE (1954) from Stanwyck's...
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