DVD Review HTF REVIEW: A Night At The Opera (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED). (1 Viewer)

[Dennis Nicholls]

How odd how our tastes change....Duck Soup is certainly my favorite. It's the only one I purchased from the early Image offerings, and I'm certainly glad that I did so. Woody Allen even featured it as a clip in Hannah And Her Sisters......

 

[Mark_vdH]

It doesn't have an insert.

Warner has changed to using amaray cases, but they still need changing to using inserts. Or to using clear amarays. Black amarays without inserts look cheap.....

 

[oscar_merkx]

I would like that WB included inserts anyway

 

[Derek_McL]

Just to clarify the Marxes never made any films for Warner Brothers as indicated in the review these films were originally released by MGM, RKO and United Artists. I've started to sample the boxset and am enjoying it.

I watched A Night In Casablanca which I hadn't seen in years and that looks great. The weird Joe McDoakes short didn't impress that much. I enjoyed the Benchley short on the A Night At the Opera disc more, like the best of these shorts based on a simple idea.

The Trocadero one is mostly filler and apart from a performance from Connie Boswell is pretty forgettable though interesting for its curiosity value. The Groucho interview is good to have but frustratingly short. The doc is fine for beginners but not really very revealing and does Dom DeLuise eat canaries in his spare time !

The main thing is to have these films on DVD though and for the most part this is another great effort from Warners. The boxset is definitely the way to go as you basically get four more films for free with extra shorts and cartoons.

 

[Jack Briggs]

"... and two hardboiled eggs."

So, I found a dealer who was willing to break the street date. Just about a block or two away from the dealer, I ran out of gas and had to go back home. Then I came back and got about a block from the dealer, and I then ran out of gas again and I had to go back home ...

Thanks for the review, Herb.

"We donna a-deserve-a this-a award..."