DVD Review Mardi Gras DVD Review (1 Viewer)

[Matt Hough]

Having established Pat Boone as a genuine box-office star with a couple of hit 1957 musicals, 20th Century Fox naturally mounted another musical for him in 1958, Mardi Gras and assigned one of the great Hollywood veterans to direct it – Edmund Goulding.



Mardi Gras (1958)



Released: 18 Nov 1958
Rated: N/A
Runtime: 107 min




Director: Edmund Goulding
Genre: Musical



Cast: Pat Boone, Christine Carère, Tommy Sands, Sheree North
Writer(s): Curtis Harrington (story), Hal Kanter, Winston Miller



Plot: N/A



IMDB rating: 5.5
MetaScore: N/A





Disc Information



Studio: Fox
Distributed By: N/A
Video Resolution: 480I/MPEG-2



Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audio: English 2.0 DD...

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[Mikey1969]

Pan and scan? Really?

 

[bujaki]

Video=0/0 whenever a transfer is p&s. That should be the standard measure.

 

[Robin9]

Oh well, we've become used to it now, haven't we? I would have bought this disc if the film had been presented properly because I like both Pat Boone and Sheree North, and I can never get enough of Barrie Chase.

I suppose someone is buying these pan-and-scan fiascos? If they're not making any money out of this, why do Fox continue to insult their natural market?

 

[Malcolm Bmoor]

I agree with the disappointment at this low grade release and because I saw the film when new at an impressionable age when everything US was glamorous and exciting I might have bought it for nostalgia had it been in 2:35 & 4 track.

This forum is comprised of enthusiasts but the manufacturers understand that for too many people the film is the film is .... and they don't understand our desire for a quality experience. How many people do we all know who have a tv in a convenient corner and watch it with all the lights on?

It would be wonderful were the well known motto to be overturned:

Nobody went broke underestimating the quality ambitions of the public.

- but don't hold your breath. Last weekend BBC2 showed THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE in 1:1.85.