THE LEADING LADY & INCIDENT AT VICTORIA FALLS
As you can see in the photo on this product page, the DVD cover states that these movies were digitally restored, so that is why I decided to buy this DVD set. I've seen earlier DVD releases and this video quality is actually better and the movies look nice on my HD TV.
This set does not contain subtitles or any DVD Extras.
This package contains 1 DVD for each movie, and each movie is broken into 2 parts as was done when they were originally shown on US TV as a 2 part miniseries.
All of the 4 parts are approximately 1 hour 32 minutes in length, meaning that the total run time of each movie is approximately 184 minutes.
The front cover of this DVD also implies that both movies are complete versions so they are presumably uncut in any way, but I don't know how to verify this because I've seen different run times given for cut and uncut versions. For instance, Madacy released these films separately on DVD in 2006 and gives slightly longer run times of 194...
"The Golden Years"
Holmes has aged, graceful silver fox, and is planning to retire. The stalwart Dr Watson dons his bowler and pistol again, and the game is afoot! A worthy addition to the Canon. My husband and I enjoyed this over the Christmas holidays, and found this delightful! Do not draw conclusions before you have all the facts, friends, but what looks like a simple errand for the Crown over a jewel of dubious ownership, and train trips, and chance encounters with women of varied notoriety,add to the fine flavor of these stories. There are 2 discs in the package, and 2 episodes per disc;a good value. Pity this was never shown on US tv, but now, we can all be amazed by the astute deductions and the grand good time to be had. Lee is imposing and also displays some humor, and is an admirable Sherlock. McNee excells as Dr. Watson: not the Avenger, John Steed, we saw years ago, but a more mature companion who blends well with Lee. I was disappointed only in the character-type of Mycroft, being...
Wonderful Odd Couple!
These two miniseries are a bit lengthy. A standard feature-length format would have been fine. But Christopher Lee and Patrick Macnee are delightful together. Their Holmes and Watson are considerably older than we're accustomed to...but they play it for all it's worth and it's thus worth a lot! The productions (with the exception of the music score for the second one, which is too much synthesizer and not enough real orchestra) are fine. I wish they had made more of these. The current SHERLOCK "series" on BBC with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman is quite entertaining...but is it worth the wait? And just how long might we expect these to go on? I'll be revisiting the Lee/Macnee films again and again.
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