The Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection (The Sound of Music / The King and I / Oklahoma! / South Pacific / State Fair / Carousel) [DVD]

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I’m glad to have these wonderful musicals to view when I want.

recieved on time, very well packaged, used but like new and at a very good price. I would highly recommend seller. Bill M

This collection includes much more than was expected. We were expecting one copy of each of the listed titles but found, to our pleasant surprise, that all but one title was inclusive of multiple versions of that title. The Carousel title is inclusive of the American version of the movie, from the 1950s, plus Liliom, the French language, English subtitled, 1934, B&W version, upon which the American version of Carousel was based. Prior to seeing this, we were not aware of the 1934 video. The State Fair title includes the 1945 version, with Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes, Vivian Blaine and Jeanne Crain in the lead roles, as well as the 1962 version, with Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, Pamela Tiffen and Ann Margaret in the lead roles. Those familiar with the title will remember that there was an earlier, B&W version, from around 1933, with Will Rogers, as the family patriarch but I don’t recall the other players. That 1933 version was not included in this DVD set. While the 1933 and 1945 versions retained the venue of State Fair in Iowa, the 1962 version chose to change the venue, to Texas, for no discernable reason. Each of the three versions has its strengths and weaknesses and each kept to the basic plan of the story but with wide variations, in the details and side issues. The South Pacific DVDs includes the Broadway version, at 157 minutes in length, as well as the road show version, which ran for 172 minutes. The first of the two Sound of Music DVDs contains the video, while the 2nd DVD contains a special introduction, by Julie Andrews, as well as additional background info, about the show, the characters, the von Trapp family and, for some reason, a Mia Farrow screen test. The Oklahoma DVDs contain the Broadway version of the video, on disk one, plus the slightly longer and full screen/wide screen, Todd-AO version, on disk two. The King and I also provides 2 DVDs, with disk one being the play and disk 2 providing interviews with the players, plus background info, about the show and performances.

Great customer service , delivery and product!

Fiance loved this. All of the movies in great condition in a handy box.For those complaining about South Pacific being a black screen: This is NORMAL. It's the prelude. If you can hear the music then there's nothing wrong. Skip forward a few minutes.

We live in Indonesia where the postal customs place huge "taxes" on anything brought in by post over the value of 50USD...so two grand-nieces were due at our west java home brought in the 12 disc set which had been sent to one of the nieces in Geelong Victoria Australia. The 12 box set had gone from the US to Australia, then with my grand-nieces from australia's gold coast via Kuala Lumpur to Bandung Java........certainly a long way and a long time in getting here.We all sat and enjoyed Oklahoma...yes I agree with other reviewers the transfer from the 35 mm cinemascope version is superior to that taken from the Todd AO print. We then sat through the Sound of music....and after a week my grand-nieces returned....and I've been enjoying selected songs from the King and I, and South Pacific. Sound and picture's are "superb". The many times I'd gone along to the movies even seeing original 70 mm versions on screen in Australia....the DVD's absolutely "sparkle". I had several "letter-box" R and H musicals and despite the 5:1 sound, this latest compilation even in NTSC looks great on our LCD Samsung.Unless you move really close to the screen it is hard to determine if the pictures are standard definition. Computer restoration has meant that there's not a hint that the original medium was film."Happy Talk" (and her we only have seen some of the songs of South Pacific's road show version) to me is better than ever......computer restorers have excelled themselves in revealing more "shadow" details than the 70 mm print contained.I could go on and on.....however anyone who has this latest R and H collection will not be sorry.....this is a true collector's item not only for us oldies, but for a whole new generation to enjoy!Stephen J Fleayformer correspondent for CBS / BBC West Java [email protected]

La calidad del producto es excelente, los dvds son Región 1 pero pueden reproducirse a la perfección en una consola blu-ray; Recomiendo el producto a cualquier amante y conocedor de los musicales.

A good trip down memory lane! A very good product.

Purchased and everything was still wrapped in the plastic. When I finally had time to test all of the disks, most of them did not work or would act like they were going to work you'd start watching the movie and then part way through it would stop working.. No scratches just doesn't work.. was just a waste of money..

Have not watched all the movies but wanted them as have not seen them since I was a child.

All of the movies are great and bring back wonderful memories....especially South Pacific and closely followed by The King & I....all the movies are great and look even better than they did as originals.