Night boat to Dublin 1945 - great!

[CaptainWaggett]

name='Steve Crook']I still like this one, from Carlton

Sergeant John Smith?



Steve

Surely this hold the record for the least accurate dvd cover with a 33% accuracy rate?



[ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Obsession-Robert-Newton/dp/B0002SCZAI/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1231066045&sr=1-3?tag=britmovie0e]Obsession [1950] [DVD] [1949]: Amazon.co.uk: Robert Newton, Sally Brown, Wayne Naughton, -: DVD[/ame]

[Steve Crook]

name='CaptainWaggett']Surely this hold the record for the least accurate dvd cover with a 33% accuracy rate?



Obsession [1950] [DVD] [1949]: Amazon.co.uk: Robert Newton, Sally Brown, Wayne Naughton, -: DVD

Starring Sally [Green? Black? Some colour or other] and Wayne Newton (or something like that)



Sometimes they just don't care.

Mistakes like that are often an indication to the amount of care they've taken with the DVD



Steve

[CaptainWaggett]

name='Steve Crook'] Starring Sally [Green? Black? Some colour or other] and Wayne Newton (or something like that)



Sometimes they just don't care.

Mistakes like that are often an indication to the amount of care they've taken with the DVD



Steve

Oddly, the dvd has some reasonably informative (and accurate) biographical notes about Sally Gray and Naunton Wayne so clearly they must have been using a very eccentric spellcheck

[Edward G]

It always amazes me how the film or TV media publishers can let loose on sleeve designs people who are graphics-smart but totally unimaginative and often with no apparent interest in or knowledge of the artists they are designing for!

Maybe they should start with people who love films and then select the ones with creativity and tech skills as well!

The worst offender for me was the misguided soul who managed to desecrate the Network box set cover for "The Chronicles Of Buster Keaton".....



[ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Buster-Keaton-Chronicles-Disc-Box/dp/B000CR6WYE/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1263477104&sr=1-2]The Buster Keaton Chronicles 6 Disc Box Set DVD: Amazon.co.uk: Buster Keaton, Henry Morgan, Steve Murphy, Virginia Fox, Al St. John, Phyllis Haver, Marion Mack, Jim Farley, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Renée Adorée, Edward F. Cline, Glen Cavender, Agnes [/ame]

name='JamesM']Optimum famously released Hell is a City starring Stanley Baxter and Joan Crawford (I tell no lies). I wondered if they had upset someone in the art department and they were taking their revenge on the company.



Optimum have been saved from embarrassment this time and will be correcting their artwork.

[Johnallan]

What chance the misleading discs and artwork of 'Night Boat To Dublin' becoming collectable and finding their way to Ebay before amendment? OK - I already know the answer.

[Johnallan]

Ah ha! The deed is done.

[CaptainWaggett]

Who is the chap who isn't Robert Newton meant to be? Herbert Lom?

[Johnallan]

He looks like he's wearing Mr Spock's death mask. Anyway I wouldn't trust him with my budgie.

[Brief Encounter]

name='julian_craster']What a howler. This is what happens when a DVD company does not employ people who know about film.



Looks like Optimum are employing young '20 something' film or media studies grads who don't know their hands from their feet, and cannot even bother to check basic facts in books or on the internet !

I'm one of those, but Optimum haven't employed me. If they did, they might not make these mistakes!

[JamesM]

Undercover is another Ealing film fro which Optimum have not packaged as an Ealing release. I didn't realize this was an Ealing Studios film myself.

[JohnB_Toronto]

Another howler is the recent DVD release of "The Admirable Crichton" ... play it on your PC and you'll see that the name given to the disc is "ADMIRAL_CRICHTON".

[siriami]

Just got my copy of "Night Boat To Dublin" in the mail today - and it's still got that "Ealing Collection" logo on the cover - wonder if this is an earlier printing - or have they just let it go out like that? Any others got a copy to compare?

Alistair

[siriami]

As an addendum to my last post - the quality of "Night Boat To Dublin" is cracking! Rock-steady, excellent print and as sharp as a tack: it even has the censor's certificate at the start. Just shows how good standard DVD can be at times.

And it's a well-paced wee British film, to boot!

Alistair