John Hodson

DVD Talk review of British Cinema Vol 2 (Our Girl Friday / Dentist in the Chair / The Runaway Bus / Carry on Admiral / The Time of His Life) is here. Snippet...

"...The good news is that the best film of the bunch, The Runaway Bus doesn't suffer too terribly from its less-than stellar transfer, but everything here is definitely sub-par. Our Girl Friday looks like a very old transfer of inferior elements, a transfer not much better than a PD release. There's terrible ghosting, scratches, tepid color, and the film element sourced is even warped at one point, pulsating in and out of focus. Our Girl Friday includes a Spanish audio track.

"The Time of His Life and Dentist in the Chair should be 16:9 enhanced widescreen at 1.66:1 but instead are 4:3 full frame sourced from splice-filled prints. The cropping of Carry on Admiral is discussed above. Two of the films are also short: Dentist in the Chair has a listed running time of 84 minutes but here runs 75; Carry on Admiral is supposed to be 83 minutes but runs 78..."

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earlb

I've just received my DVD of this from Simply H E having been a fan of this little gem over many years. What a disappointment. It has be sourced from a very inferior copy which has been mutilated, with scratches, scratched out standard dots and picture quality which you'd expect from 'Movies for Men'. It looks like it's been projected on white cardboard and videod.
It's been produced from the 'Pickwick' stable so I expected to see a first class quality print. VERY,VERY UNHAPPY

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

AdobeFlats

There is a lot of negativity on the Amazon review boards about this outlet.

Ah, the Trio with the brio.

Steve Crook

A retailer allowing people to speak ill of a rival? How unusual

Steve