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The Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection (The Sound of Music / The King and I / Oklahoma! / South Pacific / State Fair / Carousel)
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Genre | Musicals & Performing Arts/Musicals/General |
Format | NTSC, Box set, Widescreen, Multiple Formats, Color, Special Edition |
Contributor | John Kerr, Gloria Grahame, Pat Boone, Joshua Logan, Robert Wise, Benjamin Glazer, Shirley Jones, Gordon MacRae, Bobby Darin, Rossano Brazzi, Ernest Lehman, Henry King, Mitzi Gaynor, Yul Brynner, Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Fred Zinnemann, Jos Ferrer, Walter Lang, Deborah Kerr See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 15 hours and 56 minutes |
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The Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection
The Sound of Music
A young woman leaves a convent to become governess to the seven children of a Naval officer widower. Filmed in 70mm.
The King and I
Schoolteacher and widow Anna Leonowens travels to Siam to teach its King's children. During the course of her stay, she enlightens the King as to changing times and helps him reassess his relationship to one of his several wives.
Oklahoma!
Gordon MacRae brings his sterling voice to the role of cowboy Curly, and Shirley Jones plays Laurie, the object of his affection. The Rodgers and Hammerstein score includes "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top," "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'," and "People Will Say We're in Love." Filmed twice: In 70mm Todd-AO at 30fps and in 35mm CinemaScope at 24fps
South Pacific
Two stories set side by side about love and loss set in the wartime tropics. Adaptation of the 1949 stage play.
State Fair
A farming family, the Frakes, go to the Iowa State Fair to show the father’s prize hog, Blue Boy, and enjoy the big event of the year.
Carousel
A spirit in heaven gets a singular opportunity to revisit his past life on earth to help his young daughter reconcile his death and move on with her own life. One of two films shot in CinemaScope55.
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Rodgers & Hammerstein were certainly one of the most famous writing teams of the Broadway Stage. This set collects the newly remastered titles below, plus the previously issued the Sound of Music, State Fair, and Oklahoma. All are 2-DVD special editions.
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The Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection contains film versions of the five major works by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, who helped define the American musical landscape and rewrite the direction of musical theater. After enjoying extremely successful careers working with others, Rodgers and Hammerstein first teamed up in 1943 for the prairie tale Oklahoma!, with songs including "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" and "People Will Say We're in Love." The subsequent 1955 film starred Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones, who teamed up again for 1956's Carousel. While that film's dark nature made it less popular than its predecessor, the score ("If I Loved You," "You'll Never Walk Alone") was Rodgers's favorite. The King and I (also 1956) featured stage star Yul Brynner as the King of Siam and Deborah Kerr as schoolteacher Anna Leonowens, who must learn Asian customs even as she tries to instill some of her Western ones. The somewhat bloated version of South Pacific (1958) follows two couples during World War II and features standards such as "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair" and "Some Enchanted Evening" from stars Mitzi Gaynor and Rossano Brazzi. The last film, The Sound of Music (1965), proved to be the most popular, with Julie Andrews winning the hearts of seven children and their father with her blissful songs. And if the perhaps saccharine music and plot may test the patience of some, there's no doubt that songs such as "My Favorite Things" and "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" have charmed audiences around the world for decades. Accompanying the Big 5 in this set is the relatively minor State Fair from 1945 (though it does have "It Might as Well Be Spring" and "It's a Grand Night for Singing"). Some may expect and prefer other entries in the R&H canon such as Flower Drum Song or the television production Cinderella, but those were produced by different studios.
This 12-disc set from 2006 includes the two-disc special editions of each film, remastered and anamorphically enhanced for widescreen TVs (except State Fair, which was shot in traditional 1.33:1 aspect ratio). Bonus features include the Todd-AO version of Oklahoma! (which should look better than the CinemaScope version but doesn't); 40th-anniversary bonus material for The Sound of Music, including a commentary track by Julie Andrews; Lilliom, the 1934 film based on the same story as Carousel; and the 1962 version of State Fair starring Pat Boone and Ann-Margaret. --David Horiuchi
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 1.23 Pounds
- Item model number : 2238229
- Director : Fred Zinnemann, Henry King, Joshua Logan, Jos Ferrer, Robert Wise
- Media Format : NTSC, Box set, Widescreen, Multiple Formats, Color, Special Edition
- Run time : 15 hours and 56 minutes
- Release date : November 7, 2006
- Actors : Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr
- Dubbed: : French, Spanish
- Subtitles: : English, French, Spanish
- Language : Unqualified
- Studio : 20th Century Studios
- ASIN : B000HT3PGU
- Writers : Benjamin Glazer, Ernest Lehman
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 12
- Best Sellers Rank: #5,938 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #66 in Musicals (Movies & TV)
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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.
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 Fleay
former correspondent for CBS / BBC
West Java Indonesia
favenchi@yahoo.com