| | | "Five Stars, Five Legendary Films."
Features: DVD
Five glamorous women of the screen boxed together for the first time.This set includes 5 films: Albert Lewin's Pandora & the Flying Dutchman starring Ava Gardner and James Mason; Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel (English version) starring Marlene Dietrich and Emil Janning; Douglas Sirk's Lured starring Lucille Ball, George Sanders, & Boris Karloff; Rouben Mamoulian's Love Me Tonight starring Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier; and William Wyler's The Good Fairy starring Margaret Sullavan.
"[Pandora] ...a very rewarding film." Barrie Maxwell, DVD Verdict
"[Blue] ...great masterpiece of German film...evocative and inventive..." David Sterritt, Christian Science Monitor
"[Good] ...sharp dialogues, great performances and exceptional Margaret Sullivan." Gregory Meshman, DVD Beaver
"[Lured] ...an interesting thriller...effectively disturbing..." Richard Scheib, The SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review
"[Love] ...a real charmer...a terrific cast, and a very funny script..." Stuart Galbraith, IV, DVD Talk
Editor's Note
Ava Gardner, Marlene Dietrich, Lucille Ball, Jeanette MacDonald, and Margaret Sullivan star in these classic Hollywood features: THE BLUE ANGEL, LOVE ME TONIGHT, THE GOOD FAIRY, LURED, and PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN.
| Features | [All] Audio: English Dolby Digital Mono | | [All] Interactive Menus | | [All] Scene Selection |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Kino Video |
| Release Date: 11/21/2006 |
| Original Release Date: 1930 | | Catalog ID: 94783 | | UPC: 00738329051129 | | Number of Discs: 5 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: German | | Available Audio Tracks: English, German | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: B&W |
| Cast & Crew
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety 8 of 10
[Pandora] Albert Lewin produced, directed and did the story and script, keeping this film on an almost unrelieved level of sombre depression...Thanks to the pesence of James Mason, the film has at least one distinctive histrionic touch. He plays the Dutchman of the title, a sea captain who, back in the 17th century, had been condemned to sail the oceans of the world until he found a woman willing to die for love...Ava Gardner fares less distinctively as the girl who falls in love with this restless shade during one of the occasional brief periods allotted him to take on human form. Standout quality of the production is Jack Cardiff's color photography.
DVD Verdict 7 of 10
[Lured] If you like B mysteries done with an interesting style, Lured should appeal to you. It provides an entertaining vehicle in which to see director Douglas Sirk in action, prior to the period for which he is best remembered. It also shows off the acting range that Lucille Ball was capable of, giving her a good opportunity outside the musical and comedy genres for which she was known. Lured also shows off a number of the British contingent from Hollywood's extremely rich stock of character actors of the time...If you appreciate a black and white presentation that you can watch without distraction, even though it's not pristine, Lured should not disappoint you. - Barrie Maxwell
Chicago Sun-Times 9 of 10
[Blue] "The Blue Angel" will always have a place in film history as the movie that brought Marlene Dietrich to international stardom. At the time it was made, at the birth of the sound era in 1929, it was seen as a vehicle for Emil Jannings, the German actor who had just won the first Academy Award for best actor (for both "The Last Command" and "The Way of All Flesh") after starring in such silent landmarks as "The Last Laugh" and "Faust." Dietrich's overnight stardom inspired distributors to recut the film, ending it with one of her songs instead of his pathetic closing moments, and this restored version shows the entire film for the first time in years. - Roger Ebert
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