Title: A smart, intelligent picture
Product review: This is a terrific DVD of an unfairly maligned and underrated picture. However, as good as it is, I can see why it was not commerically successful upon it's inital roadshow engagements in 1968. In many ways, it was just too good to be popular.Despite its many musical numbers, Star is not a musical in the traditional sense (think Helen Morgan in Applause and Judy Garland in A Star is Born). Also: British music hall variety doesn't cross the Atlantic well and I suspect that may have been a factor limiting its appeal in North America.The flip-side of this disk provides extensive and fascinating details of the production itself, including the desperate attempts by 20th Century Fox to recut, repackage and reposition the film to find a larger audience: it didn't work.Nonetheless, Star is a substantial accomplishment and Julie Andrew's demonstrates once again what a remarkably gifted and talented performer she is...just like Gertrude Lawrence!
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