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Title: Rather disappointing
Review: The 1934 offering we bought was released in December, 2008, by Reel Classics. So, we had hopes that defects reported earlier had been cured. Apparently, though, this "restoration" was done for widescreen applications as the video was severely letter-boxed. We don't own a widescreen TV, so maybe it's unfair to evaluate. Nevertheless, we regard video and sound as poor and there were no subtitles, chapters, or special features. The disk would not play on our trusty Philips 711 player so we had to figure running time on our newer Panasonic. It came to a sparse 1 hour, 36 minutes. The whole story would have been unintelligible had we not read the book or seen the 1982 version of the story beforehand. Sadly, we have trouble even giving this DVD a single star.
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