2006 DVD Box Set
(Above: The covers of the Lewton DVD set.)
[Note: The 2008 re-release of this box set includes he Martin Scorsese / Kent Jones "Man in the Shadows" documentary featured in January 2008 on Turner Classic Movies.]
Purchase from amazon.com here
THE VAL LEWTON BOX SET
The Nine RKO Horror Films
Turner Home
Entertainment
Original Aspect Ratio - 1.33
Standard [4:3 Transfer]
Sound Quality: English: Mono 1.0 -
Subtitles: English, Espanol, Francai
DVD
Feature Titles:
Cat People
The Curse of the Cat People
I Walked with a Zombie
The Body Snatcher
Isle of the Dead
Bedlam
The Leopard Man
The Ghost Ship
The Seventh Victim
Shadows in the Dark (Documentary)
Audio
Commentary: Greg Mank with Simone Simon on Cat People
and Curse of the Cat People, Kim Newman and Steve Jones
on I Walked With a Zombie, Steve Haberman with Robert
Wise on The Body Snatcher, Tom Weaver on Bedlam, and Steve
Haberman on The Seventh Victim.
New
Documentary Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton
Legacy featuring interviews with Val Lewton, Jr.,
Sara Karloff and directors George Romero, Joe Dante, John
Landis, William Friedkin, and Robert Wise.
(Below:
I spotted this on the Amazon page about the Lewton set):
"Reviewer:
Lars Sandell (Sweden):
Never ever did I imagine that I would be angry at the
people working with DVD-releases at Warner Home Video!
Well, now I am!
I
bought this Val Lewton Collection on Laser Disc exactly
ten years ago, and they were certainly quite impressive
in terms of image quality! But that was ten years ago!
MUCH has happened since with new digital methods to
clean and restore worn film elements.
What
amazes me now when I view this much anticipated DVD
Box, is that every single speckle - black and white
- and every single scratch is still there for all to
behold! Contrast is still as problematic as with the
Laser Discs, and those films that looked like they'd
been mastered from hazy 16mm prints still give the same
impression 10 years later. In other words: Warner has
done absolutely NOTHING to improve the image quality
of these masterpieces! This really puzzles me. Almost
all their other classic films have been enormously improved
on DVD. Just look at recent releases like the Film Noir
box sets, the Gangster Movie box, the Controversial
Classics box , the Fred & Ginger set, etc.
They
all look fantastic compared to older releases on other
formats. So why suddenly turn stingy with the Val Lewton
films?
Let's
hope this is not a new policy to save money, hoping
that the majority of consumers expect no more from films
this old. Very disappointing! "
