Alfred Brendel - In Portrait DVD

Advantages: 39 episodes in one place, classic television
Disadvantages: Addictive

...Alfred Hitchcock Presents… Season One This box set includes 6 discs from the first Season, which aired in 1955. Watching every single episode in this box set will take up 16 hours of time. I remember Alfred Hitchcock presents from the remakes in the 80s. When I spotted this box set I decided to buy it as the 1950's originals held more appeal for me. These episodes are classics and in my opinion better than the remakes. Each episode is introduced by Alfred Hitchcock, his introductions are funny and a good set up to the episode that is just about to be seen. He also appears at the end of each episode. I find this box set very addictive as well. I sit down to watch one episode and it seems to stay on for a lot longer. Each episode lasts about half hour and the episodes are very different, it was a very original show. All... Read review

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Advantages: Funny, entertaining, catchy songs
Disadvantages: quite expensive to buy.

...**** Warning Spoilers ahead!**** Trey Parker stars as Alfred Packer in this all singing all dancing true life account of Alfred packer. The story starts with Alfred Packer, he wants to go back to his home town of Breckonridge but when the leader of the party, Lucky Larry gets struck by lighting Alfred gets burdened with the job of leading a group of diggers to Breckonridge to find gold. The party is made up of Alfred and five others, Shannon Wilson Bell (Ian Hardin) who always looks on the bright side of life, Israel Swan (Jon Hegel) a religious but somewhat insane character, Frank Miller (Jason McHugh) a butcher who hates to sing, James Humphrey (Matt Stone) a chronic liar and lastly, George Noon (Dian Bachar) a sex starved teenager. The excursion starts out fine, the men have high moral... Read review

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Advantages: Stephen Fry's performance
Disadvantages: Not completely accurate

...I occasionally wonder if Oscar Wilde's life wasn't just a necessary preliminary so that Stephen Fry could get to play him. Fry clearly has a lot of sympathy with Wilde, and has little trouble placing himself in his shoes - something that I suspect he has done all his life. The story is familiar by now - Oscar becomes one of the most popular playwrights and wits of his age, only to shoot himself down at the height of his fame due to his relationship with the horrible Alfred Lord Douglas, for which he finds himself sentenced to two years' hard labour. The film goes to some pains to be historically accurate (it even gets right the almost illegible message that Lord Queensberry pinned to the theatre door which sparked off his ill-fated libel trial) but makes one blunder in providing a happy reunion of the two lovers upon Wilde's final... Read review

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