Vintage Collection - The Vintage Motorcycle Run DVD

Advantages: Great Chaplin films
Disadvantages: Could have used more extras

...My interest in vintage films started when I was a young child in the 1960s. There was a programme on every Sunday afternoon (if my memory serves me well) it was hosted by the late Bob Monkhouse and featured old vintage films that were form his own, personal collection. Charli Chaplin Volume 1 is a two CD collection released through the wonderful British Film Institute. It features a number of films fromm the very early days of Charlie Chaplin's Hollywood film career. From the days of Essanay Films and beyond. The first film is His New Job. His character (down on his luck, though not, exactly, a tramp) is trying his luck with open auditions at Lodestone Studios. There's a little bit of business in the waiting room when he shamelessly makes up to a pretty and simpering girl also waiting for an audition. He enrages the manager... Read review

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Advantages: 4 great fils, extra scene, special features
Disadvantages: None

...The complete Superman collection DVD is a must if you are a Superman fan. It contains 4 of the movies: Superman the Movie - with restored elements and dynamically remixed digital audio. Superman II - The continuing story of the Man of Steel Superman III Superman - The Quest for Peace There are also tonnes of features included such as a feature length commentary by director Richard Donner and Tom Mankiewicz with 10 added scenes The development of Superman documentary and the making of the movies 3 Screen tests Additional music cues Deleted scenes Vintage TV spot Trailer Storyboard to screen Superman started life as a cartoon hero in the 1930's. The story goes that he was born on the planet Krypton before being blasted to earth when his planet was destroyed. He then ends up in Kansas as Clark Kent... Read review

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Advantages: everything you ever wanted to know about Superman
Disadvantages: Presenation could of been better

..., Christopher Reeve, being in a terrible horse riding accident which paralysed him and eventually led to his death, the Superman movie franchise almost completely died with him. That was until Bryan Singer brought Superman back to the big screen with the new movie 'Superman Returns', and not only does it seemed to have revived the character, but also its revived the previous movies and all its history. It's here I bring you the Superman Ultimate Collection 14 disc DVD Box Set! Although I owned all the previous movies on tape before, and the Superman movies 1&2 on DVD, this was a 'must purchase' for me because not only did it have all 4 movies on DVD which was almost unheard of until now, and not only because it also came with the new Superman Returns movie by Bryan Singer, but the fact that it included so much bonus material and different... Read review

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