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Title: Jack and the Beanstalk (2001)
Format: DVD
Score:
Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Buddy Baer, Shaye Cogan, and James Alexander
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Runtime: 82 minutes
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• Posted on 2009-11-02
  Hilarious for the kids
  
  My 9 year old roared with laughter when we picked up a cheap VHS copy at a drugstore. The much better version on DVD purchased here was much better because the transfer quality was superior
  
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• Posted on 2009-07-14
  GoodTimes Video Version hit a home run with the quality
  
  No need for me to review the movie since you're purchasing this as a collector, right?
  So heres the details on the Good Times Home Video Version
  
  Filmed in 1951 (release 1952) using the "Spherical" Cinematographic Process in the Academy Standard Ratio of 1.37:1, this presentation gives us the Full Frame (1.33:1) which is exactly what the director intended us to see.
  The original coloring of the film was as so:
  ** Modern Story:Black and White (Sepiatone);
  ** Fanasy story: Color (Supercinecolor)
  
  This DVD-5, MPEG2 encoded Movie was about 7 Mbps on Average (with the total disc at 7.16 Mbps)
  
  The audio is a little weak, but definitely clear and intelligible. Dolby Digital 2.0 (Dual Mono) at 192 Kbps.
  
  While the film still appears a bit washed out in comparison to modern presentations, it STELLAR!!! for a 1952 public domain film presentation on DVD. Hence, on a scale of 1-5 (3 being average modern DVD) this would score at 2.85/5) Very good indeed. (Especially in comparison to the "Reel Classic Film" edition of this movie. Just don't buy that version as long as this one is available.)
  
  Pick it up ... its worth the collection!
  
  
  
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• Posted on 2008-04-21
  Good Deal, Great price
  
  This was exactly what I was looking for. In this day of anime violence and off-color innuendo in kid's programming, I have been picking up DVDs of entertainment from my own childhood to share with my grandchildren...and they love it!!! They even go around singing the songs from the movie, corny as they are.
  
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• Posted on 2006-05-04
  You NEED to know Jack!
  
  Having not seen Abbott and Costello's "Jack and the Beanstalk" in several decades, I have to say that is so much more than I remember. It is really just inspired in it's, to borrow a style from the Sherman Brothers, "Awfulosity". This film is really a turkey, but a golden one, (or however gold photographs in the miracle of SUPERcineCOLOR?).
  
  Clearly this film was influenced by the MGM film "The Wizard of Oz", which incidentally was re-issued for the first time in 1950 or 51. This film was released in 1952. You get the picture. The opening and closing sequences, in the real world, are shot in sepia (though in this print it looks like grainy, contrasty B&W). All the principle characters in the color "fantasy" sequence are introduced in the modern day world and telegraph their relationships in the fantasy later on, some going as far as showing the costumes they will be wearing minutes later.
  
  Really, the costumes, the make up (on the cow, Henry), the hair (particularly on Bud and the prince), the songs, the choreography, EVERYthing in this picture is just so wrong it's right. Lou's shtick and acting are really so far beneath him, except in a really funny dance that he and the scullery maid do in which he gets the stuffing smacked out of him. My favorite numbers, however, include the solos with the strange looking, slightly cock-eyed prince and the "big" dance numbers with the innane lip-syncing townsfolk and the "June Terrible Dancers!"
  
  And the "Giant", well, you will just have to see him for yourself, but I will say that if I were him, I would have asked for more flattering lighting on my close ups.
  
  It was fun revisiting this film after so many years. If you have seen it. See it again. If you haven't seen it, I know you will enjoy your introduction to this classic comedy........ of errors.
  
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• Posted on 2006-03-29
  ONE OF THE TEAM'S BEST FILMS
  
  JACK AND THE BEANSTALK (1953)
  Warner Bros.
  Release Date: April 7, 1952 (New York City, New York)
  April 12, 1952
  Runtime: 70 min./USA: 82 min. (restored version)
  
  Director:
  Jean Yarbrough
  
  Producer:
  Pat Costello
  
  Writing Credits:
  Pat Costello
  Nathaniel Curtis
  
  Cast:
  Bud Abbott....Mr. Dinkel/Mr. Dinkelpuss
  Lou Costello....Jack/Jack Strong
  Buddy Baer....Sgt. Riley/The Giant
  Dorothy Ford....Polly
  Barbara Brown....Mrs. Strong
  David Stollery....Donald
  William Farnum....The King
  Shaye Cogan....Eloise/Princess Eloise
  James Alexander....Arthur/Prince Arthur
  
  Music by:
  Lester Lee
  Heinz Roemheld
  
  Cinematography by:
  George Robinson
  
  Film Editing by:
  Otho Lovering
  
  Other Crew:
  Milt Bronson....dialogue director
  Johnny Conrad....choreographer
  Albert Deano....wardrobe supervisor
  Clarence Eurist....production supervisor
  Helen Holm....assistant to executive producer
  Wilton R. Holm.....color consultant
  Raoul Kraushaar....music supervisior
  Norman Lubow....choral direction
  Heinz Roemheld....conductor
  Bob Russell....songs
  Clifford D. Shank....color consultant
  
  Plot Summary:
  
  Jack is a farmer boy who is to take his family's last few coins to buy a cow at the local market. Once in town, he is fooled by the slick Butcher Dinkelpuss into buying magic beans instead. He takes the beans home and plants them out in his yard. The next morning, a giant beanstalk stretches into the sky. Knowing that a giant terrorizes the land, Jack decides to climb up the beanstalk to search for his treasures. He is accompanied by the greedy butcher, who also wants to find the giant's treasures. Jack and Dinkelpuss battle the giant and make the land peaceful again.
  
  ROUTINES & HILARIOUS MOMENTS:
  Lou tries to steal the giant's key
  
  Trivia (from imdb.com):(1)This is the first of only tow color movies that Abbott and Costello made. It begins in sepia tone and then changes to color.(2)Bud and Lou made an independent, two-picture deal in which they agreed that this was to be "Lou's film" and the next to be "Bud's". Lou and Bud retained individual ownership of the respective films.
  
  
  
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