Universal: W.C. Fields Collection 10-disc 17 films R2

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Universal: W.C. Fields Collection 10-disc 17 films R2

#1 Post by John Hodson » Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:03 am

The film UK R2 W. C Fields Collection is in the sale at HMV here for £29.99.

Contains 10 discs with 17 films:

Million Dollar Legs (1932)
My Little Chickadee (1940)
If I Had A Million (1932)
Tillie and Gus (1933)
Mississippi (1935)
The Bank Dick (1940)
Follow The Boys (1944)
Six Of A Kind (1934)
International House (1933)
You Can’t Cheat An Honest Man (1939)
The Old Fashioned Way (1934)
You’re Telling Me (1934)
It’s A Gift (1934)
The Man On The Flying Trapeze (1935)
The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)
Poppy (1936)
Never Give A Sucker An Even Break (1941)

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#2 Post by Paul Moran » Mon Sep 29, 2008 7:54 pm

I bought the two R1 sets last year, so I only got 10 films for £45 pounds. :cry:

The 7 films unique to the R2 collection are:

Million Dollar Legs (1932)
If I Had A Million (1932)
Tillie and Gus (1933)
Mississippi (1935)
Follow The Boys (1944)
Six Of A Kind (1934)
The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)

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#3 Post by atcolomb » Tue Sep 30, 2008 2:03 pm

Million Dollar Legs is one of his best films and i only have it on VHS tape
here in the states so i hope down the road somebody will release it as a single since i have most of his other films.

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#4 Post by Jonathan S » Tue Sep 30, 2008 2:18 pm

Paul Moran wrote:The 7 films unique to the R2 collection are:

Million Dollar Legs (1932)
If I Had A Million (1932)
Tillie and Gus (1933)
Mississippi (1935)
Follow The Boys (1944)
Six Of A Kind (1934)
The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)
You can get Six of a Kind as part of a three-film Burns & Allen collection and The Big Broadcast of 1938 is available with another early Bob Hope vehicle College Swing (both R1 Universal single discs).

Follow the Boys is being released individually in October in the UK by Universal. I got it as part of their Marlene Dietrich Collection, though both her contribution and Fields' are negligible.

It's a pity Universal dropped two films (Alice in Wonderland and Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch) from their original line-up on the UK Fields Collection.

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Re: Universal: W.C. Fields Collection 10-disc 17 films R2

#5 Post by perkizitore » Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:49 am

It is sold on HMV for 13£ and on base.com for 12£, less than a quid per film.

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Re: Universal: W.C. Fields Collection 10-disc 17 films R2

#6 Post by Ben Cheshire » Tue Sep 29, 2009 6:03 am

I've got this set, and I'm slowly making my way through it. So nice to know I've got copies of such a broad collection of W.C.

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Re: Universal: W.C. Fields Collection 10-disc 17 films R2

#7 Post by manicsounds » Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:17 am

I received this today, at less than 12 pounds from http://www.blahdvd.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;, and watched The Bank Dick as a starter. It's too bad the trailers or A&E Bio from the Region 1 are not on the UK set, but with the price and the film content, it seems pretty bad to pass up for people who like 30's comedies.

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Re: Universal: W.C. Fields Collection 10-disc 17 films R2

#8 Post by Ben Cheshire » Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:35 am

Jeez, I think I paid about ten times that! Can't recall exactly. just make sure you remember you got it ridiculously cheap and its worth an oath-more than that!

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Re: Universal: W.C. Fields Collection 10-disc 17 films R2

#9 Post by manicsounds » Mon Aug 30, 2010 5:40 am

Almost a full year since I received it, I now noticed that 3 discs are defective, having a strange looking cloudy spot on the outer layer of the discs, and 1 movie on each disc freeze in the middle of the picture on all my players I've tested.

Contacted the etailer I bought it from, but they said it's way passed the window of returns policy. Tried contacting Universal UK about replacements, but no reply from them after a week....

Any ideas on what I should do about getting 3 of the 10 discs replaced without buying it all over again?

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