Our Town

no sound - need i say more?
I have ordered this DVD twice now, as the first one was defective and a replacement copy soon arrived to take its place. However, both copies had the same basic problem - NO SOUND WHATSOEVER! These appear to be the worst bootleg copies imaginable - scratchy picture (fine, it's an old film, without the benefit of restoration), . . . BUT NO SOUND???
Not negotiable, in my view - steer clear of this one, and please, Amazon, take it off your market and replace it with a quality version, if one exists!

Our Town - Reel Classic Films
Extremely poor video reproduction. If I had known I never would have purchased this. You have been warned!

Good Play--Bad Production Quality
I viewed OUR TOWN and what I saw was a high quality play mangled by some shoddy production values. I saw the VHS version and what I expected to see was an entertaining film that explored Thornton Wilder's view of an pre-World War I small town America in terms of his quest for values that were cyclical in nature. His play on paper asked the basic question: is there a purpose to life or are we doomed merely to re-enact the same dreary saga of birth, growth, death, and rebirth for all eternity? This filmed version tried to answer that, but I literally could not see clearly the scenes in front of me and I kept hearing annoying noises that clouded the characters' parts. Still, I tried to make sense of the movie. The Stage Manager, a folksy-sounding avuncular type, sets Grover's Corners both geographically and socially in context so that the gradual exposition of the main leads, George and Emily, tend to be seen as a natural concomittant of this growth. We see them as youths with a...

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