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Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786305074076 Format: Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC ISBN: 6305074070 Label: Starz / Anchor Bay Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay Release Date: August 11, 1998 Running Time: 138 minutes Sales Rank: 7208 Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay Theatrical Release Date: November 04, 1970
Rating: - Oh Where Oh Where Is This Bad Movie Treasure????
Andrew and Virginia Stone (Julie, Cry Terror) are no ordinary movie realists. In 1960, when they decided to make a movie about the sinking of an ocean liner, (The Last Voyage), they hired the aged Ile de France, hauled her out into the Pacific Ocean, and then effectively scuttled her, in the interests of their art and their commerce. In an industry where big is par, the Stones think colossal.
In 1970, their newest project opened at the Cinerama Theater, on a screen almost as wide as the Scandinavian peninsula. SONG OF NORWAY is a film resurrection of the 1944 Broadway operetta about ... Read More
Rating: - Beware of bad DVD transfer
Song of Norway is a musical based on the life of Edvard Grieg. The film version has more camp quality than anything else, but this is not about the movie itself. Whatever one may think of it as a movie, it looked and sounded wonderful when it was new and in the movie houses. This DVD does not give justice to that. At all!!
If you manage to get hold of this British DVD edition, do not buy it. It is a terribly bad transfer of a VHS edition that was bad enough in itself. The picture is so blurry it is almost impossible even to read the opening credits. The presentation is not widescreen. ... Read More
Rating: - Wanted: SONG OF NORWAY in widescreen & 6 track stereo sound NOW!!!
Is there anyone out there who knows who currently holds the rights to release SONG OF NORWAY in Super Panavision and 6-track stereo sound on DVD? I propose a letter-writing campaign! What is taking so long? Anchor Bay Entertainment had the rights and did, in fact, announce it for summer 2003. Sadly, they lost the rights before it could happen.
SONG OF NORWAY is my holy grail for a widescreen DVD restoration. It has been a glaring omission and is more so today in light of the recent surge of interest in musical films. Mr. Rightsholder, please read the many reviews here on [...] by people ... Read More
Rating: - memorable music
This was certainly an odd movie and very unusual. Whoever did this certainly had their own vision and did not follow too many footsteps of other musicals in it's day. I myself, at the time, was a movie soundtrack buff with many movies, not all musicals. Since I have not seen this particular movie in some time, I can say for a fact that the original soundtrack was more of an asset than the movie itself. I agree that the natural scenery was nothing short of awesome, but the storyline involving the movie itself is forgotten. What stuck was the cinemagic and the music. Being I had the original vinyl album ... Read More
Rating: - Beautiful music and scenery, cheesy '70's production
I love the music, the scenery is breathtaking, I adore Florence, and Edward G. Robinson is always fun. However, the titles, the sudden camera zooms, and some really awful choreograhy all glaringly point to the period in which the movie was made. Watch and enjoy, but be ready to flinch. I've got a bad VHS copy, but when is this finally going to be put on DVD?
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