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Frankie Annette MGM Movie Legends Collection Beach Blanket Bingo / How to Stuff a Wild Bikini / Beach Party / Bikini Beach / Fireball 500 / Thunder Alley / Muscle Beach Party / Ski Party
Tamara M. (LuvJaneAusten) from FISHERS, IN Reviewed on 5/21/2012...
I own this set & I like it a lot. My least favorite movie is Gidget Goes to Rome. I can't add to the others comments about the formatting issue, I just appreciate that the movies are available to buy & watch.
Movie Reviews
Butchered movies in a 3 pack
Yarby | Medina, OH United States | 08/04/2004
(1 out of 5 stars)
"I was ready to snatch these up....until I saw those dreaded words on the back of the case: "Full Frame"!
These movies were made in the late 50's, early 60's....so there is NO EXCUSE for issuing them in this format. They were shot in 2.35:1 ratio....so almost HALF THE PICTURE IS MISSING!!!
This is the second time Columbia Tristar has deeply disappointed me on films I wanted in DVD. The first was their butchering of "Where Angels Go Trouble Follows" and "The Trouble With Angels".
Alas, they will remain missing from my film library until they are released in their proper ratio!!"
AVOID this HORRIBLE DVD set
S. Phillips | Las Vegas, NV United States | 07/28/2004
(1 out of 5 stars)
"GIDGET was shot and released in CinemaScope, and yet the DVD is an unwatchable panned and scanned copy, which crops out 50% of the frame. Unacceptable, especially since TCM airs the widescreen version on cable! The film is ruined; don't bother.
The sequels were not Scope; they do not suffer as much.
Avoid and boycott this DVD until they go back and do it right."
BEWARE - Gidget DVDs are pan & scan
Dave from Central CT | USA | 07/15/2004
(1 out of 5 stars)
"I was all set to pre-order this DVD set of the first three Gidget films when I learned that they are pan & scan, not widescreen. All three films were made in widescreen, and the original "Gidget" was filmed in Panavision--meaning that the pan & scan version will cut off 1/2 of the picture. (I'm not sure if the other two Gidget films were Panavision (2.35) or 1.85 widescreen.)If you're thinking about buying this as a permanent part of your DVD library, you may want to wait until Columbia does a proper job on the DVD. Even if you don't have a widescreen televison now, you will before too much longer..."
Avoid This Hacked Up DVD Like The Plague
C. Denham | WNY | 07/24/2004
(1 out of 5 stars)
"Gidget, a wonderful film for film buffs(it kicked off the beach movie genre), and 40 yrs later still a fine film in it's own right thanks to some sensitive writing a performances from Dee, Darren and Robertson, is unfortunately yet another victim of a bottom-of-the-barrel dvd issue by its studio Columbia/Tri-Star.
For some reason, the execs there believe that this 45 yr old film will have more sales cachet to the fickle, superficial Wal-Mart crowd if it 2.35 scope ratio is hacked up to fill the screen of their $45 Symphonic tv's .
this leaves people who actually saw the film in the theaters way back when and would like to see it again, intact, for the first time in 45 years , as well as serious film fans who already understand and appreciate what letterboxing is- totally in the cold.
Columbia, early on one of the finest of all the studios producing dvds, continues its slide into the gutter as the format finally starts to reach some maturity.
my pre-order has been cancelled.
if only more people who loved movies, and appreciated the art that went into them, did the same, maybe the clowns in charge would eventually get the message."