This week The DVD Savant takes a look at Richard III - Criterion Edition - Laurence Olivier's hard-to-see Shakespearean epic is also considered his best-directed film, The Scarlet Pimpernel - Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour and a fun Ian McKellen spark this tepid television movie about an aristocratic spy during the French Revolution, Quartet - another superior Merchant Ivory film with a beautifully-realized 1920s Paris setting, American Gun -James Coburn's last film is an interesting but unfocused look at broken families and violence, and The Serpent's Egg - Ingmar Bergman's expensive Dino De Laurentiis production is a fantastic blend of ideas from German Expressionism to medical horror . Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.