Greetings: It's a holiday here; we're off to a museum to see an exhibit on Macchu Picchu. Three reviews today:

Mk2/Warner's The Great Dictator is the next handsome entry in the Charlie Chaplin series, but there's new info comparing it to the old Image series ... think PAL to NTSC time compression.

Image's Under Capricorn is a happy surprise: an infrequently-seen Hitchcock picture with a very good transfer. Ingrid Bergman faints and Joseph Cotten broods in 19th-century Australia.

And Home Vision Entertainment's Dangerous Moves is a topnotch disc of a rewarding thriller centered on a chess match between two Soviets - an official entry and his star pupil, a defector who left his wife behind in Russia. When the KGB starts playing tricks to affect the outcome of the game, the tension rises - without guns or special effects. With Michel Piccoli, Liv Ullmann and Leslie Caron.

That's it for now ... I've got some titles to catch up on, with a couple of fun swashbucklers and horror titles coming up. Still no sign of the Wilders, but we'll see. Thanks for reading, Glenn Erickson

Posted by DVD Savant at July 08, 2003 08:17 AM