October 24, 2003
October 24, 2003

Happy Friday! Savant's taking an enforced break, and won't be launching any more reviews this weekend - it's a full diet of editorial onlines and recording sessions. Here's promising a glut of reviews as soon as the mad rush to finish my present project wraps up!

Home Vision Entertainment knocks us out with 2 early Peter Weir films, The Cars that Ate Paris & The Plumber. They're together on one disc, and the television movie The Plumber is considered an extra, but it's the classic keeper of the two. The first film, about a town of murdering pirates in the middle of Australia, now plays like a prequel to George Miller's Mad Max movies.

Sofa Entertainment brings us The Four Complete Historic Ed Sullivan Shows Featuring The Beatles, a two disc set containing the full four shows where the Beatles appeared on network TV. It's a terrific historical artifact, with the context of other performers and Tea commercials showing us how special and transcendent the Beatles really were.

Image and Blackhawks David Shepard give us a disc of Max Linder amusements, in Laugh with Max Linder, featuring the 1921 comedy Seven Years' Bad Luck. The tuxedoe'd Linder makes a unique silent clown, comparing well with our American breed of Chaplin and Harold Lloyd.

See you next Tuesday! Glenn Erickson

Posted by DVD Savant at October 24, 2003 08:17 AM