Hidden Hollywood - Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
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Actor: Anthony Slide, Ginger Rogers, Joan Collins, Phil Baker, Robert WagnerBrand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-03-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Hidden Hollywood - Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
Movie Review: Pieces of the jigsaw
Summary: 5 Stars
Darryl Zanuck, head of production at Fox, was famous for his editing skills. This DVD contains outtakes from many famous Fox films, trimmed sometimes for censorship or even political reasons or maybe simply to reduce the running time.
If you know the films, you can mentally piece the outtakes into the originals. Some of the numbers are pretty awful such as Bert Lahr's incomprehensible song. Others are memorable like Jimmy Durante's number with Shirley Temple and Alice Faye's "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows". It is also amusing to see the performers grimace and pout as the camera starts to roll. The DVD is a gold mine to the film buff and since the material has been taken from original negatives and restored, it is in great condition.
The DVD is partly documentary as narrated by Joan Collins. Whatever you might think of Collins as a performer, she has a beautiful English accent with perfect diction. Her delivery is music to the ears and the script is informative but succinct.
Summary of Hidden Hollywood - Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
HIDDEN HOLLYWOOD:TREASURES FROM - FOX - DVD MovieThe proper title isn't so much Hidden Hollywood as Cool Stuff We Found in the Vault at Twentieth Century Fox. This grab bag consists of segments snipped from Fox pictures for reasons of length or content, and the results are uneven but fascinating. Musical numbers abound and provide some fun, but Fox wasn't exactly MGM (and remember, this is the material deemed expendable). The jewels in the first volume include two routines from Café Metropole, starring the graceful dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, and a bizarre patter song by Bert Lahr that qualifies as authentic American surrealism (as host Joan Collins admits, the studio cut the song because they were completely bewildered by it). There's also an entire, self-contained sequence from the omnibus film We're Not Married, featuring an irascible Walter Brennan in an amusing Tobacco Road-style vignette. Plus, Edward Everett Horton does a pantomime of Gypsy Rose Lee: a golden 10 seconds. --Robert Horton
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