The Jack Benny Collection
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Movie Reviews of The Jack Benny Collection
Movie Review: Preservation needs a market
Summary: 4 Stars
In my childhood, the Jack Benny show was on during the afternoon. I didn't appreciate it, and it took some maturing, an addiction to amateur theatre, and studios shovelling dross in front of us for me to realise just what gold it was that was offered us by the old vaudeville entertainers. I was excited to find and order this collection, although I do think that 60 minutes per disc is parsimonious at least.
"Jack at the races" is mentioned in the studio review, but is replaced by a sketch with Humphrey Bogart that is wonderful. Seeing the old Hollywood tough guy camping it up was great fun. Most of the ads have been cut because cigarette commercials are now banned. Some survive, and give context to some of the jokes.
The collection is expensive for what it offers, but for the true fan, its offering is hard to ignore.
Movie Review: Save your money
Summary: 1 Stars
This set is a complete rip off. Each disk contains about an hour of programming. I only saw the first disk. That was enough for me.
The movie, The Medicine Man, was only one hour and six minutes long. The picture and sound quality was shameful. The movie was not much better. It was a total disappointment.
I did not even bother watching the rest of the set.
Movie Review: Find something better
Summary: 1 Stars
You can find all of these episodes on discs from other distributers, so patronize them. The songs have been cut from these copies (Dennis Day, Bing Crosby, etc.).Movie Review: Only 5 hours TOTAL running time! A ripoff at the price.
Summary: 1 Stars
I wish I had read the negative reviews more carefully before ordering this product.
Most singled-sided DVDs of TV programs contain about 4 hours of material, so I thought this 5-disc "collection" would contain about 20 hours of material. Yet each disc contains barely an hour of material.
And they're not even complete programs! No doubt in an effort to squeeze a few more dimes out of us, they didn't bother to secure the music rights, so all the musical numbers have been chopped out.
This "collection" is at most 2 discs worth of material. BTW, DVD#3 is supposed to contain "Jack at the Races." Both the box and the DVD itself are labelled as such, yet that episode is missing and in it's place is a detective sketch with Humphrey Bogart.
I bought a disc called "The Jack Benny Show" at the grocery store for $4.99. It has 5 programs, 2 of which are also in this collection, and a total running time of 2.5 hours.
I give 5 Stars for Jack Benny, but 0 Stars for this ripoff collection. Don't waste your money...if you really want to see these programs, purchase a used copy or borrow it from the library.
Movie Review: THIS A GOOD COLLECTION
Summary: 4 Stars
I just got this collection in the mail today! I haven't had a chance to watch it yet but I was just skimming through to see if what I heard was true and it was. In all of the episodes there is a big logo stammped in the corner of the screen saying "THE JACK BENNY COLLECTION". In some episodes it is stamped in both corners or in some episodes the logo starts on the right side then moves over to the left side> But overall the picture and sound quality is good and I reccommend the collection.