The Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection [Remastered] (The Sound of Music / The King and I / Oklahoma! / South Pacific / State Fair / Carousel) | ![The Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection [Remastered] (The Sound of Music / The King and I / Oklahoma! / South Pacific / State Fair / Carousel)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511PNV6EA1L._SL160_.jpg) | Directors: Fred Zinnemann, Henry King, Joshua Logan, José Ferrer, Robert Wise
Actors: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
List Price: $99.98
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Rating:  88 reviews
Sales Rank: 3110
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Discs: 12
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 956 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.5 x 1.9
MPN: 024543382294
UPC: 024543382294
EAN: 0024543382294
ASIN: B000HT3PGU
Theatrical Release Date: March 19, 1958
Release Date: November 7, 2006
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Product Description
Box Set featuring six classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals: State Fair, Oklahoma, Carousel, The King and I, South Pacific and The Sound o
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The Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection contains film versions of the five major works by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, who helped define the American musical landscape and rewrite the direction of musical theater. After enjoying extremely successful careers working with others, Rodgers and Hammerstein first teamed up in 1943 for the prairie tale Oklahoma!, with songs including "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" and "People Will Say We're in Love." The subsequent 1955 film starred Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones, who teamed up again for 1956's Carousel. While that film's dark nature made it less popular than its predecessor, the score ("If I Loved You," "You'll Never Walk Alone") was Rodgers's favorite. The King and I (also 1956) featured stage star Yul Brynner as the King of Siam and Deborah Kerr as schoolteacher Anna Leonowens, who must learn Asian customs even as she tries to instill some of her Western ones. The somewhat bloated version of South Pacific (1958) follows two couples during World War II and features standards such as "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair" and "Some Enchanted Evening" from stars Mitzi Gaynor and Rossano Brazzi. The last film, The Sound of Music (1965), proved to be the most popular, with Julie Andrews winning the hearts of seven children and their father with her blissful songs. And if the perhaps saccharine music and plot may test the patience of some, there's no doubt that songs such as "My Favorite Things" and "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" have charmed audiences around the world for decades. Accompanying the Big 5 in this set is the relatively minor State Fair from 1945 (though it does have "It Might as Well Be Spring" and "It's a Grand Night for Singing"). Some may expect and prefer other entries in the R&H canon such as Flower Drum Song or the television production Cinderella, but those were produced by different studios. This 12-disc set from 2006 includes the two-disc special editions of each film, remastered and anamorphically enhanced for widescreen TVs (except State Fair, which was shot in traditional 1.33:1 aspect ratio). Bonus features include the Todd-AO version of Oklahoma! (which should look better than the CinemaScope version but doesn't); 40th-anniversary bonus material for The Sound of Music, including a commentary track by Julie Andrews; Lilliom, the 1934 film based on the same story as Carousel; and the 1962 version of State Fair starring Pat Boone and Ann-Margaret. --David Horiuchi
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 Beautiful music, unsatisfactory filmmaking August 2, 2010
Jaime Costa
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I confess that I was never fond of Rodgers & Hammerstein's film versions. I purchased the Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection only for the music, because I saw the films when they were released, and though I was a real fan of musicals (the Kelly and Donen and Minnelli ones) I hated CAROUSEL, THE KING AND I and SOUTH PACIFIC. Later I saw OKLAHOMA (not in Todd-AO, because in my country Uruguay was released only in the CinemaScope print) with several songs deleted, and I was not very fond of it either. And I never wanted to see THE SOUND OF MUSIC, probably because I had seen DIE TRAPP FAMILY already, an awful german film (corny, schmalzy and sugary), and I thought the Robert Wise version would made me the same impression, which I confirmed later, when I saw it with my kids. So, why should I buy THE RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN COLLECTION? Well, in the first place because I'm buying all the musicals that I can get, and second, because the films were remastered, with the two versions of STATE FAIR (the first one good, the remake awful), the rare Fritz Lang's french version of LILIOM and the opportunity to find out, once and for all, why THE SOUND OF MUSIC is the most loved family film of all times. And I must recognize that I couldn't find the reason. The film is better than I remembered, and Julie Andrews certainly steals the show, but that's all. I can stand OKLAHOMA (except for the unbearable Gloria Grahame) because the music is glorious. And the same goes for SOUTH PACIFIC (with an impossible Rossano Brazzi, dubbed and a lousy actor), but THE KING AND I is simply unpleasant. Deborah Kerr (dubbed in the songs by Marni Nixon) is a good actress, but why she tries all the time to be adorable when she is simply mellifluous and corny? And Yul Brynner (who stole the Oscar in 1956 from Laurence Olivier in RICHARD III, Rock Hudson and James Dean in GIANT and Kirk Douglas in LUST FOR LIFE) is always overacting, ignoring that a cinematic performance shouldn't be a stage recreation. I can't stand him. I never could. So, the films are all watchable (the prints are really good), the extras are always interesting and the music is, most of the times, worth listening. The films (all of them) are second rate, dated, overlong, boring and the best way to demonstrate WHICH IS THE WORST WAY TO ADAPT A STAGE PLAY TO THE SCREEN. Gene Kelly, Vincente Minnelli, Stanley Donen, Charles Walters, George Sidney and George Cukor, among others, knew it. Walter Lang, Henry King, Fred Zinnemann, Joshua Logan, Robert Wise and José Ferrer simply didn't.
 Classics! July 3, 2010
Rosemary S. Lewis (Roswell, GA, US)
My mother has Alzheimer's and lives in an Assisted Living home with 8 other residents. I wanted to get them some movies that they would enjoy, and possibly remember. Well, this collection was a big hit. Some were actually singing along to The Sound of Music.
Just What the Teacher Ordered! May 20, 2010
Fanny Mendelssohn (NJ, USA)
We are studying Rodgers and Hammerstein's most popular musicals in my music classes this month. I went online to order each separately, and was delighted to find them in a set. The colors are far more vivid than on the older DVD's I had. The children are eating them up! Who would have thought the street-smart, savvy kids of today would be completely drawn into the world of 1940's and 1950's musical theater?
Great price for a great product.
All of them May 7, 2010
Ginger K. Gamble (BUCYRUS, OH, US)
It's nice to have all these great movies in one package of DVD. They are some of my favorite. They came quickly and are of high quality.
Not colorful or complete South Pacific March 15, 2010
Janis M. Hall
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was very dissappointed that the other dvds in the collection were great except South Pacific. The movie did not play in its entirety and the colors were not vibrant. They were mostly blue in almost the entire portion of the movie that did play.
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