Dinner at Eight
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Warner Brothers from the Classic Comedies Collection
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I bought this and a couple of other titles loose. Marie Dressler,
John
Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow,
Lionel Barrymore in a
George Cukor film. You know, as
great as it is for these Warner classics to be available on DVD, I really don't
think they bothered to much in the way of restoration on the films from the
Comedy collection. Still, I had an old Golden Jubilee version of this on
VHS, a cracked clamshell case, and a very fragile tape that I was often scared
to rewind, so this was a great buy for me. The disc also includes a
documentary on Harlow hosted by Sharon Stone--it's from the early 90's, which I
guess is when Stone was at the height of her brief popularity. She's
pretty annoying though it is a decent doc if you can stomach her. There's
also a comedy short called Come to Dinner on this disc, about 20-25 minutes long
and while tedious if you sit through it all, quite funny at the start.
It's a parody of Dinner at Eight from the opening credits through John
Barrymore's profiling and Billie Burke's whining, great stuff!
