The Wrong Man

Starring:Laurinda Barrett, Kippy Campbell, Norma Connolly, Charles Cooper, Lola D'Annunzio, Josef Draper, Robert Essen, Henry Fonda, John Heldabrand, William Hudson, Doreen Lang, Dayton Lummis, Vera Miles, Esther Minciotti, Nehemiah Persoff, Anthony Quayle, Richard Robbins (VI), Harold Stone, Peggy Webber
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product Type: DVD

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Alfred Hitchcock was fond of telling the story about how his father discouraged his son from even the slightest criminal impulse by having young Alfred locked in a police holding cell for a brief period--a terrifying experience Hitchcock never forgot. Much of the fear from that childhood incident resonates through The Wrong Man, which is unique among Hitchcock's films in that it is based entirely on a factual case that occurred in New York City in January 1953. As Hitchcock states in a shadowy prologue, authenticity was his primary goal--including the use of actual names and locations from the case--and the film gains considerable power from Hitchcock's semi-documentary approach (a film noir style that was still in vogue when Hitchcock shot this film in 1957).

Henry Fonda is perfectly cast as the financially struggling nightclub musician who is mistakenly identified as a robber when he attempts to cash in his wife's life-insurance policy to pay for her much-needed dental work. Vera Miles is equally superb as the suffering wife, who ultimately cracks under the pressure of her husband's wrongful accusation and the drawn-out process of proving his innocence. Through all of this, Hitchcock pays close attention to the mundane details of police procedure, intensifying Fonda's desperation and the narrative tension that was Hitchcock's directorial trademark. As it happens, the strict adherence to factual detail--no matter how absurd or incredible--also renders The Wrong Man somewhat weaker than Hitchcock's classic plots, since in this case truth is decidedly stranger than fiction. Nevertheless, this is still a riveting film that fits quite nicely alongside Hitchcock's better-known films of the 1950s. (Interesting trivia: Miles--who would later appear in Psycho, was Hitchcock's first choice for the Kim Novak role in Vertigo, and Hitchcock was vocally annoyed when Miles's pregnancy prevented her from taking the role that could have made her a star.) --Jeff Shannon
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Manny Ballestero is an honest hardworking musician at New York's Stork Club. When his wife needs money for dental treatment, Manny goes to the local insurance office to borrow on her policy. Employees at the office mistake him for a hold-up man who robbed them the year before and the police are called. The film tells the true story of what happened to Manny and his family.

The Alfred Hitchcock Signature Collection (Strangers on a Train Two-Disc Edition / North by Northwest / Dial M for Murder / Foreign Correspondent / Suspicion / The Wrong Man / Stage Fright / I Confess / Mr. and Mrs. Smith)
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Alfred Hitchcock Signature Collection

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The Alfred Hitchcock Signature Collection (Strangers on a Train Two-Disc Edition / North by Northwest / Dial M for Murder / Foreign Correspondent / Suspicion / The Wrong Man / Stage Fright / I Confess / Mr. and Mrs. Smith)
Starring: Alfred Hitchcock
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ASIN: B0002HOES0
Release Date: 2004-09-07

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The Alfred Hitchcock Signature Collection contains the DVD debut of 8 Hitchcock classics including "Strangers on a Train Two-Disc Special Edition," and the following 7 new single-disc DVDs: "Dial M For Murder," "Foreign Correspondent" "Suspicion," "The Wrong Man," "Stage Fright," "I Confess" and "Mr. and Mrs. Smith." The previously released "North by Northwest" is also included in the 10-disc Signature Collection. Each of the 9 films in the collection shows why Hitchcock is regarded as one of Hollywood's most esteemed and important directors, and also brings legendary stars to the digital front including Cary Grant, Henry Fonda, Marlene Dietrich, Grace Kelly, Montgomery Clift and many others.

Strangers on a Train - En route from Washington, D.C., champion tennis player Guy Haines (Farley Granger) meets pushy playboy Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker). What begins as a chance encounter turns into a series of morbid confrontations, as Bruno manipulates his way into Guy's life. Bruno is eager to kill his father and knows Guy wants to marry a senator's daughter (Ruth Roman) but can't get a divorce from his wife. So Bruno suggests the men swap murders, which would leave no traceable clues or possible motives. Though Guy refuses, it won't be easy to rid himself of the psychopathic Bruno. Hitchcock's daughter Patricia appears in this film. The extra features included on the DVD are: Alternate 'preview' version of the film; Commentary by director Peter Bogdanovich, Psycho screenwriter Joseph Stephano, Strangers on a Train author Patricia Highsmith and biographer Andrew Wilson; New making-of documentary Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic, with Farley Granger, film historian Richard Schickel, Patricia Hitchcock O'Connell and other Hitchcock family members and colleagues recalling the making of this suspense landmark; Three intriguing featurettes: The Hitchcocks on Hitch, Strangers on a Train: The Victim's P.O.V., Strangers on a Train by M. Night Shyamalan; Alfred Hitchcock's Historical Meeting, a vintage newsreel.

Each DVD will be presented in a format preserving the aspect ratio of its original theatrical exhibition and will include the original theatrical trailer, and subtitles in English, French and Spanish.

Customer Reviews:

Alfred Hitchcock Signature Movie Collection DVD set.......2007-04-12

A Must have for all hard-core Alfred Hitchcock movie fans

Wonderful Collection.......2007-04-06

This collection is absolutely fabulous. All the movies are remastered and are excellent quality especially on a big screen. Just as I remembered them. Too cool...

a must for a fan.......2007-03-08

As a long time fan of Hitchcock, I am always looking for more. I have approx. 20 of his films on DVD. This collection has some that I had never seen before. In addition, the "making of" special features are great for someone who wants to know what made Hitch so unique as a film director. I have (and will) spend many hours viewing these discs.

Alfred Hitchcock Signature Collection.......2007-01-29

If you an Alfred Hitchock movie fan, you need to get this box set. There are some movies, I haven't seen before, but I did enjoy them.

Alfred Hitchcock.......2007-01-16

This was a gift to my son, he was thoroughly excited about it, he said he loved it.

I'm Doing the Right Thing with the Wrong Man

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Just when a football coach finally hits the big time, he realizes the 50 million dollar contract may have come at the expense of his marriage.

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"THE WRONG MAN"- starring Henry Fonda
False imprisonment, the most grievous of wrongs!
FONDA IS GREAT!!!
1 of the cooliest guys I ever met
An innocent man has only prison to fear

The Wrong Man
Starring: Laurinda Barrett , Kippy Campbell , Norma Connolly , Charles Cooper , and Lola D'Annunzio
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ASIN: B0002HOER6
Release Date: 2004-09-07

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Description

Manny Ballestero is an honest hardworking musician at New York's Stork Club. When his wife needs money for dental treatment, Manny goes to the local insurance office to borrow on her policy. Employees at the office mistake him for a hold-up man who robbed them the year before and the police are called. The film tells the true story of what happened to Manny and his family.

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"THE WRONG MAN"- starring Henry Fonda.......2007-02-07

This is a scary story of what can happen to anyone who falls victim to mistaken identity and a lesson to those who somehow believe that police or law enforcement and even witnesses or accusers are never or seldom wrong. "The Wrong Man" is also an eye opener to the fact that somewhere we all have a double or someone who resembles us very much and the trouble that sometimes this can cause anyone.
Coincidentally filmed and released right around the same time another Fonda great, "Twelve Angry Men", was, "The Wrong Man" is in my opinion, equal, in pointing out that the legal system can go wrong, but both films in their endings, send messages of hope on how wrongs are sometimes corrected.

False imprisonment, the most grievous of wrongs!.......2007-01-17

The response to possible injustice is all too typical of the criminal justice system... We always hear the stories of innocent persons wrongfully convicted by mistaken identification, false confessions, crime-lab fraud, jailhouse snitches, lying "expert witnesses," incompetent or uninvolved defense attorneys, and police frame-ups...

Criminologists have known that eyewitnesses are as likely to be wrong as right... But despite the undeniable fact that an eyewitness is no better than a flip of a coin, police, prosecutors and juries put great weight on eyewitness evidence even in cases where suspects have unshakable alibis...

False confessions arise from any number of known reasons... Yet once police get a confession (even ones they invent) prosecutors take for granted the reliability of the confession...

The Mexican public, especially "law and order" conservatives, must come to grips with the fact that our criminal justice system increasingly serves causes other than justice... Finding a suspect and convicting him is more important to many police and prosecutors than getting the right man...

The ease with which innocents can be railroaded is scary enough... But the obstructions that prosecutors raise to the release of inmates known to be innocent reveals an inhumanity that is frightening...

The Mexican justice system is loaded against the wrongfully convicted... Consequently, the wrongfully convicted serve longer terms than the guilty... No one knows how many people are wrongly imprisoned... But in every part of this world, the problem is clearly too large to ignore...

'The Wrong Man' concerns Christopher Emmuanuel 'Manny' Balestrero (Henry Fonda), a family man and a New York jazz musician, with a devoted wife and two young boys, wrongly identified by several witnesses as the perpetrator of a number of hold-up...

The evidence is against him because he fits the description! The actual criminal looks almost identical to him... In minute detail we watch him being humiliated by the process of justice that is supposed to protect him...

From his arrest to his fingerprinting, handcuffing, and jailing, we follow, with real anguish, how an innocent man is intimidated and humiliated... Fonda's characters were often associated with injustice, most notably in 'Let Us Leave,' and 'The Ox-Bow Incident.'

By imposing his own highly individual style, Hitchcock treats this incident as if it really was a miracle... For if the picture points out anything, it is that justice can be vindictive and cruel and that anyone could become the wrong man...

Vera Miles is well cast as Manny's disturbed wife who slowly loses her sanity while her husband awaits trial... Her slow transformation from an outraged citizen into an apathetic mental case is handled sensitively...

Anthony Quayle is excellent as Fonda's attorney, and Harold Stone is very good as Lt. Bowers...

Photographed in Black and White, 'The Wrong Man' is a nightmare of reality that could happen to anyone...

FONDA IS GREAT!!!.......2006-09-15

This is a really good movie! Henry Fonda plays it perfect! Hitchcock and suspense are one and the same. I forgot just what a great movie this was til I saw it again!

1 of the cooliest guys I ever met.......2006-07-02

This movie is about one of the cooliest guys I ever met.In the mid 1990's I worked as a dietary aid at The Stanley Total Living Center in Stanley N. C. I got to know Manny very well.He told me that he was very impressed with Mr Fonda and how he played the role true to form. He stated that Mr Fonda even learned to play the Base for the role. His stories of New York City and the Stork Club will Always stay with me,as well as this movie.This is a don't miss movie.I'm glad I got to met the real man.I wish I could get him another cup of hot BLACK coffee and flick his bic one more time and hear those stories 1 more time.But I still have this movie to remind me of him.You were the COOLIEST MANNY. Rest in Peace Ed Cox Film Historian

An innocent man has only prison to fear.......2006-06-08

This Hitchcock docudrama features Henry Fonda as Emmanuel Christopher "Manny" Balestrero, an average victim of circumstance at the mercy of the justice system. It is interesting to see Fonda in THE WRONG MAN role reversal of 12 ANGRY MEN. As a juror in the latter, he pleads for reasonable doubt. In the former, he hopes for legal triumph as the defendant.

I have purchased 13 and viewed 17 (some numerous times) Hitchcock films. Most intertwine witty dialog with a spellbinding conclusion. THE WRONG MAN diverges from the norm by adhering closely to factual events. Hence, the dialog doesn't reveal the director. "Terror" in this film involves the fear of being behind bars -- Hitchcock's own phobia after spending five minutes there as a child. There is suspense but no real terror. However, there is a rather shocking emotional twist with an effectively portrayed sad conclusion.

Cinematography and sets are realistic and sometimes creative. There are some nice transitional fades into new scenes that give the audience a feeling for emotion or time-lapse events. Fonda's entrance through his front door, shutting it in the face of the audience while still visible to them is more complex than it looks and is well explained in the DVD extras. For Hitchcock collectors, this is one well worth having -- even worthy of at least two viewings. The commentary bonus adds to the value.

Movie quote: "An innocent man has nothing to fear. Remember that."

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One of the best TV series ever
But where are the 39 episodes of the first season????
The Best For Last
Sad to See it End
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Secret Agent AKA Danger Man, Set 6
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Danger Man - The Complete First Season

ASIN: B00007J89C
Release Date: 2003-03-25

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He's a spy like no other. The top operative for the shadowy government agency M9, John Drake is reluctant to resort to violence, rarely draws his gun, and never ends up in bed with the girl. Before he made history as the Prisoner, Patrick McGoohan broke the mold for small-screen spies with SECRET AGENT. This collection includes the nine final episodes of the classic series--digitally restored, remastered and presented in their original U.S. broadcast order--and features the only two shows filmed in color.

Episodes: I Can Only Offer You Sherry, The Hunting Party, Two Birds with One Bullet, I'm Afraid You Have the Wrong Number, The Man with the Foot, The Paper Chase, The Not-So-Jolly Roger, Koroshi, Shinda Shima.

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One of the best TV series ever.......2004-04-02

The only reason this volume of the Secret Agent collection gets a four is the two color episodes, which are appallingly below par, like a really, really bad James Bond movie. But you can't go wrong with any of the black and white episodes!

But where are the 39 episodes of the first season????.......2003-08-18

Yes, yes, we got all of the one-hour episodes. But where are the first season 39 episodes? All of the 30-minutes ones that constituted the first Danger Man season with our best example of british cool Patrick Mcgoohan. Now that we have the Prisoner episodes, and all of the one-hour episodes of Danger Man, we really need to copmplete our Pat McGoohan collection! I think these 39 30-minutes episodes would fit nicely on 5 DVDs... Are you reading this, A&E?

The Best For Last.......2003-06-18

I'll be brief. It's rare that a TV series has some of its finest episodes toward the end of the run, but DANGER MAN is a rare show. And as far as I am concerned, the debate as to whether Drake is Number Six is really no debate at all. Of course he is. The Number Six character is never named otherwise. McGoohan had to deny it for legal reasons, but the continuity of character is there (snapping fingers when nervous, same inflection of speech, even an old friend of Drake's with the same name appears both in DANGER MAN and THE PRISONER). Enjoy these Final episodes, then watch THE PRISONER. Such a pair of series, and such a great actor to make them work, will never come around again.

Sad to See it End.......2003-05-12

Navigating its way to Japan, the Danger Man series ends with a bang, and this time in color. A definite classic for any 60's video collection.

A dark, realistic, and stunning classic.......2003-05-10

I've been a big follower of 60's cult television and Secret Agent Man is by far the darkest and most realistic of the spy genre. Assasinations, plot twist after plot twist, intelligent writing that will keep you on the edge of your seat--this series has it all---even a character that is showing his frustration at what his job involves (which helps to build the perfect segway into "The Prisoner"--) The set completes the 1 hour collection (and I certainly hope that they'll release the 1/2 hour episodes at some time)-- My only critique is that they should have included not only the 1 hour versions of "Shindo Shima" and "Koroshi" (as they did) but also the entire full length version as it was put together for a feature film--a few scenes were added for continuity that collectors would have appreciated-
(even moreso because the segway that ties the two episodes together in the film version actually shows a differant impression of where an agent's loyalty lies then in the pt.1 and pt.2 version---a cool little twist that you'll only catch in the film version)---At any rate---the entire series is fantastic and excluding the final two episodes, the noirish Black and White atmosphere of Secret Agent morphing into the color of The Prisoner has an almost Wizard of Oz effect if you watch the two series back to back and assume that Drake and No. 6 are indeed the same character (which I tend to believe regardless of the lingering debate amongst hardcore fans)

Henry Fonda - The Signature Collection (Advise and Consent / Battle of the Bulge / Mister Roberts / The Wrong Man)

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More of a discount bundle than a signature collection
Great bunch of movies!
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Henry Fonda - The Signature Collection (Advise and Consent / Battle of the Bulge / Mister Roberts / The Wrong Man)
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ASIN: B000FZETSY
Release Date: 2006-09-19

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Otto Preminger expanded his vision in the 1960s with a whole series of ambitious, expansive dramas with huge casts and big themes. Advise and Consent, an examination of deal making, party politics, and congressional diplomacy in Washington's legislative halls (based on the novel by Allen Drury), is one of his best. Preminger broke the blacklist with his previous film, Exodus, and it rings through in this drama about a controversial nominee for secretary of state (a confident, stately Henry Fonda) accused of being a Communist. The nomination process becomes the center ring of the political circus, with fidgety accuser Burgess Meredith in the spotlight; devious, silver-tongued Charles Laughton cracking the whip as a southern senator with a grudge against Fonda; and party whip Walter Pidgeon lining up votes behind the scenes. Arm twisting and diplomatic hardball turns to perjury and blackmail, and a melodramatic twist gives this lesson in party politics a salacious soap opera dimension.

The German offensive in December 1944 became the basis for the all-star Hollywood Battle of the Bulge. Henry Fonda is an officer who predicts the assault, Robert Ryan and Dana Andrews are Army brass skeptical of his intuitions, and Robert Shaw is a German officer leading the tank attack. Shaw is certainly the most compelling thing about the film, especially in his philosophical debates with ambivalent underling Hans Christian Blech. Elsewhere, the movie jumps around to sidebar stories (cowardly James MacArthur becomes a leader, wheeler-dealer Telly Savalas falls in love) while messing around with the historical facts of the battle. There are interesting episodes, such as the Malmedy massacre of American POWs and the Germans' use of English-speaking spies, but overall Battle of the Bulge has the feeling of having been patched together from different scripts. On the physical level the movie comes up short, with the Spanish locations rarely suggesting the wintry misery of the battle, and the use of models and studio sets highly inadequate. A number of war films from this era are compelling on their own terms, but in the wake of Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers, this one looks antique.

Henry Fonda re-created his Broadway hit Mister Roberts for the 1955 film that was mostly directed by Fonda's frequent collaborator, John Ford (Young Mr. Lincoln, My Darling Clementine)--an ailing Ford was replaced at some point by Mervyn LeRoy--and the results are exceptionally fine. A perfect cast, including James Cagney's irascible captain, William Powell's thoughtful physician, and Jack Lemmon's Oscar-winning Ensign Pulver, give Fonda the right boost to portray his ennui-burdened officer with dignity, self-effacing humor, and not a trace of self-pity. A wonderful film.

Alfred Hitchcock was fond of telling the story about how his father discouraged his son from even the slightest criminal impulse by having young Alfred locked in a police holding cell for a brief period--a terrifying experience Hitchcock never forgot. Much of the fear from that childhood incident resonates through The Wrong Man, which is unique among Hitchcock's films in that it is based entirely on a factual case that occurred in New York City in January 1953. As Hitchcock states in a shadowy prologue, authenticity was his primary goal--including the use of actual names and locations from the case--and the film gains considerable power from Hitchcock's semi-documentary approach (a film noir style that was still in vogue when Hitchcock shot this film in 1957). Henry Fonda is perfectly cast as the financially struggling nightclub musician who is mistakenly identified as a robber when he attempts to cash in his wife's life-insurance policy to pay for her much-needed dental work. Vera Miles is equally superb as the suffering wife, who ultimately cracks under the pressure of her husband's wrongful accusation and the drawn-out process of proving his innocence. Through all of this, Hitchcock pays close attention to the mundane details of police procedure, intensifying Fonda's desperation and the narrative tension that was Hitchcock's directorial trademark. As it happens, the strict adherence to factual detail--no matter how absurd or incredible--also renders The Wrong Man somewhat weaker than Hitchcock's classic plots, since in this case truth is decidedly stranger than fiction. Nevertheless, this is still a riveting film that fits quite nicely alongside Hitchcock's better-known films of the 1950s.

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More of a discount bundle than a signature collection.......2007-06-03

This entire collection was probably a bad idea for several reasons, but not because these aren't good movies.

1. All of these movies are available individually on DVD and were for some time before this collection was released. Thus, this set really only works as a discount collection because you are buying all four DVDs together versus the individual price.

2. Three of the four movies are in other Warner Home Video DVD collections. "Advise and Consent" is in the "Controversial Classics" collection. It is an excellent set, and if you are a collector of classic movies you are probably going to eventually want that one. Also, if you are a fan of Alfred Hitchcock, "The Wrong Man" is also included in the "Alfred Hitchcock Signature Collection", which is also a very good set. "Battle of the Bulge" is in the "World War II Collection - Battlefront Europe", also an excellent set. This leaves you with "Mr. Roberts" as the only DVD that isn't already in some other Warner Home Video collection. It is notable not only for Fonda's excellent performance but for the fact that it was the beloved William Powell's last appearance in a motion picture and one of Jack Lemmon's first.

3. Finally, let's face it, Fonda's best work was probably done in films under the control of 20th Century Fox, not in the films controlled by Warner Home Video. However, I have to wonder, with all of the duplication going on in this set, why didn't Warners include two excellent films starring Fonda that were made for Warner Brothers - 1963's "Spencer's Mountain", which was the basis for the TV series "The Waltons", and 1966's "Big Hand for the Little Lady", which is not even on DVD yet.

Nobody else has mentioned the extras on the individual DVD's, so I do that next:

Advise and Consent - There is a commentary track by Drew Casper who seems to really love everything Otto Preminger ever did. There is also a theatrical trailer that runs four minutes that has "making-of" footage. Unfortunately that footage acts as a spoiler for the plot.

Battle of the Bulge - There are two featurettes included. "The Filming of Battle of the Bulge" runs nine minutes and is narrated by Henry Fonda. "History Re-Created" is an eight minute program with short interviews with producer Milton Sperling and star Robert Shaw. There is also a theatrical trailer.

Mr. Roberts - Includes an excerpt of an Ed Sullivan Toast of the Town tribute episode with comments from producer Leland Hayward and scenes acted by James Cagney, Henry Fonda, and Jack Lemmon. You also get a clip from a documentary (Fonda on Fonda) which covers Henry Fonda's involvement with both the play and the movie, as well as a moment from a tribute at the Kennedy Center Honors. Jack Lemmon provides partial commentary on the movie.

The Wrong Man - Includes a 20-minute documentary featurette from Laurent Bouzereau that is pretty interesting. Also included is the theatrical trailer.

I would say that if you want all four of these films and know for a fact you will never want any of the three DVD Collections that contain three of the four included films, this set acts as a good discount bundle. Otherwise, just get "Mr. Roberts".

Great bunch of movies!.......2007-03-05

I bought this set because it had two of my favorite Henry Fonda movies included - Mister Roberts and Battle of the Bulge. I already owned Advise and Consent from another movie collection, but The Wrong Man was a new one for me. An excellent way to spend a weekend!

misguided fans.......2006-12-31

I don't understand all of these negitive reviews. Are not the films in this box set all good? The answer is yes and 5 stars if you are a Henry Fonda fan. I'm so sick of people giving poor ratings to a box. It's the movies that you should rate in the box. Stop being mad at a company that releases a few films in a bundle. If you already have the movies then don't buy the damn box set, but at least give these good movies from a fine actor the reviews that they deserve.

And liezl (the connoisseur) You should pay attention to what you are reviewing!

E. Where is his work with John Ford? Answer- MISTER ROBERTS is a John Ford movie.

Limited selection.......2006-09-15

I do agree with other reviews - there's not much here and it's all already available. But I do have to comment on something I see over and over in these reviews - Warner Brothers doesn't own the rights to every movie ever made. The reason they can't include his great Western "Once Upon a Time in the West" is because the rights are owned by Paramount Pictures, and "Grapes of Wrath" is owned by 20th Century Fox, just to name two.

Waste of Time.......2006-09-12

Henry Fonda is one of Hollywood's icons and one of my favorite actors. Mr. Fonda has such a prolific film career that one can easily put together a sizable box set e.g. John Wayne's.
The films selected in this collection makes no sense and didn't do Mr. Fonda justice. Very few people will be interested in ordering it. 1 star is for Mr. Fonda.

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When you hear the words "stage play," you immediately think of Shelly Garrett. He has become the number one playwright in history, when it comes to comedy theatre. Since March, 2002, he has been touring with his most recent play, "I'm Doing The Right Thing With The Wrong Man." Performances here in Dallas will run October 24-27, which includes six shows at the Majestic Theater, Downtown Dallas. So far, the show has sold out in every city, which includes Indianapolis, Baltimore, Detroit and Atlanta. The play is about a small time college coach, who manages to get a huge contract to coach the Atlanta Falcons. Afterwards, his entire personality changes. His overnight success leads him into committing adultery. He becomes disrespectful to his wife, who had always been by his side. This show, just like all of Garrett's plays is definitely filled with laughter. The role of the "coach" will make you angry, however, it does have a very touching ending.

Customer Reviews:

i'm doing the right things but with the wrong man.......2005-09-14

Terrible play never seen such a waste of time and money.

Not worth it.......2005-08-26

This stage play has a plot with a hidden message. The acting was so bad I actually thought they were trying to be bad actors. I was in the mood to be entertained and was very disappointed. The possible problem with this play was low budget. If I had seen it in person I might have a different opinion. I will not recommend this to anyone...not even an enemy.

the wrong thing to buy if you're christian.......2005-04-28

I thought I was purchasing a gospel play, not so. If the acting was not bad enough, the cursing is random and irrelevant to what's going on. I was very dissapointed. I usually give benefit of the doubt, but Garrett gets 1 star.

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More character development in those Midori days
The story of a guy and his true love, his right hand, continues.

Midori Days - Wrong Hand Man (Vol. 2)
Starring: Midori No Hibi
Manufacturer: Anime Works
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Midori Days - Handle With Care
Midori Days - Helping Hand (Vol. 1) + Series Box
DearS - 1st Contact (Vol. 1)
Girls Bravo, Vol. 2
Girls Bravo (Vol. 1)

ASIN: B0008FPIRM
Release Date: 2005-05-31

Description

Seiji's beset on all sides by assertive females! Shiori wants to live with him because her father is remarrying. Ayase is trying to ask him out, but he's too dense to notice. His crazy sister Rin is trying to toy with his emotions, and Midori is still his right hand. Even Takamizawa is getting in on the...action. But Seiji's biggest challenge is yet to come. He's about to wake up and find that he's become Midori's right hand!

Customer Reviews:

More character development in those Midori days.......2006-07-08

Volume 2 of Midori Days shows a lot more character development in Seiji Sawamura, he with the right hand girlfriend, literally, but also that of Midori Kasugano and the uptight and sensible to a fault Takako Ayase, the other two main characters here. So more drama and less laughs compared to the first 5 episodes.

Seiji is now beset with all sorts of girl problems. First there is Shiori, the precocious pigtailed grade schooler who has a crush on Seiji. She's not adjusting well to her new stepmom and while her father and new mother are on their honeymoon, Seiji reluctantly looks after her. The tickled Shiori clings onto Seiji as if she were his girlfriend, something that freaks out Ayase. Seiji dating a grade schooler? Shiori's upset that she isn't taken seriously just because she is a kid. This leads to Seiji's big sister Rin conspiring with Shiori to mess with Seiji's head by having her dress up in hot costumes, which either bores or irritates Seiji instead of arousing him. "She's an ogre who likes ensnaring people," snarls Seiji.

Ayase, who has had a crush on Seiji since he rescued her from some toughs, enacts the "Get Sawamura plan," a point by point stratagem to get him to fall for her. Inviting him to a horror movie? No problem there, but her plans, such as the Big Dressed Up Plan, Heartbeat Cling Plan, and Big Heart Thawing Kiss Plan, fail either due to sheer bad luck or Seiji's lack of proper response. Her trying on bathing suits in cheesecake poses doesn't faze him at all. This relieves Midori, who's protective of Seiji, but at the same time, she feels a bit sorry for Ayase, who has gone all out to get Seiji.

However, the presence of romance novels and girl-oriented manga instead of reference books in Ayase's room reveals that despite not showing her feminine side at school, she is a girl after all. The same can be said for Shiori, who despite being a child, is still a girl.
Then, the very unthinkable happens. Seiji wakes up and finds himself as Midori's right hand!

In that same episode, Midori's high school classmate Iwasaki is introduced, and she says some things that relate to Shiori and Ayase's feelings for Seiji, not to mention Midori's as well. After telling Midori how a classmate confessed her feelings to a boy, she says, "You have to get your nerve up to say things. [But] it's not like everyone can make things work by courage." So it goes both ways, how even if someone does work things out, one can always get turned down, as Seiji and it turns out Iwasaki has been as well.

So where is Midori Days set? A clue might be when, for their date, Ayase tells Seiji to meet her at Hoshikawa station. There is a Hoshikawa in Tokyo, on the local Soutetsu line leading from Yokohama. Given that Seiji rides the monorail to school, that could be the Tokyo Monorail line he takes. However, the second kanji in Hoshikawa is different in the anime. Any ideas?

Takamizawa, aka Takky, the anime freak with his Marin-chan glove puppet, returns in a hilarious episode where his memory recovers regarding Midori, and he opens up Midori's Little Room, a homepage, using pictures he took of Midori. However, he goes one further by creating Midori hand puppets which he hawks at the Wonder Comic Bazaar. His unabashed behaviour causes some discomfort to Seiji. Oh yes, Takky has a heroic scene where he saves Midori from a shady guy who uses his camera to snap pictures under her skirt.

Seiji may be a bit clueless and brusque, but his gentle side comes out in a scene where Midori asks him if he still considers her a burden. He tells her that she isn't and that he understands how she feels. "So don't talk about burdens anymore. That in itself is a burden."

Not a bad continuation to the series.

The story of a guy and his true love, his right hand, continues. .......2005-06-24

The second volume in this series is every bit as good as the first one, and better still, this time they list the names of all the English voice actors of each of the main characters in the end credits. (The names of some of the English voice actors for minor backround characters are still left out, but that's not too bad.)

The first episode on this disk, (episode 6 of the series,) centers around Shiori, the elementary school girl who has a crush on Seiji. She's upset because her father, who is a widower, has remarried, and Shiroi thinks her deceased mother is being replaced. She'd rather stay with Seiji than her new stepmom, even though her dad's second wife really wants to get along with Shiori. Shiori is able to get her parents to let her spend a day with Seiji, which means Midori has to be kept out of sight most of the time. Soon Seiji's older sister Rin finds out about Shiori's feelings for Seiji, and promises to help her out. (By the way, there is NO older-guy-younger-girl romance in this anime, thankfully, because Seiji isn't the kind of guy do anything like that.)

In the next episode, Takako Ayase, the prim-and-proper female class president, goes on a date with Seiji. She used to look down on him, thinking he was just another no-good juvinile street punk, but now her attitude has changed completly, since he saved her from a street gang when no one eles would. Here she tells him she has two movie tickets. She says a friend of hers was going to go with her to see the film, but had to back out at the last minute. So Seiji agrees to go with her. He proves to be far too clueless to figure out that she's going on a date with him, even when she shows up in her best clothes and wearing make-up. (His reaction:"Aren't you dressed up a little to fancy for a movie?") Likewise, all other attemps by Ayase to get close to Seiji end in failure, even when she takes him to the clothes store and tries on about five different swimsuits. This episode makes you feel a great deal of sympathy for Ayase, yet you know it can't work out between them, because of Midori.

(Possible spoiler warning regarding the description of the next episode.)

The best episode here is the third one (episode 8). Seiji and Midori each dream that Midori goes back to being normal while Seiji becomes HER right hand! However, different things happen in each person's dream. The first indication that it's a dream comes when after watching the opening scene where Midori wakes Seiji up and tells him they've switched places, we go back and see the scene re-done where Seiji wakes Midori up and tells her about it. (This can be pretty confuseing, unless you realize it's a dream.) In Seiji's dream, he and Midori go out and buy a hot steamed potato for breakfast, then go to the shop where Seiji went to buy Midori clothes. While there, Midori is accosted by a man trying to take dirty pictures of her with his cell phone camera, but he is stopped by Shuichi, the glasses-wearing puppet obbsessie. Seiji also spends a good deal of time complaining about how it sucks to suddenly be the right hand, and Midori chees him up. In Midori's dream, she gives Seiji one of her shirts that says,"I 'heart' Seiji" on it, which Seiji doesn't like at all. Midori makes breakfast with Seiji's help (sort of,) they go to the doll's clothes store, but Midori decides not to go in, anticipating the possibility that perverts might lurk inside. She tells Seiji they'll buy raw materials for clothes instead, but then Midori runs into Beniko, an old friend of hers. They go to a coffie shop together, and Beniko tells of her frustrations of not being able to get a boyfriend, then leaves. Seiji urges Midori to follow her and try to talk to her some more, then they both wake up. Quite an interesting episode, in all.

The final episode on this disk is sort of two stories in one part, both of which focus on Shuichi. As it turns out, he has made a Midori website (without anyone eles' approval, of course,) which has gained a surprising amount of popularity. There is enough of a fanbase now that Shuichi has set up a stand at a doll conventions and is selling Midori hand puppets. This outrages Seiji at first, but then Midori tells him that if they get 50% of the prophets like Shuichi promises, their money problems will be solved, at least for awhile. So Seiji reluctantly agrees to go along. The dolls sell out, but then the people see the actual Midori and want to buy her too, which understandably causes trouble. Then, Shuichi tells Seiji and Midori he's fallen in love with a human girl. Surprisingly, (then again, perhaps not so much,) she turns out to be the spitting image of Marin, Shuichi's puppet. Midori and Shuichi fear the worst, and decide it might be best to scare the girl off rather than get them together.

If you were a fan of the first volume, this second one won't let you down!

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