| | |  | Musicals | Home » » » Mae West - The Glamour Collection (Go West Young Man/ Goin' To Town/ I'm No Angel/ My Little Chickadee/ Night After Night) | | | | | | | Description: | | Smart, seductive and undeniably funny, Mae West is one of cinema's most enduring comedy legends. Now this larger-than-life buxom beauty charms fans all over again in an amazing 5-movie collection of some of her most wildly popular films. Revel in Mae's breakout performance in Night After Night; join her as a bewitching lion (and man) tamer in I'm No Angel; lasso up some fun with the wealthy and the wicked in the rags-to-riches tale of Goin' To Town; delight in a comic country romance in Go West Young Man; and see how wild the West can really get in My Little Chickadee. It's a must-own salute to one of Hollywood's most outrageous and hilarious leading ladies. | | | Features: | |
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• Format: DVD
• Box set; Color; Dolby; DVD; Full Screen; Subtitled; NTSC
| | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff, Edward Arnold, Ralf Harolde | | Director:
| Alexander Hall | | Format:
| Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Subtitle:
| English, Spanish, French | | Number of Discs:
| 2 | | Studio:
| Universal Studios | | Run Time:
| 417 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| April 04, 2006 | | Average Customer Rating:
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109 of 113 found the following review helpful:
 Please Don't Listen To The Complainers...May 02, 2006
By Travis T. Black
I purchased this set last week without having read any reviews previously. I only knew that I was a fan of Mae West and that I wanted a nice collection of her films. However, before I even put in the first DVD I sporadically decided to read some of the reviews for this set on Amazon just for kicks. One reviewer here claims that the sound is horrible, that the picture is garbage, and that Warner Bros. is putting out "trash" sets. Well first of all, this is not a Warner Home Video release. This set is from Universal Studios despite the fact every film contained within originated from Paramount Studios... I digress. Expecting the worst, I popped in the first disc. The movie begins. The sound is clear. The picture is clear. It doesn't shake and there seems to be very little grain on the image aside from the usual specs that grace older films. Personally, I find a bit of grain/debris to be somewhat charming and enjoy products looking "of their time" so to speak. Why, even mono sound is very clear. After viewing all 5 films, the only one with any real noticeable grain or scratches was "Going To Town" but even then not to a distracting level. However I do have one complaint. The films are divided up rather strangely over the two disc. The division is as follows:
Disc one Side A : Night After Night & I'm No Angel
Side B: Going To Town
Disc two: Side A: Go West Young Man & My Little Chick-a-dee
Side B: Nothing
I haven no idea why side B is completely empty when two films are crammed onto Side A. The only extras are trailers for three of the films and the menu designs are identical for each film. Sadly, it seems to be a trend for most catalog classic releases to be treated as such. The Greta Garbo DVDs released earlier last year had picture quality that was not only about the same, it was worse in some places. Those were apparently "digitally restored" (I'm talking about her talkies, not the silents which had more scratches on them than a cat post) and cost about $20 A PIECE.
As for the films themselves, they are screen gems indeed. Mae West exhibits both a strong and amusing presence on film. She was an actress who was ahead of, as well as one of the most controversial, of her time. Each film shows off her perfectly timed comic abilities as well as her vocal talents which aren't too shabby either. After comparing the quality and price of these DVDs to previous releases of older films that belong in this genre, I've decided that this is really an excellent deal. So please, don't pay attention to angry reviewers who are bitter about lack of extras, this set is certainly worth it!
37 of 37 found the following review helpful:
Wonderful But IncompleteJan 25, 2006
By James Morris
At last - 12 years after Universal released the entire Mae West collection on VHS to celebrate the 100th anniversary of her birth, they are finally putting out a boxed set of some of her classic films. I am particularly delighted that this set includes the often overlooked gem, Goin' To Town, one of Miss West's funniest comedies.
But I am of mixed emotions concerning this release, since it only includes five of Mae West's classics. I've waited a long time for these to be released on DVD, and what does Universal do? They put out only five of the ten films they have the rights to. Two of the films in this collection were already released on DVD - I'm No Angel was released several years ago, and My Little Chickadee was released last year as part of the W. C. Fields collection. So only three of the five films are new to DVD.
Worse, the set does not include She Done Him Wrong, Mae West's personal favorite among all her films, which was based on her stage hit, Diamond Lil. The inclusion of Go West Young Man (considered by many fans to be her weakest effort) is puzzling over She Done Him Wrong, but I suppose that just makes it more likely that they will do the right thing and release the rest shortly.
The box set released in the UK three months ago contains a whole different set of six films - including Klondike Annie (one of her few dramas, and one of her best films) and the seldom seen The Heat's On, a silly musical done at Columbia studios in 1943, which was the great lady's last screen appearance until Myra Breckinridge, 27 years later.
Universal saw fit to release virtually all of the Abbott and Costello films in its vaults before it got to Mae West, Carole Lombard and Marlene Dietrich (the release of The Glamour Collection: Marlene Dietrich and The Glamour Collection: Carole Lombard were both announced concurrently with the Mae West set). So hop to it, Universal! Fans of all three of these ladies are anxiously awaiting more.
109 of 130 found the following review helpful:
 Before you get too excited...Apr 05, 2006
By Damon Devine
First.....it is NEVER a good idea to review ANY DVD title before it's released, as so many seem to have done for these latest Mae West titles. Unfortunately, they will have to eat most of their words, now that it has been released.
I am a HUGE Mae West devotee, with one of the biggest Mae West collections in the world (even have her tattooed on my arm!). That's why I was highly suspicious when five of her films were going to be released on DVD for such a small price. Why so cheap? And why re-release I'm No Angel and My Little Chickadee that are already out on DVD? And why not release one of her most loved films, 'She Done Him Wrong'?
Well, my fellow MW fans...what you might suspect, is true. These are NOT remastered by any stretch of the imagination, and are no clearer than the VHS versions. As well, they are on TWO DVD's and only a strange plastic divider separates them. You will always be worried you will accidentally scratch them. Only a few titles have the original trailers included, and the quality of them is GHASTLY. REALLY bad. There are also no extras. Wouldn't you have died for a glimpse at a few rare deleted scenes!? Or maybe some great newsreel footage?
What is good about this "boxed" set? Not much, other than it is Mae West, an American institution, who always delivers the goods. Also...it's nice to have these titles "preserved" on DVD, even if the quiality is far from remastered. It is clear that Universal wanted to make a quick buck and slapped together a semi-fancy outer package, housing less than high quality DVD's inside. Let's hope they get serious next time and release ALL of Mae West's Paramount titles, digitally remastered in a gorgeous boxed set. Mae West deserves that, and we as consumers (and fans) do too.
16 of 20 found the following review helpful:
It's better to be looked over than overlookedFeb 08, 2006
By Lanyon
It's great that Universal have released five of Mae West's movies in this good value DVD set. Mae West first made it to Hollywood in 1932 when she was nearly 40. Paramount Pictures had offered her a supporting role in a George Raft vehicle "Night After Night"(included here). Mae insisted on writing her own dialogue and, although she appears for only fifteen minutes towards the end, she was the hit of the movie. Sashaying in to Raft's nightclub Mae hands her wrap to the hatcheck girl. "Goodness what beautiful diamonds!" says the girl. "Goodness had nothing to do with it" says Mae.
Paramount were anxious to cash in and asked Mae to star in "She Done Him Wrong", a remake of her play "Diamond Lil". It was the biggest grossing film of 1933. Her co-star was Cary Grant who also appeared in Mae's second film "I'm No Angel" in which she plays Tira a circus lion tamer whose act hits the big time when she puts her head in the lion's mouth. This is a contemporary satire on social climbing ("It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men") and is, I think, her best film. "I wish I could trust you" says Cary. "You can" says Mae, "hundreds have". Cary: "Do you mind if I get personal?" Mae "Go right ahead, I don't mind if you get familiar". To another potential conquest Mae says "I like sophisticated men to take me out". He replies "Well, I'm not really sophisticated." Oh, says Mae "Well, you're not really out yet either".
After this the censors descended and Mae's next film in 1934 was changed from "It Ain't No Sin" to "Belle of the Nineties". Next came "Goin' To Town", where Mae inherits an oil well and heads off to Buenos Aires to lasso (literally) an English aristocrat. This film is often overlooked so it's great that it's on this DVD set, as it's a corker.
Next came "Klondike Annie" (1936) her most controversial film; Mae played a nightclub hostess, on the run from the police, who disguises herself as a preacher at a Mission in Alaska. Mae wasn't trying to mock religion although she does say "when I'm caught between two evils I generally pick the one I never tried before" but move away from her popular persona to try something with more depth and meaning.
After this Paramount Pictures gave up supporting Mae in her attempts to out fox the censors and she only made two more films for them: "Go West Young Man" (1937) with Randolph Scott ("A thrill a day keeps the chill away") and "Every Day's a Holiday" (1938). She was approached by Universal studios in 1939 to co-star with W C Fields in a comedy western "My Little Chickadee". Mae wrote more great lines for herself: "when you've got nothing better to do and plenty of time to do it, come up" and "every man I meet wants to protect me, I can't figure out what from".
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Excellent set for any Mae West fanJan 08, 2008
By Tell It Like It Is
Overall, this is a great set for any fan of Mae West. I bought it to replace a pile of VHS I have. My only wish is that this set would have included ALL her classic films in one library. Missing are: "Every Day's a Holiday", "Belle of the Nineties", and "Klondike Annie", as well as "The Heat's On".
What you do get is:
1. Goin to Town
2. Go West Young Man
3. I'm no Angel
4. Night After Night
5. My Little Chickadee
Frankly, I could have done without "My Little Chickadee" on this set. I never liked WC Fields and as a Native American, this film is really offensive (not to say that Mae had anything to do with that part of it). WC Fields treats this supposedly Native American companion like a dog he can kick around who still comes and licks him on the face at night. Fields literally abuses the companion physically and verbally and that's supposed to be funny. Furthermore, the supposed Indian says crap like "Ug" and "Big Cheif gottem new squaw?". Its sickening. The only thing I like in the whole movie is Mae's gorgeous gown worn when she sings "Willie of the Valley". I would much rather have had one of the missing films I mentioned above included in this set.
Considering the price, this set is a real bargain. The picture and sound is great and the case is thinner than the width of one VHS, saving me a lot of space in my collection.
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