Product Description

Brand new, factory sealed, fully licensed DVD manufactured in Brazil. NTSC format. Playable on any North American DVD player. Full screen color image. Original English dialog with optional subtitles in Portuguese. Portuguese subtitles can be easily turned off. The following review appears in the Internet Movie Database: "Author: ptb-8 from sydney" "In Australia we are still able to see the beautiful MGM musical in a real 1952 vintage 3 strip Technicolor print which is still in very good condition. I saw it last year and apart from a few bumpy reel changes it is very clean and not scratched too much. Lucky us! I know this is not the definitive version purists rave about (that is the 1934 version) but MGM in 1952 was about as technically lush and state of the art perfect as one could want for any musical. In fact MW is is as colorful and as visually lavish as MY FAIR LADY or ON A CLEAR DAY or HALF A SIXPENCE or even the indoor scenes in TITANIC to any modern audience. The Gen x-ers who saw this version were absolutely in awe of how spectacular this REAL Technicolor version is. Lana is amazingly beautiful and Fernando is his virile Latin he man best. The Waltz in the last reel is exquisite. The only irritating bit is the same 'mid-west-Yanks-in-Europe' antics that annoy in LOVELY TO LOOK AT made the same year. However, who really cares when THE MERRY WIDOW is visually astonishing and musically delicious. What a year it was at MGM in 1952! And this much guarded and treasured proper Hollywood 3 strip Technicolor print is staying here, folks! If you wanna see it you have to come visit."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #108043 in DVD
• Brand: Classicline
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, Full Screen, NTSC, Import
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Portuguese
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 1952 minutes

Customer Reviews

One of MGM'S finest Musicals
MGM released this film in 1952, I had just turned 13, and other than the Merry Widow Waltz, had no knowledge of the Operetta, but I was very familiar with the Beautiful Lana Turner, so I went to see the film, and what a feast for the eye and ear it was, Ms. Turner never looked lovlier, Lamas, who I had never heard of before, was dashing, handsome, and did justice to his part in the film, but make no mistake, this is a big budget LANA TURNER MOVIE, with the most beautiful costumes (tastful as well, many times movie costumes are overdone, not here) MGM and it's vast resources could make, as were the sets, to borrow a line from the film "this room is like a birthday cake" indeed, the palace is fairytale gorgeous, if you are familiar with the Operetta, and don't take well to adaptations, this film is not for you, it closely follows the main story line, but doesn't have any of the sub plots found in the original, but viewed on it's own merits, this is a stunning fantasy that will have you enchanted for hours, if not days after viewing this DVD, HOWEVER, I rated the movie 5 stars because it deserves every one of them and more, it is so good it even overcomes the dreadful DVD, which is nothing more than a direct copy of an off the shelf vhs tape, that could be purchased at any vidio store a while back, does anybody still make or sell prerecorded vhs tapes today?, it is my sincerest hope that some day (soon please) the MGM copyright holder (Sony, you listening) will go to the film, digitize it, and put out the stunning DVD, it deserves, not this really crappy copy of a vhs tape

THE MERRY WIDOW
IT IS A WONDERFUL MOVIE, VERY LUSH WITH MUSIC, COSTUMES AND LANA TURNER WAS NEVER MORE BEAUTIFUL.