Astaire & Rogers Collection Volume 1 (Flying Down to Rio, The Gay Divorcee, Roberta, Top Hat, Follow the Fleet) [VHS]

Astaire & Rogers Collection Volume 1 (Flying Down to Rio, The Gay Divorcee, Roberta, Top Hat, Follow the Fleet) [VHS]
by Mark Sandrich, Thornton Freeland, William A. Seiter

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Actor: Dolores del Rio, Fred Astaire, Gene Raymond, Ginger Rogers, Irene Dunne
Director: Mark Sandrich, Thornton Freeland, William A. Seiter
Writer: Aladar Laszlo
Writer: Alice Duer Miller
Writer: Allan Scott
Writer: Anne Caldwell
Writer: Cyril Hume
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); Portuguese (Original Language); Russian (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Box set, NTSC
Release Date: 2000-09-05
Audience Rating: Unrated
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Studio: Warner Home Video

VHS Movie Reviews of Astaire & Rogers Collection Volume 1 (Flying Down to Rio, The Gay Divorcee, Roberta, Top Hat, Follow the Fleet) [VHS]

Movie Review: Crime it's not available on DVD!!!
Summary: 5 Stars

With all the cr@# they release on DVD these days it's a crime not to have these magnificent movies restored PROPERLY and released on DVD. Both collections are outstanding. Who could ever tire of this glamorous and talented pair. PLEASE! I beg for both sets to be released on DVD and restored with the respect these films deserve.

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Summary of Astaire & Rogers Collection Volume 1 (Flying Down to Rio, The Gay Divorcee, Roberta, Top Hat, Follow the Fleet) [VHS]

This five-tape set includes Flying Down to Rio, The Gay Divorcee, Roberta, Top Hat, and Follow the Fleet.

Fans of classic movie musicals will be in heaven with two five-video sets of the films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the quintessential dancing duo. Fred and Ginger weren't always stars--the former Broadway hoofer and studio chorus girl were cast as the second-tier "comic" couple in three of their early films (Flying Down to Rio, Roberta, Follow the Fleet), and the pace drags whenever they're not on the screen. The high points of the first set are The Gay Divorcee, which proved that the pair could carry a film, and Top Hat, generally considered their definitive movie. All the films mix light romantic comedy (usually centered around mistaken identities and ending, inevitably, in blissful wedding promises) with elegant dinner wear and surreal sets intended to transport '30s audiences away from the Depression to such locales as Rio, Paris, and Venice. But of course the real reason to watch these films is the sensational dancing set to great songs by the likes of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and Jerome Kern, numbers that are not merely entertaining but also innovative for their time in that they reveal character and advance the plot. The quintessential romantic duet "Night and Day," the grand ensemble number "The Continental," the definitive tuxedo setting "Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails," the famously feathery "Cheek to Cheek," and the epic show-within-a-show "Let's Face the Music and Dance" are some of the best musical moments ever set to celluloid. --David Horiuchi

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Astaire & Rogers Collection Volume 1 (Flying Down to Rio, The Gay Divorcee, Roberta, Top Hat, Follow the Fleet) [VHS]
Warner Home Video; Release date: 2000-09-05; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $44.99
Price in other shops: ~~$69.98~~

Astaire & Rogers (3 Tape Gift Set/ RKO Orig Editions): Top Hat, Shall We Dance, Swing Time
Turner Home Entertainment; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $7.98

Astaire & Rogers Collection Volume 2 (Swing Time, Shall We Dance, Carefree, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, The Barkleys of Broadway) [VHS]
Warner Home Video; Release date: 2000-09-05; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $44.00
Price in other shops: ~~$74.98~~

Astaire & Rogers Top Hat [VHS]
Turner Home Entertainment/RKO; Release date: 1999-05-04; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $5.99
Price in other shops: ~~$14.98~~

Swing Time [VHS]
Turner Home Ent; Release date: 1999-05-04; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $3.93
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Story of Vernon and Irene Castle [VHS]
Turner Home Ent; Release date: 1999-05-04; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $18.05

Shall We Dance [VHS]
Turner Home Ent; Release date: 1996-11-05; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $15.19
Price in other shops: ~~$19.98~~

Roberta [VHS]
MGM (Video & DVD); Release date: 1992-12-31; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $3.01
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The Gay Divorcee
Turner Home Entertainment (RKO Collection); Turner Home Entertainment; Published: 1934; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $11.43

Follow the Fleet [VHS]
Turner Home Ent; Release date: 1999-05-04; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $6.65
Price in other shops: ~~$14.98~~