Firstly the movie is a PARAMOUNT release, not 20TH CENTURY FOX. Secondly, the only available DVD at present is a budget priced copy from Sterling Entertainment Group. I hope it gets a release on Paramount DVD with great extras and lovely packaging. Perhaps David Ladd, Siobhan Taylor, Theodore Bikel and Monique Ahrens could get together for a Q&A and add commentary.
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Wow, thank you very much for your input. Any trivia relating to this film and the actors is greatly appreciated. I do wish that whichever film studio that produced this film would get off of their rear end, and give it the much needed polishing (ie DVD release) that it rightly deserves.
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This film version is good, but if you've read the original book you have to see the Japanese animated movie version released in 1997. It sticks very close to the author's plot line and the animation is beyond compare. In fact everything about the movie is 1st rate. The only problem is, it's difficult to acquire(at least as of this writing).
shareI haven't seen the 1997 animated movie. Another animated Japanese production of the story is even harder to get. It's a 52 episode TV series from 1975. That would run to a long overall running time so I wonder if they covered the original story in quite some detail in that series.
shareThis version of A Dog of Flanders was originally a 20th Century-Fox CinemaScope picture, but for some reason, Fox have let the home video rights to it lapse and it has therefore been released on both video and DVD in a truncated pan and scan version by other video companies, such as Paramount. This is why it's missing the famous "Twentieth Century-Fox Presents a CinemaScope Picture" fanfare and opening title on the beginning. It badly needs remastering for a widescreen DVD release, as you miss so much of the beauty of the film when you can only see half the image at any one time...with the exception of the opening credits at the beginning, which are shown anamorphically squeezed...watch for the wagon with the eliptical wheels going by as the credits finish.
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