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Is this on DVD yet?

posted 18 years ago by Kris629
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This is a great Christmas movie I would love to be able to buy it.

I would LOVE to have this on DVD, tho my video is all right, not great. The story is a bit schmaltzy and little Ricky S. overacts out the whazoo, but it's still a fun film. My favorite part is when Havisham and Ceddy are travelling to His Lordship's, and the castle is seen for the first time past the trees. Belvoir Castle is magnificent and that view, with the majestic music, makes for a real "WOW" scene, don't you think?

[–] tondeaoncoast 17 years ago

I agree that this movie should be on DVD. I don't understand why the Freddy Bartholomew version -- so much older -- is and this version is not. Who decides these things? Whoever it is, they should sit up and take notice!

[–] paul-455 17 years ago

Although it still doesn't seem to have been released anywhere for sale on DVD, I wonder whether this might be about to change? The (UK) "Mail on Sunday" newspaper is giving it away free with the paper on Sunday 3rd December. It seems unlikely that they would go to the trouble of mastering a DVD just for a "giveaway" unless there were also some commercial plans for it...

The 1972 "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" received its first UK commercial release after having been given away with a Sunday paper, so there are at least some grounds for optimism.

[–] jetlag31 16 years ago

It's out on DVD for region 4.

http://www.sanity.com.au/product/product.asp?sku=2011069

Note that this is a very barebones version. No extras. Not even a trailer. Plus there are signs partway through the movie that it was taken off an imperfect print. (At one point tattered flecks of what appear to be film momentarily appear in the upper right of the screen.)

Still, such defects do not detract from the movie itself or its watchability.