- Actors: Louis Calhern, John Ericson, Edmund Purdom, Edmund Gwenn
- Format: Colour, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language English
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.77:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: G (General Audience) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Warner Archives
- DVD Release Date: 11 Oct 2011
- Run Time: 107 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B005DYMV5U
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 29,769 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
An arrogant and haughty young Prince (Edmund Purdom, flat as ever) is sent to a university at Heidelberg in the hopes that living with the common people, he will become more human. At the inn where he is staying as a student, he falls in love with a barmaid (Ann Blyth) even though he is betrothed to a Princess (Betta St. John). This musty old operetta by Sigmund Romberg has been dusted off and gussied up in CinemaScope, stereophonic sound and Ansco color but it still creaks. While it might have worked in the 1930s with the likes of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, was there still a market for this in 1954? Blyth is in fine voice but Purdom is dubbed by Mario Lanza. Lanza had been cast in the part and recorded his songs before leaving MGM in a dispute and since they had the rights to the vocal tracks, MGM simply recast the part using Lanza's vocals. The film is rather saccharine though the ending is effectively bittersweet. Musically, it's a crashing bore with all those Romberg songs about drinking beer but the loveliest song in the movie, Beloved, isn't even written by Romberg but was written especially for the film by Paul Francis Webster and Nicholas Brodszky. Directed by Richard Thorpe. With Louis Calhern, Edmund Gwenn, John Ericson, Evelyn Varden, John Williams, S.Z. "Cuddles" Sakall, John Hoyt, Richard Anderson and John Qualen.
The region one Warners Archive MOD DVD is a vivid transfer in stereophonic sound and in its proper CinemaScope (2.35) ratio.
The region one Warners Archive MOD DVD is a vivid transfer in stereophonic sound and in its proper CinemaScope (2.35) ratio.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
First of all, I must confess I have not bought this "Warner Bros" edition of this film. I have an older DVD version and I saw the film on it's original release in 1954 . . . (A mere child at the time). However, it is a lovely story with terrific songs.
Edmond Purdom was never my all time favourite actor, but does a great job here miming to the voice of Mario Lanza.
I was really hoping for a prestine version of this film for my collection.
Unfortunately, judging by other reviews the quality is poor. I had already ordered a couple of "Warner Bros Archive" DVDs and can confirm they too were pretty ropey.
The first one was "Northwest Passage" a film I wanted to own for a long time. (Still watchable though)!
The purpose of this review however, is to question the high prices being charged for old films like these? Apparently they are made in small batches, or made to order. I can see the economics, but is this going to be the future for DVDs?
These are expensive and made to order copies of questionable quality?
Perhaps these same films will be available again in a few years time, but in Blu-Ray Format and we will be buying them all over again. Is that the plan? What is happening . . . ?
And whilst I'm on my soapbox, It is a bit misleading to use the name "Warner Bros Archives". Not much here is from the former Warner Bros. vaults.
I hope others agree that it would be acceptable to pay extra for a restored film whether made to order or not, but a poor copy?. . . NO!!
(In my case thrice NO).
Edmond Purdom was never my all time favourite actor, but does a great job here miming to the voice of Mario Lanza.
I was really hoping for a prestine version of this film for my collection.
Unfortunately, judging by other reviews the quality is poor. I had already ordered a couple of "Warner Bros Archive" DVDs and can confirm they too were pretty ropey.
The first one was "Northwest Passage" a film I wanted to own for a long time. (Still watchable though)!
The purpose of this review however, is to question the high prices being charged for old films like these? Apparently they are made in small batches, or made to order. I can see the economics, but is this going to be the future for DVDs?
These are expensive and made to order copies of questionable quality?
Perhaps these same films will be available again in a few years time, but in Blu-Ray Format and we will be buying them all over again. Is that the plan? What is happening . . . ?
And whilst I'm on my soapbox, It is a bit misleading to use the name "Warner Bros Archives". Not much here is from the former Warner Bros. vaults.
I hope others agree that it would be acceptable to pay extra for a restored film whether made to order or not, but a poor copy?. . . NO!!
(In my case thrice NO).
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61 of 62 people found the following review helpful
Student Prince
29 April 2008
The quality of the movie, The Student Prince is legendary, beyond criticism. The quality of this product however, leaves a lot to be desired. The color is faded and changes variably throughout. The color bleeds from the edges and the images are fuzzy. You feel like trying to keep focusing the projector, but to no avail. The sound is clear, and the songs sound pretty much as they should, but the film is re-recorded with an awful automatic volume control. All sounds have the same intensity. On silent passages, my sub woofer would rumble, and there were hisses and scratches. Soft sounds were made louder. Rustling of clothing sounds like sandpaper. After low volume sections, the start of dialogue is loud until the AVC cuts in to control it. Why couldn't they just re-record the sound track as it was? Given the fact that this movie has not been available on DVD until now, it is better to have this in your collection than not to have the Student Prince at all, but be warned. It is more like a second or third generation VHS recording than a DVD. Acceptable but cruddy.
45 of 48 people found the following review helpful
Cheap, out of focus, not synchronized
31 July 2009
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This was advertised as as new. It's new in that it is a newly made cheap, poor copy from Korea. Korea makes many good things, but these extremely poor DVDs are not the good things. There's a company in Brazil who buys the copyright and then makes excellent copy DVDs of grand old movies. I have an old VHS of this movie that is demonstably better than this cheap, tawdry, bogus imitation. It was badly out of vocus, movements were choppy and out of synch, and the audio was fuzzy and chopped.
It is an insult to the movie business and the artists to put out this cheap crap and call it "new." It is patently dishonest -- not merely disingenous -- to advertise this as new.
Let's all bug Turner to show this movie on TCM where a better copy may be downloaded that is far better in quality than these pirated excrement.
But it WAS cheap. Caveat emptor!
It is an insult to the movie business and the artists to put out this cheap crap and call it "new." It is patently dishonest -- not merely disingenous -- to advertise this as new.
Let's all bug Turner to show this movie on TCM where a better copy may be downloaded that is far better in quality than these pirated excrement.
But it WAS cheap. Caveat emptor!
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Below average
5 Oct 2009
Amazon Verified Purchase
The DVD was exactly as I remember the movie from the 50's. Delivery was excellent and price was reasonable. However, the quality of the movie was below that to which I have become accustomed. Additionally the movie track, both video and audio, did skip on three or four different occasions, for several seconds, but did correct itself and continue playing after each instance.
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