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The Ruling Class [DVD]

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Peter O'Toole (Actor), Harry Andrews (Actor), Peter Medak (Director) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Peter O'Toole, Harry Andrews, Arthur Lowe, Alastair Sim, Coral Browne
  • Directors: Peter Medak
  • Producers: Jules Buck, Jack Hawkins
  • Format: PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Optimum Home Releasing
  • DVD Release Date: 2 Feb. 2009
  • Run Time: 154 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001KWHOJM
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 32,725 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Controversial black comedy following the eccentric life and times of the 14th Earl of Gurney (Peter O'Toole), an aristocrat who veers between thinking he is Jesus Christ and Jack the Ripper. His family attempt to engineer a new heir to the family fortune, but the Earl has no intentions of going quietly into a nursing home. Also stars Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe and other luminaries of British film.

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3.0 out of 5 starsBAD REVIEWS DON'T RELATE TO THIS RELEASE
By B. Nicholson on 9 Jan. 2009
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
The bad reviews on this page relate to the Momentum release and NOT the Criterion Release (Black cover with close-up of O'Toole). Unfortunately the bad reviews AND good reviews of certain films relate to the quality of the image and sound of a particular DVD release, whereas the reviews seem to get placed on ANY issue of a film. Multiple editions of films taken from different sources create this problem. The Criterion disc is the definitive full length film,although it is Region 1.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Original & Genuine Definitive Version.
By Barry Mac on 12 Mar. 2013
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
The only fully digitally-restored & remastered, completely uncut, 100% untouched, totally unedited version of this film on DVD is the "Criterion Collection" issue. This is the full 154 minute version, whose remastering/reissue was supervised personally by the Director. It has Peter O'Toole on the front cover wearing a Bowler Hat; it has the words "The Criterion Collection" at the top right and "The Ruling Class" in Edwardian Script Font along the bottom. Any and all other versions of this film should be avoided like the proverbial plague - for these are 3rd rate shoddy, cut, edited, chopped and mutilated transfers, the creators of which should face criminal proceedings...

"The Ruling Class" is Peter O'Toole's own favourite amongst his 5-Star acting career. It is a timeless masterpiece which ostensibly is a lampoon of the British Class System - but whose sub-texts are mind-blowingly brilliant. Monty Python meets Harold Pinter & Samuel Beckett...

Get this masterpiece at all costs.. but make absolutely sure that it's the "Criterion Collection" digitally restored/remastered DVD as outlined.
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1.0 out of 5 starsThe Ruling Class (cat. no. MPo55D)
By Jo on 9 Feb. 2004
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
Beware this edition of The Ruling Class, the classic crazy 1972 film. For starters the cover doesn't even have the correct title - it just says "Ruling Class". On watching, you'll find it's not widescreen, which it should be. And worst of all there are 25 minutes of footage missing from the film, making a complete mockery of it. I'm now off to try and exchange this for a proper edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars"The Ruling Class" from The Criterion Collection
By Diotima on 6 Aug. 2014
Format: DVD
I bought The Criterion Collection's © 2001 release of "The Ruling Class" from Amazon US in 2011. I trawled through the reviews on Amazon US and Amazon UK before making a decision. The following notes were put together from those reviews:

* "The UK version is edited and has poor picture and sound."

* "The DVD master is brilliant, sharp and without any artifacting, and as one expects from Criterion, in the correct aspect ratio."

* "New 16 x 9 widescreen digital transfer, supervised by director Peter Medek and restored to the original full-length version." (Somebody cribbed this from the DVD case.)

I was a little wary of buying this Criterion DVD because - as advised by Wikipedia - "Criterion Collection DVD releases are a mixture of NTSC-standard Region 0 (region free) and Region 1 DVDs. Criterion Collection Blu-ray Discs are Region A." But I was pleased to find that this DVD plays on my Sony Blu-ray player and Sony HDTV in Australia. Therefore this NTSC Region 0 DVD will also play using Region 2 equipment in Europe.

The Criterion Collection's DVD has a run time of 154 minutes in NTSC: if it were converted to PAL it would have a run time of only 148 minutes (because PAL runs about 4% faster than NTSC). Therefore, any Region 2 PAL release can not have a run time of more than 148 minutes and if it is less then the film has been cut.

Finally, although Criterion's DVD is described as being a "digital transfer" this does not necessarily mean that the film has been fully "restored". Rather, it appears to me that it has been "remastered" - that is, newly copied from an old print, the original negative or perhaps an intermediate positive. There are occasional small white (and sometimes black) flecks on the screen but no scratches.Read more ›
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1.0 out of 5 starsThe Ruling Class
By Michael A Williamson on 1 Feb. 2006
Format: DVD
I agree with the previous reviewer, this DVD is a travesty of one of the funniest films ever made.
Most of the cuts are not critical to the plot development - they just cut some of the funniest scenes in the movie.
If my memory serves me well, the following scenes have been removed:
1. The marquee scene after the wedding
2. The scene in the mental asylum where Peter O'Toole is placed in a room with a bunch of violent psycopaths
3. The scene with the fox urinating after outwitting the hunt
4. William Mervyn's hillarious line after finding his murdered wife's body
And worst of all:
5. The duel between Michael Bryant and Peter O'Toole where the psychiatrist comes to realise that the man he thought he had cured is, in fact, a murderer. This makes the scene near the end of the film where Michael Bryant ends up in his own institution unintelligible.
This movie was all but destroyed on its release by distributors who objected to its length. With DVDs like this nobody is ever going to realise just how good it was. Pete O'Toole is quoted as saying it was the best film he ever made but nobody would ever know from this cut.
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5.0 out of 5 starsRunning time - 2h 34m 03s
By Bibliophile on 30 April 2009
Format: DVD
This new Optimum release is not a butchered version - it is the original and has full running time (at least mine does).

This is packed with actors giving some of their best performances, and saying that of people like Alastair Sim and Arthur Lowe gives you an idea of the quality on display.

The film is dominated by the genius of Peter O'Toole in an Oscar-nominated role (his company, Keep Films, also produced). He even gets to strut his stuff as a song and dance man.

If you are a fan of top-flight British character acting, and eccentric black humour, this is highly recommended.
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4.0 out of 5 starsClassic Peter O'Toole and a nice cameo role for Arthur Lowe

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This concerns the Criterion Collection edition of the film.

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Published 16 months ago by clady
1.0 out of 5 starsWrong Language

This film states that it is in English, Spanish. What this really means is that the first part is in English and the second part is in Spanish. What is the point of that!

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