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The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection stars Basil Rathbone as the legendary Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as the venerable Dr. John H. Watson. Comprised of all 14 films on 5 discs in high definition.
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45 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
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Classic Holmes on Blu-Ray -- Be Sure to Support It!,
This review is from: Sherlock Holmes: Complete Collection [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
THE SHERLOCK HOLMES COLLECTION (MPI): HD enthusiasts with a passion for the Golden Age need to do themselves a favor next week by picking up MPI's Blu-Ray box-set of the "Sherlock Holmes Collection," which not only will encourage the release of more titles like it but also infuse your collection with terrific HD presentations of the 14 vintage Holmes mysteries starring Basil Rathbone as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective and Nigel Bruce as his faithful sidekick Dr. Watson.
The five-disc BD set offers the duo's first two series entries - "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and the outstanding "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" - which were produced at Fox as Grade-A productions in 1939, as well as the following 12 pictures Rathbone and Bruce starred in for Universal Pictures beginning in 1942. Universal's entries differed from the Fox films in a number of ways: the studio produced the films on a lower (though not entirely bargain-basement) budget and, most notably, initially shifted the stories away from Victorian era England to the then-present day of the 1940s. This enabled the producers to offer more "contemporary" WWII-era stories (most evidently seen in "Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror," "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon," and "Sherlock Holmes in Washington"), designed to appeal to populist sentiment of the time with anti-Nazi themes permeating the respective mysteries. Additional entries - "Sherlock Holmes Faces Death," "The Spider Woman," "The Scarlet Claw," "The Pearl of Death," "The House of Fear," "The Woman in Green," "Pursuit to Algiers," "Terror by Night" and "Dressed to Kill" - lessened the war-time rhetoric, with the latter entries also de-emphasizing the modern trappings of the era in favor of a tone more in keeping with the material's literary roots. Some of the pictures are more successful than others (and some are a far cry from Conan Doyle's stories), but with Rathbone and Bruce onboard, every one of them is at least entertaining and MPI's Blu-Ray set is just tremendous. Universal's 12 entries were painstakingly restored by the UCLA Archive over a span of nearly ten years; despite working often with less-than-stellar materials, the Archive's efforts were dazzling, particularly considering the shambles some of the films were in (several had entered into the public domain after Universal sold them all in the `50s, resulting in decades of showings that were generations removed from the original negatives). The 1080p AVC encoded transfers look like real film, with grain prevailing throughout, which is a necessity given the age and condition of the elements (and make no mistake - print damage and numerous other issues are occasionally evident throughout). When screened on larger sets, there's no question viewers will see an appreciable gain in detail over their prior HD editions. Informative extras are carried over from MPI's prior DVD releases of the pictures, including a half-dozen commentary tracks, an interview with UCLA preservationist Robert Gitt, a number of trailers, a photo gallery and several theatrical trailers. This is a marvelous release and one that comes highly recommended for all Sherlock Holmes fans and Golden Age enthusiasts, and hopefully the sign of more classics to come in HD.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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Worth the Blu-Ray price, even if you own the DVD set,
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This review is from: Sherlock Holmes: Complete Collection [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
The original MPI DVD restoration was certainly a stunning collection. After a quick comparison of MPI's DVDs
played on a Blu-ray player and this new Blu-ray set , there is a noticeable improvement with this new release. The film lines and dust spots are there throughout, but the picture itself is sharper and the vintage feel just adds to the enjoyment and appeal of these classics. An earlier review pointed out that these were not shot on the best equipment in their day, and I will say that compared to the Blu-ray of say Casablanca, the image quality of this collection isn't as rich. But it's quite close and in my opinion, well worth the purchase.
36 of 45 people found the following review helpful:
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I looked very much forward to this collection on blu-ray and was extremely disappointed in it's quality. I own the four discs box sets on DVD and the first two films on individual DVDs. They are wonderfully restored but the Blu-rays appear to have been created using a far less quality source video. You would not think this would be the case given that MPI put out all the discs, DVD & Blu-ray. The Blu-rays do appear sharper and more detailed but at the same time they contain far more image dirt and hard cuts as well as burns and splices in the source film. I doubled checked 12 of these just in the first three films and NONE appear in the DVD versions. The DVD versions are smooth from scene to scene while the blu-rays will experience glitches that are from rough spots in the original film stock. For example on ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES when the 20th Century Fox intro begins to play, the sound pops and cracks on the blu-ray while it is smooth on the DVD version. A few minutes later when the scene is changing to the courtroom as it fades from a entry written by Sherlock Holmes, the image glitches as it transitions to the next scene. Again it is very smooth on the DVD version. In Voice Of Terror in the last 10 minutes of the film there is a series of hard glitches and film burns & rough splices that appear only on the blu-ray version they do not appear on the DVD version.
The blu-ray reveal a sharper image but also reveal serious flaws that to me make the DVDs I own, much easier to view. Also the blu-ray versions have an additional 20 or so lines of image cropped off of each side. There is clearly more side image on the 4:3 DVD versions. It is very noticable in side by side viewing on identical monitors. I know I am bucking what the other reviewers have said, but if they would do a side by side comparisions, they would see that what I am indicating is true. I only own the DVD 4 disc box sets, and it is possible that the inferior image used for the blu-rays was also used for the full DVD collection box sets. I would not recommend buying the blu-ray if the already the DVD sets orignally released.
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