Product: The Court Jester [VHS] (1956)
Rating: 3.0
Remember the times ...
... when they'd cut off frames left and right to make Cinemascope movies 'suitable' for tv screens? It was called formatting to full screen. Now we're being sold widescreen tv's to get the full picture in all its splendor. So far, so good. Only now they're cutting full screen pictures at top and bottom to sell them to us as 'widescreen versions'. Now, this is one of my favorite movies of all times, I can't praise it enough (read all the other reviews ...). But the gall of paramount to sell this as widescreen and at that price (!) is unheard of. If I'd known what I'd get I would have stuck to my excelent VHS copy. Ten stars for the film, but I have to deduct seven for the impertinence of this [...]