The Cecil B. DeMille Collection (1939)

The Cecil B. DeMille Collection

He is the King of Epic Classic Movies. Claudette Colbert, Loretta Young & Barbara Stanwyck shine in this Collection. It is a must see. Enjoy July 13, 2008

All I want is Cleopatra!

My shopping cart contains the Elizabeth Taylor version of Cleopatra, priced at $14.99. I wanted to add the Claudette Colbert version at a similar price. Unfortunately, the only DVD available is this damned ridiculously overpriced collection which would force me to buy four movies I don't want to get the one that I do. Well, I ain't gonna do it! Ever! May 3, 2008

Cleopatra is Masterpiece - others in collection have not aged well

Mainly bought this collection because of Cleopatra - which is a 5 star masterpiece - and deserves a review on its own - the other movies all share the common issues related to their release date:
1. They are black&white + not wide format
2. There is so much dialogue and not enough action
3. All filming is done in studios & you can tell

All in all - if you love Cleopatra and want to check out more movies from that era - this is a good choice March 31, 2008

Decent Boxed Set

These movies are good,but they don`t really represent the best of DeMilles work.Films like The Ten Commandments (1923)and the remake in 1956,The King of Kings (1928)Samson and Delilah(1949)and The greatest Show on Earth(1950)are Demilles best in my opinion.Still these movies contain the elements that make his movies fun to watch;such as lavish costumes,action,battle scenes and plenty of drama.I would recommend this set to any Demille fan. September 4, 2007

Epics on an Epic Scale

The movie that made me want to buy this collection was "Cleopatra" with Claudette Colbert as a kind of "flapper queen of Egypt" which to me has always been a great hoot. While these are not the sorts of movies I would use to illustrate a particular historical epoch due to their accuracy, I would show them if I wanted to entertain someone. The Crusades is a good example with its characterization of a fictional king "Michael of Russia" when Russia as a state did not even exist.

De Mille was a larger than life figure and he was drawn to showing larger than life figures Colbert plays both Cleopatra and Nero's amoral wife covorting in mikl baths with passers by in "Sign of the Cross." The Crusades, while not historically accurate has hosts of memorable scenes. Union Pacific features Barbara Stanwyck in an adventerous role.

This is an excellent collection of De Mille's films and I am looking forward to others being released on DVD in the future August 18, 2007

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