This is the second of two boxed sets celebrating the one hundredth birthday of Bette Davis. The other one is from Warner Home Video, and since Bette Davis is often called “the fifth Warner Brother”, obviously Warner’s has a powerful larger library of films from which to decide. My main complaint with this location is not that the films are not salubrious, but that two of the films – “Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte” and “All About Eve” have already been released by Fox under the Studio Classics notice. That leaves only three films unique to DVD in this residence.

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As for the three films that are unusual to DVD, chances are you may have never even heard of them, considerable less seen them. The quandary is that Fox owns the rights, won’t let anyone else such as Turner Classic Movies televise them, and would rather televise “Wall Street” ten times a month on the Fox Movie Channel rather than assign these older splendid films on at all.

All About Eve (1950) – This film brought Davis’ career wait on from the brink and dwelling up a very productive second act in her career. Margo (Bette Davis) plays an horrified aging star who helps a very poisonous young ingenue, Eve, (Anne Baxter) earn started. As Margo, Davis throws some of the best tantrums of her career. Unprejudiced when you contemplate there is nobody more snide than Anne Baxter’s Eve Harrington, along comes George Sander’s Addison DeWitt and kicks her to the curb in that category.

The special features are:

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Audio Commentaries –

1. Celeste Holm – Star; Joseph L. Mankiewicz – Director; Ken Geist – Author/Film Biographer; Christopher Mankiewicz – Director’s Son

2. Sam Staggs – Author/Film Historian

Isolated Audio Track – Musical Find

Disc 2: ALL ABOUT EVE – Supplemental Material

Additional Release Material:

Additional Footage – “MovieTone News: 1951 Academy Awards Honor Best Film Achievements, 1951 Hollywood Attends Gala Premiere of “All About Eve,” Holiday Magazine Awards, Glimpse Magazine Awards”

Behind the Scenes –

1. “AMC Backstory: ALL ABOUT EVE”

Comparisons – Restoration Comparison

Documentaries –

1. “Joseph L. Mankiewicz: A Personal Swagger”

2. “The Steady Eve”

Featurettes –

1. “Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz”

2. “The Secret of Sarah Siddons”

Phone Call From a Stranger (1952) – This is an uncommon choose for a boxed state about Bette Davis, since she has practically a cameo role here. Instead the lead role goes to Davis’ husband at the time, Gary Merrill. The film is about four strangers on a plane that is destined to rupture. Only one survives (Gary Merrill) . After the rupture, he goes to contact the families of the three who did not survive the shatter and finds three very different groups of people with different problems. You hardly ever seek this one on TV, and it is very righteous so that is too poor. Fair don’t question ample doses of Davis in this one.

The Queen (1955) – This is Davis’ second film in which she plays Queen Elizabeth I of England. Personally, I understanding 1939’s “Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex” was better, but it is hard to compare the two since this film takes situation 15 years earlier in history than “Private Lives” and has Davis essentially playing Elizabeth at the age – 47 – that Davis actually is. Here Richard Todd plays Sir Walter Raleigh, who, like Essex in the earlier film, is a younger man who trades on Elizabeth’s worship for him to fetch some personal glory. Richard Todd plays Raleigh effectively, but there is unprejudiced no topping the charisma of Flynn in the earlier movie. Special features:

Behind the Scenes – A “Making Of” featurette

Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte (1964) – Meant to be a kind of sequel to “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? “, this film is missing the dynamic of those dueling actresses, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. Instead we have the perennial sweet thing of the golden age of Hollywood, Olivia de Havilland, playing opposite to Bette Davis. As a teenager Charlotte Hollis (Bette Davis) was presumed guilty of killing her married lover. Her wealthy father got her out of it, but Charlotte has lived as a recluse ever since and is facing eviction from the family plantation. Her cousin Miriam Deering (Olivia de Havilland) comes to visit honest as Charlotte seems to be going over the edge with visions of her murdered lover from 37 years before.

Special features:

Behind the Scenes – “Hush…Hush, Sweet Joan: The Making of CHARLOTTE”

Featurettes –

1. “Bruce Dern Remembers”

2. “Wizard Work” (Vintage Featurette)

The Nanny (1965) – Another one you don’t ogle very often anywhere. In fact it’s been years since I’ve seen it and I can’t even remember where. Ten year conventional Joey has a recent nanny, Bette Davis. I don’t assume she even had a name in this one, objective “the nanny”. Nobody believes worried Joey when he claims that the nanny is substandard and wants to demolish him – she’s such a sweet conventional lady. You know where this one is probably going from the launch, but it’s moving to gaze it play out. However, there is some very disturbing stuff in this one, so stamp that it might be difficult to see. It takes true advantage of the fact that Davis could play anything from the sweetest to the most putrid person in the world, and turn on a dime at either demolish of the scale.

All of the films have trailers and a stills gallery as extras. I am rating this location as follows:

Value – 3 stars due to the two double-dips.

Quality – 5 stars since the films are all very safe.

Result: 4 stars

“All About Eve” & “Hush…Hush Sweet Charlotte” are re-issued and re-packaged with novel extras in this resplendent area. Unusual to DVD are “The Virgin Queen”, “The Nanny”, and “Phone Call From a Stranger”. All are encased in their bear individual slim-cases with art work. For Davis fans, this edition is completely worth it. A bravura array of Davis performances is featured here. And the performances couldn’t be more different: a Broadway star, a terrorized Southern recluse, a Queen of England, a British nanny, and the slight but pivotal role of a wife of a plane smash victim. The prints are ravishing and the extras are great including a 4-page booklet with added info on each film. As with all these sets, it objective leaves you wanting more. However, this one was worth waiting for. Delight In.
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