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  The
Marlon Brando Collection
The
Marlon Brando Collection now available on DVD!!
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Our Review of The Marlon Brando Collection:
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are some actors that are so good they just stand head and tails above the rest.
Marlon Brando is one of those actors.
Yes, most of his great performances were before 1981 beginning with his first
movie The Men in 1950. However, it took him only one year to make a
name for himself in his classic role as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named
Desire. He had a long career and was able to use his skills in various
roles to the pleasure of audiences world-wide.
Warner Brothers has put together a good set of five movies that span Brando's
career in thier DVD box set, The Marlon Brando Collection. No, the set
does not include Streetcar, nor does it include his two Oscar winning
roles in On The Waterfront and The Godfather. However, it does
include a five good movies with great acting by Brando that span his illustrious
career. The set includes Julius Caesar, The Formula,
Reflections in a Golden Eye, The Teahouse of The August Moon and
Mutiny on the Bounty.
Julius Caesar was one of the big movies early in Brando's career (1953).
It gained the young actor his third Best Actor Oscar nomination in as many
years. The move show's Brando's raw skill as an actor portraying a character
(Mark Anthony) from ancient Egypt. The disk also includes an introduction
by Robert Osborne and a nice featurette entitled "The Rise of Two Legends."
The DVD set provides you with some of his later works, such as The Formula
(1980). There is some phenomenal acting by Brando opposite George C. Scott
in a not so phenomenal movie about the high stakes oil business and the law.
Special features include commentaries and a Marlon Brando trailer gallery.
For a glimpse of some romantic magic between two masters of the screen - Marlon
Brando and Elizabeth Taylor, Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) was a
nice add to this collection of movies showing the romantic side of Brando, but
also showing the drama in the role he plays as an officer. There is also a cool
behind-the-scenes footage special feature on this disk.
Brando may have been known for his serious acting, but he did let his hair down,
so to speak, every now and then. In 1956's Teahouse of the August Moon,
he show his lighter side in this comedy that takes place in post WWII Japan. The
disk also contains a special featurette entitled "Operation Teahouse."
The fifth and final disk of this set fits in perfectly with the other four.
It is the classic epic adventure Mutiny on the Bounty (1962).
Brando plays Fletcher Christian to the tee in this rendition of the original
story and should have been at least given another Oscar nomination for this
role. [The movie did receive seven nominations from the Oscar committee, but did
not bring home any awards.] It was a great movie, and the two disk special
edition in this box set includes numerous special features which are a must see.
This was one DVD set that is definitely worth its while.
Video Clips from The Marlon Brando Collection
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