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Starring: Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff, Edward Arnold, Ralf Harolde $24.99 Features:
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Editorial Review:
Smart, seductive and undeniably funny, Mae West is one of cinema's most enduring comedy legends. Now this larger-than-life buxom beauty charms fans all over again in an amazing 5-movie collection of some of her most wildly popular films. Revel in Mae's breakout performance in Night After Night; join her as a bewitching lion (and man) tamer in I'm No Angel; lasso up some fun with the wealthy and the wicked in the rags-to-riches tale of Goin' To Town; delight in a comic country romance in Go West Young Man; and see how wild the West can really get in My Little Chickadee. It's a must-own salute to one of Hollywood's most outrageous and hilarious leading ladies.
The triumph of personality is beautifully demonstrated in Mae West: The Glamour Collection, a bundle of five comedies featuring the never duplicated (if often imitated) Ms. West. Never altering her insouciant, sexed-up persona, Mae West sashays through these films like a tour guide in a well-lit bordello, cheerfully cracking herself up with a series of perfectly-timed one-liners. Since she wrote her own material, there was no separation between the lady (what a feeble word) and her scandalous dialogue.
If you doubt this, check out Night After Night, her film debut. The first half of the picture is an unremarkable gangster comedy: George Raft in his usual inert form, Constance Cummings the good girl, capable comic support from Roscoe Karns and Alison Skipworth. Then West blowses in, and it's all over. Within a minute she's tossed off an eternal signature line (hatcheck girl: "Goodness, what beautiful diamonds." West: "Goodness had nothin' to do with it, dearie") and disrupted the high-class aims of gangster Raft. The other actors look agog at this unapologetic force of libido. Watching this, you might recall the first time you ever saw Groucho Marx or Bill Murray on film--the movie itself disappears, replaced by gratitude that someone like this exists.
I'm No Angel followed her first starring vehicle (She Done Him Wrong, not included here), and its lunatic plot--Mae as a lion tamer taken up by New York society--does nothing to slow the barrage of sexual innuendo. West hums her way through the film with the kind of confidence that must have inspired countless fans to try something disreputable. Cary Grant is the bemused recipient of West's attention. Goin' to Town is nearly as good, as dance-hall gal Mae inherits an oil fortune, then sets her cap for the haughty Englishman working on her, uh, wells. West's style is undiminished (she was in her mid-forties already), although by this time the Production Code--concocted in part as a horrified response to her first films--was trimming her entendres.
Tamer still is the tongue-in-cheek Go West Young Man, although the spectacle of West (playing a "temperamental" movie star) leering after hunky Randolph Scott is pleasant. My Little Chickadee, made at Universal after her run at Paramount ended, is the legendary pairing with W.C. Fields. It's full of great bon mots from both drawlers, even if the sum is less than its parts. Disapproving Margaret Hamilton tells Fields of West, "I'm afraid I can't say anything good about her." Fields replies, "I can see what's good, tell me the rest." These five films are a good introduction to the rest. Beulah, peel me a grape. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
"Why don't you come up sometime and see me?":
Night After Night is a pre-code film might draw you in because of West, but it will make you a fan of George Raft. It is the story of a man who runs a speakeasy (Raft). He finds himself in a bind when another gang in town wants to buy him out or bump him off. He isn't worried, but when he meets a beautiful high class girl who he sets out to marry (Constance Cummings), he plans to sell for enough money to take care of her. However, in comes his old flame (West) who is by no means cautious when it comes to...
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A SLEAZOID PACKAGE - SHAME ON THOSE MORONS !: 
A missed opportunity. Stupidly formulated and cheaply realized. Shame on the oafs who threw this package together. An oppertunity missed. The films themselves are terrific - The transfers, nothing to write home about, adequate - but the presentation SUCKS! Stupid packaging adds to the rotten package - And what's the blank side all about? Universal should fire the morons who f**ed a legend!
Will Universal Ever Complete The Mae West DVD Collection?: 
In 1998, Image Entertainment/Universal released three Mae West movies on DVD: _Belle of the Nineties_, _Klondike Annie_ and _I'm No Angel_. Then, as quickly as they appeared, these titles went out of print. Fortunately, I was able to obtain these three titles at Tower Records close-out prices and not from eBay or other online flea markets.
In my opinion, the top three Mae West movies are: _Belle of the Nineties_, _I'm No Angel_ and _She Done Him Wrong_. Universal recently announced that _She Done Him...more info
WOW!!!:
Unbelieveable! 5 Mae West films for
5 bucks. Awesome!
And I don't know either, what these
other critics say. These movies are
in excellent viewing condition. So,
what if they aren't "digitally
re-mastered"!
These movies are perfect and for such
a great deal.
What a great way to start or add to
your collection.
BTW, the sticker on the cover of this
DVD says $25.99, and I paid $5. What a
steal!
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