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List Price: $19.95Amazon.com's Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.96 (10%)Prices subject to change.
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0785604203520
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: ROAN
Manufacturer: ROAN
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: ROAN
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 25, 2000
Running Time: 98 minutes
Sales Rank: 97668
Studio: ROAN
Theatrical Release Date: August 31, 1934
Editorial Review:
Description:
The Classic 1930 Musical with Technicolor finale! Bebe Daniels, Wheeler & Woolsey, Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson. 98 min. A circus performer falls in love with a Southern sophisticate / The first live-action 3-strip Technicolor film ever made. 20 min. 1930 - USA - 98 min - Color
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - The only version of Dixiana worth owning
I had never seen the comedy team of Wheeler and Woolsey before I saw this movie, and at the very least they are an acquired taste. They were a successful Broadway act that made several movies together, all along the same style as this one. Wheeler plays the wide-eyed innocent to the more caustic Woolsey, whose comedy is very reminiscent of George Burns. "Dixiana" is basically a musical drama played out in the pre-Civil War south with comedy bits by Wheeler and Woolsey interspersed with the dramatic ... Read More
Rating:  - Primitive but fun musical comedy
Dixiana has been variously described as a 'dog', a 'prehistoric turkey', and worse before now (and that's from people who generally liked it and the people in it!). It's a clunky mix of operetta and vaudeville musical comedy which doesn't quite gel, but is typical of its period right at the dawn of the talking picture.
The DVD has been lovingly restored so even the two-strip colour sequence at the end looks pristine. In the cast, Bebe Daniels and Everett Marshall sing well enough - he wasn't ... Read More
Rating: - LIKE IT - HATE IT - COULDN'T CARE LESS - - -
I have no idea what the reviewer of the "Mexicos finest performers" is babbling about. The "La Cucaracha" presented together with "Dixiana" is a double lame short dance/guitar-tink-a-tanking extravaganza, notable merely for it's place on the Technicolor stairway to oblivion, and not a film about the Mexican revolution. "Dixiana" promises to be very cool as it starts - with the circus/vaudeville settings and so on, but we very soon realize it is an unpardonable mishmash. Bebe Daniels is quite good, but that's ... Read More
Rating:  - A BOMB. Wheeler and Woolsey can be missed
Wheeler and Woolsey supposedly saved the RKO studios in the early 30's, so I was interested in seeing what this early comedy team was all about. Well, what they were about is a very stale, crude, wooden vaudeville comedy duo act. Do NOT expect Burns and Allen. These two guys were awful. One guy is tall, wears glasses, and does nothing but pull a cigar in and out of his ugly mouth while he barks out the lamest lines you can imagine. The other guy is a short, somewhat wimpy/effeminate, guy with a whiny voice who ... Read More
Rating: - Dixiana DVD is a Real Stunner
Not a classic by any means, the DVD release of DIXIANA allows us to view an early (1930) talkie musical in pristine picture and sound, suggesting how it must of appeared to audiences of that day. Best of all, the last couple of reels have been restored to their original two-strip Technicolor beauty.
Bebe Daniela is charming and proves that a silent screen star could effortlessly make the transition to talkies. The male lead is played by Metropolitian Opera star Everett Marshall who displays a fine ... Read More
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