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Rating:  - all
I have found that all the products that I have purchas from Amazon, have been in great condition and as advertises, and I have enjoyed all.
Rating: - movie collection
The Rodgers and Hammerstein collection was such a great find I also purchased a set for my sister. The service was quick and exact, the quality of the movies were superb! Thank you Amazon for making my shopping experience a great one!
Rating:  - Does no one have widescreen TVs?
I find it almost incomprehensible in this more enlightened technological age that there are a very limited amount of your subscribers who are concerned about the appaling presentation of all but two of these movies and I also wonder as more and more older movies are being re-released enhanced for widescreen TVs that no one seems concerned that arguably the most classic of classical movie musicals remain in a truncated format that cannot be properly watched if one has a widescreen TV. These movies scream out for the widescreen, they were made with the ultimate technology of the time to be seen as wide and as broard as possible. Yet they remain stuck in a non anamorphic style that limits their enjoyment to anyone with a widescreen TV and, with one exception, all the people who have written about them dont seem to care. "Oklahoma", "Carousel", "South Pacific" and "King and I" need to be updated to 16.9 anamorphic widescreen (also preferably with some genuine extras and commentaries as well). Fox are years behind the rest of the movie studios in this regard and have only recently started to adapt their films for the format of the future (ie observe the two versions of "An Affair to Remember") of course, this is a major rip off, so anyone with a widescreen TV who has not bought these films --HOLD OFF, coz sooner or later they will get a proper release...How long? That is anybody's guess, but these postage stamp versions are an insult to anyone who knows anything of widscreen DVD technology ("Sound of Music" is fine and "State Fair" was made in non widescreen full screen format, an should be viewed with lines either side of the screen)
Rating:  - Only one thing missing
I enjoyed this set of DVDs very much. I have long been a Rodgers and Hammerstein fan, and was very pleased to find a set that includes so many of the movies.
But there is one thing missing: Rodgers and Hammerstein made seven movie musicals, but the boxed set only includes six. They should have eliminated the second disc for The Sound of Music and instead included the remaining musical, Flower Drum Song. Unfortunately, they have instead allowed this excellent movie to go out of print and are not producing it on either VHS or DVD.
Rating: - Great collection
As with any collection everyone has a different favorite. The nice thing about this collection is some of the movies may not be everyone's cup of tea, but there are no duds snuck in the pack.
It consists of:
"Oklahoma!" (1955) Gordon MacRay and Gloria Grahame
"Carousel" (1956) Gordon MacRay and Shirley Jones
"The King and I" (1956) Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner
"South Pacific" (1958) Rossano Brazzi and Mitzi Gaynor
"The Sound of Music" (1965) Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer
I do not want to get involved in screen format wars but the films them selves will take you to far off lands and far off times. For a better feel you may want to look at the individual reviews.
You will find yourself singing all the songs through the day.
By the way if you already one or two of these already it is still worth buying as a set.
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