It's Love Again

It's Love Again on VHS
About 1920 Jessie Matthews started performing in the chorus of musicals in England. Very soon she had become a major stage star of musical comedies and reviews on the West End of London. Mind you this was all before talkies movies were invented.

I so enjoyed Ms. Matthews first major screen musical "The Good Companions" that I searched Amazon for her subsequent musical movies. "It's Love Again" was made a few years later, so it takes advantage of improved movie making techniques. It also shows just how talented Jessie Matthews was! Unlike some Hollywood musical stars of the 1930s, Jessie Matthews had a wonderful singing voice. She was a very good dancer. She also was a natural actress, without the affected performance of many of her contemporaries. I believe Jessie Matthews combined all the very best virtues as a performer of Ginger Rogers, Ruby Keeler, Eleanor Powell and Joan Crawford, all her American contemporaries.

The VHS I purchased was listed as used, but...

Good movie, poor quality DVD
It's Love Again is a very enjoyable film starring the fabulous Jessie Matthews. She shines throughout, and the story is very entertaining, but this is a review about this particular DVD release itself (Synergy Entertainment, 2010). For your money you will be getting a DVD-R featuring an unrestored version of the film complete with specks, dust, flickers and an audio track half drowned out by static. My copy doesn't even play all the way through, and freezes with about 15 minutes to go.

To make matters worse, someone else I know bought this same release just a few days after me and he reported that the movie itself isn't even complete. Apparently this release has a couple of scenes missing, which are in his version on VHS!

I dearly want a decent copy of this film, so I hope some other company will do a better job at some point in the near future.

Favourite Jessie Matthews film - Dreadful print
This 1936 Britsh Gaumont film directed by Victor Saville and staring the fabulous Jessie Matthews is my absolute favourite of all her films and I was elated to find this for sale on Amazon USA.Unfortunatly this print has about five minuits cut from it,scenes missing and the rumba dance number with Cyril Wells cut in the middle.The print and sound track are of a very poor quality.Thankfully as a huge fan of Miss Matthews I have both a VHS copy and one recorded to a blank DVD disk purchased from someone on Ebay UK.Miss Matthews was an enormous blinding star in the 30's please would some company release all of her films on DVD - NOW! The only saving grace of this purchase for me was the art work on the case.

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