Burt Lancaster - The Signature Collection (The Flame and the Arrow / Jim Thorpe All-American / His Majesty O'Keefe / South Sea Woman / Executive Action) |  | Actors: Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Ryan
Studio: Warner Home Video
List Price: $49.98
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 39,070
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 5
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.5 x 2.9
UPC: 085391164333
EAN: 0085391164333
ASIN: B000UJ48R2
Theatrical Release Date: July 9, 1950
Release Date: October 23, 2007
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Burt Lancaster had bounced around, literally, before entering movies. A former circus acrobat, the strapping Mr. Lancaster became a heartthrob with his 1946 debut, The Killers, but insisted on being an actor as well as a movie star. With his athletic physique and restless curiosity, he succeeded on both counts. Burt Lancaster--The Signature Collection is a hodgepodge of titles that show off the grinning appeal of this thinking man's hunk. It really doesn't include any signature classics, and the emphasis here is on Lancaster the bounding romantic; all but one of the films are from the early 1950s. The best of the lot is the earliest in the collection, The Flame and the Arrow, a Robin Hoodian tale of 12th-century Lombardy, with Burt fighting an evil lord and wooing fair lady Virginia Mayo. Even director Jacques Tourneur doesn't seem to have taken this too seriously, but it's a colorful, buoyant piece of nonsense with some stunning acrobatic work by Lancaster and his old circus partner, Nick Cravat. Jim Thorpe--All-American is an earnest bio of the great Native American athlete, who won gold medals at the 1912 Olympic Games only to have them taken away on a technicality. See this movie in childhood, and you'll never forget it: the tale of Thorpe's inspirational journey into greatness, and subsequent struggle with alcoholism and poverty, is hard to shake. Lancaster brings the full tragic dimension to the role, and of course fits the athletic shoes. South Sea Woman is a WWII yarn in which a mouth Marine (Lancaster) finds himself court-martialed for some colorful activities on a Pacific island. Chuck Connors and Virginia Mayo are also in on the lightweight plot, which doesn't add up to much. His Majesty O'Keefe emphasizes Lancaster with his shirt off, a useful tactic in an otherwise humdrum account of a 19th-century adventurer in the South Seas. You might see the outline of a political parable if you squint hard, but mostly this is a slice of Technicolor exoticism. Jumping ahead considerably, Executive Action is a grim 1973 film that lays out an argument in favor of conspiracy in the JFK assassination. Lancaster and Robert Ryan lend their formidable authority to this low-budget film, which is much quieter in approach than Oliver Stone's JFK (and yet eerier because of that). It also shows how gracefully Lancaster had aged. Vintage cartoons, some Joe McDoakes shorts, and trailers fill out the usual Warners extras. --Robert Horton
Studio description
Includes: The Flame and the Arrow (1950), Jim Thorpe All-American (1951), His Majesty O'Keefe (1954), South Sea Woman (1953), and Executive Action (1973).
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 7
 BURT LANCASTER SIGNATURE COLLECTIOM January 19, 2010
Daniel J. Monico (LINDEN.NJ)
Though I received the package in a timely matter, I have not yet received a reply from the seller on the one dvd that has some flaws in it. The main reason I bought this package was for Flame and the Arrow, it is not available alone. That dvd plays ok until the end of the film. I have asked the seller what can I do about this defective dvd ? I have still not received a reply.
All told, the package is worth the price. One of the dvd's in the package is a film called- Executive Action- it is about the JFK assasination and is never shown on tv.
That alone is worth it. The film that is defective - THE FLAme and the Arrow-IS HARDLY EVER ON TV. IT should have been titled-ROBERTO HOODIO in ITALY!!! It is actually a very good movie where Burt does all his own stunts.
 Burt Lancaster The Signature collection August 14, 2008
Carl W. Burton (Rockvale, TN USA)
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
My favorite actor but the old movies are not directed or acted like the new ones. I would like to see a remake of Jim Thorpe.
 again, you can never go home again March 28, 2008
Colin R. Walbridge (Coudersport, PA USA)
0 out of 21 found this review helpful
It was a series of Burt Landcaster old movies. Some really old, so old that a lot of the movies didn't make much sense. We saw two of the oldies, and haven't looked at any of the others
Again, you can never go home again.
A Good Collection December 2, 2007
Dijon (Brooklyn Center, MN USA)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
I ordered this Burt Lancaster set primarily for Jim Thorpe - All American which I'd seen as a kid and it truly holds up well. Surprisingly, Executive Action turned out to be a fascinating look at the JFK assassination made in the 1970s before Oliver Stone's JFK and I liked it even better than JFK. My third favorite was The Flame and the Arrow, with Burt at his hammiest and athletic best; a very entertaining film. His Majesty O'Keefe and South Sea Woman were lesser films but entertaining none the less. A pretty good bargain I thought.
 Burt Lancaster signiture collection November 21, 2007
J. L. Scheschy (Reno, NV United States)
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
Burt Lancaster has to be one of the most underrated actors ever to make movies. This is a good collection. Executive Action (not much Lancaster in the movie) and The Flame and the Arrow are worth the price of the collection. All the movies are excellent picture and sound. A real bargain at the price.
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