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Rating: - Poor pucture quality.
I'm actually a fan of "NUMBER 17", I like Hitchcock's use of light & shadow to create the mood. Yes it is a little slow & stagey, but I get engrosed by the visuals.
And there lies the problem with this Laserlight/Delta DVD. The picture quality is horrible, full of digital artifacting that makes the picture appear to freeze in sections then play again. The details get lost in the pixilation. How can you enjoy a visually engrosing movie if it looks terrible.
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Rating:  - good early effort from Hitchcock
Surprisingly good early effort from Alfred Hitchcock. One of the only original screenplays written by Hitchcock himself, this film shows remarkable story structure. It kicks off with a rousing boxing match in which carnival champ "One Round" Jack loses to a challenger from the audience who happens to be a professional prizefighter. The movie then slows down to develop the characters and introduce a love triangle between Jack, his girl and the professional boxer. The rest of the film is a dramatic ... Read More
Rating:  - Another of Alfred Hitchcock's well written Screenplays!
As a life-long fan of Alfred Hitchcock, I've read most of his screenplay/books. He's truly one of the Sci-Fi, Horror, Mystery, Thriller "Movie" Leaders! I can thank him for my creative writing today! He is one of the Leading Great's of today's Sci-Fi Movies, you can not expect his "technoloy" to follow today! His first completed film was in 1925! Imagine that! With his education at the St. Ignatius College in London England so many years ago, (the college-a School of Engineering) he was great in his time! ... Read More
Rating: - Marred by poor technical quality
Laserlight claim to have used the best available source material for the "best possible" transfer to DVD. I find this hard to believe. The picture lacks black/white contrast, is noticeably cropped and slightly rotated in the field of view. If you can get hold of a UK Universal copy of 'Number 17', you won't have any of these problems. (American readers beware that if you get a UK video it will be in PAL VHS format.) I haven't seen any other copy of 'The Ring', but I suspect the same criticism will hold.
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Rating: - Interesting, to say the least....
I tend to dwell more on the technical side of the these Hitchcock Laserlite DVDs, than the movies themselves and this one may end up being that way for no better reason than the fact that this movie is just plain confusing! My recent viewing of the film "Number 17" was only the second time I'd ever seen it and I can easily assure any reader of this essay that I am more confused than I was after the first viewing. I can't decribe the plot because I don't really know what's going on. It starts with a tramp and a seeming ... Read More
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