The Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection [Remastered] (The Sound of Music / The King and I / Oklahoma! / South Pacific / State Fair / Carousel)

This is the greatest purchase of all times. Good, clean movies - unlike most of what we have today.

These R&H films are enjoyable presentations of great musicals, and I won't disagree with any of the more detailed positive comments about them.

But I do wish that the first version of State Fair, from 1933, had been included. It's currently unavailable on DVD, and really deserves to be more widely known. While it's not an R&H musical -- which I guess gave the '62 Pat Boone musical re-make an edge for inclusion here -- it's probably the most accurate screen production of the best-selling novel by Phil Stong. With Will Rogers, Janet Gaynor, and Lew Ayres as the stars, and a very low-key, gentle sense of humor that brings out the warmth of the story, I'm sure that many would see it as the real inspiration for the excellent R&H musical film from a dozen years later. Heck, the 1933 film even includes extensive background shots of the actual Iowa State Fair, although I don't think the stars were photographed on location. (Frankly, I could live without the Pat Boone version, which unaccountably transfers the state fair from its Iowa origin to Texas, although I do like Tom Ewell and Alice Faye very much.)

I hope that Fox will soon release State Fair (1933) -- perhaps as part of the highly anticipated (by me, anyway) third Will Rogers box set.

I bought the boxed set for myself several years ago and have loved it. When I took it on a family vacation, I discovered an adult family member also loved these musicals and this last purchase was a birthday gift for that family member.

It's great to have these wonderful movies all together in one package and I expect them to provide me with hours of pleasure over the coming years.

It's so nice to have something you can watch and leave the "real" world, with all its problems, for a few hours.

Quality is almost as good as HD, We are playing on an HD-DVD player that upconverts. We already knew and liked the movies. Would recomend to any one with a good player.

Tom

This collection was great. Got this for my husband's parents and they are throughly enjoying it.