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Rating:  - value
this is a great value for your money you usually have to pay the same price for one and with this you get several also these are hard to find titles in one place
Rating:  - Poor acting and Lame plots. Pretty boring too
I had no idea about what 70's low budget 'drive in cult classics' were like. According to few other reviewers, this set is a good example of the genre. OK then, now I know. Since it is so low priced, perhaps good buy to see what those movies were like, for the record.
Rating:  - Fantastic Collection of Crown International 1970's Sexploitation Films!
With the price being so low and having seen awful transfers of some of these titles before, I ordered this set with a degree of trepidation. I was pleasantly surprised to find that not only have most of these films been remastered into better versions, but the aspect ratio is actually 16x9 on widescreen monitors. If you watch these on a 4x3 television, the image will be squeezed. All 8 titles are in widescreen and anamorphically enhanced.
The films are a mixed bag; I was never a fan of "Malibu High", even when I saw it at a drive-in when it was released, but "The Teacher" is a great film with a classic ending. Much has been written about "Trip With The Teacher" on other sites due to Zalman King's appearance, but little has been said about Howard (Hikmet) Avedis' excellent "The Stepmother." Avedis was one of the best and most consistent directors for Crown in the 70's, and it's good to have both "The Teacher" and The Stepmother" here for people to rediscover.
"The Sister-In-Law" features a good performance by John Savage that hints at his breakthrough with "The Deer Hunter" a few years later, and "The Pick-Up" embodies most of what classic sexploitation had (sex, violence, nudity, moral ambiguity).
Two of the gems in this collection have not been available previously in a decent video format: "Cindy and Donna" is in surprisingly good condition considering the age of the material (1970) and the fact that it got quite a limited release. And for all you Susanne Benton fans out there, it's good to finally have "Best Friends" to watch. It's a bit more serious than some of the other offerings, but still delivers the goods. Now if we could only have "That Cold Day In The Park"...
The Crown International films were drive-in staples, and I'm glad to see this collection doing them justice. My favorite Crown picture of them all is "The Pom Pom Girls" which is on the SCHOOL DAZED COLLECTION. There are no chapter listings for the films, but they do have (random) chapter stops. There are no trailers or any extras for the films either. But c'mon, "The Teacher" in 16x9 anamorphic for $4.99 with 7 other titles? You just gotta get it!
Rating:  - Cult blast
For the money this was a good buy. Poor acting, lame plots...'70's drive-in all the way. The movies were fun for the most part, most were entertaining....the way it used to be...lol
Have good laugh, drink the cool-aid and live in the past for a couple hours.
Rating: - sleazy, salacious and tragic
i could have added low rent. every one of these very entertaining movies features pretty young girls in various states of undress. all the said young girls have gotten themselves into some kind of serious trouble and every movie has a tragic ending. all are under 90 minutes long. i found the movies, all from the 1970s more entertaining than many so called classics of the same era. the set's price make it a tremendous bargain. highly recommended for fans of sleazy, low rent R rated entertainment.
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