Strockstar wrote:
So... on payday I'm ordering "The Flipside of Dominick Hide/Another Flip for..." from amazon.co.uk. I want to order something else to go along with it. "The Prisoner" is now around £32. I'm wondering if it would be better to get this Region 2 rather than from amazon.com. I'm trying to week through Richard and Siouxsie's conversation... Is the gest of it that Region 2 is preferable? Seems to me to be. I know the DON'T LOOK NOW version at least had more features. Seems to me the R2s wind up better. Perhaps I'll also add "The Tripods" for my son...Or "Survivors" for my older daughter... Decisions, decisions.
A&E's region 1 Mega-Set of Danger Man / Secret Agent is comprehensive and excellent quality, but the region 2 is even better quality and has informative supplements that the region 1 is sadly lacking. If the PAL speed-up is not an issue for you, I recommend the region 2 (I bought it, that's how I know). Either way, Patrick McGoohan is like a force of nature in this program and it remains some of the best television I've ever seen. With regard to Don't Look Now, the region 2 is a superior transfer and has supplements and a commentary. The region 1 doesn't compare. Following that line of thought, may I recommend the BFI's princely region 2 edition of Jack Clayton's The Innocents (1961) with Deborah Kerr. It is beautifullly packaged, fully supplemented, has an excellent commentary by Christopher Frayling, and the transfer is pristine. Absolutely essential edition of an essential film. Fox gave it the brush-off in the USA.

Richard

"... little by little the look of the country
changes because of the people we admire."
dialog in HUD (1963)