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[James L M]

A vanilla copy of Pandora and the Flying Dutchman is available I know but there is little else. Picture of Dorian Gray. Affairs of Bel Ami and The Moon and the Sixpence. If Powell and Pressburger's films are popular today then I do not see how Lewin's films could fail to gain some interest. I would love to see some of his rarer works, Saaida and the Living Idol I have never seen and would love to see these films released on DVD.

[Ken Barnes]

My thanks to James L.M. ( who is introducing some interesting topics to the Laureate website ). Lewin - early or late - is an interesting filmaker.

In my opinion,"Pandora and the Flying Dutchman" is a near-miss of a movie and I'm not too enamoured of "The Affairs of Bel Ami." But "The Picture of Dorian Gray" is a true masterpiece. While it's not totally faithful
to the Oscar Wilde story, it stands tall as a brilliant piece of picture-making. George Sanders is at his best and Hurd Hatfield was wonderfully bland as the ageless hero. This, I agree, SHOULD be on DVD.

Ken