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Netherlands released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Dutch ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Historical drama, opening in 1913 as talented young carpenter Robert Bradley leaves the Jarrow shipyards to work with his uncle in the family furniture business in the countryside. He clashes with his uncle, who dominates the household with his religious fervour. Walking home one evening, Robert encounters the ethereal Millie Thorman, known locally as The Moth, and chats to her until they are interrupted by her older sister Kate who takes her home, a cash-strapped estate. Their ailing mother dies, and Sarah is aghast to find her father plans to put Millie into an asylum. Meanwhile, Robert's cousin is pregnant, and Robert is wrongly accused of being the father. Homeless and jobless, he decides to seek work at the crubling Thorman estate. ...The Moth ( Catherine Cookson's The Moth )
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entertaining pre-code thriller
Firstly, no, this isn't some wiggy 1930's horror movie about a giant moth terrorising a big city. 1934's THE MOTH (aka "Seeing It Through") casts former burlesque dancer and silent movie star Sally O'Neil in one of her final leading roles as a shamed heiress who runs into even more trouble with a pair of jewel thieves.Disgraced and disinherited after she's photographed dancing in her underfrillies at a big New York society party, heiress Diana Wyman (O'Neil) decides to run away to the relative anominity of New Orleans at the height of the mardi gras season. During the rail trip, Diana befriends Marie (Rae Daggett), a dancer who moonlights as notorious jewel burglar "The Moth", all the while being tailed by one of the employees of her guardian...Entertaining piece of nonsense. Petite, saucer-eyed Sally O'Neil is charming in the lead, though sadly, a combination of the transition to talkies and severe bouts of stage fright prematurely ended her screen career. Paul Page, Wilfred Lucas, Fred Kelsey and Nina Guilbert co-star.Buying vintage movies from Alpha (particularly 1930s titles) is a real pot-luck affair. On one hand, they have released near-pristine prints for such titles as "The Most Dangerous Game" and "Millie"; but on the other side of the spectrum, there's a lot of fuzzy, interlaced stuff as well ("Gigolettes of Paris" springs to mind). The print of THE MOTH comes from a worn-out VHS copy with lots of tracking issues. The sound is clearly audible though, and the film can still be heartily enjoyed.Three and-a-half stars for the movie, two stars for the DVD.
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Really horrible quality
Unwatchable quality. Grainy, unclear, just awful. Wait for a decent copy to come out! The film is a wonderful story and deserves to be seen but not in this version.
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