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| The Ruling Class [1972] | ![The Ruling Class [1972]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EGXSADZYL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Directors: John Fortenberry, Peter Medak
Actors: Peter O'toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne
Studio: Momentum Pictures
Category: DVD
List Price: £9.99
Buy New: £8.98
You Save: £1.01 (10%)
Buy New/Used from £6.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  (4 reviews)
Sales Rank: 36431
Format: Full Screen, Pal
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: DVD
Running Time: 124 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5060021171559
ASIN: B00005B73R
Release Date: June 25, 2001
Theatrical Release Date: May 10, 1972
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 Great British gem - much under-rated September 18, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Come on guys - don't knock this film so much. Yes, its dated, poor sound quality, a bit overlong but also totally eccentric and in many ways a classic. This film has philosophy, social satire, great humour, musical numbers, burlesque strip-tease, romantic interest and a distinctly dark side.br /br /There's some great acting, especially by Peter O'Toole who beautifully plays the eccentric 14th Earl of Gurney who, upon his father's bizarrely fetishistic death, inherits the title. The only problem is he's barking mad, having spent the last 8 years in volunatary confinement in a loony bin. He releases himself from the institution to reclaim his inheritance.br /br /Unfortunately he is convinced he is Jesus Christ and due to his erratic behaviour, his family plot to marry him off, bear a son and then have him re-committed.br /br /The plot turns from comedy to very VERY black humour half way through as O'Toole becomes convinced of an alternative persona within him. Murder and mayhem ensue and the film loses its overt comic vein.br /br /This film reminded me of the classicly unhinged "Sir Henry at Rawlinson End" - not many films include landed gentry in tutu skirts!br /br /This is not a perfect film but it is a much overlooked product of its time and a gem in many ways.br /br /Watch, laugh, cringe, enjoy!
 Very Poor DVD indeed August 17, 2007
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I absolutely agree with the previous 2 reviews. The running time of this movie should be 154 minutes, not the heavily edited 123 minute version we have here. The picture quality is poor and "noisy" and no attempt has been made to restore it. The audio quality is appalling!!! As stated previously this is pan scan not widescreen - WHY? Also, the cover gives the running time as 154 minutes, which leads potential buyers into thinking this is the full movie. Thats just downright dishonest. Buy the Region 1 Criterion version. OK it's expensive, but it is the definitive version of this great movie. All in all, a shameful exploitation and a complete travesty. Peter O'Toole's performance deserves much better. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!
The Ruling Class February 1, 2006
54 out of 56 found this review helpful
I agree with the previous reviewer, this DVD is a travesty of one of the funniest films ever made.brMost of the cuts are not critical to the plot development - they just cut some of the funniest scenes in the movie.brIf my memory serves me well, the following scenes have been removed:br1. The marquee scene after the weddingbr2. The scene in the mental asylum where Peter O'Toole is placed in a room with a bunch of violent psycopathsbr3. The scene with the fox urinating after outwitting the huntbr4. William Mervyn's hillarious line after finding his murdered wife's bodybrAnd worst of all:br5. The duel between Michael Bryant and Peter O'Toole where the psychiatrist comes to realise that the man he thought he had cured is, in fact, a murderer. This makes the scene near the end of the film where Michael Bryant ends up in his own institution unintelligible.brThis movie was all but destroyed on its release by distributors who objected to its length. With DVDs like this nobody is ever going to realise just how good it was. Pete O'Toole is quoted as saying it was the best film he ever made but nobody would ever know from this cut.
The Ruling Class (cat. no. MPo55D) February 9, 2004
86 out of 89 found this review helpful
Beware this edition of The Ruling Class, the classic crazy 1972 film. For starters the cover doesn't even have the correct title - it just says "Ruling Class". On watching, you'll find it's not widescreen, which it should be. And worst of all there are 25 minutes of footage missing from the film, making a complete mockery of it. I'm now off to try and exchange this for a proper edition.
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