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Re: Your Views on Roland Winters, what went right, what went wrong

well in consideration of your comments, it may be premmature for me and my view since I have only seen one movie. The immediate things I saw gave me the reason to write what I did. I sort of went into it rather biased that the Roland Chan interpretation would be less than good. I got that mainly from reading some things before when exploring around about Chan films and what all was available. I just recalled that several places on the net sort of bashed Winters a bit for his style.

I hope to get a better view of him if TCM or someone can get us those other Chan films on DVDs.

Re: Your Views on Roland Winters, what went right, what went wrong

Hello: It may be worth your while to get an early view of Roland Winters' Chans on DVD-R. The only place I was able to find them, currently, was at cclvideo.com. Go to "Classic Movies," and follow the links. (Note: I have NO affiliation with this company!) The copies are watchable (from 16mm copies, I think), but certainly NOT the quality of TCM/Warners. I have them, and I'd charitably rate them at 7+ to 8. Of course, one MUST get the official releases, as I have done, as soon as they are released. However, until all the Winters' versions are released, one must still find some way to watch them...

Re: Your Views on Roland Winters, what went right, what went wrong

Dear Teil,

Well said.

Sincerely,
Rush Glick

Re: Your Views on Roland Winters, what went right, what went wrong

Thank you, sir! I was a tad afraid to mention a place to obtain unofficial (pending official) release copies. I hope no one was offended! Poor Mr. Withers' Chan portrayals have not gotten the attention they deserve; however, I trust TCM/Warners will rectify that someday soon.