Help!

This is all okay, but a little inadequate; nearly all the older footage and audio is reedited from the extras on the MPI disc, which included some other bonuses that have been dropped — an old interview with Lester and his 1959 short, “The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film.”

Finally, the bad news: Apple/EMI has sullied their generally good release with a terribly misleading item on the packaging and in the promotional material: Both mention “A Missing Scene — Featuring Wendy Richard.” I can imagine many fans deciding to upgrade from their old discs just to see this “missing scene.” Unfortunately, there is no missing scene; what you get is a short doc called “A Missing Scene” — about a missing scene that remains, to this day, altogether missing! They could have called it “Wendy Richard Talks about the Missing Scene,” and there would be no problem. But, as it stands, the wording is sleazy and, frankly, disgraceful.

Andy Klein writes for Los Angeles CityBeat

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