Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303247915
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6303247911
Label: Edde Entertainment
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Edde Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Edde Entertainment
Release Date: September 14, 1994
Studio: Edde Entertainment
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That this exceptionally true-to-life and inspiring movie is not available on DVD at a normal price to inspire young minds is criminal - an indictment of "market forces" as an effective means of running the economy. Who holds the rights? They should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. Expose them!
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Race for the Double Helix (Purchased on 09/05/2008) by Tim Pigott-
have never received the movie after contacting seller numerous times .....
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This film is indeed excellent; I use it regularly in my history of science teaching. But I'm not writing to review the film, just to comment on the availability. I agree that it should be widely available, in commercial release. But, as one earlier reviewer pointed out, it is restricted to the educational market. The DVD, released in 2004, is called "Double Helix" and is sold by Films for the Humanities and Sciences for $150; FFH earlier released a VHS version, also at an educational institutional price. The original film, made by BBC Horizon in association with A&E in 1987, was called "Life Story" and is about 107 minutes long.
The version being sold here, released in 1994 by Edde Entertainment, is only about 89 minutes long, and therefore is missing about 20 minutes of the original. I have not seen this version and don't know what cuts were made, and certainly not why they were made. If the vendors are not selling the truncated version, they should make a new entry for it.
"The Race for the Double Helix" is also the title of a PBS NOVA program first broadcast in 1976, with host Isaac Asimov and interviews with James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Linus and Peter Pauling.
Look for the original version of "Life Story" or "Double Helix" of about 107 minutes in your public library or community college or university library until it is released commercially. You will have to try both titles, "Double Helix" and "Life Story" and make sure that one of the actors is Jeff Goldblum (brilliant casting!).
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I've been looking for a copy of this movie for many years. Unfortunately, I don't even own a VHS system any more, so I'll have to wait longer for a DVD. I saw the movie once on TV decades ago, it seems -- I see that the tape was released in 1994. I'm surprised that the reviews I've seen so far barely seemed to notice the character of Rosalind Franklin, played so brilliantly by Juliet Stevenson, one of my favorite actors. (See "Truly, Madly, Deeply.") The contrast between the bumptious, ambitious, unscrupulous Watson (perfectly cast in Goldblum) and the methodical, old-fashioned, repressed Franklin is, for me, the heart of the film. Franklin died before the Nobel Prize committee awarded its prize for the discovery of the double helix, and Nobel Prizes are never awarded posthumously. Otherwise she surely would have shared in the honor.
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VCR
Piece of copied krap....video skips--very irrating--DO NOT Purchase!
I don't know why the @#$%ers at A&E will not release this good program in its own QUALITY DVD. What a terrible dis-service to humanity and educated people everywhere.
E Vojcak
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