The thing is, you can TELL immediately that it's Calvert's characters... it's jarring. Instead of looking "mildly annoyed but smiling" (which is the emotion that you would expect of Nanny if she actually liked Tack), she all of a sudden looks extremely angry, whereas just a second before she had said in a very pleasant voice, "your bath is ready my dear". Why does she suddenly become so angry?

That's what I meant when I said that the scene flows better with the Williams cut - it's more believable. Nanny tapping her foot and getting impatient with the princess has the potential to be funny, but because there's no buildup to the joke it just ends up not making sense (it's the equivalent of those early silent Keystone comedies where kicking somebody in the butt WAS the joke... it took Charlie Chaplin to realize that it's funnier if the person DESERVES to be kicked, and that maxim is still as true today as it ever was).

Omar's DVD cover is very well-done... I wonder if he could add the "Thief and the Cobbler" logo with the thief coming out of the "O" to it (that version on the second DVD cover seems pretty high-resolution to me...). Although it's true that the Cannes art doesn't quite represent the film correctly, it still looks quite good on its own merits and would arouse the interest of someone looking at it, I think. Maybe I just like the "aged book look" of the DVD cover... I'll have email him eventually to ask for a high-res image.

By the way, has anybody found any reviews of the new Arabian Knight DVD online?