Cary Grant: Screen Legend Collection (DVD, 2006, Franchise Collection 3 - Disc Set)

The Cary Grant Screen Legend Collection is a decent three-DVD set of five films from early in Grant's career. The pictures are Thirty Day Princess (1934), Kiss and Make Up (1934), Wings in the Dark (1935), Big Brown Eyes (1936), and Wedding Present (1936). This is a great collection for Cary Grant aficionados. These films are far from Cary's best, but they are entertaining movies which give fans an interesting and enjoyable look into the early part of Grant's career.

Unfortunately, the Screen Legend Collection has no bells or whistles. Two of the DVDs fit into the box as to overlap, making it difficult to get out the disc underneath. Also, there are no special features and no scene selection menu on these DVDs. To access a specific scene, you must fast-forward or rewind through the entire movie.

My favorite film in this set is Wedding Present, in which Grant and Joan Bennett play capricious star newspaper reporters whose romantic relationship is disrupted when Cary is promoted to editor and must get serious about work. Joan gets engaged to another man, and a gangster aids Cary in some outrageous attempts to win her back. It's a fun film which in many ways resembles one of Grant's greatest comedies, His Girl Friday. Wedding Present is inferior to His Girl Friday but is still quite good.

Cary Grant fans will enjoy the Screen Legend Collection, as will old movie buffs.