The Jane Austen ITV Collection - Mansfield Park / Northanger Abbey / Emma (3 Disc Box Set) [2007] [DVD]

Excellent adaptation of Northanger Abbey . Very good adaptation of Mansfield Park, though perhaps the actress who plays the heroine, Fanny Price, is too good looking for the part, but she acts it well. Very good adaptation of Emma.

It is a pleasure to watch Jane Austen stories, it’s lovely

I found some or all of these films are shorter than many versions with running time s of 90 minutes approx.There is a better version available of Mansfield Park, however, I was impressed with Hayley Atwell as the worldly acquisitive Mary Crawford who played the part very well.

This box set is great value for money. I enjoyed all three of the Jane Austen adaptions. Every DVD comes in its own case, all three films have subtitles for the hard of hearing, Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park also have an audio description track for visually impaired audiences. These two films are presented in a 16 : 9 aspect ratio (widescreen), Emma, which is an older film dating from 1996 is in a 4 : 3 aspect ratio, likely the original format for a made for TV production from the time. Picture and sound quality of all films is good. Very happy with this purchase.

My wife says it’s good, so good enough for me ;-)

Great to build up my collection again for these products and I love the classics and enjoy having these on dvds and cds

I love all three of these adaptations but Northanger Abbey edges it for me. JJ Feild and Felicity Jones play their parts beautifully. A good buy as all three are really enjoyable.

I like this EMMA best of all four adaptations of this novel in the last three decades and was looking forward to watching the DVD but unfortunately it comes in the old TV format that looks awful on a DVD & Bluray player. The colours are so wrong. I'd hoped the quality would have been adjusted to newer standards, just like the 1995 version of Pride & Prejudice but it's not. A great pity because the other two DVDs in the package are lovely to watch. So it's actually 3 stars for EMMA and 5 stars for MANSFIELD PARK and NORTHANGER ABBEY.