Review of Chu Chin Chow

The sets are wonderful, there are songs popping up in the least expected places, the direction has a verve rarely seen elsewhere in British film and the story is adapted with guts and no fear that restraint (any) must be employed as it usually is, it seems necessarily, in British film. It's a film which goes all the way in all departments, astonishing for any age let alone for 1934, just a year after Korda's Private Lives of Henry VIII had opened things up a bit for Britfilm. It is an Arabian Nights fable, a better fantasy film even than Michael Powells (and others) Thief of Bagdad. WHY IS THIS FILM UNAVAILABLE ON VHS???? NOW THAT SOME LACK OF RESTRAINT IS ALLOWED AND POWELL AND PRESSBURGER CAN BE RECOGNISED AS GREATS, WHAT ABOUT THIS ONE WHERE ALL RESTRAINT IS THROWN OFF??