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This superb collection of classic British War Cinema includes 10 of the most prominent examples of British film making at it's finest. Crackling with suspense and drama, these well-crafted films showcase great scripts, beautiful black and white cinematography, great dialog and some of the best actors then working in film: A foreign correspondent, an old salt, and his daughter unite to sabotage a U-boat base, in the British WWII thriller "The Day Will Dawn" (1942). With Deborah Kerr, Hugh Williams. Michael Wilding, Roland Culver, and James Mason carry out a "Secret Mission" (1942). With Williams, Carla Lehmann. The Battle of Arnhem is re-enacted in the docudrama "Theirs Is The Glory" (1946). Reporters Stanley Maxted, Allan Wood play themselves. A prize cow fuels the comic action of "Appointment With Venus" (1951). David Niven, Glynis Johns star. AKA: "Island Rescue." In "Seven Thunders" (1957), British POWs lay low in France. Stephen Boyd, Anna Gaylor star. AKA: "The Beasts Of Marseilles." Dirk Bogarde falls for a Japanese girl, in "The Wind Cannot Read" (1958). Yoko Tani, Ronald Lewis co-star. A British officer and the Dutch team to lift a diamond stash, in "Operation Amsterdam" (1959). With Peter Finch, Eva Bartok. Five-disc set also includes "Unpublished Story," "The Flemish Farm," and "Two Thousand Women." 15 hrs. Total.
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 9.6 ounces
Director : Ralph Thomas, Harold French, Hugo Fregonese, Brian Desmond Hurst, Michael McCarthy
Media Format : Dolby, Multiple Formats, Full Screen, NTSC, Box set
Run time : 10 hours and 50 minutes
Release date : November 15, 2011
Actors : Peter Finch, Dirk Bogarde, Hugh Williams, James Mason, Eva Bartok
Studio : Shout! Factory / Timeless Media
ASIN : B005MXQD4W
Number of discs : 5
Reviewer: cnagappa
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good collection of character British war drams and decent picture quality.
Review: As a WWII film buff, it is nice to have a collection of vintage British WWII films that were made in the 1940s and 1950s. This box set contains 5 DVDs containing two movies each. I have got through just three of them:Operation Amsterdam - a suspense thriller set in occupied HollandAppointment with Venus - a comedy drama about an operation to rescue a prize cow from German hands in an occupied channel islandTwo Thousand Women - a rather unusual and delightful comedy about an internment camp for British civilian women in FranceThe quality of the prints are quite decent, despite two movies being compressed into each DVD.In summary, if you like British dramas in a war setting, then definitely buy this set.
Reviewer: Marthe H.
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Very interesting stories
Review: Many of these movies include actors that are famous or almost famous at the time. They were all depicting some stories that were not that well known to us. "The Wind Cannot Read" with Dirk Bogarde was maybe the best of the lot and certainly one we had never seen with settings in India and Burma. "Operation Amsterdam" with Peter Finch had a fascinating storyline, and again was something we didn't know about. "Theirs Is the Glory" was the story about the British in Anherne but told with people who actually had participated in the event. It was more documentary in production. Surely it was inspiration for the movie done much later, "A Bridge Too Far." "Seven Thunders" with Stephen Boyd portrayed Marseilles during the occupation and that hasn't been shown that much. "The Flemish Farm" depicting the Belgian Air Force that escaped to England to fight the Germans revealed something else we didn't know about. All-in-all this was a very good purchase. However, the black and white format during night scenes was difficult to make things out at times.
Reviewer: De Vliegher Emiel
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: ... film i was looking for for many years i'v enjoyed it very much and will again over and over
Review: by reading the different article written by your customers i found a on this dvd the mivie i have looking for for many years the liberating of a cow during ww2 on the channels islands i saw filmin the movie about 50 years ago but i could not remember the name and by readinf all commentaries of films i strumbled over the mentioning of this movie and i bought and i could believe it but it was truly the film i was looking for for many years i'v enjoyed it very much and will again over and over again
Reviewer: R Somers
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Morally wholesome, sometimes challenging and historically interesting British movies
Review: British War Cinema (10 Movies).Worth the price as others have said. Here are some thoughts on each movie. I think it is important to have good - morally good - entertainment available. This group of movies meets that standard.Appointment With Venus (Island Rescue) 1951 2David Niven, Glynis John, Kenneth MooreSilly humor. Some good acting. Tenuous stretched unrealistic plot. Neither the seriousness of war nor that of a relationship between a man and a woman is done well.The Wind Cannot Read 1958 2Dirk Bogard, Yoko Tani, Ronald LewisCorny play on interracial issues between English flier and Japanese teacher in BurmaOperation Amsterdam 1959 4.5Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, Tony BrittonVery good acting. Plot is realistic taken from an actual event.Theirs Is the Glory 1956 [1946] 4Stanley Maxfed, Thomas Sculion, Allan Wood, British 1st Abn DivRe-enactment of the Battle of Arnhem in Holland done just after the war ended by the actual survivors of that battleThe Day Will Dawn 1942Deborah Kerr, Ralph Richardson, male leadRichardson has a very short appearance in this movie. The male lead delivers a forgettable performance as a handsome loose living, wealthy society person who has become a newspaper reporter. He is a protégé of Richardson who help him to become the newspaperâs reported in Norway before the Germans invade. Incredibly the lead charater is talked into parachuting into Norway â without any prior training. Deborah Kerr is the romantic lead and is the daughter of a Norweigan fisherman (the powerful elderly Welch fisherman from I Know Where Iâm Going). Long story short male lead saves the day and carried off Deborah Kerr to England with the expressed desire to return after the Nazis have been defeated.Seven Thunders (The Beasts of Marseilles) 1957Stephen Boyd, James Robertson Justice, Peter Ustinov, a French actressThis movie analyzes the moral corruption present in Marseilles, France in 1943 from the standpoint of 1957, when the movie was made. Moral values of every sort came under great strain during the War that took 60 million lives. The reverberations of this event are still with us.Two British soldiers have escaped from an Italian POW camp. They arrive in Marseilles and are awaiting a French fishing boat Captainâs offer to get them back to England so that they can re enter the fight. Boydâd character (he exhibits the same character traits and tics here as he did in Ben Hur and The Man Who Never Was} becomes involved with a young woman abandoned by her mother. This is the romantic piece that holds the plot together. Unfortunately in the end the relationship seems to trivialize the monstrous events and behaviors the movie has shown un occurring in Marseilles in 1943 German occupied France. The analysis of moral climate here reminds me of âThe Third Manâ with Joseph Cotton and Orson Wells which analyzes the moral climate in Vienna just after the war. We see nihilism in flower after the events of the war in the Third Man. In Seven Thunders it is still germinating.Unpublished Story 1942 3Richard Greene, Vallerie HobsonSlow starting until the thesis of the story begins more than half of the way through. Some good acting. Fifth column concerns in England.Two Thousand Women 1944 3.5Phylis Calvert, Flora RobsonWhy would this be an interesting movie? Do women find a movie about 2,000 women in a French hotel under the police control of Nazis an interesting story line? In what ways? The movie dialogue is womenâs chatter with a strong element of British propaganda. First to note about this movie is that it was made during the war in England. As someone else has said men are naturally interested in a movie with 2,000 good looking women in it. How did women feel about the loss of men at home in England during WWII? Probably they felt similarly to the way men felt when they were away from women in military service: they missed them. So this is a movie made primarily for British women during WWII. The characters include a social cross section of the possible female paths in life from the sacred to the profane; the upper class to the lower class. The relationship of the sexes during war time is a primary focus here viewed especially from the stand point of women. For that reason, the womenâs point of view makes this film different and interesting.Secret Mission 1942 2James Mason, Michael Wilding, Kurt Stapanek, male lead not mentioned on the CD jacketIn spite of some good actors the screenplay is poor. The film quality itself is very poor. The Germans are made to seem foolish and silly and the British smart, brave and dashing. The German Admiral of the Bismark in the eponymous movie has a part in this movie as is convincing in his role. This movie includes a romance that is very unconvincing. The male lead is the same as that in The Day Will Dawn. The movie is in general silly.The Flemish Farm 1943 4Clive Brook, Clifford Evans, Jane BaxterPlot and screen play is from a true story: the folding of the colors of the Belgian Airforce as the Nazis closed in on Belgium and the restoration of those colors. Very well acted. The drama is sustained, plot and character are developed, there is tragedy and reward. This is a good movie.
Reviewer: Robin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Wonderful British collection
Review: Great movie selection. Our favorite so far is the first film in the pack, but all we've watched have been good. My husband is a WWII movie buff and it is now getting very difficult to find film collections without duplication of films he already has, so this pack is a godsend. He has never seen these British films and is loving them.
Reviewer: Christiane Lloyd
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Movieâs
Review: Very enjoyable
Reviewer: Talentseer
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Patriotic, enjoyable...all in black and white
Review: I liked them all except for "The Wind Cannot Read" which I thought was boring. But the rest are all not only good, some I would say are excellent. If you're looking for masterpieces like "Where Eagles Dare" or "The Guns of Navarone," these aren't for you. But if you want the basics from very talented British actors and writers, you'll like this. Very patriotic war movies, portraying the very best in British war cinema, just like the title says. Not complicated and no deep thinking here. Just plain good enjoyment and all in black and white (the cover package is deceptive...there are no color movies here, my only complaint).
Reviewer: Don G. Schley
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great British Perspectives on the War
Review: All great films. Living in the USA, one gets the impression that WWII was somehow "our war". These films bring home the fact that the British were up to their necks in this war for two and-a-half years before the US got into it. As such, these films bring the British perspective home.
Reviewer: Dolly and me
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: The old movies have a certain kind of appeal. The actors are great and the stories interesting. This was a good collection of war stories.
Reviewer: Poseidia
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Good value for money and interesting film choice too
Reviewer: J. Tracey
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Well worth the cost for 10 solid British made WWII films.... some of them impossible to find on single dvds.The quality of the prints varies but even saying that, all very watchable. The younger generation viewing them now would consider most of them hokey but look past this and the cartoonish Nazis to see how the Brits used these films as "propaganda" to show how good will always triumph over evil.Sure, they are not comparable with the Modern version of Dunkirk or Saving Private Ryan or even the classic Battle of Britain... but I will cherish this collection and continue to re-watch them over and over with the other above mentioned titles.If you are at all a fan of British made WWII films made around the war period do yourself a favour and scoop up this set... look past the less than perfect quality of some of the prints and appreciate them for what they are and why they were made.Trust me; you'll be cheering for the brits and allies and yelling out "Stinking Nazis" at every turn.
Reviewer: Jenny
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Bien recu
Reviewer: Diana
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This product was Okay and showed some good old movies, but somewhat past their prime and not all that realistic.