COMPLETE WAR COLLECTION

 

(12 Disc DVD Collection) & three 3 disk WAR BOX SETS.
All fully restored and out on November 6.

 

War has always provided a rich seam of inspiration for film-makers, but the advent of World War II lent a patriotic imperative to the genre and brought an even greater number of war movies to the screen on both sides of the Atlantic. From the battle for the skies to struggles on the home front and in the desert, films such as The Dam Busters and Ice Cold In Alex dramatise all aspects of the conflict and its effect on human relationships. Featuring great performances from John Mills, Richard Attenborough, David Niven in films from directors as diverse as David Lean, Carol Reed and Sam Peckinpah, these 12 classic movies are tales of survival, heroism and endurance against all odds.

 

Colditz was thought by the Nazis to be impossible to escape from so in WW2 they made the somewhat rash decision to house there together all the most frequent escapees from amongst the Allied POWs – their story is immortalised in THE COLDITZ STORY. Based on the novel by Nicholas Monserrat, THE CRUEL SEA tells the story of the sailors on the boat assigned to protect convoy HMS Compass Rose whose near impossible mission is to seek and destroy U-Boats… THE DAM BUSTERS tells the still incredible story of the ingenious British plan to strike at the heart of German industry in 1943 by destroying their dams, and the bomb that had to be invented to achieve this… In WW2 M.E. Clifton-Jones was hired by the Americans to impersonate General Montgomery in order to mislead the Germans before the launch of their North Africa offensive. In I WAS MONTY’S DOUBLE, he repeats this incredible but true role, this time also playing himself. Sticking with the North African theme, ICE COLD IN ALEX refers to the beer that an army ambulance Captain has promised himself as a reward when he, two nurses, a mechanic and a mysterious South African officer complete their arduous and perilous trek across the deserts of North Africa to Alexandria. Based on a short story by Graham Greene, WENT THE DAY WELL is a superb piece of British wartime propaganda. Disguised German paratroopers set up an advance post for a planned invasion in an unsuspecting British village… Good old-fashioned British ingenuity strikes again in WOODEN HORSE – a true story of 3 POWS’ escape and subsequent attempt to reach neutral Sweden, having used a vaulting horse as a front for tunnel digging! Conversely in THEY WHO DARE, British troops are trying to get into enemy territory – a small Greek island that is home to two airfields from where the Luftwaffe are launching deadly air attacks on Allied troops in Norˆ«ï th Africa. With the help of some Greek patriots, the soldiers set out to attack the airfields having first to navigate their way through the many enemy troops… Sam Peckinpah’s classic CROSS OF IRON stars James Coburn. Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner and Senta Berger. 1943: a German platoon suffers heavy bombardment from surrounding Soviet troops as they try to affect their withdrawal from Russia: knowing that defeat is inevitable, their only goal is survival…. Carol Reed’s THE WAY AHEAD charges David Niven with the seemingly impossible task of moudling a reluctant bunch of conscripted British civilians for a secret mission in North Africa… far more keen although perhaps equally unlikely to succeed were the lightly armed British cruisers that took on the might of the German battleships to keep supply routes open in the North Sea. The incredible true story of their success is told in Powell & Pressburger’s THE BATTLE OF RIVER PLATE. The final film in this collection is the Oscar-winning IN WHICH WE SERVE, directed by Noel Coward and David Lean. In one of the most popular war films of all time, Coward, John Mills and Bernard Miles star as sailors clinging to the pieces of their doomed shipwreck after a torpedo attack. Their flashbacks prove an illuminating and heart-wrenching look at war and its devastating effects on human spirit.

 

THE COMPLETE WAR BOXSET
Cert: 18
Feature Running Time: 1, 159 mins approx
Aspect Ratio: Original ratios
B&W & Colour / Region 2
English Language / Mono
Catalogue No: OPTD0774
RRP: £79.99

The Colditz Story
The Cruel Sea
The Dam Busters
I Was Monty's Double
Ice Cold in Alex
Went the Day Well
The Wooden Horse
They Who Dare
Cross of Iron
The Way Ahead
In Which We Serve
The Battle of the River Plate

WAR BOX SET 1

Cert: PG
Cat No: OPTD0664
RRP: £19.99

Contains:
THE DAM BUSTERS
Running time: 120 mins approx
B/W / Aspect ratio: 4:3
English Language / Mono

THE CRUEL SEA
Running time: 121 mins approx
B/W / Aspect ratio: 4:3
English Language / Mono

THE COLDITZ STORY
Running time: 94 mins approx
B/W / Aspect ratio 16:9
English Language / Mono


WAR BOX SET 2

Cert: PG
Cert: OPTD0668
RRP: £19.99

Contains:
I WAS MONTY’S DOUBLE
Running time: 97 mins
B/W / Aspect Ratio: 4:3
English language/mono

ICE COLD IN ALEX
Running time: 124 mins approx
B/W / Aspect ratio: 16:9
English Language / Mono

WENT THE DAY WELL
Running time: 89 mins approx
B/W / Aspect ratio: 4:3
English Language / Mono

WAR BOX SET 3

Cert: 18
Cert: OPTD0672
RRP: £19.99

Contains:
CROSS OF IRON
Running time: 128 mins approx
Colour / Aspect ratio: 16:9
English/Mono

THE WOODEN HORSE
Running Time:98 mins approx
B/W / Aspect Ratio: 4:3
English/Mono

THEY WHO DARE
Running time: 103 mins approx
Colour / Aspect ratio: 4:3
English Language / Mono

 

 

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