Their finest hour [dvd] : 5 British WWII classics ; Dunkirk ; The dam busters ; Ice cold in Alex ; The Colditz story ; Went the day well? / Film Movement classics ; Studiocanal.
Format:
[dvd] :
Edition:
Fullscreen.
Publisher:
Film Movement Classics ;
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
5 videodiscs (575 minutes) : mono. sound ; black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Went the day well? (Motion picture) Dam busters (Motion picture) Colditz story (Motion picture) Dunkirk (Motion picture : 1958) Ice cold in Alex (Motion picture)
Notes:
"New digital restorations"--Container. "Featuring over 4 hours of bonus content: 3 documentaries, interviews, archival footage, home movies shot by John Mills, and more!"--Container. Went the day well?: Leslie Banks, C. V. France, Valerie Taylor, Marie Lohr, Harry Fowler. The Colditz story: John Mills, Lionel Jeffries, Bryan Forbes. The dam busters: Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Basil Sydney, Patrick Barr. Dunkirk: John Mills, Richard Attenborough. Ice cold in Alex: John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle, Harry Andrews, Diane Clare.
Summary:
Went the day well? (1942; directed by Alberto Cavalcanti): Based on the story of Graham Greene, this Ealing Studios wartime production tells the story of a quiet English village that has been infiltrated by disguised German soldiers. The Colditz story (1955; directed by Guy Hamilton): Nazi Germany believed that no man could escape from Colditz Castle, but a group of Allied prisoners of war were determined to prove them wrong. The dam busters (1955; directed by Michael Anderson): Against all odds, an RAF squadron destroys German dams with "bouncing bombs." Based on true events and the inspiration for Star Wars' Death Star attack sequence. Dunkirk (1958; directed by Leslie Norman): John Mills and Richard Attenborough star in the first cinematic retelling of the 1940 evacuation of Dunkirk, code-named Operation Dynamo. Ice cold in Alex (1958; directed by J. Lee Thompson) Captain Anson (John Mills) of the Royal Army Service Corps dreams of an ice cold beer but first he must lead his medical unit to safety across the perilous North African desert.
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