Review(s): DVD The Great Escape/Run Silent, Run Deep
You Would be Wise to Buy this Robert Wise Set
Director Robert Wise started something very entertaining in the ActionWar Genre: The now classic submarine stories (Hunt for Red October, Crimson Tide, U-571). Wise directed the submarine movie that started it all: RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP. If you liked HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, CRIMSON TIDE, andor U-571, you will absolutely love 'RUN SILENT.' Then you can watch one of the best overall war movies ever, THE GREAT ESCAPE. One of the definitive Steve McQueen movies, it is the classic tale of POW camp breakout by a group of classic actors. From the first minute, to the ending credits, you will feel as though you too have escaped from a POW camp. Together, thay may be the best combo on the market today, so add them to your collection ASAP.
A must in your War Library
Both War Classics are of the Golden Age of the Silver Screen. Both are of the rare 10 star for my library.
If only Holleywood would watch these and relearn how to make movies right.
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A model for dozens of action films to follow, this box-office hit from 1967 refined a die-hard formula that has become overly familiar, but it's rarely been handled better than it was in this action-packed World War II thriller. Lee Marvin is perfectly cast as a down-but-not-out army major who is offered a shot at personal and professional redemption. If he can successfully train and discipline a squad of army rejects, misfits, killers, prisoners, and psychopaths into a first-rate unit of specialized soldiers, they'll earn a second chance to make up for their woeful misdeeds. Of course, there's a catch: to obtain their pardons, Marvin's band of badmen must agree to a suicide mission that will parachute them into the danger zone of Nazi-occupied France. It's a hazardous path to glory, but... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Lee Marvin - Ernest Borgnine - Charles Bronson - John Cassavetes - Telly Savalas Director(s): Robert Aldrich DVD Release Date: Released the 16 May 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Director David Lean's masterful 1957 realization of Pierre Boulle's novel remains a benchmark for war films, and a deeply absorbing movie by any standard--like most of Lean's canon, The Bridge on the River Kwai achieves a richness in theme, narrative, and characterization that transcends genre.
The story centers on a Japanese prison camp isolated deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia, where the remorseless Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) has been charged with building a vitally important railway bridge. His clash of wills with a British prisoner, the charismatic Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), escalates into a duel of honor, Nicholson defying his captor's demands to win concessions for his troops. How the two officers reach a compromise, and Nicholson becomes obsessed with... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): William Holden - Alec Guinness Director(s): David Lean DVD Release Date: Released the 21 November 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The Longest Day is Hollywood's definitive D-day movie. More modern accounts such as Saving Private Ryan are more vividly realistic, but producer Darryl F. Zanuck's epic 1962 account is the only one to attempt the daunting task of covering that fateful day from all perspectives. From the German high command and front-line officers to the French Resistance and all the key Allied participants, the screenplay by Cornelius Ryan, based on his own authoritative book, is as factually accurate as possible. The endless parade of stars (John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Sean Connery, and Richard Burton, to name a few) makes for an uneasy mix of verisimilitude and Hollywood star-power, however, and the film falls a little flat for too much of its three-hour running... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Richard Burton Director(s): Andrew Marton - Ken Annakin - Darryl F. Zanuck - Bernhard Wicki DVD Release Date: Released the 06 November 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The wartime memories of surviving World War II bomber squadrons were still crystal clear when this acclaimed drama was released in 1949--one of the first postwar films out of Hollywood to treat the war on emotionally complex terms. Framed by a postwar prologue and epilogue and told as a flashback appreciation of wartime valor and teamwork, the film stars Gregory Peck in one of his finest performances as a callous general who assumes command of a bomber squadron based in England. At first, the new commander has little rapport with the 918th Bomber Group, whose loyalties still belong with their previous commander. As they continue to fly dangerous missions over Germany, however, the group and their new leader develop mutual respect and admiration, until the once-alienated commander feels... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Henry King DVD Release Date: Released the 21 May 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Scorned by reviewers when it came out, this concentrated dose of commando death-dealing to legions of Nazi machine-gun fodder has acquired a cult over the years. In 1968 Clint Eastwood was just getting used to the notion that he might be a world-class movie star; Richard Burton, whose image had been shaped equally by classical theater training and his headline-making romance with Elizabeth Taylor, was eager to try on the action ethos Eastwood was already nudging toward caricature. Alistair MacLean's novel The Guns of Navarone had inspired the film that started the '60s vogue for World War II military capers, so he was prevailed on to write the screenplay (his first). The central location, an impregnable Alpine stronghold locked in ice and snow, is surpassing cool, but the plot and... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Richard Burton - Clint Eastwood Director(s): Brian G. Hutton DVD Release Date: Released the 02 September 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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