Showing posts with label WWII. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WWII. Show all posts

Thursday 26 March 2015

A Bridge Too Far (1977)

Directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, 
Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Hardy Kruger, 
Ryan O'Neal, Laurence Olivier, Robert Redford, Maximilian Schell and Liv Ullmann.


2-disc Special Edition DVD bought in 2004

Blu-ray bought in 2011
176m 12s







 Blu-ray





DVD extras -
Audio commentary by screenwriter William Goldman and the main crew
Heroes from the sky (43mins)
A distant battle - Memories of operation Market Garden (17mins)
Interview with director Richard Attenborough (18mins)
Photo gallery
Theatrical Trailer

Wednesday 25 March 2015

The Eagle Has Landed (1976)

Directed by John Sturges and starring Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, 
Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasance, Anthony Quayle and Larry Hagman.


2-disc Special Edition DVD bought in 2004
135mins








Includes Theatrical and Extended versions of the film.
Restoration Notes
Interviews - Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, John Sturges
Location Reports (from 1976)
Theatrical Trailer

Midway (1976)

Also known as - Battle of Midway.

Directed by Jack Smight and starring Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner, Hal Holbrook and Toshiro Mifune.


DVD bought in 2003
131m 20s







The Making Of Midway (39mins)
The Sounds Of Midway
The Score Of Midway
They Were There
Photograph montage

Additional scenes
Theatrical trailer

Wednesday 11 March 2015

Kelly's Heroes (1970)

Directed by Brian G. Hutton and starring Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, 
Carroll O' Connor and Donald Sutherland.


DVD bought in 2004

Blu-ray bought in 2015
143m 31s





 DVD





Theatrical Trailer

Patton (1970)

Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starring George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates and 
Karl Michael Vogler.


2-disc Special DVD bought in 2006

Blu-ray bought in 2013
172mins





 DVD








DVD extras -

Audio commentary with co-writer Francis Ford Coppola
History Through The Lens: Patton - A Rebel Revisited (90mins)
Patton's Ghost Corps (47mins)
The Making of Patton (50mins)
Production stills -Jerry Goldsmith's Complete Musical Score  (36 min)
Behind the scenes - with Audio Essay "The Historical Patton" by historian Charles Province (53mins)
Theatrical trailer

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

Directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, E.G. Marshall,
James Whitmore and Jason Robards.



DVD bought in 2004

2-disc DVD bought in 2006

40th Anniversary Blu-ray bought in 2012
148m 53s





 DVD





 2-disc DVD








 Blu-ray extras -

Audio commentary with director Richard Fleischer and film historian Stuart Galbraith IV
Optional Extended Japanese Cut
Day of Infamy (20mins)
History vs. Hollywood – Tora! Tora! Tora! A Giant Awakes (90mins)
AMC Backstory: Tora! Tora! Tora! (22mins)
FOX Movietone Newsreels (40mins)
Theatrical trailer
Behind-the-Scenes Gallery
Production Gallery

Monday 9 March 2015

Battle of Britain (1969)

Directed by Guy Hamilton and starring Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Harry Andrews, 
Trevor Howard, Curt Jurgens, Ian McShane, Kenneth More, Christopher Plummer, 
Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, Robert Shaw and Susannah York.



2-disc Special Edition DVD bought in 2004

Blu-ray bought in 2011
132m 10s







 Blu-ray





DVD extras -

Audio commentary with Guy Hamilton, Bernard Williams and Paul Annet
Optional track with William Walton score
Battle for the Battle of Britain (50mins)
Authenticity in the Air (23mins)
A Film for the Few (20mins)
Recollections of an RAF Squadron Leader
Images From the Sky
Theatrical Trailer