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A Bridge Too Far/The Great Escape/Battle of Britain (Blu-ray disc)
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A Bridge Too Far/The Great Escape/Battle of Britain (Blu-ray disc)
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Loot Price R234
Discovery Miles 2 340
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Triple bill of war classics. 'A Bridge Too Far' (1977) is Richard
Attenborough's star-studded account of the failed 1944 Arnheim
assault. Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Robert Redford and Sean Connery
are among those battling against insurmountable odds - foul
weather, bad luck, negligence on the part of intelligence officers
- to secure one of the bridges essential to the Allied advance into
Germany. Gene Hackman, Michael Caine and Anthony Hopkins also star.
'The Great Escape' (1963) is set during World War Two. A collection
of hardened Allied prisoners are kept in an 'escape-proof' German
camp. Led by the 'Big X' (Richard Attenborough), the men formulate
a plan for a mass breakout, digging three tunnels - Tom, Dick and
Harry. The team behind the escape includes a near-blind forger of
passports (Donald Pleasance), a claustrophobic tunnel-digger
(Charles Bronson) and the independent American 'Cooler King' (Steve
McQueen). With men like that on their side, how can they fail? Guy
Hamilton's classic war film 'Battle of Britain' (1969) looks at how
England defended itself from the German aerial onslaught of the
summer of 1940. Laurence Olivier plays Sir Hugh Dowding, the air
chief marshal whose fleet outmanouevre the Luftwaffe, despite a
numerical disadvantage; and those few to whom so many owed so much
are portrayed by an all-star cast including Michael Caine, Kenneth
More and Ralph Richardson. Despite its pro-British slant, the
authenticity of the film's impressive flying sequences was
guaranteed by the technical advice of Adolf Galland, one of the
Nazi's most celebrated World War 2 pilots.
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- Commentary: John Sturges (Director)
- Making Of Documentary
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