Combat Classics 50 MoviePack
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Actor: James Cagney, Randolph Scott, Richard Arlen, Ronald ReaganBrand: Digital1stop
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 4196 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-06
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Model: MV07040
Studio: Mill Creek Entertainment
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- 50 gripping feature films capture the heroism and the horror of war in this collection compiled by Mill Creek Entertainment. You will findic screen legends such as Richard Arlen, Randolph Scott, Van Johnson, James Cagney, Claudette Colbert, Ronald Reagan and Montgomery Clift. Classic movies include Gung Ho, Go For Broke, Blood on the Sun, The Big Lift, Hell in Normandy and many more. There's plent
DVD Reviews of Combat Classics 50 MoviePack
DVD Review: This is an under-rated collection.
Summary: 4 Stars
Most of the combat in these "Classics" takes place in World War 2, although there is the occasional departure such as the Civil War and even African war film. I liked most of them. Even if they weren't thrilling as films in themselves they were interesting artifacts of life from several decades ago.
THE ADVENTURES OF TARTU: aka SABOTAGE AGENT, This film pits a chemical engineer (Captain Stevenson) who is fluent in Rumanian, German and Russian against Nazis. Stevenson becomes an Iron Guard named Tartu and attempts to upset a Nazi plot by destroying a poison gas factory. He needs help from the local resistance to succeed. But how, posing as a Nazi, can he get the underground to trust him? This one is pretty well written and thought out.
AERIAL GUNNER: Chester Morris and Richard Arlen are lifelong rivals who somehow end up in the Air Corps, in the same unit, at the same time, as.... (Drum roll)....Aerial Gunners! When they're not busy training with their .50 caliber machine guns they're busy trying to outmaneuver each other for the attention of the scrumptious Amelita Ward, who looks young enough to be their daughter. This is a typical WW2 propaganda movie which won't do you any damage but it's not really exciting or interesting either.
BATTLE OF THE EAGLES: An interesting Yugoslavian WWII film about the unsung story of the Yugoslavian Partisan air-force which, with outdated biplanes, took on the mighty Luftwaffe in 1942 Occupied Yugoslavia. It's a decent story but suffers from Yugoslavian production values and editing. The story deserves a big-budget re-make.
BLOOD ON THE SUN: A chipper little Jimmy Cagney movie wherein our hero plays a savvy newspaper editor stationed in Japan just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. He gets wind of the invasion and risks it all to get a hold of the plans and get them to US authorities. It's a decent enough little story made much better by Cagney's spitfire performance. It's capped off with an amazing fight scene in which Cagney shows off his Judo black belt.
BOMBS OVER BURMA: Anna May Wong plays a Chinese school teacher who helps keep a supply line open from China into Burma during WW2. It's not a lavish production by any means but Anna May has a natural screen presence and there is enough tension to keep you interested.
DESERT COMMANDOS: Italian director Umberto Lenzi's excellent WW2 film about 5 Nazi Soldiers who parachute into North Africa in order to assassinate Churchill, Roosevelt and DeGaulle, who are holding a major conference. It's more of a thriller than an action movie and it's a little slow getting started but by the end of the film you'll be on the edge of your seat.
DRUMS IN THE DEEP SOUTH: Two buds from West point find themselves on opposite ends of the battlefield in this pretty standard Civil War drama. Meh.
IDENTITY UNKNOWN: An interesting World War II psychological drama in which a soldier survives a bombing but suffers amnesia. His three buddies were not only all killed but all burned beyond recognition, so he doesn't know which of the four of them he is. It's actually pretty interesting and Cheryl Walker, the 1938 Pasadena Rose Queen, is easy on the eyes.
SUBMARINE ALERT: Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese submarine. Luckily, the FBI, a patriotic radio engineer and good old American gumption trip up the Ratzis. It's a decent little WW2 spy thriller that moves at a decent pace once it gets going. This one is not going to knock your socks off but it's definitely entertaining.
IMMORTAL BATTALION aka THE WAY AHEAD: This is a fine, highly patriotic British WW2 film about the training up of a rag-tag bunch of Brits into an efficient fighting force. David Niven drew on real life experience as a training officer for this film, which was written by Peter Ustinov.
MINESWEEPER: Richard Arlen and Jean Parker team up again to wave the flag during WW2. Arlen is a deserter who re-joins the navy after WW2 breaks out he finds redemption and Jean parker but not without butting heads with Russell Hayden and the Nazis. It's the usual stuff, although you learn some interesting details about the operation of a minesweeper.
ONE OF OUR AIRCRAFT IS MISSING: An RAF bomber crew bails out of their damaged plane over Nazi Occupied Holland. They spend the rest of the movie trying to get back to England with the help of the Dutch underground. Peter Ustinov makes his screen debut as a priest. While it is a propaganda film it purposely eschews many of the stereotypes found in this type of film, substituting realism and genuine thoughtfulness instead.
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