Raid on Entebbe

Raid on Entebbe
by Irvin Kershner

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Actor: Horst Buchholz, John Saxon, Martin Balsam, Peter Finch, Sylvia Sidney
Director: Irvin Kershner
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-07-03
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Televista

DVD Reviews of Raid on Entebbe

DVD Review: Wish I'd read the reviews first
Summary: 1 Stars

It's a great movie. Unfortunately my four hour mode vhs off air copy made about 30 years ago is a superior recording to the dvd I just watched which I presume is the current release, having bought it Jan 15, 2010. There is no question whatsoever that this dvd was mastered from a vhs. How can I tell? When the "hi-fi" audio tracks of a vhs tape mis-track it produces a very distinctive fluttering sound. This dvd is full of that sort of mistracking. Then there's the overlap at the reel change where approximately 45 seconds of the show is repeated, followed immediately by a breakup and an upcut that omits about 95% of one scene. For a commercial release this kind of quality is totally unacceptable. There is a special place in the hereafter for the "engineer" who mastered this piece of crap. Here's a thought: Forget the fancy menu and the so called "extras" and try giving the customer a clean recording of the program.

DVD Review: 2007 edition is terrible
Summary: 2 Stars

Raid on Entebbe is a tightly directed film that portrays one of Israel's finest hours - it is a tense story of incredible danger, and heroic rescue. Unfortunately, the 2007 edition is like watching a 1960's television set with terrible reception. Amazon should not sell this version at any price.

DVD Review: Raid on Entebbe
Summary: 4 Stars

The Raid On Entebbe is very well done. The tactical accounts of the raid are accurate and a bit of story added to make it TV enjoyable. Charles Bronson and Jack Warden lead an allstar cast. Its ending is powerful. I would rate it a PG-13.

Synopsis: Palestinians hijack an inbound flight to Israel and divert the flight to Entebbe, Uganda. The premise that it was too far for Israel to deal with. Idi Amin gets his 15 minutes of fame and puts Uganda on the world map. It is believed that Amin's support of the terrorist was to cover his own plans. The raid is planned but the setup and go aheads need to be done quietly. The raid goes off and see the movie to know the ending.

This DVD was not available for while after 2001 and I was real glad to find it. It has some politically sensitive lines removed by Jack Warden such as flying planes into buildings. But several DVD versions of movies have had their politically controversial items removed. One that comes to mind is "Born In East LA" with Jan Michael Vincent role almost removed completely.

DVD Review: Excellent movie, Bad DVD!
Summary: 3 Stars

I completely agree with the last reviewer in Feb-09.
All in all, Excellent movie! Bad DVD! It says it is digitally re-mastered, but it is still BAD DVD!
I will avoid all products of WHAM!USA in the future.

DVD Review: Memorable scenes have been cut!
Summary: 2 Stars

This is a great movie depicting the events of the hijack of Air France flight 139 and Operation Thunderbolt (later named Operation Yonatan) accurately and in great detail. The movie keeps you on the edge of your seat and as the events unfold. I saw this movie on the History Channel, on Real to Reel hosted by Steve Gitland, and I enjoyed it so much that I went and bought the DVD here on Amazon. I received the 2007 remastered version distributed by WHAM!USA. The quality of the picture is poor on this disc, but my biggest disappointment is that there are a number of memorable scenes missing. There is at least one noticeable jump-cut in the film.

Some of the scenes that I saw on television but not on this DVD are as follows:
- The part where they took the passports away from the hostages.
- When Daniel Cooper's son is informed by a French airport official about the fate of his father's flight.
- An exchange between two hostages about trying to get into view of the television cameras during one of Idi Amin's visits.
- All the scenes showing the released non-Israeli hostages returning home.
- A catholic nun insisting on staying with the rest of the hostages.

All of these memorable scenes, that I was looking forward to seeing again, are GONE!

Although the raid itself seems largely intact but the scenes are so dark I had to rely on the memory of the TV version of the film to know what was happening. All in all, Excellent movie, Bad DVD! I will avoid all products of WHAM!USA in the future.

Description of Raid on Entebbe

It was in June 1976 that an Air France plane carrying 244 passengers and a crew of 12 on a flight from Athens to Paris was hijacked by terrorists who forced the captain to alter course and eventually land at Uganda's Entebbe Airport. With the tacit appro

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