Blu-ray War Classics Bundle (Patton / The Longest Day / Sand Pebbles) - (Amazon.com Exclusive) [Blu-ray]

Blu-ray War Classics Bundle (Patton / The Longest Day / Sand Pebbles) - (Amazon.com Exclusive) [Blu-ray]

Blu-ray War Classics Bundle (Patton / The Longest Day / Sand Pebbles) - (Amazon.com Exclusive) [Blu-ray]
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Actor: Patton, Sand Pebbles, The Longest Day
Audio: English (Unknown)
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-24
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox

Movie Reviews of Blu-ray War Classics Bundle (Patton / The Longest Day / Sand Pebbles) - (Amazon.com Exclusive) [Blu-ray]

Movie Review: THE LONGEST DAY / PATTON
Summary: 5 Stars


The other Reviewer on this page states that The Longest Day was only MONO when it came out

This is not the case '
It was released in CinemaScope and 4 Track magnetic Sound giving you
Stereo and Surrounds.
It was later Released in 70MM in 1970 ,blows up fro the CinemaScope prints.

PATTON was made in Dimension 150 70mm and 6 Track Magnetic Sound
The Sound on the Bluray release is excellent.

Summary of Blu-ray War Classics Bundle (Patton / The Longest Day / Sand Pebbles) - (Amazon.com Exclusive) [Blu-ray]

Patton
One of the greatest screen biographies ever produced, this monumental film runs nearly three hours, won seven Academy Awards, and gave George C. Scott the greatest role of his career. It was released in 1970 when protest against the Vietnam War still raged at home and abroad, and many critics and moviegoers struggled to reconcile current events with the movie's glorification of Gen. George S. Patton as a crazy-brave genius of World War II. How could a movie so huge in scope and so fascinated by its subject be considered an anti-war film? The simple truth is that it's not--Patton is less about World War II than about the rise and fall of a man whose life was literally defined by war, and who felt lost and lonely without the grand-scale pursuit of an enemy. George C. Scott embodies his role so fully, so convincingly, that we can't help but be drawn to and fascinated by Patton as a man who is simultaneously bound for hell and glory. The film's opening monologue alone is a masterful display of acting and character analysis, and everything that follows is sheer brilliance on the part of Scott and director Franklin J. Schaffner. Filmed on an epic scale at literally dozens of European locations, Patton does not embrace war as a noble pursuit, nor does it deny the reality of war as a breeding ground for heroes. Through the awesome achievement of Scott's performance and the film's grand ambition, Patton shows all the complexities of a man who accepted his role in life and (like Scott) played it to the hilt. --Jeff Shannon


The Longest Day
After seeing Saving Private Ryan, this epic tale about the Normandy invasion will look sanitized. But in its re-creation of events leading to the epochal battle, the film is captivating and grand, and the parade of famous actors who cross the screen naturally give the already charged action even more of a boost. Three directors worked on it: Ken Annakin (Battle of the Bulge), Andrew Marton (Crack in the World), and Bernhard Wicki (this film being his only credit). --Tom Keogh


The Sand Pebbles
Following the success of The Sound of Music, director Robert Wise chose to film Robert McKenna's prize-winning 1962 novel, The Sand Pebbles--an ambitious choice for a director at the peak of his career. Shot in Taiwan and Hong Kong, the film combines historical sweep and intimate human drama in several parallel stories, all revolving around U.S. Navy machinist's mate Jake Holman (Steve McQueen). Holman is a skillful but fiercely independent sailor who joins the "sand pebble" crew of the U.S.S. San Pablo, a Navy gunboat patrolling the Yangtze River on the eve of the Chinese revolution in 1926. The San Pablo's inexperienced captain (Richard Crenna) obsessively defends the Navy's mission--however unnecessary or unwanted--to protect American missionaries and businessmen, blind to the more dangerous implications of American involvement with China's opposing political factions. Holman is a defiant voice of humanity in this clash between outmoded values and inevitable change; his final line of dialogue ("What the hell happened?") is a tragic summation of misguided policy, expressing the film's criticism of the Vietnam War. Rather than preach, however, Wise lets McKenna's potent drama emerge from finely-drawn relationships--between Holman and a young American teacher (19-year-old Candice Bergen, in her second film); between Holman and the Chinese "coolie" (Mako) whose heartbreaking fate transcends all issues of racial or political difference; and between crewmate "Frenchy" Burgoyne (Richard Attenborough) and the Chinese woman he's sworn to love and protect at all costs. Combined with the film's colorful supporting cast, adventurous scope, and climactic battle scenes, these personal dynamics bring substance and spirit to a complex story of good intentions gone awry. --Jeff Shannon

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