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TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: War - Battlefront Asia (Bataan / Back to Bataan / The Green Berets / Destination Tokyo)

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(2)
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For those who are curious, The Green Berets has finally gotten a facelift. The two previous releases were non-anamorphic flippers, which is to say that you had to turn the disc over halfway through the movie to see the end. Thankfully, with this release Warners has fixed the old configuration and issued The Green Berets in anamorphic widescreen on one dual-layered side of a disc. So, no more flipping to finish the movie and anamorphic to boot! The remaining movies are identical to their previous releases, including the same extras.

Hey now, how could it get any better than this.
Four Movies for the price of One.
TMC I love collecting your movies.
Amazon thanks for the Special Deal on these four movies.

these are really good movies, all great classics. Only one is in color - the Green Berets, but once you get into the movies, you forget all about the color. Destination Tokyo was terrific. The action was great and the scene about the surgery of the sailor by the corpsman was true. The surgery took place on the USS Silversides, which is docked in Muskegon,Michigan at a Naval Historical Museum.

Looking at the cover, I don't see where it states this is a WWII collection. Only that it is "War Collection Battlefront Asia". It appears to me that Amazon made the mistake when they tagged it as a WWII collection. You can't knock the DVD for that. These are all great movies at a price you can't beat.

The Films are naturaly a bit dated. But it's nice to see some of the old pros in their younger years. And after all, the price is right.

4 movies in 2 wars all set in the Pacific.

The reasoning in my opinion:

Destination Tokyo 5 out of 10 - Cary Grant, John Garfield in a submarine destined for Tokyo in 1941.
Back to Bataan 4 out of 10 - John Wayne coming back to lead the Filipino resistance.
Bataan 3 out of 10 - Robert Taylor and Lloyd Nolan fight a losing battle so John Wayne can return.
Green Berets 0 out of 10 - a John Wayne Vietnam propaganda piece that is a bad movie as well. It's cowboys and indians, white hats vs. black hats - reality was nowhere that simple minded. So bad I sometimes had to laugh to keep from crying. Roger Ebert probably thinks I'm being kind, I think he gave it 0 stars as well.

Average 3 out of 10 or 1.5 out of 5
because only the Green Berets drives it down,
I went with 2 stars.

The Green Berets takes place during the Vietnam War, not WWII.

Apparently not much thought when into these "classic" collections.