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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat set of War films!
ByRick Laneon June 4, 2013
Again Universal did an awesome job on these movies and putting them in a wonderful collection. These are great movies, but don't expect too much War action. There isn't any special features and there is only English audio and no other language and subtitles. There are three disks with four on the first and three each on the last two disks. Two of these films were also released as DVD-R and now you can get them as straight DVD with no MOD. There are also two films that have never been released on DVD and now you can have them. All quality of the movies are quite good and I can't tell any difference from past releases. "The Eagle and the Hawk" and "The Last Outpost" were part of a TCM Vault box sets.
Here are the movies included:
The Eagle and the Hawk (1933/B&W/Full frame/68mins)
-Fredric March, Cary Grant, Jack Oakie, Carole Lombard; Directed by Stuart Walker
The Last Outpost (1935/B&W/Full frame/72mins)
-Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Gertrude Michael, Kathleen Burke, ; Directed by Charles Barton & Louis J. Gasnier
Wake Island (1942/B&W/Full frame/87mins)
-Brian Donlevy, Macdonald Carey, Robert Preston, William Bendix, Albert Dekker, Walter Abel; Directed by John Farrow
Bengal Brigade (1954/color/Widescreen/87mins) - 1st time on DVD!
-Rock Hudson, Arlene Dahl, Ursula Thiess, Torin Thatcher, Arnold Moss, Dan O'Herlihy; Directed by Laslo Benedek
To Hell and Back (1955/color/Widescreen/106mins)
-Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Charles Drake, Jack Kelly, Gregg Palmer, Paul Picerni, David Janssen ; Directed by Jesse Hibbs
Battle Hymn (1957/color/Widescreen/108mins)
-Rock Hudson, Anna Kashfi, Dan Duryea, Don DeFore, Martha Hyer, Jock Mahoney, Alan Hale Jr.; Directed by Douglas Sirk
Jet Pilot (1957/color/Widescreen/112mins)
-John Wayne, Janet Leigh, Jay C. Flippen, Paul Fix, Richard Rober; Directed by Josef von Sternberg
In Enemy Country (1968/color/Widescreen/107mins) - 1st time on DVD!
-Anthony Franciosa, Anjanette Comer, Guy Stockwell, Tom Bell, John Marley; Directed by Harry Keller
Raid on Rommel (1971/color/Widescreen/99mins)
-Richard Burton, John Colicos, Clinton Greyn, Wolfgang Preiss; Directed by Henry Hathaway
Ulzana's Raid (1972/color/Widescreen/103mins)
-Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison, Jorge Luke, Richard Jaeckel, Joaquín Martínez; Directed by Robert Aldrich
Overall this is an excellent of Wars and Western to add to your collection and if you have any of these already this is a great item to free up some DVD space. I would and I have recommended this set. Universal did a great job that I wish they would do another more.
