David Lean Collection (Box Set)

David Lean Collection (Box Set)

Production Year: 1957 - War - Director: David Lean - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over more

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Three features. One of the all-time great war films, 'The Bridge On The River Kwai is from the marvelous David Lean ('Lawrence Of Arabia', 'Dr. Zhivago'). The film is an...
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As a director David Lean's first intention was always to tell a story few directors were ... more
as able to convey the spirit of a place on film.
Surprising the audience was very important to
David Lean whether it was Pip rushing straight
into Magwitch in the graveyard in Great
Expectations or Harold Hobson drunkenly pursuing
the moon in a puddle in Hobson's Choice Lean
conjured up image after image to amaze amuse move
or excite his audience. Set Comprises: The Sound
Barrier (1952): A tale of male courage and an
adventure into the unknown but also the story of
the women who wait at home. A self-made aircraft
manufacturer is determined that his company will
be the first to build a plane which flies faster
than sound. Hobson's Choice (1954): The eldest
daughter of an alcoholic self-important Lancashire
bootmaker marries his boot-hand and sets up a
rival business. Blithe Spirit (1945): A happily
married author writing a novel on mediums invites
one to supper one evening. After holding a seance
the husband's deceased first wife appears and
begins to cause chaos! Brief Encounter (1946):
Noel Coward's sensitive portrayal of what happens
when two happily married strangers played by
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson meet and their
acquaintance deepens into affection and eventually
into love. It is the story of two people thrown
together by the chance meeting of the title
helpless in the face of their emotions but
redeemed by their moral courage. Great
Expectations (1946): A stylish film presentation
of Charles Dickens' heart warming story of a young
man befriending an escaped convict who becomes his
unknown benefactor and of the consequences for the
young man as he establishes himself in the world.
Oliver Twist (1948): Oliver Twist orphaned at
birth and raised in the workhouse is expelled for
daring to ask the Beadle for more food. Unhappily
apprenticed to an Undertaker Oliver escaped to
London where he meets the cheeky Artful Dodger the
villainous Fagin the aggressive Bill Sykesand the
kindly but doomed Nancy. Torn constantly between
the forces of good and evil Oliver eventually
seals his fate by picking the pocket of a rich
gentleman. Madeleine (1950) Lean's accomplished
film of the famous Scottish Madeleine Smith case
in which a woman from a wealthy family is accused
of the murder of her lover. The Passionate Friends
(1949): Through her marriage to a wealthy
financier Mary Justin has the freedom and comfort
she has always yearned for but her life is one
that lacks emotional fulfilment. On a visit to
Switzerland she runs into an old friend Steven
Stratton with whom she once had a passionate love
affair many years before her marriage. Her meeting
with Steven rekindles old memories of a friendship
of the most beautiful kind. This Happy Breed
(1944): A splendidly acted classic portraying how
an ordinary British family lived between the wars.
Just after WWI the Gibbons family moves to a nice
house in the suburbs. The inhabitants of 17
Sycamore Road are ordinary people with their
irritable in-laws their just-plain-folks
camaraderie and their unshakeable belief that no
matter how hard the times are Mother England is
forged of good stock and common sense will somehow
prevail. In Which We Serve (1942): The story of
the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Torrin and those that
serve in her. In the Battle of Crete she is
dive-bombed while streaming at thirty knots and
goes down fighting. We see through the memories of
her survivors the ordeals achievements and
gallantry of HMS Torrin from her commissioning
until she sinks in her last battle.
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Main specs

Actor(s): Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Geoffrey Horne, Andre Morell, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Percy Herbert, Ann Sears, Peter Williams, Harold Goodwin, K. Katsumoto, Henry Okawa, Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle, Peggy Ashcroft, Judy Davis, James Fox, Nigel Havers, Victor Banerjee, Saeed Jaffrey, Clive Swift

Director(s): David Lean

Genre: War

Classification: 12 years and over

Production Year: 1957

Running Time: 8 hours 49 minutes

Video Category: Feature Film

Plot: Three features. One of the all-time great war films, 'The Bridge On The River Kwai is from the marvelous David Lean ('Lawrence Of Arabia', 'Dr. Zhivago'). The film is an outstanding, psychologically complex adaptation of Pierre Boulle's 1952 novel, a classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson , the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans. Although credited to screenwriter Carl Foreman, the script was actually written by blacklisted writer Michael Wilson. The film garnered seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor. The climax is one of the great finales in film history. Also includes 'Lawrence Of Arabia' and 'Passage To India'.

DVD Description

Three features. One of the all-time great war films, 'The Bridge On The River Kwai is from the marvelous David Lean ('Lawrence Of Arabia', 'Dr. Zhivago'). The film is an outstanding, psychologically complex adaptation of Pierre Boulle's 1952 novel, a classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson , the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans. Although credited to screenwriter Carl Foreman, the script was actually written by blacklisted writer Michael Wilson. The film garnered seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor. The climax is one of the great finales in film history. Also includes 'Lawrence Of Arabia' and 'Passage To India'.

Release details

DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)

Studio(s): SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT; CINRAM LOGISTICS

Release date: 17/10/2005

No of Discs: 1

Catalogue No: CDRP 3299

Editor: Peter Taylor

Barcode: 5035822329911

Screenwriter: Calder Willingham, Michael Henry Wilson, Carl Foreman

Composer: Malcolm Arnold

Producer: Sam Spiegel

Author: Pierre Boulle, E.M. Forster

Writer: Pierre Boulle

Languages

Main Language: English

Award information

OSCAR: Best Actor In A Leading Role 1957 (Alec Guinness)

OSCAR: Best Director 1957 (David Lean)

OSCAR: Best Screenplay Based On Material Previously Produced Or Published 1957 (Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman)

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