An Ealing production which revolves around life among British officers in a German POW camp, and their families at home during those years of uncertainty and doubt.
Ealing studios' output from the 1940s and 1950s helped define what was arguably the golden ... more
age for British Cinema. The Captive Heart, released in 1946, comes from this legendary studio.Starring a host of Ealing favourites, including Michael Redgrave, Basil Radford and Jack Warner, The Captive Heart is the story of a group of British prisoners of War, captured after Dunkirk in 1940. Amongst them is a man known as Captain Geoffrey Mitchell who has assumed the identity of a dead man after escaping from a concentration camp. With exposure seeming inevitable, the man seeks desperately to escape the camp and therefore the fate which awaits him.
Starring a host of Ealing favourites including Michael Redgrave Basil Radford and Jack ... more
Warner The Captive Heart is the story of a group of British prisoners of War captured after Dunkirk in 1940. Amongst them is a man known as Captain Geoffrey Mitchell - the identity of a dead man which he has assumed after escaping from a concentration camp. With exposure seeming inevitable the man seeks desperately to escape the camp and therefore the fate that awaits him.
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Advantages: Loveley Movies Disadvantages: Bad quality, predictable selection of movies
Ealing studios have a history which spreads across over a hundred classic films enjoyed by individuals around the world. Several Box sets have been released over the years and this ' Definitive Collection' seems to contain yet again the same small selection of films favoured in previous collections.
It would be nice to see a wider range of Ealings productions available, especially seeing as the Studios had and still have a massive fanbase for their work. The quality of the films themselves is terrible, and one would think that in the age of digital re mastering that something would have been done to touch up some of the more grainy and poor quality pictures in this collection. It would be wonderful to see a larger range of perhaps more diverse Ealing Studios Productions, or at least some remastered versions of these popular movies. ...
Advantages: Horribly gory at times Disadvantages: No characterisation
and flashes of colour to attract the audience. Frankly, I've seen much better made films than this and without character development, it just isn't anything out of the ordinary, for all I was shocked by some of the nasty bits.
The ending of the film just about saved it from being truly awful, but I am still hard pressed to recommend it to anyone. If you like gory horrors and don't mind waiting until nearly the end before the story starts to get interesting, then by all means rent it. Otherwise, I think you should stay well clear. Not recommended.
Please note that I am reviewing the film only version.
The DVD is available from play.com for £5.99.
Classification: 18
Running time: 96 minutes ...
sunmeilan 24.02.2008
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Advantages: You'll be happy if you like Elisha Cuthbert not wearing much. Disadvantages: Wooden performances, shoddy direction, poor writing and no real scares.
distorted electronic arrangements and reverberating strings. There are some thriller string themes for various escape attempts and the usual music box chimes for the flashbacks to the killer's childhood that are supposed to hint at corrupted innocence but have become overused. Like the incidental music for many horror movies at the moment, the music continues in the same vein after the action draws to a close. This is misleading as it suggests the terror is set to continue despite the story clearly being over. Overall there isn't quite enough to the score for it to be effective.
"Captivity" is yet another horror movie trying to cash in on the fashion for torture movies. And like most of their ilk it is derivative, repetitive, poorly directed and badly written. The performances feel amateurish and utterly lacking in depth. The story (such as it ...
afy9mab 28.08.2007
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An Ealing production which revolves around life among British officers in a German POW camp, and their families at home during those years of uncertainty and doubt.
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