Cause for (even) More Celebration October 19, 2006
Posted by John Hodson in : DVD News & Info, British Film , trackbackFurther to my pleas (see Cause for More Celebration) for more British made classics to be made available on DVD, I’m delighted to see DD Home Entertainment is set to release a number of great value box sets containing some real British made gems early next month:
Classic Gregory Peck Box Set - The Boys From Brazil, The Million Pound Note and The Purple Plain.
Classic Ralph Richardson Box Set - Silver Fleet, School for Secrets and The Day will Dawn.
Classic Alec Guinness Box Set - The Card, The Quiller Memorandum and The Malta Story.
Big Screen Sitcoms Box Set - The Army Game, Nearest And Dearest and The Larkins.
All At Sea Box Set - Carry on Admiral, Up The Creek and Further Up The Creek.
Boys Own Adventures Box Set - The Four Feathers, The Scarlet Pimpernel and Riddle Of The Sands.
Classic David Niven Box Set - Carrington VC, A Matter of Life and Death and The Way Ahead.
Classic H.G. Wells Box Set - Things to Come, The Man Who Could Work Miracles and The History of Mr Polly.
Classic Richard Attenborough Box Set - The Gift Horse, School for Secrets and Sea Of Sand.
Wings Of Victory Box Set - Appointment In London, The Lion Has Wings and Reach For The Sky.
Warriors Beneath The Waves Box Set - Above Us The Waves, Morning Departure and We Dive At Dawn.
DDHE is a mail order home entertainment operation whose catalogue doesn’t seem to be available at every etailer online, though, as you can see, they can be bought direct and are carried by the likes of Moviemail and to a lesser degree Play.com. Through a convoluted deal with Granada Ventures, they have access to Granada’s vast library of films, at times putting out titles that have also been licensed to Network, though not always to the same spec (their The Quiller Memorandum has no extras for instance). I’d also be wary of their The Boys from Brazil which is more than likely the same non-anamorphic version that has been around for some time. I’m eager to see Network bring this out as a special edition sometime soon.
DD’s releases aren’t always barebones however; their Hammer titles - including the The Quatermass Xperiment - come with some nice extras and Things to Come has a comprehensive booklet. The quality of transfers varies from the really very good to the downright awful, depending on the source material.
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