Watch The Dam Busters Online
Mardi, septembre 7th, 2010 |
Watch The Dam Busters Online.
Movie Title: The Dam Busters The Dam Busters is available for streaming or downloading. |
These comments apply to the Congress Entertainment DVD release from Lakeland Sales (who has not responded to my comments).
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The good news about this DVD is that it exists, and is reasonably playable. The bad news is that the DVD has the production values you might expect from a garage or backroom operation.
Playability - Both high contrast and overall darkness require adjusting brightness/contrast for reasonable viewing. Audio level is high.
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Production values - The disc itself is an inkjet-printable DVD-R, printed only with the movie title and a DVD logo. The clamshell case artwork is very blurry, printed crooked, and appears to be copied from a VHS slipcover - with many generations of copy from the original.
This is all unfortunate, as the story itself is very interesting, and well acted. I saw it not very long after its original release and enjoyed it then, and still do. However, given the unfortunate (historically accurate) name of Wing Commander Gibson’s dog, which reflects British vernacular of the period, it is unlikely that it will be re-released by a more professional source.
Given the very high regard the British have for Wing Commander Gibson, who was awarded Britain’s highest military honor (Victoria Cross) for this raid and died in action just over a year later, I’m sure that - in 1954 - they were being very careful about accuracy.
No Allied operation in World War II was more courageous and more brilliantly executed than the now-famous “Dambusters” raid conducted by the RAF’s 617 Squadron and led by the legendary Wing Commander Guy Gibson against Germany’s Ruhr dams. This film, drawn from Paul Brickhill’s “The Dambusters” and Wing Cmdr. Gibson’s own book “Enemy Coast Ahead,” does a splendid job of conveying the triumph and the tragedy of this incredible mission. Sir Michael Redgrave is superb as Dr. Barnes Wallis, the British scientist who developed the technique used in the raids, and Richard Todd is perfectly cast as Guy Gibson. The film is an inspiring story of men in war, made more inspiring by its often-touching reminders of the humanity of the men who carried out the raid, the magnificence of their bravery, and the sadness of their loss. Viewers should not be put off either by the sometimes-disappointing special effects or the unfortunate political incorrectness of the name of Wing Commander Gibson’s dog. Neither should they be misled by the History Channel’s mean-spirited, historically inaccurate, and inexplicably sour-grapes “documentary” about the raid, reviewed elsewhere on Amazon. The Todd-Redgrave film is a fine and generally factually accurate movie about some very special men who accomplished the seemingly impossible, and it is a “must-see” for anyone with an interest in World War II, and for anyone who has an appreciation of human determination, courage, and sacrifice in any era.
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