British War Films Daily Mail DVD Giveaway

[david_dsmedia]

"Starting tomorrow, the Daily Mail is giving away 16 of the greatest British war movies ever made..."
There are some clues as to titles from the Mail's tie-in article today.
But as many of will have some of these already (and balk at checking WH Smith's/buying the Mail for 16 days), does anyone have a complete list of titles, in order? (They usually publish a list on their promo pages.)
Here's the article:
British war movies: Enthralling, inspiring and part of our heritage | the Daily Mail

[dylan]

Ironic coming from the paper that supported Hitler and Mosley before the war.

D.

[Mark O]

On Saturday the Daily Mail will have 'Heroes of Telemark' and 'A Matter of life and death' included........I've not seen 'Telemark', but I'd say 70p for two great Movies is pretty good value........(plus the Recipes in the Mag!)

[DocRobertPepper]

Originally Posted by david_dsmedia does anyone have a complete list of titles

there was a list in todays London Metro but i forgot to bring it home

[Wee Sonny MacGregor]

Apart from A Matter of Life and Death and The Heroes of Telemark, there's Return from The River Kwai, Reach for The Sky, In Which We Serve, Aces High, Above Us The Waves, Battle of The River Plate, All Quiet on The Western Front plus presumably 7 others

[smiffy]

I shall be buying the Mail for the films I don't have ,bloody good value for a classic film , and you can always use the paper for peeling the spuds on

I'm sure even Mr Crook would forgive anybody buying the DHM for this offer

[tgunnell]

My son said he saw someone buy a sunday paper walk outside take the disc out and throw the paper in the bin

[smiffy]

Originally Posted by tgunnell My son said he saw someone buy a sunday paper walk outside take the disc out and throw the paper in the bin

It wasn't Steve Crook was it ?

[Geoffers]

Originally Posted by Wee Sonny MacGregor Apart from A Matter of Life and Death and The Heroes of Telemark, there's Return from The River Kwai, Reach for The Sky, In Which We Serve, Aces High, Above Us The Waves, Battle of The River Plate, All Quiet on The Western Front plus presumably 7 others

The Heroes of Telemark + A Matter of Life and Death
Return From the River Kwai
Reach for the Sky
In Which We Serve
Aces High
Above us the Waves
Went the Day Well?
Battle of the River Plate + The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Escape to Athena
All Quiet on the Western Front
Ill Met by Moonlight
I Was Monty's Double
The Long and the Short and the Tall
Tunes of Glory.

[stevie boy]

Originally Posted by smiffy It wasn't Steve Crook was it ?

very good indeed

[Steve Crook]

Originally Posted by smiffy It wasn't Steve Crook was it ?

It might be. Will I be able to survive if I don't have every possible version of AMOLAD that's ever been released?

Steve

[david_dsmedia]

Just picked up first DVD, double feature of A Matter Of Life And Death / The Heroes Of Telemark. Aspect ratio on Anthony Mann’s THOT is given as 16:9 on sleeve, but is in fact original Panavision A/R throughout. (A big improvement on usual BBC1 full-screen presentation with the announcer talking over the end credits.) AMOLAD is of course 4:3. Colour and sound seem ok. RTs come in at 2:04:54 and 1:39:56. (AMOLAD has Saunton-Sands goat-boy scene often cut from US prints.)
After tomorrow you have to go present a voucher to a Tesco or WH Smith to get it free with that day’s (newly-bought) paper, though I’ve found in the past at WH Smiths, they just give you the DVD unasked. Otherwise it’s the usual coupon-collecting postal procedure (8 coupons plus £6.99 p&p). Tomorrow is Return From The River Kwai and Monday is Reach For The Sky. Paper doesn’t give actual order of issue after that, but I assume list already posted has correct order.
Why this selection I don’t know (were they all Rank releases in UK?), but overall better news than I thought. Though not all are British, not all are war films – AMOLAD aside, 2 others are respected British character dramas showing there’s more to soldiering than a stiff upper lip.

[Steve Crook]

Originally Posted by david_dsmedia AMOLAD has Saunton-Sands goat-boy scene often cut from US prints.

That was apparently cut from the initial US release, when it was retitled Stairway to Heaven. But although it's still often shown as StH in the US I haven't been able to find a cut copy. Every time it's been shown in cinemas, on TV, on video or DVD in the last 50+ years it seems to have been the full version

Steve

[david_dsmedia]

I used to watch it on US TV in the 70s and 80s, and you never knew whether you would get an uncut print or not, as the individual networks often cut prints for reasons of "taste" as well as timing. The boys' back-to-school song in the 68 Goodbye Mr Chips also gets cut for similar reasons as the trimmed AMOLAD scene. Less often, US networks redub the soundtrack. With war films, this is usually just putting bombs etc over swear-words (e.g. as on A Bridge Too Far for its US network premiere) or revoicing lines, as with The Dam Busters. (Many Americans probably still think the dog's name was "Trigger".) Today of course films are made in multiple versions in anticipation of this issue, and I hear (on R4) Stephen Fry has renamed Gibson's dog "Sopwith" for use in US prints, though this is so odd may be just be a bargaining chip with the studio censors, to gain agreement on something like "Digger."

[Marky B]

I take it that All Quiet On The Western Front is the remake with Richard "John Boy Walton" Thomas,produced by Sir Lew Grade?
Ta Ta
Marky B