John Mills Centenary Collection

[John Hodson]

ITV DVD is to celebrate the centenary of John Mills birth with at least one box set. Some retailers have a John Mills Centenary Collection: Icon Box Set as ‘Vol. 1′ which presupposes that another is on the way.

The first set, released February, is six discs containing a mixture of titles both extant and new to DVD: Great Expectations, The October Man, Morning Departure, Waterloo Road, In Which We Serve plus Sir John Mills’ Moving Memories, a documentary featuring some of the 1000s of feet of home movies Mills, one of British cinema’s finest and most versatile actors, shot during his long life.

[Lady Lois]

Originally Posted by John Hodson ITV DVD is to celebrate the centenary of John Mills birth with at least one box set. Some retailers have a John Mills Centenary Collection: Icon Box Set as ‘Vol. 1′ which presupposes that another is on the way. The first set, released February, is six discs containing a mixture of titles both extant and new to DVD: Great Expectations, The October Man, Morning Departure, Waterloo Road, In Which We Serve plus Sir John Mills’ Moving Memories, a documentary featuring some of the 1000s of feet of home movies Mills, one of British cinema’s finest and most versatile actors, shot during his long life.

Sounds great... Morning Departure is a wonderful film, depressing and very upsetting but everyone is bloody good in that one. The documentary sounds like the real highlight of this collection though...

[Nick Dando]

The documentary sounds like the real highlight of this collection though...

It's actually available as a DVD in its own right.

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories DVD

Nick

[Windthrop]

Others sets should include

Tunes of Glory
Hobson's Choice
The Family Way
Dulcima
Tiger Bay
The Colditz Story
Ice Cold In Alex
Ryan's Daughter
Tiara Tahiti
Town on Trial

and a number of others if the set it to do justice to the breadth and variety of his career IMHO

[John Hodson]

Vol. 1 changed to a nine disc set before release containing:

In Which We Serve
We Dive at Dawn
Waterloo Road
Great Expectations
The October Man
The History of Mr. Polly
Morning Departure
Flame in the Streets
and John Mills Moving Memories

Vol. 2 comes May from ITVDVD and contains: Car Of Dreams, Forever England, The Way To The Stars, The Long Memory, Above Us The Waves, The Vicious Circle, Tiger Bay and Ryan's Daughter.

First specs had Peter Penrose and This Happy Breed instead of Ryan's Daughter (which is already available as a 2-disc SE from Warner; I wonder how they worked the rights to that?), and they have now been removed.