Fox to release a bunch of classic war films on Blu-Ray

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In a tie in promotion with fathers day this year, Fox has just announced the release of several classic war films onto the Blu-Ray format on June 3rd. Hoo rah! Are dads this easy to buy for? Yes! The movies in question are Battle of Britain, The Longest Day, Patton (sweet!), The Sand Pebbles, and A Bridge Too Far. This is not a box set, so each title will cost you $39.98 SRP. No word on if these films have been remastered, so I’m not sure how well older films such as these would translate into hi def. Still, I like the idea, especially with Patton although this looks like a rehash of the original Special Edition DVD.

Here are the individual details for each movie:

BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Presented in widescreen with English 5.1 DTS HD Lossless Audio, English Dolby Surround 4.0 and French and Spanish Dolby Surround as well as English, French and Spanish Subtitles..

A BRIDGE TOO FAR: Presented in widescreen with English 5.1 DTS HD Lossless Audio and Spanish and French Dolby Digital along with English, French and Spanish subtitles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE LONGEST DAY: Presented in widescreen on a dual layer disc with English 5.1 DTS HD Lossless Audio, English Dolby Surround 4.0 and French and Spanish Mono in addition to English, Spanish, Cantonese, Korean and Mandarin subtitles. Bonus features include:

· Historical commentary with Mary Corey

· Film commentary with Ken Annakin

· A Day to Remember featurette

· Longest Day: A Salute to Courage featurette

· Backstory – The Longest Day featurette

· D-Day Revisited featurette

· Still gallery

· Original trailer

 

 

PATTON: Presented in widescreen with English 5.1 DTS HD Lossless Audio, English Dolby Surround 4.0 as well as French and Spanish Mono and includes English, French, Spanish, Cantonese and Mandarin subtitles. Bonus features include:

· Introduction and commentary by writer Francis Ford Coppola

· History Through the Lens: “Patton: A Rebel Revisited” featurette

· Patton’s Ghost Corps featurette

· The Making of Patton documentary

· Production still gallery accompanied by Jerry Goldsmith’s complete musical score

· Behind-the-scenes gallery accompanied by audio essay on the historical Patton

· Original trailer

 

 

THE SAND PEBBLES: Presented in widescreen with English 5.1 DTS HD Lossless Audio, English Dolby Surround 4.0 along with French and Spanish Mono, plus English, French, Spanish, Cantonese and Korean subtitles. Bonus features include:

· Commentary by Robert Wise, Candice Bergen, Mako and Richard Crenna

· Isolated score track with commentary by music producer Nick Redman, film music historian Jon Burnlingame and screen writer & film historian Lem Dobbs

· Trivia track

· 13 deleted “Road Show” scenes

· Original trailer

· The Making of Sand Pebbles featurette

· Steve McQueen Remembered featurette

· Bob Wise in Command featurette

· China 1926 featurette

· A Ship Called San Pablo (narrated by Richard Attenborough) 1966 featurette

· The Secret of the San Pablo (narrated by Richard Crenna) 1966 featurette

· Radio documentaries (narrated by Richard Attenborough):

Changsha Bund and the Streets of Taipei

A Ship Called San Pablo