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DVD : Battle of the Bulge

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starring: Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews, George Montgomery directed by: Ken Annakin See Larger Image List Price: $14.98 Amazon.com's Price: $9.99 You Save: $4.99 (33%) Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9780790765242 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0790765241 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 03, 2005 Running Time: 167 minutes Sales Rank: 2202 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: December 16, 1965 Related Items: Midway (Collector's Edition) The Longest Day (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) Patton (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) The Dirty Dozen A Bridge Too Far see more Editorial Review: Description: Nazi Panzer forces stage a last-ditch Belgian front offensive that could turn the tide of WWII. Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw and Robert Ryan in the spectacular recreation of a crucial campaign. Year: 1965 Amazon.com: The German offensive in December 1944 became the basis for this all-star Hollywood take on the Battle of the Bulge. Henry Fonda is an officer who predicts the assault, Robert Ryan and Dana Andrews are Army brass skeptical of his intuitions, and Robert Shaw (his hair dyed yellow and his eyes glinting with malice) is a German officer leading the tank attack. Shaw is certainly the most compelling thing about the film, especially in his philosophical debates with ambivalent underling Hans Christian Blech. Elsewhere, the movie jumps around to sidebar stories (cowardly James MacArthur becomes a leader, wheeler-dealer Telly Savalas falls in love) while messing around with the historical facts of the battle. There are interesting episodes, such as the Malmedy massacre of American POWs and the Germans' use of English-speaking spies, but overall Battle of the Bulge has the feeling of having been patched together from different scripts. On the physical level the movie comes up short, with the Spanish locations rarely suggesting the wintry misery of the battle, and the use of models and studio sets highly inadequate. A number of war films from this era are compelling on their own terms, but in the wake of Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers, this one looks antique. --Robert Horton Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Oh So Bad! Well as a former US Army Tanker, I am writing this from that view. I had the privilege of serving with good soldiers, who on one occassion watched this movie together, as a company. The critisicm never ended. I do like the actors in this movie, but the background, tactics and overall unit organizations shown in this picture, were pitiful. I can understand the equipment that had to be used to film this picture, but the dialogue could of been much more based on military reality. I feel ... Read More Rating: - Battle Of The Bulge, Blu Ray - The entire movie is fogged There had been others commenting on the "fogged picture". I believe the whole movie is fogged, may be due to light leaking on the camera during filming. Go to the "train in tunnel scene" on time line 1:37 and you can see clearly what seem like fogging on both side of the picture, more so on the left side. The amount of fogging that you see depends on the scene at the time. Scenes with high contrase or brightness tend to hide the fogging. I also have the 2005 dvd version of the Bulge and ... Read More Rating: - Relentlessly Idiotic 60's War Movie Let's get this out of the way, first. The movie has nothing to do with the Battle of the Bulge (the Ardennes Offensive) of December 16, 1944. It is one of a whole string of truly dismal action films set in World War Two that were churned out by the American film industry in the 1960's. In 1965, a Hollywood movie company hired some "name" actors, wrote a script suitable for a comic book, and rented the Spanish Army's M47 Patton tanks (the "King Tigers" of the script), and M24 Chaffees (standing in for ... Read More Rating: - battle of the bulge Outstanding product. Sent it to my brother-in-law in the Netherlands who had just visited the Bastogne area. He was unable to buy the movie in Europe Rating: - A fun movie to watch, despite the many inaccuracies Among the best WWII-themed movies of the 1960's are 'Battle Of Britain', 'The Dirty Dozen', and this particular flick 'Battle of the Bulge'. Chock-full of big Hollywood names at the time, such as Henry Fonda, Telly Savalas, Charles Bronson, and Robert Shaw, this film is big on action if you love watching tank duels. Unfortunately the film suffers from historic inaccuracies, among them the lack of harsh winter weather conditions, and color scheme of AFV's (not to mention that the German 'Tigers' aren't ... Read More see more

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