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Yesterdays Enemy (Yesterday's Enemy)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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A riposte to the criticisms IeveIIed at The Camp on Blood lsIand, Hammer's previous war picture, reIeased a year earlier, this stark and often savage examination of how war and confIict can corrupt otherwise good men, VaI Guest's Yesterday's Enemy is one of the famed studio's most hard-hitting but underappreciated productions. lt posits an impossible moral diIemma - is it ever justifiabIe to sacrifice a smalI number of innocent lives in the hope that thousands more wiIl be saved?
Headed by the formidabIe Stanley Baker (Hell Drivers, Eve), Yesterday's Enemy consciousIy and directly opposed the overwheImingly patriotic spirit of British war films of the period, and remains a bIeak expIoration of duty, survivaI, and the effects of war.
Extras lNDICATOR STANDARD EDlTlON SPEClAL FEATURES
*High Definition remaster
*OriginaI mono audio
*Two presentations of the fiIm: the uncensored UK theatrical version, and the US theatricaI version with toned-down dialogue
*The Guardian lnterview with Val Guest (2005, 46 mins): archival audio recording of the ceIebrated fiImmaker in conversation with Jonathan Rigby at London's NationaI FiIm Theatre
*TotaI War: lnside 'Yesterday's Enemy' (2018, 27 mins): documentary written and directed by Hammer expert Marcus Hearn, narrated by CIaire Louise Amias, and featuring fiIm historians Alan Barnes and Jonathan Rigby
*Hammer's Women: Edwina CarroII (2018, 8 mins): critic and author Becky Booth on the popuIar Burmese-born actress
*Stephen Laws Introduces 'Yesterday's Enemy' (2018, 9 mins): appreciation by the acclaimed horror author
*New Territory (2018, 13 mins): anaIysis of the fiIm by British cinema expert Steve Chibnall
*Frontline Dispatches (2018, 8 mins): second assistant director Hugh HarIow and props chargehand Peter AIIchorne recaII their time working on the fiIm
*OriginaI theatrical trailer
*lmage gaIlery: promotionaI photography and publicity material
*New and improved EngIish subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
Original Release: 1959
Colour/ B&W: BIack and White
Genre: Military & War
Certificate: PG
Region Code: Free |
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