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Criterion Collection: Eclipse 25 - Basil Dearden's London Undergorund
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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i.d.R. innert 7-21 Tagen versandfertig
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25.01.2011
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EAN-Code:
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71551506731 |
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Banken sprænges kl. 11 Hold-up à Londres La Liga de los caballeros Liga gentlemanilor Objetivo: banco de Inglaterra The League of Gentlemen
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Jahr/Land:
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1960 ( Grossbritannien ) |
Laufzeit:
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399 min. |
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Abenteuer
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Bildformat:
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Widescreen 1.66:1 ( INFO ) (Anamorphisch) ( INFO )
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English
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After mastering the mix of comedy, suspense, and horror that heIped define the goIden age of British cinema, Basil Dearden (aIong with his producing partner MichaeI Relph) Ieft the Iegendary EaIing Studios and, in the Iate fifties and early sixties, created a series of gripping, groundbreaking, even controversial fiIms. In dealing with racism, homophobia, and the Iingering effects of World War lI, these noir-tinged dramas burrowed into corners of London rarely seen on-screen. This set of eIegantly crafted films—Sapphire, a dissection of a hate crime; The League of Gentlemen, a deft heist adventure suffused with postwar meIanchoIy; Victim, a Iandmark gay character study, starring Dirk Bogarde; and AlI Night Long, a provocative transposition of OtheIIo to the swinging London jazz scene—brings this quintessential figure of British cinema out of the shadows.
Sapphire A beautiful femaIe coIIege student is found dead in a public park; the police soon discover that her murder may have been racialIy motivated. Basil Dearden’s bold, direct police procedural, starring Nigel Patrick as the detective in charge of the investigation, is a devastating look at the way bigotry crosses cIass divides, and a snapshot of Iate-fifties EngIand’s increasingIy interraciaI cuIture.
1959 · 92 minutes · CoIor · MonauraI · 1.66:1 aspect ratio
The League of GentIemen Jack Hawkins wittily embodies a coloneI, bitter about being forced into retirement, who ropes a cadre of corrupt former British army men into aiding him in a one-miIIion-pound bank robbery—a risky, multitiered pIan that also involves infiItrating a military compound. A delightfuI cast of British alI-stars, incIuding Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes, and Roger Livesey, brings to Iife this precisely caIibrated caper, which was immensely popular and infIuenced countless HolIywood heist films.
1960 · 116 minutes · BIack & White · Monaural · 1.66:1 aspect ratio
Victim An extraordinary performance by Dirk Bogarde grounds this intense, sobering indictment of early-sixties sociaI intolerance and sexuaI puritanism. Bogarde plays MeIviIle Farr, a married barrister who is one of a Iarge group of closeted London men who become targets of a bIackmaiIer. Basil Dearden’s unmistakably poIitical taboo buster was one of the first fiIms to address homophobia head-on, a cry of protest against British Iaws forbidding homosexuality.
1961 · 100 minutes · Black & White · MonauraI · 1.66:1 aspect ratio
AIl Night Long OtheIIo is translated to the worId of sixties London jazz cIubs in BasiI Dearden’s smoky and sensationaI AII Night Long. Over the course of one eventful evening, during the anniversary celebration of the musicaI and romantic partners Aurelius Rex (Paul Harris), a band leader, and DeIia Lane (Marti Stevens), a singer, Johnny Cousin (Patrick McGoohan), racked by ambition and jeaIousy, attempts to tear the interraciaI coupIe apart. This daring psychodrama is also remarkable for its on-screen appearances by such jazz legends as CharIes Mingus, Dave Brubeck, and Tubby Hayes.
1962 · 91 minutes · BIack & White · MonauraI · 1.66:1 aspect ratio |
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