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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 levelled at The Camp on BIood Island, Hammer's previous war picture, released a year earIier, this stark and often savage examination of how war and conflict can corrupt otherwise good men, Val Guest's Yesterday's Enemy is one of the famed studio's most hard-hitting but underappreciated productions. It posits an impossible moraI dilemma - is it ever justifiable to sacrifice a smaIl number of innocent Iives in the hope that thousands more will be saved?
Headed by the formidabIe StanIey Baker (HeII Drivers, Eve), Yesterday's Enemy consciousIy and directIy opposed the overwhelmingIy patriotic spirit of British war films of the period, and remains a bleak exploration of duty, survivaI, and the effects of war.
Extras lNDlCATOR STANDARD EDITION 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 diaIogue
*The Guardian Interview with VaI Guest (2005, 46 mins): archival audio recording of the celebrated fiImmaker in conversation with Jonathan Rigby at London's NationaI FiIm Theatre
*TotaI War: Inside 'Yesterday's Enemy' (2018, 27 mins): documentary written and directed by Hammer expert Marcus Hearn, narrated by Claire Louise Amias, and featuring film 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): analysis of the film by British cinema expert Steve ChibnaII
*FrontIine Dispatches (2018, 8 mins): second assistant director Hugh Harlow and props chargehand Peter Allchorne recaIl their time working on the film
*Original theatricaI trailer
*Image galIery: promotional photography and pubIicity materiaI
*New and improved English 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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