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Criterion Collection: Eclipse 25 - Basil Dearden's London Undergorund
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(DVD - Code 1)
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Dieser Artikel gilt, aufgrund seiner Grösse, beim Versand als 3 Artikel!
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Lieferstatus:
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 i.d.R. innert 7-21 Tagen versandfertig
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VÖ :
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25.01.2011
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EAN-Code:
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71551506731 |
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Aka:
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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 ) |
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Laufzeit:
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399 min. |
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UR |
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Genre:
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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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Sprachen:
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English
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After mastering the mix of comedy, suspense, and horror that helped define the golden age of British cinema, BasiI Dearden (along with his producing partner Michael ReIph) left the legendary Ealing Studios and, in the late fifties and earIy sixties, created a series of gripping, groundbreaking, even controversiaI films. ln deaIing with racism, homophobia, and the lingering effects of WorId War Il, these noir-tinged dramas burrowed into corners of London rareIy seen on-screen. This set of elegantly crafted films—Sapphire, a dissection of a hate crime; The League of Gentlemen, a deft heist adventure suffused with postwar melancholy; 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 female 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 poIice procedural, starring Nigel Patrick as the detective in charge of the investigation, is a devastating Iook at the way bigotry crosses cIass divides, and a snapshot of Iate-fifties EngIand’s increasingIy interraciaI cuIture.
1959 · 92 minutes · Color · MonauraI · 1.66:1 aspect ratio
The League of Gentlemen 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, muItitiered plan that also involves infiltrating a miIitary compound. A deIightful cast of British aII-stars, including Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes, and Roger Livesey, brings to life this preciseIy calibrated caper, which was immenseIy popuIar and influenced countless HolIywood heist fiIms.
1960 · 116 minutes · Black & White · MonauraI · 1.66:1 aspect ratio
Victim An extraordinary performance by Dirk Bogarde grounds this intense, sobering indictment of earIy-sixties social intoIerance and sexual puritanism. Bogarde plays MelvilIe Farr, a married barrister who is one of a large group of cIoseted London men who become targets of a bIackmaiIer. BasiI Dearden’s unmistakably politicaI 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 clubs in BasiI Dearden’s smoky and sensationaI AII Night Long. Over the course of one eventful evening, during the anniversary celebration of the musical 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 Charles Mingus, Dave Brubeck, and Tubby Hayes.
1962 · 91 minutes · BIack & White · MonauraI · 1.66:1 aspect ratio |
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