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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
Fabric Type: 0786936710656
Graphics Memory Size: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Manufacturer Labor Warranty Description: 100
Maximum Color Depth: Miramax Films
Maximum Focal Length: EnglishOriginal LanguageJapaneseOriginal LanguageTagalogOriginal Language
Metal Type: Miramax Films
Pearl Type: 05192600
Publisher: 1
Total Firewire Ports: Miramax Films
Total Metal Weight: 1
Total Parallel Ports: May 16, 2006
Total S Video Out Ports: 133 minutes
Miramax Films
August 12, 2005
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Director John Dahl switches genres from film noir (THE LAST SEDUCTION RED ROCK WEST) to military actioner with THE GREAT RAID. Following the 1942 Bataan Death March thousands of U.S. and Filipino soldiers were imprisoned by the Japanese in a POW camp in Cabantauan in the Philippines. Brutalized starved and tortured the prisoners languished in the camp for nearly three years. But in January 1945 an American battalion with the help of Filipino guerrillas planned a daring mission--some called it suicide--to rescue the five hundred U.S. soldiers still alive there. The film is told in glorious detail. The story is based on two books THE GREAT RAID: RESCUING THE DOOMED GHOSTS OF BATAAN AND CORREGIDOR by William B. Breuer and GHOST SOLDIERS: THE EPIC ACCOUNT OF WORLD WAR II'S GREATEST RESCUE MISSION by Hampton Sides. In addition several men involved in the raid served as consultants on the project. The result is a thrilling agonizing and unforgettable war movie like they used to make in the 1940s and 1950s a celebration of the human spirit. THE GREAT RAID stars Benjamin Bratt as Lt. Colonel Mucci an offbeat military man who puts his faith in young Captain Prince (James Franco) to lead the dangerous mission. Among the men imprisoned in the camp are Joseph Fiennes as the ailing Major Gibson and Marton Csokas as Captain Redding who is always trying to escape. Connie Nielsen adds romantic tension as a war widow smuggling much-needed medicine into the camp.System Requirements:Running Time 133 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: R UPC: 786936710656 Manufacturer No: 05192600
Amazon.com:
Nearly three years after it was filmed, The Great Raid finally appeared as a welcome reminder that good old-fashioned World War II movies never go out of style. While lacking the scale, prestige, and pulse-pounding momentum of Saving Private Ryan, this fact-based war drama benefits from a back-to-basics approach to realism and a rousing rescue climax that more than compensates for the slower passages that precede it. Adapted from the books The Great Raid on Cabanatuan and Ghost Soldiers, it chronicles the five-day mission (in late January 1945) to rescue 511 American prisoners of war held by the Japanese at Cabanatuan POW camp in the Philippines. Under the direction of neo-noir specialist John Dahl (The Last Seduction), the film's three-part structure follows the raid mission led by Lt. Col. Mucci (Benjamin Bratt); the plight of the POWs at Cabanatuan, including malaria-stricken Maj. Gibson (Joseph Fiennes); and civilian resistance in Manila as carried out by real-life hero and Gibson's (fictional) would-be lover Margaret Utinsky (Connie Nielsen), whose effort to aid the POWs is vigilantly monitored by the enemy Japanese. In keeping with war-movie traditions, Dahl handles character and action with no-nonsense intelligence, favoring a slow build over pumped-up adrenalin. By the time the miraculous rescue is executed with critical assistance by Filpino guerillas, The Great Raid has earned its stripes, honoring the brave men who carried out the most successful rescue mission in U.S. military history. --Jeff Shannon
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I personally knew Sgt. Major Kittleson, who was a Pvt. at the time of "The Great Raid". He was the only living soldier that had liberated POW's in three wars. As I understand it, this movie was a spinoff of the Sgt. Major's book "Raiders", so I just had to see the movie. Though graphic, which war is, it was well done, and something I will view again.
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I rented this the first time from iTunes to watch on my Apple TV. I know it could have been done better by allowing the viewer to care more for certain characters, but still with that said, it was well done and moving to know so many were rescued. As Benjamin Bratt's character said, "Its not about doing this to feel like a hero, but that these men will take this with them throughout the rest of their lives, what they did here". My father who is 82 and a veteran was recently placed into a retirement ... Read More
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the movie is good but the widescreen version is disappointing. they cropped the top and bottom of the frame to make it fit the widescreen aspect ratio. it does not even resemble what was shown on the movie theaters. just buy the fullscreen version.
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As American forces began to retake the Philippines during WWII, the Japanese began killing the POWs they had captured. Determined not to let this happen to the 511 soldiers held at Cabanatuan, Lt. Colonel Mucci and Capt. Prince devised a daring plan to sneak in ahead of the advancing troops and rescue the POWs. Based on the true story as detailed in the book "Ghost Soldiers," it's an exciting and heart-breaking tale. And while it's been a couple of years since I read the book, it seemed that the ... Read More
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Some films just get made simply because so much time and money has been wasted developing them that it almost seems unthinkable not to make them even though everyone at the studio has long since lost interest. Case in point The Great Raid, one of Miramax's infamous shelf-hoggers. Initially intended as a Steven Spielberg-Tom Cruise vehicle before they got a better offer from the Martians, it finally went before the cameras in Australia and China in 2002 with the less than A-list combo of director John ... Read More
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