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Title: WAR AT SEA COLLECTION
Starring: Peter Arne, Stanley Baker, John Batten, Tony Bazell, Robert Beatty, Anthony Bushell, Andrew Cruickshank, Meredith Edwards, Denholm Elliott, David Farrar, Walter Fitzgerald, Robert Griffith, Jack Hawkins, Glyn Houston, Gordon Jackson, Megs Jenkins, Mervyn Johns, James Robertson Justice, Moira Lister, Alec McCowan, Virginia McKenna, Ralph Michael, Liam Redmond, Bruce Seton, Donald Sinden, John Slater, John Stratton, June Thorburn, John Warner, Robert Wyndham
Format: DVD

List price: £14.99


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Cat No: OPTD1970
EAN: 5055201813749
Availability: Publisher out of stock.
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Distributor: OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Regions: 2 (UK, Europe, Japan, South Africa and Middle East)
Rel. date: 11 October, 2010
Certificate: PG
Running Time: 280 mins
Language: English
Description: Triple bill of war dramas set at sea. In 'For Those in Peril' (1943), Pilot Officer Rawlings (Ralph Michael) is turned down by the RAF for air service on medical grounds and instead joins Air Sea Rescue, helping to pull downed Allied airmen out of the sea. Rawlings is initially resentful of his new job, but gradually comes to appreciate its importance. When the crew of a Boston bomber become stranded at sea in a dinghy, Rawlings and his colleagues become involved in a race against time - and the elements - to save their lives. 'San Demetrio, London' (1943), set in 1940 during the battle of the Atlantic, is based on a true story. The crew of the petrol tanker 'San Demetrio' are left with a near impossible task when she is torpedoed by the Germans. The crew are forced to abandon ship in three lifeboats. Two are picked up by other ships in the convoy, but the third drifts for days until its crew spies the burning 'San Demetrio' on the horizon. Do they board the ship, try to put out its fires and get it back to English shores or do they stay in the drifting lifeboat in the hope of being rescued? In 'The Cruel Sea' (1953), based on the novel by Nicholas Mansarrat, World War Two Lt. Commander Ericson (Jack Hawkins) has already lost one ship to an enemy attack when he is given command of the frigate Saltash Castle. A subsequent confrontation in the North Atlantic tests Ericson's leadership to the limit once again, as he risks sacrificing the lives of his crew for the greater good.
Features: Interactive Menus
Directors: Charles Crichton, Charles Frend
Genre: Feature  War 
No. of pieces 3
Returns: Returnable
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PUCCINI
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WORZEL GUMMIDGE: WORZEL THE BRAVE/WORZEL'S WAGER/THE RETURN...
WORZEL GUMMIDGE: A CUP O' TEA AN' A SLICE O' CAKE
WORZEL GUMMIDGE: THE COMPLETE SERIES 1
WORZEL GUMMIDGE: THE COMPLETE SERIES 2
WORZEL GUMMIDGE: THE COMPLETE SERIES 3
WORZEL GUMMIDGE: THE COMPLETE SERIES 4
WORZEL GUMMIDGE: WASHING DAY/HOME FIT FOR SCARECROWS/AUNT SALLY
WORZEL GUMMIDGE: SCARECROW HOP/SAUCY NANCY/WORZEL'S NEPHEW
LOVEJOY: THE COMPLETE SERIES 3
TWINKY
BEAT GIRL
BEAT GIRL
VAULT OF HORROR
DIG FOR VICTORY
PERCY
HELL IS A CITY
OSCAR WILDE COLLECTION
TERRY AND JUNE: THE COMPLETE THIRD SERIES
SHOOTING PARTY
ITALIAN JOB/ZULU/ALFIE
SLIDING DOORS
ALFIE
ZULU
TRADING PLACES
ALFIE (1966)/ALFIE (2004)
SLIDING DOORS
ZULU
OH! WHAT A LOVELY WAR
TRADING PLACES
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE
ZULU
INDIANA JONES TRILOGY
LAST HOLIDAY/SLIDING DOORS/FAILURE TO LAUNCH
EDDIE MURPHY COLLECTION
MICHAEL CAINE COLLECTION
INDIANA JONES: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION
BLAKE'S 7: SEASON 1 (BOX SET)
DOCTOR WHO: THE TWO DOCTORS
HOTEL DU LAC
BRIMSTONE AND TREACLE
QUATERMASS: THE COLLECTION
MINETTE WALTERS COLLECTION (BOX SET)
DENNIS POTTER: THE ESSENTIAL DENNIS POTTER
CHARLES DICKENS COLLECTION
DOCTOR WHO: THE HAND OF FEAR
TERRY AND JUNE: THE COMPLETE SEVENTH SERIES
TERRY AND JUNE: THE COMPLETE EIGHTH SERIES - VOLUME 1
TERRY AND JUNE: THE COMPLETE EIGHTH SERIES - VOLUME 2
DOCTOR WHO: BRED FOR WAR - THE SONTARAN COLLECTION
ISLAND AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD
NOISES OFF
GREYFRIARS BOBBY
KIDNAPPED
TREASURE ISLAND
GANGS OF NEW YORK
STAGGERED
GANGS OF NEW YORK
GANGS OF NEW YORK/BLOW/THE DEPARTED
BLACK DAHLIA/THE DEPARTED/GANGS OF NEW YORK
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GOOD DIE YOUNG
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SCROOGE
OUR GIRL FRIDAY
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LION HAS WINGS
SAILOR BEWARE!
LILACS IN THE SPRING
DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS
DARK JOURNEY
ARMCHAIR THRILLER: DEAD MAN'S KIT
ANNA KARENINA
GERT AND DAISY'S WEEKEND
VAULT OF HORROR
BRIMSTONE AND TREACLE
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
SPIRITS OF THE DEAD
ZULU DAWN
BRITISH HEROES COLLECTION
SPIRITS OF THE DEAD
SLIDING DOORS
NEVER THE TWAIN: VOLUMES 1 AND 2
NEVER THE TWAIN: THE COMPLETE SERIES 3 AND 4
ADVENTURES OF SIR LANCELOT: THE COMPLETE SERIES
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BATTLE OF THE SEXES
DICK TURPIN: THE COMPLETE SERIES 1
DICK TURPIN: THE COMPLETE SERIES 2
ADVENTURES OF BLACK BEAUTY: THE BEST OF SERIES 2
SPACE - 1999: SERIES 1
DANGER MAN: THE COMPLETE SERIES
ADVENTURES OF BLACK BEAUTY: SERIES 1
RETURN OF THE SAINT: THE COMPLETE SERIES
DANGER MAN: THE COMPLETE SERIES 1
SPACE - 1999: SERIES 1
PROFESSIONALS - REMASTERED: SERIES 1
PROFESSIONALS - REMASTERED: SERIES 1-4 (BOX SET)
PROFESSIONALS: SEASON 1
PROFESSIONALS: THE COMPLETE SERIES 1-4
CELEBRATION OF BRITISH FILM
FISH CALLED WANDA/DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
FISH CALLED WANDA
FISH CALLED WANDA
SCREEN ICONS: ALEC GUINNESS
AGAINST THE WIND
LONG ARM
BARNACLE BILL
TOMMY TRINDER COLLECTION
FOREMAN WENT TO FRANCE/FIDDLERS THREE
SAN DEMETRIO, LONDON
JOHNNY FRENCHMAN
SCREEN ICONS: DAVID NIVEN
BEST OF EALING COLLECTION
TRAIN OF EVENTS
PAINTED BOATS
RUN FOR YOUR MONEY
ANOTHER SHORE
FOR THOSE IN PERIL
MAN IN THE SKY
LAVENDER HILL MOB
HUNTED
HEROES OF WAR COLLECTION: VOLUME 1
LOVE LOTTERY
CRUEL SEA
LAVENDER HILL MOB
CRUEL SEA
DEFINITIVE EALING COLLECTION
LAVENDER HILL MOB
MAGNET
TITFIELD THUNDERBOLT
DEAD OF NIGHT
CRUEL SEA
WAR COLLECTION: VOLUME 1
SCOTT OF THE ANTARCTIC
HUE AND CRY
EALING STUDIOS BOX SET: VOLUME 2
EALING STUDIOS BOX SET: VOLUME 3
WAR COLLECTION: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION
SID JAMES COLLECTION: COMIC ICONS
CONE OF SILENCE
BATTLE OF THE SEXES
BOY WHO STOLE A MILLION
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