Sept 7 UK DVD
It`s been announced again but was proposed last year then quietly shelved so fingers crossed same thing doesn`t happen.Never managed to catch this before but quite looking forward to it.
shareActually released as a Movie Mail UK DVD exclusive by Sony Home Entertainment on Monday, October 5th, 2009 at £11:99 post free. I received my pre-ordered copy this morning. Excellent transfer with superb sound and picture quality. It appears to be the original British version ("Colour by Technicolor" on the opening titles, as opposed to the American spelling "Color by Technicolor" on other versions I've seen on television in recent years). However, as in the version run on Channel 4, Stanley Baker's voice is quite obviously dubbed by another actor with an English accent. I do have a version of the film recorded on audio cassette off a midlands ITV transmission of the film in March, 1975 and oddly enough, Stanley Baker's voice isn't dubbed on that version.
shareCheck out Stanley B in "Yesterday`s Enemy" which is another Movie Mail exclusive released today.Brilliant performance which may be his best.Was Stanley Baker dubbed for the American market?- although I really can`t imagine his accent would be that difficult to understand.Shame they didn`t "reinstate" him for this release.
shareI believe that the DVD release of Yesterday's Enemy has been put back to November for reasons unstated on the Movie Mail website. I don't know why Stanley Baker's Welsh voice was dubbed by an English voice in The Red Beret. He made a lot of other pictures around that time, such as The Cruel Sea; Knights of the Round Table and Hell Below Zero (another Columbia picture) and his voice wasn't dubbed in any of those. Fellow Welshman Donald Houston was also in The Red Beret and his voice wasn't dubbed. A bit of a 56 years old mystery there.
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