Lions Gate is releasing ANGELS ONE FIVE as one of the films in its three-disc, four-title box set, The World War Collection, on May 27, 2008. MSRP $29.99. Films are not available separately. The others are THE SOUND BARRIER, THE CAPTIVE HEART and KING AND COUNTRY.
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It's now on Blu-Ray. My missus is getting it for £16.99 from Amazon.co.uk. It's a Xmas present. So I can't say what the PQ or SQ quality is like just yet.
shareThat's a Region B disc, I assume. In the States you'd need a multi-region player to watch it.
Honestly I was not too impressed by the movie when I finally saw it after my OP -- seven years ago!
Yes i think it is. When I watch it I'll check the region code on it. It maybe region free, not sure.
shareThank you, Bourne. I'm sure it's a UK-made disc, even if it's Region-free. The film is only available on R1 DVD, not yet on Blu.
shareFancy seeing you here Hobnob...
I saw this movie several years ago in England. I expected to see a lot of dogfights, but to be honest I enjoyed it. Mainly because it gave a decent insight into how the Ops room worked, compared to movies like "Sink the Bismark", "Battle of Britain" and man others.
Also, I like watching John Gregson. I don't get to see enough of his movies.
All the best for now.
Indeed, indeed, indeed, Blakefield. (And over on the INTK board as well.)
I suppose what you say is true but I just found this one of the lesser British war films of their golden era of the 50s. Disappointing and a tad disjointed. Okay but unmemorable. You get the drift. Especially compared to the films you mentioned.
Gregson was an interesting actor. Never a real favorite as such, but kind of a typical mid-level British star of his period. The funniest thing I found out about him years back is that, though the star of that great classic Genevieve, he never learned to drive! He took a few lessons to be able to handle the titular 1904 car in the movie but that effort aside he never drove again, and never a modern car.
I liked him also in The Lavender Hill Mob, The Battle of the River Plate and S.O.S. Pacific, from the first of the few that come immediately to mind. A shame he died relatively young.
The Lavender Hill Mob, The Battle of the River Plate and S.O.S. Pacific
All those films are on R2 DVD, so you can catch up with them that way if you wish. All highly recommended. But I know nothing about Jacqueline other than having seen the title. I will have to track that one down.
Just to make us all feel old, there's a lot of mention in Genevieve about the car being 49 years old. (I'm impressed by the fact that it's always "49", which is quite precise; no one ever says "50", which in the course of normal conversation is probably what most people would say.) Yet a new 1953 car would now be 63 years old...fourteen years older than Genevieve was back then. I wonder if anyone today would view a '53 British auto in quite the same quaint way as they did that "ancient" '04 buggy when the '53 was new!
Same monarch today as in '53, however, so at least there's some sense of continuity.
Unhappily, none of this improves Angels One Five for me, even with one of my favorite British actors of the period, the fondly remembered and genuinely lamented Jack Hawkins.