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What's the difference between the 240min version and the 185min version?


I found the longer version on Amazon.co.uk and the shorter version on Amazon.com but not sure which is better. I'm not too familiar with the difference in region coding, but I've heard that region2 plays faster the region1. Is that true? Would that make up the huge difference in time in these 2 versions?

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The region 2 UK version includes more extras - cast interviews, etc. that's why the DVD is longer

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55 minutes of time that would otherwise have been wasted? It really is that bad.

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I second that. All copies of this movie should be burnt and all parties responsible for making it should be beaten with good scripts.

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C'mon it's not that bad. It's just that not the kind of movie you would want to watch again.

I liked watching Damian again, even though, I had a hard time understanding his accent.

Can anyone from the UK tell me what kind of local accent that was?

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Isn't this the show about Brit POWs in a German prison camp/castle? What are women doing there?

*Amarillo* --Euripides? Eumenides!

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Depends who you are and what you want. As the main reviewer wrote WW2 enthusiasts will struggle with the film ... while young couples who are tired of watching reality shows may like it.

In the end this film is nothing but a cheap soap-opera in a unique setting. More so it does not accurately portray the events at Colditz Castle.

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"I bought a damn version that ends with Jack escaping thru he woods and Nick kissing the girl or sumpthin like that. So that may be the shorter and INCOMPLETE version"

The region 2 UK version is a two-disc set of the mini-series; the rest of the program is on the second disc. The longer UK DVD offers several lengthy interviews with cast members. The actual running length of the program is the same on both the Region 1 (North American) version and the Region 2 (European version) DVDs.

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In the longer version Sophia myles is naked for pretty much the entire time.

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