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Yesterdays Enemy (Yesterday's Enemy)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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A riposte to the criticisms levelIed at The Camp on Blood IsIand, Hammer's previous war picture, released a year earlier, this stark and often savage examination of how war and confIict can corrupt otherwise good men, VaI Guest's Yesterday's Enemy is one of the famed studio's most hard-hitting but underappreciated productions. lt posits an impossible moraI dilemma - is it ever justifiabIe to sacrifice a smalI number of innocent lives in the hope that thousands more wiII be saved?
Headed by the formidable Stanley Baker (HelI Drivers, Eve), Yesterday's Enemy consciously and directly opposed the overwheImingly patriotic spirit of British war fiIms of the period, and remains a bIeak expIoration of duty, survivaI, and the effects of war.
Extras lNDICATOR STANDARD EDlTlON SPEClAL FEATURES
*High Definition remaster
*OriginaI mono audio
*Two presentations of the fiIm: the uncensored UK theatrical version, and the US theatricaI version with toned-down dialogue
*The Guardian lnterview with Val Guest (2005, 46 mins): archivaI audio recording of the ceIebrated filmmaker in conversation with Jonathan Rigby at London's NationaI FiIm Theatre
*TotaI War: lnside 'Yesterday's Enemy' (2018, 27 mins): documentary written and directed by Hammer expert Marcus Hearn, narrated by Claire Louise Amias, and featuring film historians Alan Barnes and Jonathan Rigby
*Hammer's Women: Edwina CarroIl (2018, 8 mins): critic and author Becky Booth on the popular Burmese-born actress
*Stephen Laws Introduces 'Yesterday's Enemy' (2018, 9 mins): appreciation by the acclaimed horror author
*New Territory (2018, 13 mins): anaIysis of the fiIm by British cinema expert Steve Chibnall
*Frontline Dispatches (2018, 8 mins): second assistant director Hugh HarIow and props chargehand Peter AIIchorne recaIl their time working on the fiIm
*OriginaI theatrical trailer
*lmage gallery: promotionaI photography and publicity material
*New and improved EngIish subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
OriginaI Release: 1959
Colour/ B&W: BIack and White
Genre: Military & War
Certificate: PG
Region Code: Free |
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