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MPAA Rating: PG-13 Movie Release: 2001 DVD Release: 11/18/2003 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 41 mins Studio: Warner Home Video Total Copies: 1 Genres: Comedy Drama, War, Military Comedy, Period Film, War Spy Film

A few good men are sent on a secret mission as a few good women in this comic tale of wartime espionage, loosely based upon a true story. Steven O'Rourke (Matt LeBlanc) is an American intelligence agent who, during World War II, has been assigned to obtain an Enigma machine, a special encoding-and-decoding device that Axis forces have developed to transmit their most sensitive secret information. A working Enigma machine would be invaluable to the Allied cause; O'Rourke is able to obtain a machine, but Col. Aiken (Edward Fox), a British officer whose stiff upper lip sometimes overwhelms his common sense, mistakes O'Rourke for a plunderer and destroys the previous gadget, which is hidden in a typewriter. An altercation with Aiken lands O'Rourke in military prison, but he's released in time to carry out a new plan to obtain an Enigma for Allied use. A small factory has been set up in rural Germany to build the machines, which is entirely staffed by women, so O'Rourke, communications expert Johnno (David Birkin), and veteran intelligence man Archie (James Cosmo) are to infiltrate the plant disguised as women, with Tony (Eddie Izzard), an agent who moonlights as a drag performer, giving the men a crash course in looking and acting like women. All The Queen's Men also features Nicolette Krebitz as Romy, a double agent working at the Enigma plant, and Udo Kier as Lansdorf, a Nazi general. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Matt LeBlanc - Steven O'Rourke
Eddie Izzard - Tony Parker
James Cosmo - Archie
Nicolette Krebitz - Romy
Udo Kier - Gen. Landsdorf

This wartime comedy about a group of Allied agents posing as women in the name of fighting the Third Reich gets a quality presentation for its release on DVD. All The Queen's Men has been given a letterboxed transfer at its original widescreen aspect ratio of 2.35:1. The audio, in English, has been mastered in Dolby Digital 5.1 and optional subtitles in English, Spanish, and French have been included. Bonus material includes the film's original theatrical trailer, a gallery of production stills, and biographies of the key cast and crew members. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide