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MPAA Rating: NR Movie Release: 2005 DVD Release: 03/22/2005 Format: DVD - Black and White SwapaDVD Credits: 5 Number of Discs: 5 Run Time: 8 hrs 55 mins Studio: Anchor Bay Members Wishing: 2

Ealing Studios was an independent film production company based in Great Britain which is best remembered for two things -- a series of clever and understated comedies and a handful of powerful and emotionally honest war pictures. =The Ealing War Collection features five outstanding movies about men at war from the studio's vaults. This set includes The Cruel Sea, in which Jack Hawkins plays a naval officer who has come to doubt his ability to command; Went the Day Well?, concerning a small British community fending off an attack by German troops; The Colditz Story, starring John Mills as a soldier who masterminds a mass escape from a German prison camp; The Dam Busters, with Michael Redgrave as the inventor of the "bouncing bombs" which helped win World War II for the Allied Forces; and The Ship That Died of Shame, a fantasy tale in which Richard Attenborough and his cohorts buy a ship on which they served during the war to use in an illegal business, which cases the vessel to revolt against such indignity. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide