Search - It Happened Here on DVD

MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Questionable for Children Movie Release: 1964 DVD Release: 02/15/2000 Format: DVD - Black and White Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 36 mins Studio: Image Entertainment Members Wishing: 13 Genres: Drama, Science Fiction, War Drama, Resistance Film, Psychological Sci-Fi

Fledgling filmmaker (and future film historian) Kevin Brownlow worked in collaboration with Andrew Mollo for nearly ten years to create It Happened Here. Shot on 16-millimeter stock in stark quasi-documentary fashion, the film is predicated on the postulation that Germany had invaded--and defeated--England in World War II. Brownlow and Mollo's vision of this nightmarish world is perfect in every detail, right down to the German road signs in rural Britain. The plotline is carried by Pauline Murray, playing a nurse who uncovers Nazi atrocities perpetrated on Polish and Russian hospital patients. Begun in 1957 when Brownlow was an 18-year-old editing apprentice, It Happened Here was finally completed in 1964, and released theatrically two years later. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Pauline Murray - Pauline
Sebastian Shaw - Dr. Richard Fletcher
Nicolette Bernard - IA Woman Commandant
Bart Allison - Skipworth
Stella Kemball - Nurse Drayton
Fiona Leland - Helen Fletcher

Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo's shocking historical revision It Happened Here comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Mono. There are neither closed captions nor subtitles on this release. There are no special features of any consequence. Although it is commendable that Image would release such a little-known title, the disc itself leaves something to be desired. If you like the film, the disc is a welcome addition, but there is little here to interest the average DVD consumer. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide