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World War II Collection, Vol. 2 - Heroes Fight For Freedom (Air Force / Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo / Command Decision / Hell to Eternity / 36 Hours / The Hill) (1943)
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| Starring: | Sean Connery, Van Johnson, James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Clark Gable, John Garfield, Gig Young, Harry Carey, Arthur Kennedy, Charles Drake, Spencer Tracy, Phyllis Thaxter, Robert Walker, Robert Mitchum, Walter Pidgeon, Brian Donlevy, Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Rod Taylor, Michael Redgrave |
| Director: | Howard Hawks, George Seaton, Sam Wood, Mervyn LeRoy, Sidney Lumet, Phil Karlson |
| Genre: | Military/War |
| Year: | 1943 |
| Studio: | Warner Home Video |
| Length: | 745 minutes |
| Released: | June 5, 2007 |
| Rating: | NR |
| Format: | DVD |
| Misc: | NTSC |
| Language: | English(Original Language), French(Subtitled), Spanish(Subtitled), English(Subtitled) |
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SYNOPSIS:
Air Force (1943)
The Flying Fortress Mary-Ann and its crew leave San Francisco for Honolulu on the day before Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor...and fly right into World War II. Howard Hanks guides one of Hollywood's greatest battle epics, a flag-waving, Oscar®-winning film of courage, camraderie and combat as the Mary-Ann hopscotches from Hawaii to Wake Island to the Philippines to the Coral Sea to Australia. A gifted ensemble cast - including John Garfield and Harry Carey - plays ordinary Americans called upon to do the extraordinary. As if the film itself wasn't a reminder of war's costs, true life underscored that reality. The B-17 seen in many of the scenes would later be lost in action with its crew over the Pacific.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Technicolor Drama Short: Women at War
- Classic Cartoons: The Fifth-Column Mouse and Scrap Happy Daffy
- Audio-Only Bonus: Radio Adaptation with George Raft and Harry Carey
- Theatrical Trailer
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
Coaxing a hulking Mitchell B-25 into the sky from a short, 500-foot carrier runway on a bouncing sea is dangerous. Tougher still is doing it with a full bombload. But for Lt. Col. James Doolittle (Spencer Tracy) and the crewmen of 16 B-25's, that's just the start of the mission.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Pete Smith Specialty Short: Movie Pests
- Vintage Passing Parade Short: A Lady Fights Back
- Classic Cartoon: Bear Raid Warden
- Theatrical Trailer
Command Decision (1948)
World War II drama that shows the battles - on and off the field - that a general must fight in order to win the war. General Casey of the US Forces in England must fight congressional representatives and his own chain of command to be allowed to complete an important mission. He must get his men's planes out, during a small window of fair weather, in order to prevent the Germans from making more military jet planes. Although the general knows the success of his plan could decide whether the Germans get the upper hand in the war, it could also mean suicide for his men. Adapted from the William Wister Haines stage hit.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Vintage Passing Parade Short: Souvenirs of Death
- Classic Cartoon King-Size Canary
- Theatrical Trailer
Hell to Eternity (1960)
A true life story of Guy Gabaldon, a Los Angeles boy raised in the 1930s by a Japanese-American foster family. Later, during the war, as his foster parents are interned at a camp for Japanese Americans, Gabaldon's ability to speak Japanese helps him become a lone-operating Marine hero. During the bloody capture of the island of Saipan, he convinces 800 Japanese to surrender after their general commits suicide.
BONUS FEATURE:
- 1960's War Movies Trailer Gallery
36 Hours (1964)
It's 1950. Major Jefferson Pike is in an Allied military hospital, under the care of an American doctor. Pike is an amnesiac, and if he could recount the details of D-Day, his last memory, perhaps it would unlock his mind.
BONUS FEATURE:
- James Garner War Movies Trailer Gallery
The Hill (1965)
North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a man-made instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-in-arms.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Vintage Featurette: The Sun...The Sand...The Hill
- 1965 War Movies Trailer Gallery
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