A Few Words About A few words about...™ Passage to Marseille -- in Blu-ray (1 Viewer)

[davidmatychuk]

It looks and sounds great on the DVD.

 

[Alan Tully]

It's interesting the difference between the war films made during the war & the plethora of war movies that came in the second half of the forties & the fifties (the sixties was really boys own hero stuff). Of course there's a big propaganda element to films made while the war was going on. I don't know if it makes me a bad person, but I do love war movies, & forties b/w ones the most.

 

[Mike Boone]

Ordered Passage to Marseille Thursday night, and having just watched the terrific blu of the great Yankee Doodle Dandy, as well as having also seen Warner Archive's amazing blu-ray editions of Out of the Past and The Picture of Dorian Gray, I know that we are in for a terrific evening when we'll again enjoy the atmosphere of a 40s film, which has some of the great performers of that period.

 

[Richard Gallagher]

The extras on the Warner Archive Blu-ray of Passage to Marseille:


Uncertain Glory trailer

Newsreel

I Won't Play (WWII short)

Jammin' the Blues

The Weakly Reporter (Merrie Melodies cartoon)

The Free French: Unsung Victors (a 17-minute featurette made in 2006)

Breakdowns (a 1944 collection of bloopers)

Passage to Marseille trailer

 

[davidmatychuk]

The extras on the Warner Archive Blu-ray of Passage to Marseille:


Uncertain Glory trailer

Newsreel

I Won't Play (WWII short)

Jammin' the Blues

The Weakly Reporter (Merrie Melodies cartoon)

The Free French: Unsung Victors (a 17-minute featurette made in 2006)

Breakdowns (a 1944 collection of bloopers)

Passage to Marseille trailer

That's everything from the DVD. By the way, the TCM Spotlight "Errol Flynn Adventures" DVD box from 2010 that contains "Uncertain Glory", "Desperate Journey", "Edge Of Darkness", "Northern Pursuit", and "Objective, Burma!" is similarly featured and excellent. Anyone who enjoys the World War 2 action/propaganda genre (like "Passage To Marseilles") would probably like these five movies as much as I do. There's something about the high stakes involved that makes them as gripping, for me, as the best modern war movies.

 

[Robert Crawford]

This BD release is now selling for $16.49 at Amazon.

 

[Mike Boone]

This BD release is now selling for $16.49 at Amazon.

My copy hasn't arrived yet, but with the quality I understand that the blu of

Passage To Marseille exhibits, I would hope that many will be encouraged

to order it at such a fair price for seeing an excellent presentation of a catalog

title.

 

[atfree]

This is now temporarily out of stock at Amazon....hopefully a sign of brisk sales for this catalog title!

 

[Robert Crawford]

This is now temporarily out of stock at Amazon....hopefully a sign of brisk sales for this catalog title!

Today I received my BD from Amazon.

 

[Richard M S]

I can hardly wait for this film to arrive; Amazon says my disk will arrive tomorrow.


Also, I doubt it will happen, but I would love for the inclusion of the trailer for UNCERTAIN GLORY to mean it is soon to arrive on blu-ray. I find this undeservedly obscure Errol Flynn film; which was certainly not a big hit in its day, to be far more complex and thought-provoking than most films of the era. Errol's introspective performance was terrific and is one of his best.

 

[davidmatychuk]

I can hardly wait for this film to arrive; Amazon says my disk will arrive tomorrow.

Also, I doubt it will happen, but I would love for the inclusion of the trailer for UNCERTAIN GLORY to mean it is soon to arrive on blu-ray. I find this undeservedly obscure Errol Flynn film; which was certainly not a big hit in its day, to be far more complex and thought-provoking than most films of the era. Errol's introspective performance was terrific and is one of his best.

I think that trailer is on the Blu-Ray because it was on the DVD (being contemporary with "Passage To Marseilles") but "Uncertain Glory" is excellent in its own right, and again I recommend the TCM Errol Flynn DVD box set that it's part of.

 

[atfree]

Today I received my BD from Amazon.

Got mine yesterday....out of stock for new orders only.

 

[Randy_M]

Back in stock, apparently...I'm supposed to receive mine next Wednesday

 

[dpippel]

Me too.

 

[Mike Boone]

Me too.

Me 3.

 

[Matt Hough]

I watched this tonight and was thoroughly impressed with the video and audio quality of this Blu-ray. Like all of the Warner Archive titles I've purchased on Blu-ray, this one was exemplary.



Bravo, Warners!

 

[ahollis]

I watched this tonight and was thoroughly impressed with the video and audio quality of this Blu-ray. Like all of the Warner Archive titles I've purchased on Blu-ray, this one was exemplary.


Bravo, Warners!

Same here!!!

 

[atfree]

I watched this tonight and was thoroughly impressed with the video and audio quality of this Blu-ray. Like all of the Warner Archive titles I've purchased on Blu-ray, this one was exemplary.


Bravo, Warners!

Ditto...watched this yesterday. Hadn't seen it in a while....transfer so good it was like watching it for the first time.

 

[Matt Hough]

Ditto...watched this yesterday. Hadn't seen it in a while....transfer so good it was like watching it for the first time.

I could not agree more. I've never seen it looking this good. I had never owned it on home video, so I was especially thrilled that my first acquisition of it for my collection was with this superlative home video edition.

 

[Alan Tully]

This has just arrived today, I zipped through it, & wow does it look great! To see that Warner badge with the music & I'm back in 1959, 8 years old looking at the BBC Saturday night movie