The Great Escape (Blu-ray SteelBook) [UK]

[thedefector]

Classic war movie The Great Escape is getting the Steelbook treatment in June. Able to pre-order now.

Amazon UK Buy Link
Zavvi Buy Link

Release date: June 3, 2013
Purchase price: £14.99.
From Amazon UK:

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New inside art:

Old inside art:

Actual pics thanks to Naughtius Maximus:

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[paulboland]

The score of the movie is like the one of these cheap War-TV-series and the film is not much better I think.

The film soundtrack is a big seller and has one of the most liked film themes

 

[paulboland]

Never bought that comment from Kino. 4k release I would have purchased like a shot and remember we're talking 3 films way more popular on home video than other films that have had a 4k release

UHD disc sales is still only 8% to 13% market share
Costs involved for Kino to do UHD release is high
They be left with lot of discs not sold
The only way they could afford the release would be to share costs with other distributors in Europe and be a joint release in other countries

There is a reason why you dont see likes of Arrow Video do UHD yet as an example

 

[komor]

The film soundtrack is a big seller and has one of the most liked film themes

It is not the kind of music and film scores I like - that`s all.

 

[paulboland]

It is not the kind of music and film scores I like - that`s all.

Film Score is by Elmer Bernstein who has done some fantastic film scores Great Escape is one of those films

Elmer Bernstein I had the pleasure of meeting in person in Tower Records and also meet him at one of the most famous Vinyl Sountrack shops in the world 58 dean street records where you could end up seeing a lot a very famous film composers while visiting the store

 

[komor]

Film Score is by Elmer Bernstein who has done some fantastic film scores Great Escape is one of those films

Elmer Bernstein I had the pleasure of meeting in person in Tower Records and also meet him at one of the most famous Vinyl Sountrack shops in the world 58 dean street records where you could end up seeing a lot a very famous film composers while visiting the store

Is he related to Leonard Bernstein?

 

[paulboland]

Is he related to Leonard Bernstein?

No they was not related to each other but where close friends
They just happened to have same surname which is not unusual

 

[Lollard2002]

The only way they could afford the release would be to share costs with other distributors in Europe and be a joint release in other countries

I assume that's what they would have done to begin with which is why I'm surprised they didn't go ahead

 

[FN-2187]

Are you replying to the right thread?

He really can’t be. xD
That’s got to be some type of mistake!

 

[Basil]

The Great Escape is getting a new 4K Scan restoration release Criterion Collection USA
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Not a steelbook but will be lot better picture quality than the previous MGM release

Special Features and Technical Specs:

• NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray
• Two audio commentaries, one from 1991, featuring director John Sturges and composer Elmer Bernstein; the other, from 2004, featuring actors James Coburn, James Garner, and Donald Pleasence
• New interview with critic Michael Sragow
• "The Great Escape": Heroes Underground, a four-part 2001 documentary about the real-life escape from the Stalag Luft III prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, including interviews with POWs held there
• The Real Virgil Hilts: A Man Called Jones, a 2001 program on the United States Army Air Forces pilot David Jones, the inspiration for Steve McQueen's character in the film
• Return to "The Great Escape," a 1993 program featuring interviews with Coburn, Garner, actors David McCallum and Jud Taylor, stuntman Bud Ekins, and McQueen's son, Chad McQueen
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by critic Sheila O'Malley

will this be region free?
as amazon.com listing as region A

basil

 

[paulboland]

will this be region free?
as amazon.com listing as region A

basil

Criterion USA only releases are Region A locked

 

[Basil]

Criterion USA only releases are Region A locked

cheers paul and bugger, you just saved me some money thought.
was hoping for a 4k release of this, slowly trying to upgrade all my ww2 films over to 4k.
but they need to be region free or B in my case.

bit ironic thought film about the british and americans only available in us format think they missed a trick there, shame.

basil

 

[paulboland]

cheers paul and bugger, you just saved me some money thought.
was hoping for a 4k release of this, slowly trying to upgrade all my ww2 films over to 4k.
but they need to be region free or B in my case.

bit ironic thought film about the british and americans only available in us format think they missed a trick there, shame.

basil

It's a Blu-ray release USA release
Restoration from a 4K scan

From what I've seen so far it's from the same 4K scan that mgm already done a few years ago but is a new encoding done by Criterion and some new extras

Previous MGM release in 2013 had a lot of DNR applied
Criterion release will have better film encoding

MGM not licenced it to Criterion in UK at the moment.


4K UHD release you be left waiting for MGM to do a release as they not done many back catalogue films on UHD.