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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[Flash]

I got refunded

 

[bigwednesday0]

Mine arrived this morning! It seems I'm the only one............
But it's an amray......... Wot a surprise.

I reckon they never had any steels for that price! [emoji35]

 

[adrianjturner]

I reckon they never had any steels for that price! [emoji35]

You were lucky I got a DVD !!!

 

[Flash]

You were lucky I got a DVD !!!

OMG really did you just get a dvd?

What are they doing? Amarays and DVDs?? A farce

 

[Ronnie3067]

OMG really did you just get a dvd?

What are they doing? Amarays and DVDs?? A farce

Sounds like their trying to be the new hmvirelend!!

 

[Flash]

It now won't let me leave negative feedback which is why people have like 100%

I can't believe they have it listed for sale again!!!!

 

[bigwednesday0]

I left negative yesterday. Should still be on there!

 

[Flash]

on mine it says unable to leave feedback. I am guessing it is because they refunded me.

 

[cheetah]

I got a cheapo DVD aswell.

 

[paulboland]

The Great Escape is getting a new 4K Scan restoration release Criterion Collection USA


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

 

[Deleted member 9789]

Will hold out for a UHD release, can't be far behind.

 

[paulboland]

Will hold out for a UHD release, can't be far behind.

You will likely be left waiting a good while for MGM to do a 4K UHD release of this film

MGM not great for dong UHD releases of back catalogue films

 

[Lollard2002]

Good to hear the current blu-ray is simply awful. I have high hopes for this one. Their "In the Heat of the Night" blu-ray was a revelation after the dire MGM pressing..... Criterion can be hit and miss these days but when they get it right the pressing is top notch.

 

[Lollard2002]

You will likely be left waiting a good while for MGM to do a 4K UHD release of this film/QUOTE]

I disagree 4k releases of older films are becoming more and more common. And I would like a bog standard 4k release to compliment the blu-ray special. Like the way we got the Arrow Waterworld and then the 4k release from another label.

 

[FN-2187]

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

This sounds fantastic. Might just pick this up and do a disc swap with my Steelbook. xD

 

[Lollard2002]

This sounds fantastic. Might just pick this up and do a disc swap with my Steelbook. xD

And it's up for pre-order on amazon.com. Unlikely to get a UK release as the rights are with a different company in the UK unless they do a deal with Criterion.

 

[komor]

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

 

[DMD4k]

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

Are you replying to the right thread?

 

[paulboland]

Not from MGM they done very little UHD releases
You will be left wating for MGM to do 4K UHD releases of their back catalogue

MGM licence out their back catalogue mostly now to other distributors

Kino lorber got a licence to do UHD from MGM to do the dollars Trilogy but scrapped plans to do 4K UHD of these films as sales of UHD discs not enough at the moment to be viable

Only new films have got UHD releases from MGM
The only back catalogue 4K UHD releases from MGM is the Daniel Craig Bond Films that's it from their fast back cataloge of films

 

[Lollard2002]

Kino lorber got a licence to do UHD from MGM to do the dollars Trilogy but scrapped plans to do 4K UHD of these films as sales of UHD discs not enough at the moment to be viable

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