The Powell and Pressburger Collection - 11-DVD Box Set ( A Matter of Life and Death / The Red Shoes / The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp / A Canterbury Tale / I Know Where I'm Going! / 49th Parallel / The Battle of the River Plate / Ill Met by Moonlight / They're a Weird Mob / The Tales of Hoffmann / Blac ) ( Stairway to Heaven / The Red Shoes / The Adventures of Colonel Blimp / A Canterbury Tale / I Know Where I'm Going! / Forty-Ninth Parallel / Graf Spee / Intelligence Service / They're a Weird Mob / Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann / Black Nar )

The Powell and Pressburger Collection - 11-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: A Matter of Life and Death / The Red Shoes / The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp / A Canterbury Tale / I Know Where I'm Going! / 49th Parallel / The Battle of the River Plate / Ill Met by Moonlight / They're a Weird Mob / The Tales of Hoffmann / Blac
Alternate Title: Stairway to Heaven / The Red Shoes / The Adventures of Colonel Blimp / A Canterbury Tale / I Know Where I'm Going! / Forty-Ninth Parallel / Graf Spee / Intelligence Service / They're a Weird Mob / Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann / Black Nar
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
1243 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Biographies
Box Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Documentary
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Short Film
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1941 - 1966 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Michael Powell
Emeric Pressburger

Written By:
Michael Powell
Emeric Pressburger
Hans Christian Andersen
Rodney Ackland
W. Stanley Moss
John O'Grady
Dennis Arundell
Jules Barbier
Rumer Godden

Actors:
David Niven ..... Peter Carter
Kim Hunter ..... June
Robert Coote ..... Bob Trubshawe
Kathleen Byron ..... An Angel
Richard Attenborough ..... An English Pilot
Bonar Colleano ..... An American Pilot (also as Bonor Colleano)
Joan Maude ..... Chief Recorder
Marius Goring ..... Conductor 71
Roger Livesey ..... Doctor Frank Reeves
Robert Atkins ..... The Vicar
Bob Roberts ..... Dr. Gaertler
Edwin Max ..... Dr. McEwen
Betty Potter ..... Mrs. Tucker
Abraham Sofaer ..... The Judge / The Surgeon
Raymond Massey ..... Abraham Farlan
Marius Goring ..... Julian Craster
Jean Short ..... Terry
Gordon Littmann ..... Ike
Julia Lang ..... A Balletomane
Bill Shine ..... Her Mate
Léonide Massine ..... Ljubov (as Leonide Massine)
Anton Walbrook ..... Boris Lermontov
Austin Trevor ..... Professor Palmer
Esmond Knight ..... Livy
Eric Berry ..... Dimitri
Irene Browne ..... Lady Neston
Moira Shearer ..... Victoria Page
Ludmilla Tchérina ..... Boronskaja (as Ludmilla Tcherina)
Jerry Verno ..... Stage-Door Keeper
Robert Helpmann ..... Ivan Boleslawsky
Roger Livesey ..... Clive Candy
Deborah Kerr ..... Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Johnny Cannon
Anton Walbrook ..... Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff
Roland Culver ..... Col. Betteridge
James McKechnie ..... Spud Wilson
Albert Lieven ..... von Ritter
Arthur Wontner ..... Embassy Counsellor
David Hutcheson ..... Hoppy
Ursula Jeans ..... Frau von Kalteneck
John Laurie ..... Murdoch
Harry Welchman ..... Major Davies
Reginald Tate ..... van Zijl
A.E. Matthews ..... President of Tribunal
Carl Jaffe ..... von Reumann (as Carl Jaffé)
Valentine Dyall ..... von Schönborn
Eric Portman ..... Thomas Colpeper, JP
Sheila Sim ..... Alison Smith
Dennis Price ..... Peter Gibbs
Sergeant John Sweet ..... Bob Johnson (as Sergt. John Sweet, U.S. Army)
Esmond Knight ..... Narrator (non-US versions) / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot
Charles Hawtrey ..... Thomas Duckett
Hay Petrie ..... Woodcock
George Merritt ..... Ned Horton
Edward Rigby ..... Jim Horton
Freda Jackson ..... Prudence Honeywood
Betty Jardine ..... Fee Baker
Eliot Makeham ..... Organist
Harvey Golden ..... Sergt. Roczinsky
Leonard Smith ..... Leslie
James Tamsitt ..... Terry
Wendy Hiller ..... Joan Webster
Roger Livesey ..... Torquil MacNeil
Pamela Brown ..... Catriona
Finlay Currie ..... Ruairidh Mhór
George Carney ..... Mr. Webster
Nancy Price ..... Mrs. Crozier
Catherine Lacey ..... Mrs. Robinson
Jean Cadell ..... Postmistress
John Laurie ..... John Campbell
Valentine Dyall ..... Mr. Robinson
Norman Shelley ..... Sir Robert Bellinger (on radio telephone) (voice)
Margot Fitzsimons ..... Bridie
Murdo Morrison ..... Kenny
Captain C.W.R. Knight ..... Colonel Barnstaple (as Captain C.W.R. Knight, F.Z.S.)
Walter Hudd ..... Hunter
Richard George ..... Kommandant Bernsdorff
Eric Portman ..... Lieutenant Hirth
Raymond Lovell ..... Lieutenant Kuhnecke
Niall MacGinnis ..... Vogel
Peter Moore ..... Kranz
John Chandos ..... Lohrmann
Basil Appleby ..... Jahner
Laurence Olivier ..... Johnnie - the Trapper
Finlay Currie ..... The Factor
Ley On ..... Nick - the Eskimo
Anton Walbrook ..... Peter
Glynis Johns ..... Anna
Charles Victor ..... Andreas
Frederick Piper ..... David
Leslie Howard ..... Philip Armstrong Scott
John Gregson ..... Captain Bell - H.M.S. Exeter
Anthony Quayle ..... Commodore Harwood - H.M.S. Ajax
Ian Hunter ..... Captain Woodhouse - H.M.S. Ajax
Jack Gwillim ..... Captain Parry - H.M.S. Achilles
Bernard Lee ..... Captain Dove - M.S. Africa Shell
Lionel Murton ..... Mike Fowler
Anthony Bushell ..... Mr. Millington Drake - British Minister, Montevideo
Peter Illing ..... Dr. Guani - Foreign Minister, Uruguay
Michael Goodliffe ..... Captain McCall - R.N., British Naval Attache for Buenos Aires
Patrick Macnee ..... Lieutenant Commander Medley - R.N.
John Chandos ..... Dr. Langmann - German Minister, Montevideo
Douglas Wilmer ..... M. Desmoulins - French Minister, Montevideo
William Squire ..... Ray Martin
Roger Delgado ..... Captain Varela - Uruguayan Navy
Andrew Cruickshank ..... Captain Stubbs - 'Doric Star'
Dirk Bogarde ..... Maj. Patrick Leigh Fermor
Marius Goring ..... Major General Kreipe
David Oxley ..... Captain W. Stanley Moss, M.C.
Dimitri Andreas ..... Niko Soldan Emeris (as Demetri Andreas)
Cyril Cusack ..... Captain Sandy Rendel
Laurence Payne ..... Manoli
Wolfe Morris ..... George
Michael Gough ..... Andoni Zoidakis
John Cairney ..... Elias
Brian Worth ..... Stratis Saviolkis
Roland Bartrop ..... Micky Akoumianakis (as Rowland Bartrop)
George Eugeniou ..... Charis Zographakis
Paul Stassino ..... Yani Katsias
Adeeb Assaly ..... Zahari
Theo Moreas ..... Village Priest
Walter Chiari ..... Nino Culotta
Claire Dunne ..... Kay Kelly
Chips Rafferty ..... Harry Kelly
Alida Chelli ..... Giuliana
Ed Devereaux ..... Joe Kennedy
Slim DeGrey ..... Pat
John Meillon ..... Dennis
Charles Little ..... Jimmy
Anne Haddy ..... Barmaid
Jack Allen ..... Fat Man in Bar
Red Moore ..... Texture Man
Ray Hartley ..... Newsboy
Tony Bonner ..... Lifesaver
Alan Lander ..... Charlie
Keith Peterson ..... Drunk Man on Ferry
Moira Shearer ..... Stella / Olympia
Ludmilla Tchérina ..... Giulietta
Anne Ayars ..... Antonia
Pamela Brown ..... Nicklaus
Léonide Massine ..... Spalanzani
Robert Helpmann ..... Lindorf
Coppelius ..... Kleinsach / Cochenille
Dapertutto ..... Crespel
Frederick Ashton ..... Hoffmann
Mogens Wieth ..... Pitichinaccio
Robert Rounseville ..... Andreas (Prologue and Epilogue)
Lionel Harris ..... Luther
Philip Leaver ..... Partner to Stella in Dragonfly ballet
Meinhart Maur ..... Nathaniel (Prologue and Epilogue)
Edmond Audran ..... Hermann (Prologue and Epilogue)
John Ford
Richard Golding
Deborah Kerr ..... Sister Clodagh
Flora Robson ..... Sister Philippa
Jean Simmons ..... Kanchi
David Farrar ..... Mr. Dean
Sabu ..... The Young General
Esmond Knight ..... The Old General
Kathleen Byron ..... Sister Ruth
Jenny Laird ..... Sister Honey
Judith Furse ..... Sister Briony
May Hallatt ..... Angu Ayah
Shaun Noble ..... Con, Clodagh's Childhood Sweetheart
Eddie Whaley Jr. ..... Joseph Anthony, Young Interpreter
Nancy Roberts ..... Mother Dorothea
Ley On ..... Phuba, Dean's Servant

Synopsis:

***WARNING***ALL DVD TITLES CONTAIN ENGLISH SUBTITLES EXCEPT FOR THE DVD TITLE - A CANTERBURY TALE***
Never in the history of British film have two figures become as iconic as those of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Reigning throughout the 40s and 50s these two magnificent filmmakers brought to life British films and continue to radiate immense critical acclaim and inspiration for all contemporary film making.

Includes:

1. The Tales of Hoffman (1951)
2. Black Narcisus (1946)
3. A Matter of Life & Death (1946)
4. The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
5. A Canterbury Tale (1944)
6. I Know Where I am Going (1945)
7. 49th Parallel (1941)
8. The Battle of the River Plate (1956)
9. Ill Met By Moonlight (1957)
10. They're A Weird Mob (1966)
11. The Red Shoes (1948)

***WARNING***ALL DVD TITLES CONTAIN ENGLISH SUBTITLES EXCEPT FOR THE DVD TITLE - A CANTERBURY TALE***
1. The Tales of Hoffman (1951)
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger create a phantasmagoric marriage of cinema and opera in this one of a kind take on a classic story. In Jacques Offenbach's fantasy opera The Tales of Hoffman, a poet dreams of three women - a mechanical performing doll, a bejeweled siren, and the consumptive daughter of a famous composer - all of whom break his heard in different ways. Powell and Pressburger's feverishly romantic adaptation is a feast of music, dance, and visual effects, and one of the most exhilarating opera films ever produced.
2. Black Narcisus (1946)
Powell and Pressburger added to their run of daring, stimulating and stylistic pictures with this melodrama about a group of Anglican nuns establishing a remote mission high in the Himalayas. Their physical environment - extreme temperatures, illness and a young Indian Prince's perfume (Black Narcissus) - leads to psychological disturbance coupled with emotional weakness. Jealousy, sexual repression and hysteria all play their part in a fantastic climax which ripped through the British stiff upper lip attitude of the time. The casting is inspired, with brilliant performances from the principals, and the film deservedly won Oscars for Colour Cinematography and Art Direction.
3. A Matter of Life & Death (1946)
It's night over Europe, the night of the 2nd of May 1945. A crippled Lancaster Bomber struggles home across the English Channel, all crew dead save for the young pilot desperately scanning the radio for signs of life. His prayers are answered. June (Hunter), a young radio operator, picks up his signal, and in the final moments of the young flyer's life, a special bond is formed. The next morning washed up on an English beach, Squadron Leader Peter Carter (Niven) is alive, he finds June, and the two fall in love. Somehow he survived. It's a miracle, or is it? Peter Carter should have died that night; a heavenly escort missed him in the fog above the channel, and now he must face the celestial court of appeal for his right to live.
4. The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Follow the humorous exploits of exemplary British soldier Clive Candy as he battles to maintain his honor and proud gentlemanly conduct through romance, three wars, and a changing world. It's a romantic portrait of a career soldier and the pointed investigation into the nature of aging, friendship, and obsolescence.
5. A Canterbury Tale (1944)
This compelling drama by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (A Matter of Life and Death, The Red Shoes) is now acknowledged as one of their finest films. Their re-working of Chaucer's epic fourteenth century tale, largely set in wartime Kent, centres on American army Sergeant John Smith, British Soldier Dennis Price and Landgirl Shiela Sim who, before making a modern-day pilgrimage to Canterbury, solve the bizarre mystery of a man who pours glue over the hair of village girls at night.
6. I Know Where I am Going (1945)
In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's stunningly photographed comedy, romance flourishes in an unlikely place - the bleak and moody Scottish Hebrides. Wendy Hiller stars as a headstrong young woman who travels to Scotland to marry a rich lord. Stranded by stormy weather, she meets a handsome naval officer (Roger Livesey) who threatens to thwart her carefully laid-out life plans...
7. 49th Parallel (1941)
49th Parallel is a powerful and important piece of World War 2 propaganda, which controversially was filmed from the point of view of a group of German soldiers. Asked to make a flag waver by the Ministry of Information, the brilliantly gifted film-making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger elected to set the action in Canada. The film features a stellar cast, who all waived their fees in the interests of the war. A Nazi U-boat is sunk by the Canadian Air Force and all the crew are lost except six men who had been sent ashore before the attack. They stumble across an Eskimo village where Scott, Peter and his Eskimo servant, Martin live. Also present is a French trapper, Johnnie (played by Laurence Olivier), who panics when held at gunpoint and is shot by one of the Nazis. After this the Allies send an S.O.S. plane, and it is the intention of the Nazis to hijack it and fly to neutral America. When the plane arrives, there is a scuffle but they manage to take off. Will they be caught before they kill again?
8. The Battle of the River Plate (1956)
Ten days before World War II, Germany's crack battleship, Admiral Graf Spee sails with orders to carry out action against Allied merchant shipping in the South Atlantic. Captained by Hans Langsdorff (Peter Finch) Graf Spee with her superior speed, sinks ship after ship. Meanwhile, the net is tightening round the German Killer. Outwitted by British Intelligence, the Germans are convinced Graf Spee is trapped by a massive naval force.
9. Ill Met By Moonlight (1957)
In Nazi-occupied Crete, British officers Fermor (Bogarde) and Moss (Oxley), aided by local patriots, are assigned the job of kidnapping German commander-in-chief Kreipe (Goring). The operation, if successful, will be an incredible propaganda coup for the Allies; while the abduction goes smoothly, the resultant chase across the rocky Cretan landscape proves anything but...
10. They're A Weird Mob (1966)
Based on a popular Australian novel, this comedy was produced Down Under in 1966. Nino Culotta Walter Chiari is an Italian journalist who is lured by his brother into coming to Australia to work for his paper there. But when Nino arrives in Sidney, he finds out that there is no paper; his brother has taken off with the investors' cash. Left in the lurch was his brother's business partner, Kay Kelly (Clare Dunne). Nino vows to pay off his brother's debt and gets a job as a bricklayer to do so. He also tries to woo Kay, but he is repeatedly rebuffed, with humorous results.
11. The Red Shoes (1948)
The tragic and romantic story of Vicky Page, the brilliant young dancer who must give up everything if she is to become a great ballerina, is one of Powell and Pressburger's most famous films. Creators of classics such as Black Narcissus, A Matter of Life And Death, and The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp, they were renowned for their use of brilliant colour and wonderful costumes, and, with the exhilarating cinematography of Jack Cardiff, were among the most influential film makers of their time. The Red Shoes is one of the finest examples of their work, and has become an inspiration to artists, film makers and musicians all over the world.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 02 January, 2010.