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Wartime resistance films [DVD] : Hitchcock, Alfred

Contributor(s): Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 | Molière PlayersPublisher number: SN6555 | Strike Force EntertainmentLanguage: French Summary language: English Publication details: [s.l.] : Strike Force Entertainment, c2010. Description: 1 DVD (63 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inOther title: Hitchcock: the wartime resistance filmsSubject(s): World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France -- Drama | World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German -- Drama | Spies -- Drama | World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the warDDC classification: 791.4375 LOC classification: DVD: WARTIME
Contents:
Bon voyage (25 min.) ; Aventure Malgache = Madagascar landing (30 min.) / un film de Phoenix Londres ; en scène de Alfred Hitchcock.
Production credits: Director of photography, Günther Krampf.Cast: The films feature a group of exiled French actors known as the Molière Players.Summary: Two short films made by Hitchcock in 1944 at the request of the British government. When viewed by government officials they decided that the films were inflammatory and withheld them from distribution. The first, Bon voyage, is about an RAF pilot who has escaped from a POW camp and made his way back to London with the help of the French resistance. The second, Aventure Malgache, is set in Vichy-controlled Madagascar where the Resistance leader battles to keep his island free.
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Two short films 'Bon voyage' and 'Aventure Malgache' originally released as motion pictures in 1944.

Filmed at Welwyn Studios, with the co-operation of French writers, actors and technicians serving in Britain.

Special features: Hitchcock in the news (2008, 8 min.), an impressionistic compilation of archive newsreels and interviews with the legendary film director; scene selection; interactive menus.

Bon voyage (25 min.) ; Aventure Malgache = Madagascar landing (30 min.) / un film de Phoenix Londres ; en scène de Alfred Hitchcock.

Director of photography, Günther Krampf.

The films feature a group of exiled French actors known as the Molière Players.

Two short films made by Hitchcock in 1944 at the request of the British government. When viewed by government officials they decided that the films were inflammatory and withheld them from distribution. The first, Bon voyage, is about an RAF pilot who has escaped from a POW camp and made his way back to London with the help of the French resistance. The second, Aventure Malgache, is set in Vichy-controlled Madagascar where the Resistance leader battles to keep his island free.

DVD, region 0; PAL.

Soundtrack in French, with optional subtitles in English.