The North Star Armored attack!

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June, 1941. When the school year ends, five friends from a small Ukrainian village decide to travel to Kiev. Their trip is cut short when German aircraft attack and their town falls under occupation. While many escape to the hills to form an anti-Nazi resistance group, a German military doctor, Otto von Harden (Erich von Stroheim, Five Graves to Cairo), begins to use the children for medical experiments and as sources of blood transfusions for wo...

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Description:

2 videodiscs (182 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital
optical
surround
DTS-HD Digital surround
wide screen
HDTV
video file
Blu-ray video
region A

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated
MPAA Rating: PG

Other Title:

Armored attack!
Armoured attack!
North Star (Motion picture) [Blu-ray]
Armored attack! (Motion picture) [Blu-ray]

Notes:

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Armored attack! (1957) is a re-edited version of The North Star (1943), to remove positive references to Soviet Union and include narration about the Hungarian Uprising of 1956
Music, Aaron Copland; lyrics, Ira Gershwin; photography, James Wong Howe; film editor, Daniel Mandell
Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan, Ann Harding, Jane Withers, Farley Granger, Erich von Stroheim
Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic wide screen format (1.37:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Digital surround
Audio track in English, with optional subtitles in English

Contents:

Disc 1. The North Star (1943, 106 minutes)
Disc 2. Armored attack! (1957, 76 minutes)

Control Number:

3326601

UPC:

738329266776

Other Authors:

Andrews, Dana, 1909-1992, actor
Baxter, Anne, actor
Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990, composer
Goldwyn, Samuel, 1879-1974, film producer
Hellman, Lillian, 1905-1984, screenwriter
Huston, Walter, 1884-1950, actor
Kino Lorber, Inc., film distributor
Milestone, Lewis, 1895-1980, film director

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