VCI Entertainment has tabbed Sept. 8 as the street date for
the double-disc, four-film DVD release of The Richard Attenborough Collection.
Included in this collection are some of Attenborough’s early
films, with director Montgomery Tully’s 1949 film adaptation of the Reginald
Beckwith stage play, Boys in Brown, being the earliest of
the group. He co-stars with Dirk
Bogarde as juvenile delinquents in this post-war “Kitchen Sink” drama.
The following year, 1950, Attenborough appeared in the
director Roy War Baker’s submarine drama, Morning Departure, which starred
John Mills as the doomed Captain, with Attenborough as Stoker Snipe, a crewman
who folds under the pressure of their predicament.
Next up is the 1951 film release of Hell is Sold Out, which
was directed by Michael Anderson (The Dam Busters) and based on a novel from
French writer Maurice Dekobra. Herbert
Lom is Dominic Danges, a famous writer, who was a POW during the war and
somehow was declared dead. No matter,
he continued to publish after his “death,” even having “his” latest book become
a best-seller (and the one before that as well)!!
He returns home to find that someone in impersonating him,
and, to make it even stranger, it is a woman (Mai Zetterling) and she is living
in his house as his widow!!!
Attenborough plays Danges friend, who becomes enamored with the
beautiful imposter.
Last in the group is director Guy Green’s 1958 World War II
story, Sea of Sand (shot on location in Libya), about a group of
British soldiers on a mission behind German lines to blow up a fuel depot. John Gregson and Michael Craig had the
leading roles as feuding Captains, while Attenborough played one of the
soldiers on the ill-fated mission.
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