Eureka Entertainment have announced the UK DVD release of Henry Hathaway’s Souls at Sea, Douglas Sirk’s A Time to Love and a Time to Die and Rudolph Mate’s The Black Shield of Falworth on 10th November 2008. Priced at £15.99 each, there are no announced extras…
Souls at Sea - A ship has caught fire and only one lifeboat remains. Now, its captain, Michael Taylor (Gary COOPER) must decide who will live and who will surely die. The story begins at Taylor's trial where he is charged for the murders of the ship's passengers who perished. But what his prosecutors don't know is that he was actually onboard under British secret orders. Unexpectedly, he is awarded a new trial after a representative of the Queen of England steps forward with a detailed account of the tragedy. Next, the real story unfolds, via brilliantly photographed flashbacks, revealing Taylor and his partner's heroic mission to abolish the inhumane business of slave trading. But will the truth be enough to spare Taylor from a life behind bars?
A Time to Love and a Time to Die - Based on Erich Maria Remarque’s novel A Time to Love and a Time to Die, Douglas Sirk’s A Time to Love and a Time to Die is set in the devastating ruin of burnt-out Germany during the final days of World War Two. Amid this tumult and desolation is Private Ernst Graeber (John Gavin) who, having been sent home on leave from the Russian front, finds his town destroyed by Allied bombing. Frantically searching for his parents, Ernst encounters his childhood friend Elizabeth Kruse (Lilo Pulver), the daughter of a doctor who has been removed to a concentration camp. In spite of the horror of their surroundings and their close proximity to death, Ernst and Elizabeth find hope in their love for one another. Together they try to wrest sanity from a world shattered by fear and hatred. Featuring a cameo appearance by the novel’s author, Sirk’s penultimate film brought him to the attention of critics and theorists worldwide.
The Black Shield of Falworth - Universal-International's first feature in CinemaScope features a young Tony Curtis pursuing his real-life bride Janet Leigh, while defending the British throne in this swashbuckling saga filled with jousts, jests and medieval super heroics.
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