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Whistle Stopper - The Winds of War
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List Price: $79.99
Our Price: $34.98
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Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Jan-Michael Vincent, John Houseman, Polly Bergen
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 0097368013049
Format: Box set
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 6
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2004-05-25
Running Time: 883
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1983-02-06
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Simply Great!
Comment: This is my first purchase of anything that had to deal with the 2nd world war. Sure, I've watched Private Ryand and Bands of Brothers but this series showed the makeup behind the USA getting slapped at Pearl Harbor. If anyone is looking for a history lesson via the DVD arena, this series sums it up within 15 hours.
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Summary: If only we had Ali MacGraw instead of Jane Seymour for the complete mini series
Comment: I just spent an hour with reading all reader's reviews and agree with most of them, enjoyed reading the one by the history professor from Zagreb the most!
However I totally disagree with the reader's review from Tracy Marks on 9/14/2006. I did read the Wouk books before I watched the mini series and always felt that there was no better cast choice for the part of Natalie Jastrow than Ali MacGraw. I've seen "Love Story" and found it quite nice, but when I watched "Winds of War", I was completely taken with the undeniable chemistry between Ali MacGraw and Jan-Michael Vincent and their good acting. If they were only acting that they were in love, then these were the most convincing love scenes I ever saw on the big screen or on TV in more than 40 years.
How big was my disappointment when I started watching the sequel "War and Remembrance" and had to accept that Dan Curtis (or his casting agency) had replaced the vivid and passionate Ali MacGraw by sleeping pill actress Jane Seymour (I was already wondering way back in the early seventies when I watched the James Bond movie "Live and let Die" how Seymour got that part???).
The actor who replaced Jan-Michael Vincent as Byron Henry was not bad, but he was simply lacking Vincent's charisma. Vincent might not be the world's greatest actor, but he certainly has sex appeal and charisma. So has MacGraw.
At first I watched the whole series, all 19 parts. When I watched it a second time about 2 years later, I fast-forwarded the Seymour scenes (they are unbearable to watch) and focussed on the remaining good actors like Mitchum, Tennant and a few others.
Lately I only watched the first 7 parts.
I once did read somewhere that Ali MacGraw did not get the part offered again in "War and Remembrance", because she was considered being too old. I had no clue that she was over 40 when she played 28 year old Natalie Jastrow. She looked and acted like late twenties to me. She WAS Natalie Jastrow. If Curtis would not have waited 5 years, before he started filming the sequel, she would have been 5 years younger and as perfect as in the first part of this mini series. I think even 5 years later she would have been perfect still. In any case hundred times better than the sleeping pill :). But that's just MHO.
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Summary: Winds of War
Comment: Very good serie about a US naval family during the pre war days of 1939-1941. Also very informative about the outbreak of WW2
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Summary: A tremendous mini-series
Comment: This is a wonderfully engrossing mini-series. I know there are some complaints about the ages of the actors but the romance is very captivating. Great performances all around. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Best Mini-Series Ever~Fantastic~Edge of your seat all the time.
Comment: I never saw this when it was on TV. I just bought the set and it is FANTASTIC. It is constantly exciting. It is a war story and there is some fighting and bombing but it is not constant gore. I love it because it is about a family and everything they go thru.
There is romance, intrigue, mystery. I did a marathon watching of the whole thing because I am sick has been a great way to stay in bed when you have to.
I know I will be watching this many times over it is that good. Will go on the all times favorite list. I like wwii movies only if they are not all fighting. This one is not.
This tells how one Navy family made it thru.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 05/15/2007 Starring: Robert Mitchum Jan-michael Vincent Run time: 879 minutes Rating: Nr
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