This provides a bare -
bones version of the film without extras.
Not exact matches
There's a tighter, better
film within this 122 - minute
version, but there's more than enough meat on the
bones of it as is to consider it a success, even just as a conversation - starter, a category which has been under - populated this Sundance.
But even those with no knowledge
of the Entebbe hijacking can see from the bare
bones what a cinematic story it is, and why, within six months
of it coming to a bloody end, two rival
film versions had already been made: the star - studded Victory At Entebbe, which had a cast including Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster and Elizabeth Taylor and was thought to be pretty dreadful, and the almost as starry Raid On Entebbe, with Peter Finch and Charles Bronson, considered to be better.
The bare -
bones 1.78:1, 16x9 - enhanced presentation is rounded out by a fullscreen
version of the
film on the disc's flipside plus trailers for other Family Features: Baby's Day Out, FernGully: The Last Rainforest, The Man from Snowy River, The Pagemaster, and The Sandlot.
If Arthur was disappointed by Kubrick's decision to cut his dialogue and narrative to the
bone, he was eventually reconciled by being able to put everything left out
of the
film into the novel, meaning that each man was able to produce his own preferred
version.