“Victoire! Victoire! “
Sylvester Stallone and Michael Caine in Victory is currently available on Blu-ray From Warner Archives. Ordering information can be found Here
This is no ordinary soccer match. This is war! The battlefield: a stadium in occupied Paris. The armies: German all-stars vs. ragtag Allied POWs. The objective: demonstrate another “proof” of Aryan superiority. Guess who wins. Better yet, guess who cleverly uses the match as a means of escape. Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine and Max von Sydow star in this rouser directed by the legendary John Huston. The climactic match is a heart-in-the-throat, hat-in-the-air exhibition of brute force and balletic grace featuring soccer legends Pel�, Bobby Moore, Osvaldo Ardiles, Co Prins, Mike Summerbee and more. Score a splendid entertainment goal for Victory!
John Huston directs a worldwide line-up of superstars in this rousing variation on the prison sports flick. Huston raises the stakes considerably, placing the action inside...
Sylvester Stallone and Michael Caine in Victory is currently available on Blu-ray From Warner Archives. Ordering information can be found Here
This is no ordinary soccer match. This is war! The battlefield: a stadium in occupied Paris. The armies: German all-stars vs. ragtag Allied POWs. The objective: demonstrate another “proof” of Aryan superiority. Guess who wins. Better yet, guess who cleverly uses the match as a means of escape. Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine and Max von Sydow star in this rouser directed by the legendary John Huston. The climactic match is a heart-in-the-throat, hat-in-the-air exhibition of brute force and balletic grace featuring soccer legends Pel�, Bobby Moore, Osvaldo Ardiles, Co Prins, Mike Summerbee and more. Score a splendid entertainment goal for Victory!
John Huston directs a worldwide line-up of superstars in this rousing variation on the prison sports flick. Huston raises the stakes considerably, placing the action inside...
- 2/21/2020
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Disney's prequel to the Wizard of Oz aims to steal family audiences before Easter, knocking Wreck-It Ralph to third place
The winner
After four weeks where the market has been dominated by Wreck-It Ralph, Disney scored again with its latest family title, Oz the Great and Powerful. Oz's £3.71m is a decent opening figure, and Disney will be hoping to sustain the title throughout March and then coast through the two weeks of Easter school holiday.
In the Us, Oz opened with a muscular $79m, indicating a UK debut of about £8m could have been expected. The big UK shortfall on the rule-of-thumb projection may be explained by the huge popularity of L Frank Baum and all things Oz in North America, which is not matched in the UK. The respective opening figures for Alice in Wonderland, from Oz producer Joe Roth, were much better aligned, with $116m in the...
The winner
After four weeks where the market has been dominated by Wreck-It Ralph, Disney scored again with its latest family title, Oz the Great and Powerful. Oz's £3.71m is a decent opening figure, and Disney will be hoping to sustain the title throughout March and then coast through the two weeks of Easter school holiday.
In the Us, Oz opened with a muscular $79m, indicating a UK debut of about £8m could have been expected. The big UK shortfall on the rule-of-thumb projection may be explained by the huge popularity of L Frank Baum and all things Oz in North America, which is not matched in the UK. The respective opening figures for Alice in Wonderland, from Oz producer Joe Roth, were much better aligned, with $116m in the...
- 3/12/2013
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
Actor Vinnie Jones will star in a remake of director John Huston's WWII feature "Escape To Victory", alongside David Beckham as legendary soccer player 'Bobby Moore'.
Retitled "Victory" for its 1981 North American release, the original film starred Michael Caine and Sylvester Stallone as Allied prisoners of war, interned in a German camp, who team up with other prisoners to take on the enemy in a public, propaganda soccer match. Despite losing half-way through the game, the prisoners refuse to go through with a pre-arranged escape plan after one of the players delivers the classic line: "We can win this..."
In addition to Moore, the film also stars football greats Osvaldo Ardiles, Kazimierz Deyna, Paul Van Himst and Pelé. Ipswich Town F.C. players appearing in the film include John Wark, Russell Osman, Laurie Sivell, Robin Turner and Kevin O'Callaghan.
Huston's film was based on the 1961 Hungarian feature...
Retitled "Victory" for its 1981 North American release, the original film starred Michael Caine and Sylvester Stallone as Allied prisoners of war, interned in a German camp, who team up with other prisoners to take on the enemy in a public, propaganda soccer match. Despite losing half-way through the game, the prisoners refuse to go through with a pre-arranged escape plan after one of the players delivers the classic line: "We can win this..."
In addition to Moore, the film also stars football greats Osvaldo Ardiles, Kazimierz Deyna, Paul Van Himst and Pelé. Ipswich Town F.C. players appearing in the film include John Wark, Russell Osman, Laurie Sivell, Robin Turner and Kevin O'Callaghan.
Huston's film was based on the 1961 Hungarian feature...
- 3/22/2010
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
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