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Title: Great film; extras not worth price
Review: Love this film, always have, had a perfectly good copy you can get on amazon for 2.00. I 'traded' my old one in for this new 'pumped up' version from Criterion for 10X the price of the one I sold. What do you get with the Criterion version? A sort of entertaining interview with Kirk Douglas from 1979 on British TV where he says how much he liked this film. An interview with Stanley Kubricks Wife who was the german girl singing in the beer hall in front of French troops in the final scene of the movie. A sort of interesting interview with James Harris the producer talking about having to fire Tim Carey (one of the actors selected for execution), for being difficult to work with. And the most interesting extra, a brief news report on French TV talking about the original event in WWI that inspired the book & film. These extras aren't 'bad' they just don't justify a $20+ cost for this new and impoved version of the film in my view.
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