Cinema Of Powell / Pressburger - Collection 1 Imprint Standard Edition, The BLRY Boxset

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger forged a filmmaking partnership that has forever influenced the silver screen, crafting a catalogue of twenty-four films that are among the most renowned works cinema has to offer. This first selection features six entries from the first eight years of their collaboration: The Spy In Black - Blu-ray A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet. 49th Parallel - Blu-ray A German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - Blu-ray General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier. A Canterbury Tale - Blu-ray There is a bizarre crime taking place in a small town near Canterbury. An unknown assailant known as 'the glue man' is pouring glue on women's heads at nighttime, and three modern day pilgrims are determined to investigate. A Matter Of Life and Death - Blu-ray When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake and dispatch an angel to collect him. Black Narcissus - Blu-ray A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth falls for a government worker, Mr. Dean, and begins to question her vow of celibacy. As Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, Sister Clodagh becomes immersed in her own memories of love.