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Directed by Val Guest
UK 1959
The British World War II drama
Yesterday's Enemy (1959) was tagged in its home country as "the
most controversial...ever filmed," largely because it took the
unprecedented step of suggesting the British were not always
honorable in combat. A brigade, cut off from its main division in
the Burmese jungle in 1942, comes upon a small force of Japanese
holed up in a remote village. The British troops defeat their enemy,
discovering an important top-secret map on the body of a slain
Japanese commander. Suspecting one of the villagers secretly knows
more about the map than he will tell, the brigade commander begins
to execute innocent villagers to force a confession from the person
in question, an act that draws horrified condemnation from the
brigade's chaplain and a war correspondent embedded with the British
troops. When the commander and his men get the information and try
to return it to headquarters, they are captured by Japanese
soldiers, and suffer the same treatment as the villagers. *** The underappreciated and adult World War Two drama Yesterday’s Enemy was Hammer Film Productions’ fourth serious look at a conflict that had only concluded fourteen years before. It followed on the heels of The Steel Bayonet (1957), the hysterical and racist The Camp on Blood Island (1958) and the taut but highly compromised Ten Seconds to Hell (1959). Val Guest contributed direction to a Hammer film for the eighth occasion, illustrating that in the 1950’s at least he was the British companies most prolific director. |
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Theatrical Release: July 11th, 1959
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Review: Indicator - Region FREE - Blu-ray
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CLICK to order from: Presently only available as part of Indicator's Hammer Vol 3 - Blood And Terror - Limited Edition Blu Ray Set: Reissued individually in the UK on Blu-ray in June 2021: or buy directly from Indicator: |
Distribution | Indicator - Region FREE - Blu-ray | |
Runtime | 1:34:41.634 | |
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2.35:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray Disc Size: 42,217,056,796 bytes Feature: 28,044,531,264 bytes Video Bitrate: 34.95 Mbps Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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DTS-HD Master Audio English 1057 kbps 1.0 / 48 kHz / 1057 kbps / 24-bit (DTS
Core: 1.0 / 48 kHz / 768 kbps / 24-bit) Dolby Digital Audio English 224 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 224 kbps |
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Subtitles | English, None | |
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Release Information: Studio: Indicator
2.35:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray Disc Size: 42,217,056,796 bytes Feature: 28,044,531,264 bytes Video Bitrate: 34.95 Mbps Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Edition Details:
• The Guardian Interview with Val Guest (2005): archival audio recording
of the celebrated filmmaker in conversation with Jonathan Rigby at
London’s National Film Theatre
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NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc.
ADDITION: (July 2018)
Indicator - Region FREE - Blu-ray:
Indicator bring us
the anti-war hammer effort, Yesterday's Enemy on a
dual layered Blu-ray
with a maxed out bitrate. There is a certain softness to the
1080P image, with detail being a little fuzzy. That being
said, this transfer has a nice amount of contrast and grain,
with little to no damage visible in the frame. This is a
strong transfer of a weak source (possibly the only existing
one) and it has no visible tinkering to my eye. |
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CLICK to order from: Presently only available as part of Indicator's Hammer Vol 3 - Blood And Terror - Limited Edition Blu Ray Set: Reissued individually in the UK on Blu-ray in June 2021: or buy directly from Indicator: |
Distribution | Indicator - Region FREE - Blu-ray |