Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Curt Jurgens, Robert Donat, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamiroff, Martita Hunt, Felix Aylmer

Director: Anatole Litvak

Summary: A double pack featuring 'Inn Of The Sixth Happiness' which centres around missionary Gladys Aylward who leads a group of children to safety. 'Anastasia' finds a woman who looks like the former Russian princess Anastasia, helping two Russians gain access to ten million pounds.

Screen legend Ingrid Bergman stars in this double feature of films based on real people and events. INN OF THE SIXTH HAPPINESS is a warmhearted drama based on the life of missionary Gladys Aylward (Bergman), who leaves her home in England to live in rural China and devotes her life to helping her adopted countrymen. ANASTASIA tells the story of an impoverished, suicidal Russian woman (Bergman) living in Paris who believes she may be the surviving daughter of Czar Nicholas II, whose family was overthrown and then executed during the 1917 Russian Revolution.

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An Ingrid Bergman double-bill comes to DVD with the classy pairing of Anastasia(1956) and The Inn of the Sixth Happiness(1958).

In AnastasiaBergman gives one of her memorable, haunting and haunted performances as an amnesiac chosen by a White Russian general (Yul Brynner) in 1928 to play the part of the long-rumoured but missing survivor of the Bolsheviks' murderous attack on the Czar's family. The twist is that Bergman's mystery woman seems to know more about the lost Anastasia than she is told. Based on the play by Marcelle Maurette and Guy Bolton, this film--directed by Anatole Litvak (Out of the Fog)--really does get under one's skin, not least of all because of its intriguing story but more so as a result of the strong chemistry between Bergman and Brynner. --Tom Keogh

The Inn of the Sixth Happinessis an epic and extraordinary true story--or, at least, an extraordinary story based on a novel (Alan Burgess's The Small Woman) based on a true story. Gladys Aylward (an improbably mesmerising Ingrid Bergman) is a British would-be missionary with an obsession about China. As she has no experience, the Missionary Society won't let her go, but she goes anyway, alone, to a remote northern province. She is hated, then loved; finally she becomes both a significant political figure and the heroine of a miraculous escape in which she shepherds 100 children to safety across the mountains just ahead of a Japanese invasion. Curt Jurgens is suitably stony as Lin Nan, the half-Dutch, half-Chinese military officer who falls in love with her, and a visibly ailing Robert Donat (who died before this, his final film, was released) is the wily local mandarin who sees and makes use of her extraordinary abilities. Directed by Mark Robson, The Inn of the Sixth Happinessis a sweeping, stirring tear-jerker, a big tale told in a big landscape with acres of orchestrated strings by Malcolm Arnold. It's a beautiful and beautifully made film that's a classic of the "everyone said I couldn't but I did it anyway" genre.--Richard Farr

Aspect Ratio:	2.35 Wide Screen, 16:9 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Theatrical Trailer, Scene Access, Interactive Menus
Subtitles:	Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish
Year:	1958
Release Date:	June 2, 2003
Runtime:	251 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	24006 D V D
Keywords:	Anastasia, Double, Pack, General, Sixth, Wide, Screen, Inn, Happiness, Drama
Genre:	Drama