Stars: Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Mohner, Laurence Naismith, Geoffrey Keen, Robert Mitchum, Curt Jurgens

Director: Lewis Gilbert

Summary: A double pack featuring 'Sink The Bismarck!' The spring of 1941 finds Germany's largest battle ship, The Bismarck, at anchorage in Norway. This is the story of the Allied campaign to locate, attack and destroy her and 'Enemy Below' in which the Captain of a U.S. Destroyer begins a game of cat and mouse with the Commander of a German U Boat, which could end in the destruction of one or both of them.

A double bill of films featuring the naval battles of World War II. In SINK THE BISMARCK, it's spring of 1941, and the Nazis have launched their juggernaut battleship, the Bismarck, to close off British supply lines and ultimately invade England. A counterstrike is ordered, and with an arsenal of ships at their command, Royal Intelligence officers Jonathan Shepard (Kenneth More) and Anne Davis (Dana Wynter) fight desperately to destroy the Bismarck. In ENEMY BELOW, it's Robert Mitchum vs. Curt Jurgens as the commanders of an American destroyer and a German U-boat who play a deadly game of cat and mouse in the South Atlantic.

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The Enemy Belowand Sink the Bismarck!form a double feature of semi-classic CinemaScope-era WWII naval dramas sailing from the Fox vault onto DVD for the first time.

In The Enemy BelowRobert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens are respectively captains of a US destroyer and a German U-boat whose vessels come into conflict in the South Atlantic. Both are good men with a job to do, the script noting Jurgens' distaste for Hitler and the Nazis and engaging our sympathy with the German sailors almost as much as the Americans. Made at the height of the Cold War of the 1950s, the film delivers a liberal message of cooperation wrapped inside some spectacular action scenes and a story that builds to a tense and exciting, moving finale.

Sink the Bismarck!is a British film dating from three years later and adopts a more documentary style in recounting the race against time to track and destroy what was in 1941 the most powerful battleship then built, the Bismarck. Shot in gleaming black and white so as to make use of genuine WWII archive footage, the film is held together by the introduction of a fictional naval officer in overall command of the operation, played excellently by Kenneth More. To add some human warmth he is given a tentative romantic subplot with a WREN played by the luminous Dana Wynter. Though initially slow to gather steam, Sink the Bismarck!finally delivers an epic, thoroughly horrifying conclusion.

On the DVD:The Enemy Belowand Sink the Bismarck!come as a two-disc set with multiple language and subtitle options, including English for Hard of Hearing, but no extras other than the original trailers. These are presented at 16:9 and 2.35:1. Both are rather faded, but are fine examples of an era when watching the previews didn't guarantee a migraine. Both films are anamorphically enhanced in their original 2.35:1 CinemaScope, and, bar a little grain in some shots and the inevitably inferior archive footage, the picture quality is excellent. The Enemy Belowboasts sturdy three-channel sound (left, front, right) while Sink the Bismarck!is in very well mixed stereo. --Gary S Dalkin

Aspect Ratio:	2.35 Wide Screen, 16:9 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Theatrical Trailers, Scene Access, Interactive Menus
Subtitles:	Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish
Year:	1960
Release Date:	June 2, 2003
Runtime:	190 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	23469 D V D
Keywords:	War, Below, Double, Pack, Wide, Screen, Enemy, Bismarck, Sink
Genre:	War