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Chariots of Fire
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List Price: $14.98
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Product Details
- Starring: Nicholas Farrell, Nigel Havers, Ian Charleson, Ben Cross, Daniel Gerroll
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- Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- Director: Hugh Hudson
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- EAN: 9786300271494
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- Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
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- ISBN: 6300271498
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- Label: Warner Home Video
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- Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: Warner Home Video
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- Release Date: 1992-04-01
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- Studio: Warner Home Video
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- Theatrical Release Date: 1981-10-09
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- Title: Chariots of Fire
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- UPC: 085392000432
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Avg Customer Rating: 
Product Description: The come-from-behind winner of the 1981 Oscar for best picture, Chariots of Fire either strikes you as either a cold exercise in mechanical manipulation or as a tale of true determination and inspiration. The heroes are an unlikely pair of young athletes who ran for Great Britain in the 1924 Paris Olympics: devout Protestant Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson), a divinity student whose running makes him feel closer to God, and Jewish Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross), a highly competitive Cambridge student who has to surmount the institutional hurdles of class prejudice and anti-Semitism. There's delicious support from Ian Holm (as Abrahams's coach) and John Gielgud and Lindsay Anderson as a couple of Cambridge fogies. Vangelis's soaring synthesized score, which seemed to be everywhere in the early 1980s, also won an Oscar. Chariots of Fire was the debut film of British television commercial director Hugh Hudson (Greystoke) and was produced by David Puttnam. --Jim Emerson
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Customer Reviews
Be Warned: This DVD is NOT a true wide-screen!
My God. They created this wide-screen version of "Chariots of Fire, Two Disk Special Edition" by chopping off the top and bottom (or just the bottom) of the old full-screen version of the same title. In other words, the old full-screen version has more screen to watch.
I don't think they even bothered to remaster this from the original tape, because the old full screen version is actually sharper on my monitor screen than this wide screen version if I watch them side by side. So, I'm giving one star for this their shady business, even though I believe that the film itself is one of the best films ever made. Let's hope that they will do it right for Blu-ray version, assuming that someone will publish a Blue-ray version.
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Inspiring and uplifting!
This movie may leave you puzzled right at first but stick with it. It is so inspiring and uplifting that it will make you want to be a better person.
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What belief can do
This is one of my favorite movies!
Great acting, wonderful settings, very realistic.
A story about people who are driven by their desire to find fulfillment in giving it their very best at whatever they do.
The story I find very inspiring; Eric Liddle is my hero, the kindest of persons, he is truly devoted to the people, and shares his kindness with them. There is such beauty in seing him run, in honor of God.
The way friendship and support of loved ones, along with respect for others, are shown in this masterpiece, is very touching.
Truly a classic for years to come.
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still has not arrived
I can't review - product still has not arrived - I would recommend dealers who do not use USPS but UPS instead - or DHL is better.
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DVD- Chariots of Fire
Fantastic movie with a great moral lesson. RPoduct received very timely. Highly recommend this seller.
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