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Dad's Army - The Movie [1971] | ![Dad's Army - The Movie [1971]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5132CCHR8EL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Norman Cohen
Actors: Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn, John Laurie, James Beck
Studio: Uca
Category: DVD
List Price: £5.99
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 732
Format: Black & White, Colour, Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 91 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5050582267563
ASIN: B0002OI038
Theatrical Release Date: September 1971
Release Date: August 16, 2004
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: new and sealed
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Amazon.co.uk Review
In the 1970s the British film industry went through a craze for turning hit TV comedies into big screen features. From On the Buses (1971) to Porridge (1979), Dad's Army was one of the few which made the transition with style. Set in the small south coast town of Walmington-on-Sea in 1940, the film does have the structure of three TV episodes remade and sequenced together. Beginning with the formation of the local Home Guard, the company has a self-contained adventure on military manoeuvres, before a finale which allows for some heroism as three German officers take over the church hall. Dad's Army has all the gentle character comedy of the classic BBC TV series, benefiting enormously by retaining the entire television cast, headed by the incomparable Arthur Lowe as the blustering Captain Mainwaring and supported by the equally wonderful John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn. The cinema budget allows far superior production values to the original series, with a loving re-creation of 1940's England and some surprisingly beautiful cinematography. Above all, the film is both funny and a nostalgic reminder of a time when ordinary middle-aged and old men could be both real and movie heroes. --Gary S. Dalkin
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 An enduring classic November 11, 2008
Elizabeth Goldsack (Midhurst, Sussex UK)
I was nearly put off buying this film as it seems that some of the reviewers don't think it quite as good as the series. However, I have now bought it and think it is brilliantly made, very funny and a wonderful film to put by for a quiet moment during the Christmas holidays when the TV listings are disappointing or for a rainy Sunday afternoon. My children love it, my parents love it, we love it - so nice to be able to sit down to a film together as a family.
Unlike the series which is set in Britain parts of this film are of the Germans plotting their invasion from the other side of the Channel. The juxtapositioning of the German preparedness and the British unpreparedness is priceless. You will recognise some plots from the earliest TV episodes but I enjoyed them far more in this film.
Some lovely outdoor shots, including the town of Chalfont St Giles which doubled as Walmington on Sea for the film.
You STUPID BOY!!!! May 19, 2008
Christopher Bishop (Youngstown, Ohio United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I brought this film on one of my first trips back home to the UK for the pawltry sum of 2 pounds 99 from WHSmiths.
The one thing im going to tell you about film spin offs in the 70s of famous sitcoms is that basicaly they were really juggled around old scripts from the tv episodes.
Steptoe and son did it On the buses did it and so did alf garnet in (in sickness and in health).
The one of films are great old fatihfulls for which i really watch for the nostalga of growing up in the UK in the late 70s & 80s.
Year after year i drag my old claasics out and create my own ye olde British Christmas and create the nostalga of my growing up in Britain at that time for which really no longer even exsits in the UK anylonger.
Anyway the dads army film seems to be a mix of the first ever episode of dads army and another episode called the deadly attachment which was all about the platoon having to guard a german U boat crew.
I am very fond of dads army and another of the creations of the people that wrote dads army was It aint half hot mum but i really didnt like that series as much.
It was well worth the 2 pounds 99 .
At the moment having all these old classics on DVD seems to be the only way now you can watch decent comedy and TV now adays is riddled with stupid reality shows that basicaly get on me nerves so bad the only thing i watch on TV in the States is the history channel and discovery channel.
All i have to say is long live the good ole days of decent family viewing and thank god for DVD.
 Save Your Money March 2, 2007
Artemisia Absinthium
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
I purchased this before the BBC began releasing the individual series. It was grand to re-live a programme that I hadn't seen in years. (It had long since stopped being a Britcom staple on the American PBS network.) The first episode of disk one, "The Day the Balloon Went Up", actually had me laughing out loud, something few television comedies have done in years. Overall, the video quality in general for this DVD package wasn't great, but it wasn't horrendous either.
What a difference a year makes!
The BBC/Region 2 releases are intact (at least as far as the non-missing episodes are concerned), whereas the episodes in this set are not . Whether cut for commercials or for PBS time requirements isn't specified on the box. In some episodes, there is only a line or two missing; while in others, whole scenes are gone. A prime example of this is "The Deadly Attachment", which is missing vital plot points.
If you're in Region 1 and don't have a multi-region player, it's worth the purchase. Otherwise, purchase the BBC/Region 2 releases. The friend to whom I gave this set is enjoying it immensely.
Even more great dads army February 20, 2007
Florencium
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
I love dads army. The series are brilliant and this movie lives up to it. This is even better than the normal episodes (which says a lot). If you like comedys and things where everything goes wrong then get this video. IT IS AMAZING.
For completists only February 6, 2007
Trevor Willsmer (London, England)
10 out of 18 found this review helpful
Dad's Army is probably the most disappointing of the endless run of TV spinoffs that clogged up British cinemas in the early 70s, not so much for the flat direction and dreary script (mostly expanded from the episodes The Man and the Hour and Battle School) but because the original show still holds up as one of the best Britcoms ever made thanks to its warm writing and character based humor, neither of which are in evidence here. The film is competent but almost completely devoid of jokes, and the few there are are killed at birth by director Norman Cohen's inability to use the cast to the best effect or to display even the most elementary grasp of comic timing.
Columbia's extras-free DVD at least boasts a good transfer.
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