Cast a Giant Shadow - BLU-RAY

Part fact, part fiction, director Melville Shavelson's (The Five Pennies, Houseboat, The Seven Little Foys) Cast a Giant Shadow powerfully dramatizes Israel's heroic 1948 struggle for independence. Both realistic war story and passionate romance, it features an all-star cast including Kirk Douglas (Spartacus, Paths of Glory, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), Senta Berger (Major Dundee, The Quiller Memorandum, TV's Under Suspicion), and Angie Dickinson (Rio Bravo, Dressed to Kill, Point Blank), as well as Yul Brynner (The King and I, The Magnificent Seven, Westworld), John Wayne (The Searchers, True Grit, Stagecoach, The Quiet Man), and Frank Sinatra (From Here to Eternity, The Manchurian Candidate, Ocean's Eleven) in notable supporting roles. After a brilliant career in the U.S. Army, Jewish American World War II hero Mickey Marcus is called to the new state of Israel to build an army capable of withstanding it's Arab foes. Against the wishes of his wife, Mickey makes the journey and begins transforming a ragtag underground army into a first-class fighting machine. But as the threat of war looms, Mickey must also confront his growing attraction to beautiful activist Magda Simon.

With SHADOW, director Zhang Yimou (HERO, HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS) once again pushes the boundaries of wuxia action to create a film like no other, masterfully painting a canvas of inky blacks and greys punctuated with bursts of color from the blood of the defeated. In a kingdom ruled by a young and unpredictable king, the military commander has a secret weapon a InchshadowInch, a look-alike who can fool both his enemies and the King himself. Now he must use this weapon in an intricate plan that will lead his people to victory in a war that the King does not want.

VCI is pleased to present this classic cliffhanger from Universal Pictures, which has never had an official video on any , now available for the first time on Blu-ray and produced from the original studio film elements! A 12-episode Universal serial in which a son avenges the death of his father at the hands of corrupt politicians. He develops a wide variety of complex devices in his crusade... ray guns, robots and a 'vanishing belt.' Note The serial features what is believed to be the first appearance of a hand held ray gun in film.