HEARTBREAK RIDGE (DVD/EASTWOOD COLLECTION) DVD

Heartbreak Ridge
Having spent much of his directorial career emulating Don Siegel and John Ford, Clint Eastwood borrows a page from the catalogue of Sam Fuller in Heartbreak Ridge. Eastwood casts himself as an old-fashioned Marine Corps sergeant who is out of step with the new-fashioned military. He returns to his old outfit as a gunnery sergeant, where he runs afoul of 1980s-style superior officers to whom the words "Gung Ho" are foolish anachronisms. But through his tough tutelage, Eastwood's lackadaisical platoon is whipped into a first-rate fighting machine, favoring teamwork over such New Age gobbledygook as "self-fulfillment." Eastwood's men prove their mettle during the invasion of Grenada. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast Clint Eastwood as Tom Highway Marsha Mason as Aggie Everett McGill as Maj. Powers Moses Gunn as Sgt. Webster Eileen Heckart as Little Mary Bo Svenson as Roy Jennings Boyd Gaines as Lieutenant Ring Mario Van Peebles as Stitch Arlen Dean Snyder as Choozoo Vince Irizarry as Fragetti Ramon Franco as Aponte Tom Villard as Profile Mike Gomez as Quinones Rodney Hill as Collins Pete Koch as "Swede" Johnson

Crew Phyllis Huffman - Casting Glenn Wright - Costume Designer Clint Eastwood - Director Joel Cox - Editor Fritz Manes - Executive Producer Lennie Niehaus - Composer (Music Score) Edward C. Carfagno - Production Designer Jack N. Green - Cinematographer Clint Eastwood - Producer Robert R. Benton - Set Designer Verne Poore - Sound/Sound Designer William Nelson - Sound/Sound Designer Wayne Van Horn - Stunts Joseph C. Stinson - Screenwriter Jim Carabatsos - Screenwriter

Heartbreak Ridge
Clint Eastwood takes the old plot about the tough Marine drill sergeant trying to whip a bunch of new recruits into shape and manages to inject some life into it. He stars as Sgt. Tom Highway, a misanthropic misfit who has sacrificed his wife, family, friends, and everything else to his life in the Corps. Appropriately enough, he's assigned to shape up a platoon of young misfits and bad-asses from his old outfit. Somewhat bending genre conventions, Eastwood has given the film an elegiac undercurrent, as the fifty-plus warrior reviews his past screw-ups with his ex-wife. Of course, this is counterpointed by a number of scenes of heavy-duty bone-crunching as the old man shows his young troops that he's not about to retire any time soon. The heroic invasion of Grenada in the film's conclusion is something of a disappointment since the director, perhaps not surprisingly, has chosen to play it straight. Eastwood's direction is vigorous and terse, and the script by former Marine James Carabatsos is a nonstop virtuoso display of some of the most creative profanity to be heard in a motion picture. Among the cast, Marsha Mason and Mario Van Peebles do notable work. ~ Michael Costello, All Movie Guide
 

Dick Alexander: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Sound (nominated) Les Fresholtz: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Sound (nominated) Verne Poore: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Sound (nominated) William Nelson: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Sound (nominated)

General Specifications: Language Options: English, French Subtitle Options: English, French, Spanish, Por, Japanese Sound Processing: DD1: Dolby Digital Mono DD5.1: Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel Additional Features: cc All-new digital transfer Remastered soundtrack done in Dolby Digital 5.1 Interactive menus Cast/screenwriter film highlights Theatrical trailer Scene access English and French language tracks English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese subtitles MPAA Rating: R DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 1 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 130 min   DVD Chapters: Side #1 -- 1. Credits (Sea of Heartbreak) [3:47] 2. Behind Bars [2:50] 3. Last Chance [1:42] 4. Careful What You Wish For [3:02] 5. Stitch Jones [6:39] 6. Relic Reporting [5:54] 7. Recon Platoon [3:52] 8. Little Mary [1:53] 9. Palace Inn (I Love You but I Ain't Stupid) [1:34] 10. Aggie [2:13] 11. Hit the Road [2:42] 12. Make Like Marines [4:22] 13. Shaping Recon Up [4:27] 14. Recon Rat-a-Tat and Rap [1:31] 15. Firing Range [4:37] 16. Swede [2:32] 17. That Bad? [1:55] 18. Ambushing Powers [5:15] 19. The Major Burns [2:07] 20. On Alert [4:57] 21. The Aponte Fund [1:54] 22. Where Things Went Wrong [5:10] 23. Jailmates [2:00] 24. The Not Knowing [2:39] 25. How Did They Know? [2:13] 26. Recon vs. 1st Platoon [4:30] 27. Gunny vs. Powers [1:46] 28. Webster's Visit (Bionic Marine) [3:11] 29. Open House [4:24] 30. Going to War [3:45] 31. First Blood - and a Cuban [2:58] 32. Across the Bridge [3:50] 33. On Campus [3:21] 34. Long-Distance Call [5:07] 35. Taking the Hill [5:56] 36. Semper Fi [2:12] 37. Welcome Home (Semper Fidelis) [3:20] 38. End Credits (Stars and Stripes Forever) [3:24]