The Sea Shall Not Have Them & Albert R.N.: Two British Wartime Classics Directed by Lewis Gilbert Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		3.0
Video		3.5
Audio		3.5
Extras		0.5
Overall		3.0

The Sea Shall Not Have Them & Albert R.N.: Two British Wartime Classics Directed by Lewis Gilbert Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman January 27, 2024

If he's remembered much at all these days, Lewis Gilbert's name probably tends to ring a bell mostly with fans of the relatively early James Bond films, as Gilbert helmed You Only Live Twice, The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker. Some devoted cineastes may know that Gilbert also directed a number of other notable films like the original Alfie, Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine, offering three distinctive character portraits of rather "quirky" individuals. With regard to this particular double feature from Cohen, one other relatively well remembered film directed by Gilbert, Sink the Bismarck!, may be the most salient Gilbert film to list to jar memories, since it, like to two films in this release, offers World War II settings.

For reviews of the film on this disc, please click on the following links:

The Sea Shall Not Have Them Blu-ray review

Albert R.N. Blu-ray review

The Sea Shall Not Have Them & Albert R.N.: Two British Wartime Classics Directed by Lewis Gilbert Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

Video quality is assessed in the above linked reviews.

The Sea Shall Not Have Them & Albert R.N.: Two British Wartime Classics Directed by Lewis Gilbert Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Audio quality is assessed in the above linked reviews.

The Sea Shall Not Have Them & Albert R.N.: Two British Wartime Classics Directed by Lewis Gilbert Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

Cohen has packaged The Sea Shall Not Have Them and Albert R.N. together on one disc, with the following sole supplement:

• Trailer for Albert R.N. (HD; 1:27) is a new trailer advertising Cohen's "digital restoration".

The Sea Shall Not Have Them & Albert R.N.: Two British Wartime Classics Directed by Lewis Gilbert Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

Neither of these films is probably going to make anyone's "all time classic WWII films" list, but they each have their pleasures, though I'd rate Albert R.N. higher than The Sea Shall Not Have Them. The Sea Shall Not Have Them suffers from some badly damaged video, but otherwise technical merits are generally secure, for anyone who may be considering making a purchase.