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| Down Periscope | 
| Category: Movie
Buy New: $5.49
Avg. Customer Rating:  118 reviews
Sales Rank: 1900
Media: Video Download
Running Time: 93 minutes
ASIN: B000I9YXRO
Theatrical Release Date: February 29, 1996
Release Date: June 13, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Really great comedy July 4, 2008
Just terrific! I loved this movie when I first saw it on TV, just bought the DVD and it's even better, since you get to see the whole movie with nothing snipped to make room for commercials -- and of course the video quality is better than TV.
The disc is double-sided, full screen on side A and widescreen on side B.
Some reviewers here have complained bitterly that it isn't really widescreen, it's just "pan and scan" with the top and bottom cut off. That isn't true. Yes, the widescreen version is the same as the full screen version but with the top and bottom of the frame cut off -- that's the way many widescreen movies WERE MADE, folks! For example, ALL of Stanley Kubrick's movies after "2001: A Space Odyssey" were made this way. It isn't pan and scan. You're not missing any part of the original, you're seeing the full frame as it was before it was matted for theatrical showing.
It's the same as the "panorama" feature in many point-and-shoot 35mm cameras. The "panorama" mode doesn't really give you a wider angle of view, it just looks wider because the top and bottom have been cropped off and the photo is then printed on paper with a wider aspect ratio.
Not all widescreen movies are made this way, of course. But DVDs that are widescreen on one side and full screen on the other are usually if not always this way in my experience. "The Searchers" is another example. Compare the widescreen and full screen sides and you'll see the full screen side is really just as wide in angle of view, it just shows more of the top and bottom that you never saw in a theatrical showing because it was matted out.
 Clean Comedy and Fun June 27, 2008
I like odd ball comedy and really enjoy this movie. Clean for the whole family to watch. If you enjoy St. Bilko you will like watching this one as well.
Good service June 7, 2008
I received this dvd in record time. It was in great condition. Thanks to the seller. We enjoy the film every time we watch.
"DOWN PERISCOPE" May 30, 2008
I have seen this movie many times before on television and I decided to but it and looked on Amzin.com. I think that movie is very good and rates
4 stars. I have watched it many times and enjoyed it more is time
Down to the sea in stitches May 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While I don't mind a good submarine adventure, very few are comedies and this one is without doubt, the funniest I'd seen in a long time. The scene where the overbearing XO was made to walk the plank at sea,was a delight, and one of the highlights of the film. there was some slapstick humor a little bathroom humor and a couple of what would be objectionable words but no worse than I had seen in other films and much less than I expected, which made it enjoyable as it concentrated on the situation rather on the bathroom material.
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