A classical Blu-ray movie you must watch : Fate Is the Hunter

Twilight Time | 1964 | 106 min | Not rated | May 13, 2014 (New Release)

Video: Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.34:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.35:1

Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio Mono
Music: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0

Subtitles: None

Discs: 50GB Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)

Playback: Region A (B, C untested)
Fate Is the Hunter Blu-ray Review

V.S. Pritchett New Statesman Mr. Gann is a writer saturated in his subject; he has the skill to make every instant sharp and important and we catch the fever to know that documentary writing does not often invite.

The New Yorker This book is an episodic log of some of the more memorable of [the author’s] nearly ten thousand hours aloft in peace and (as a member of the Air Transport Command) in war. It is also an attempt to define by example his belief in the phenomenon of luck — that “the pattern of anyone fate is only partly contrived by the individual.”

New York Times Book Review Few writers have ever drawn their readers so intimately into the shielded sanctum of the cockpit, and it is here that Mr. Gann is truly the artist.

Cornelius Ryan author of A Bridge Too Far and The Longest Day Fate Is the Hunter is partly autobiographical, partly a chronicle of some of the most memorable and courageous pilots the reader will ever encounter in print; and always this book is about the workings of fate….The book is studded with characters equally as memorable as the dramas they act out.

Saturday Review This fascinating, well-told autobiography is a complete refutation of the comfortable cliché that “man is master of his fate.” As far as pilots are concerned, fate (or death) is a hunter who is constantly in pursuit of them….There is nothing depressing about Fate Is the Hunter. There is tension and suspense in it but there is great humor too. Happily, Gann never gets too technical for the layman to understand.

Chicago Sunday Tribune This purely wonderful autobiographical volume is the best thing on flying and the meaning of flying that we have had since Antoine de Saint-Exupéry took us aloft on his winged prose in the late 1930s and early 1940s….It is a splendid and many-faceted personal memoir that is not only one man’s story but the story, in essence, of all men who fly.