Over there in Scaremento USA someone likes The Eagle  film / dvd , and in particular its resolution of what they consider  a “key mystery” of “western civilisation”, which is not, as some might think,  the mystery of death of the ninth legion which so inspired Rosemary Sutcliff in her children’s and young adult historical novel The Eagle of the Ninth!

… Anthony Dod Mantle‘s cinematography is kinetic when it needs to be, ruminative and pretty when it doesn’t. It looks good. In the history of Western civilization, few mysteries have sparked more debate than the one at the heart of The Eagle, Kevin Macdonald‘s somber film adaptation of the classic children’s novel by Rosemary Sutcliff. I’m not talking about the unexplained disappearance of the Ninth Spanish Legion of the Roman army, which hoofed into Britain in A.D. 117 and promptly vanished. It’s … Channing Tatum. Can he act, or not? I’m of the opinion that he can. Seriously, I’ve seen him do it.
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More about the film, movie The Eagle  and the book The Eagle of the Ninth on this blog here

The Eagle film of Rosemary Sutcliff‘s The Eagle of the Ninth historical novel is still to be released in some countries later this year. (All dates, as always, provisional).

Argentina: 29th September
Australia: 21st July
Brazil:  23rd September
Chile:  10th November
Colombia:  18th November
Ecuador: 25th November
Japan:  Q1 2012
Panama: 25th November
Peru: 17th November
Venezuela: 18th November

These release dates for the DVD of The Eagle film by Kevin MacDonald, based on the  historical novel for children and young adults The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff, are provisional. The DVD is already out in Canada, Singapore and the USA. John Ellis in Illinois has just commented elsewhere on this blog: “Here in Illinois, I have just watched this wonderful film. Absolutely great work by everyone involved. If one were to own just one Roman legion film, this should be that one. Authentic to a fault. There is a release with alternate endings and an unrated version. I honestly cannot praise this film enough.”

Australia:  3rd November 2011
Brazil:  25th April 2012
Finland:  July 2011
Germany:  4th August 2011
Greece:  18th July 2011
Iceland:  Q2, 2011
Mexico:  9th December 2011
New Zealand:  3rd November 2011
Portugal:  29th September 2011
Russia:  14th April 2011
South Africa:  5th August 2011
Spain:  14th September 2011
Sweden:  27th July 2011
Thailand:  12th July 2011
UK:  25th July 2011