The Message" (1977) & "Lion of the Desert" (1981) 4K UHD

[mohammad73]

Originally Posted by Cecil B. DeMille

Honestly that decision is bizarre! The numbers of individuals importing this from the Arab world will probably be in the triple digits at most. I strongly doubt there's that many blu-ray collectors there. So since this release is for the American (or Western) market, most purchasers won't be fluent in Arabic, so adding English subtitles would have been a no-brainer. Tbh I cannot recall an American or British release in the last years lacking English subtitles on a (from an English language perspective) foreign film.
The decision to one the one hand include it but on the other hand not invest in subtitles is mind-boggling to me. Who are they trying to attract with this second disc? The massive blu-ray collectors market in Dearborn (MI)?

In my home country we never care about the Arabic version, as the main English versions was greatly dubbed in Persian. I wish they could add it to 4K version.

The Persian Dub was so good that I heard Akkad said, the movies would never failed in Box Office/Western Market, if the Persian voice actors could speak in English.