Share the epic adventure! Relive the nonstop excitement thrilling discoveries and ultimate triumph of good over evil that make Star Wars the greatest space fantasy adventure of all time...and the ultimate entertainment experience for every family. The Star Wars Prequel Trilogy Episodes -The Phantom Menace Attack of The Clones and Revenge of The Sith - begin the saga with young Anakin Skywalker's descent to the dark side as he transforms from child slave to Jedi apprentice to Darth Vader the most feared villain in the galaxy!
An epic saga stretching from 1964 to 1995, Our Friends in the North follows the lives of four young people in North-East England. Nicky Hutchinson (Christopher Eccleston) is initially courting Mary Soulsby (Gina McKee) but the relationship cools when it takes second place to his campaigning for Harold Wilson's Labour Party. She weds Tory Tosker Cox instead, but their marriage is a miserable one, living in a rot-infested high rise block built following a dubious new housing scheme. Meanwhile, "Geordie" Peacock, finally tiring of his drunken, abusive father, headbutts him and hitches down to London, where he ends up working for a surrogate "family" led by Malcolm McDowell's flash Soho sex club baron. Over the years, the paths of these characters intertwine, diverge then cross again, albeit occasionally stretching the bounds of plausible coincidence. The drama takes place against the backdrop of local authority and police corruption in the 60s, the radical far-left militancy of the early 70s, Thatcher's election, the 1984 miner's strike and the subsequent "murder" of Northern communities. What's brilliant about Our Friends is its melding of the personal and the political, with the soap opera of family estrangement played out against a backdrop of social decline. Peter Vaughn, playing Nicky's Dad as a former Jarrow marcher stricken by Alzheimer's, is especially poignant. If you didn't see this the first time, do so now. On the DVD: Our Friends in the North has a bonus disc featuring a discussion with writer Peter Flannery and the producers and directors in which the making of the programme is revealed to have been as epic and protracted a saga as the drama itself. There are interviews also with stars Christopher Eccleston and Gina McKee. --David Stubbs
Bruce Willis (The Sixth Sense, Armageddon) and Samuel L. Jackson (Deep Blue Sea, Pulp Fiction) star in a mind-shattering, suspense-filled thriller that stays with you long after the end of this riveting supernatural film. When David Dunn (Willis) emerges from a horrific train crash as the sole survivor - and without a single scratch on him - he meets a mysterious stranger, Elijah Price (Jackson), who will change David's life forever. Interrupting his life at odd moments, it's Elijah's presenc...
John Waters' 1988 cult classic gets a 21st century makeover in this update of the musical.
Iron Man 3: The studio that brought you Marvel's Avengers Assemble unleashes the best Iron Man adventure yet with this must-own, global phenomenon starring Robert Downey Jr. When Tony Stark/Iron Man finds his entire world reduced to rubble, he must use all his ingenuity to survive, destroy his enemy and somehow protect those he loves. But a soul-searching question haunts him: Does the man make the suit... or does the suit make the man? Thor The Dark World: From the Studio that brought you the #1 Super Hero movie of all time, Marvel Studios' Avengers Assemble, comes another must-own, epic blockbuster starring Chris Hemsworth as The Mighty Thor. Worlds collide when a powerful ancient enemy threatens to plunge the cosmos into eternal darkness. Now, reunited with Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), and forced to forge an alliance with his treacherous brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Thor embarks on a perilous personal quest to save both Earth and Asgard from destruction. Captain America: The Winter Soldier: From the Studio that brought you Marvel Studios' Avengers Assemble comes an epic adventure that teams Captain America (Chris Evans) with the Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and the Falcon to battle an unexpected and formidable enemy - the Winter Soldier. Expand your Marvel collection as you relive the ultimate battle for the future of mankind. Guardians Of The Galaxy: From Marvel Studios, the studio that brought you Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and Avengers Assemble, comes an unlikely new team - the Guardians of the Galaxy. The Marvel Cinematic Universe expands into the cosmos when brash space adventurer Peter Quill steals a mysterious, all-powerful orb. Chased by relentless enemies, he forms an uneasy alliance with a ragtag band of misfits, leading to a desperate battle that will decide the fate of the galaxy. Avengers Age Of Ultron: Marvel Studios unleashes the next global phenomenon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe - Avengers: Age of Ultron. Good intentions wreak havoc when Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) unwittingly creates Ultron (James Spader), a terrifying A.I. monster who vows to achieve world peace via mass extinction. Now Iron Man, Captain America (Chris Evans), Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) - alongside Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) and Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) - must reassemble to defeat Ultron and save mankind... if they can! This action-packed adventure is a mind-blowing blast! Ant-Man: The next evolution of the Marvel Cinematic Universe introduces the newest member of the Avengers: Marvel Studios' Ant-Man. Armed with the amazing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang joins forces with his new mentor Dr. Hank Pym to protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from ruthless villains! With humanity's fate in the balance, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a daring heist against insurmountable odds. Filled with humour, awesome special effects and thrilling bonus features, this action-packed adventure takes you to new levels of pulse-pounding excitement! Included Extras: Iron Man 3: Deconstructing The Scene: Attack on Air Force One, Exclusive Behind The Scenes Look - Thor: The Dark World Thor The Dark World: Exclusive Look - Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Deleted Scene Captain America: The Winter Soldier: Featurette, Steve Roger's Notebook, Deleted Scene: In Pursuit of Captain America Guardians Of The Galaxy: Exclusive look at Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron, Deleted & extended scenes: Fake laugh Avengers Age Of Ultron: Global Adventure
Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and featuring an award-winning cast, Jamie Foxx stars as Django a slave who teams up with bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) to seek out the South's most wanted criminals with the promise of Django's freedom. Honing vital hunting skills, his one goal is to find and rescue the wife (Kerry Washington) he lost to the slave trade long ago. When their search ultimately leads to Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), the infamous and brutal proprietor of Candyland , they arouse the suspicion of Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), Candie's trusted house slave. Now their moves are marked and Candie's treacherous organization closes in on them.
Here is the murderously funny movie based on the world-famous Clue® board game. And now, with this special DVD version, you can see all 3 surprise endings! Was it Colonel Mustard in the study with a gun? Miss Scarlet in the billiard room with the rope? Or was it Wadsworth the butler? Meet all the notorious suspects and discover all their foul play things.You'll love their dastardly doings as the bodies and the laughs pile up before your eyes. Featuring all three surprise endings!!Extras:3 Different Surprise Endings
Experience one of the most popular movie series of all time like never before with Back to the Future: The Ultimate Trilogy ! Join Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) and a time traveling DeLorean for the adventure of a lifetime as they travel to the past, present and future, setting off a time-shattering chain reaction that disrupts the space-time continuum! From filmmakers Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, this unforgettable collection features hours of bonus features and is an unrivalled trilogy that stands the test of time. BONUS FEATURES The Making Of Back To The Future Outtakes Making The Trilogy Deleted Scenes Story Boards to Final feature Comparisons And Much More!
Some called it a snooze-fest, while others tearfully clutched their Kleenex. In any case, Clint Eastwood was an unusual and (as it turned out) perceptive choice to direct and costar in this lush adaptation of Robert James Waller's phenomenally bestselling novel. Meryl Streep costars as Francesca, the lonely Iowa farmer's wife who is instantly attracted to Robert (Eastwood), the photographer from National Geographic who is in the area to photograph the bridges along Iowa's rural roadways. The two fall in love while Francesca's husband and children are away at a county fair, but the story's passion and lasting appeal derive from their decision to part forever after just a few brief days of intimate connection. Superbly acted with an emphasis on quiet, graceful moments of tender revelation, the film builds to a crescendo of powerful and conflicting emotions. Like David Lean's Brief Encounter (to which it bears marked similarities), The Bridges of Madison County is destined to become one of the classic film love stories. --Jeff Shannon
The film tells the story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group The Four Seasons.
Thor: The world has many heroes but only one is a god. When the arrogant warrior Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is banished to Earth from his home world of Asgard, he must fight to reclaim his lost powers. Pursued by an invasion force sent to destroy him, the fallen God of Thunder must rise to the battle and learn what it takes to become a true hero. Natalie Portman and Anthony Hopkins also star in this blockbuster adventure critics have called a rousing, entertaining thrill. Thor The Dark World: From the Studio that brought you the #1 Super Hero movie of all time, Marvel Studios' Avengers Assemble, comes another msut-own, epic blockbuster starring Chris Hemsworth as The Mighty Thor. Worlds collide when a powerful ancient enemy threatens to plunge the cosmos into eternal darkness. Now, reunited with Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), and forced to forge an alliance with his treacherous brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Thor embarks on a perilous personal quest to save both Earth and Asgard from destruction. Thor Ragnarok: In Marvel Studios' Thor: Ragnarok, Thor, imprisoned on the other side of the universe, must race against time to get back to stop Ragnarokthe destruction of his world and the end of Asgardian civilisation at the hands of the ruthless Hela.
There are only two human actors in Jim Henson's Labyrinth: a teenage Jennifer Connelly and glam-rocker David Bowie (who performs five of his songs). The rest of the cast are puppets, a wonderful array of Henson's imaginative masterpieces set within a film combining the highest standards of art, costume and set decoration. Henson gives credit to children's author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, and the creatures in the movie will remind Sendak fans of his drawings, while the castle of the Goblin King (Bowie) is a living MC Escher set that adults will enjoy. Like executive producer George Lucas's other fantasies, Labyrinth mixes adventure with lessons about growing up. --Lloyd Chesley
The most densely plotted instalment of the saga so far, Attack of the Clones is a tale of both Machiavellian political drama and doomed romance; it's epic war film and silly comic-book fantasy combined, as teenage Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) chafes at the restrictions imposed by his mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) and falls in love with Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman). Renegade Jedi Count Dooku (Christopher Lee) is leading a breakaway federation of disgruntled systems; while the insidious influence of Darth Sidious is felt rather than seen as his invisible hand guides apparently unrelated events, from Jar Jar's unwitting instigation of a disastrous Senate decision to bounty hunter Jango Fett's revelatory role at the centre of the conspiracy. Along the way the story has fun with the conventions of Chandleresque detective fiction as Obi-Wan explores the seedier side of Coruscant, and incorporates the noble warrior ethos of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in its portrayal of the Jedi order. The portentous tone is lightened by tongue-in-cheek self-referential dialogue and the antics of robotic clowns R2D2 and C3PO. (One niggle for music fans, though, is the cavalier cut-and-paste approach to John Williams's music score.) Like the Empire Strikes Back, Clones is the bridging film of the trilogy and thus ends on an equivocally bittersweet note. On the DVD: Attack of the Clones is an all-digital film, and so looks suitably superb in this anamorphic widescreen transfer, accompanied by a THX encoded Dolby 5.1 soundtrack. Anyone who owns The Phantom Menace two-disc set will know what to expect from the special features: here's another group commentary led by George Lucas, two lengthy documentaries on the digital effects ("From Puppets to Pixels" and "The Previsualisation of Episode II") plus several other featurettes and Web documentaries, notably "Films Are Not Released, They Escape", a look at the sound design. There's also a fun trailer for the R2-D2 mockumentary "Beneath the Dome", trailers, photo galleries and more to satisfy any Star Wars fan. --Mark Walker
Modern blockbuster cinema came of age with the release of three huge science fiction/fantasy extravaganzas in the late 1970s. In 1978 Superman was the last of these, a gigantic hit unfairly overshadowed by Star Wars (1977) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). Christopher Reeve is completely convincing as both Superman and mild-mannered alter ego Clarke Kent, sparking real chemistry with Margot Kidder's fellow reporter Lois Lane. Very much a film of two halves, the opening tells the origin of Superman from the apocalyptic fate of Krypton to his nostalgically rendered boyhood in the mid-West. After a wonderful sequence introducing the Fortress of Solitude the film changes gear as the adult Clarke Kent arrives in Metropolis and Superman battles arch-nemesis Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman). Though the tone becomes lighter and introduces comedy, Superman succeeds because Donner plays the titular character straight. From Marlon Brando's heavyweight cameo to the surprisingly wrenching finale, Superman unfolds as an epic modern myth, a spiritual fable for a secular age and a fantastic entertainment for the young at heart. With breathtaking production design, still special effects, gorgeous cinematography, thrilling set-pieces, wit, romance and John Williams' extraordinarily rich music score, Superman has the power to make you believe a man can fly.On the DVD: Superman is presented in an extended director's cut which adds eight minutes to the theatrical original. The restored material is so artfully integrated many viewers may not even notice, but it would have been nice to at least have the opportunity to watch the original via seamless branching. The sound has been remixed into extraordinarily powerful Dolby Digital 5.1--the superb main title sequence is worth the price alone--and the anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 image is, except for some unavoidably grainy effects shots, pristine. The commentary by Richard Donner and writer Tom Mankiewicz reveals more about the background than all but the most dedicated fan will ever need to know, while film music aficionados will revel in the opportunity to listen to John Williams' score isolated in Dolby Digital 5.1. On the second side of the disc are a eight alternate John Williams music cues, a selection of deleted scenes and the screen tests of a variety of would-be Lois Lanes, introduced and with optional commentary by casting director Lynn Stalmaster. These are fascinating, and show how right for the part Margot Kidder really was. A DVD-ROM only feature presents the storyboards plus various Web features, while the real highlight is a 90-minute documentary divided into three sections covering pre-production, filming and special effects. The picture quality on all the extras is very good indeed. An enthralling package, DVD doesn't get much better than this. --Gary S Dalkin
Iron Man 3: The studio that brought you Marvel's Avengers Assemble unleashes the best Iron Man adventure yet with this must-own, global phenomenon starring Robert Downey Jr. When Tony Stark/Iron Man finds his entire world reduced to rubble, he must use all his ingenuity to survive, destroy his enemy and somehow protect those he loves. But a soul-searching question haunts him: Does the man make the suit... or does the suit make the man? Thor The Dark World: From the Studio that brought you the #1 Super Hero movie of all time, Marvel Studios' Avengers Assemble, comes another must-own, epic blockbuster starring Chris Hemsworth as The Mighty Thor. Worlds collide when a powerful ancient enemy threatens to plunge the cosmos into eternal darkness. Now, reunited with Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), and forced to forge an alliance with his treacherous brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Thor embarks on a perilous personal quest to save both Earth and Asgard from destruction. Captain America: The Winter Soldier: From the Studio that brought you Marvel Studios' Avengers Assemble comes an epic adventure that teams Captain America (Chris Evans) with the Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and the Falcon to battle an unexpected and formidable enemy - the Winter Soldier. Expand your Marvel collection as you relive the ultimate battle for the future of mankind. Guardians Of The Galaxy: From Marvel Studios, the studio that brought you Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and Avengers Assemble, comes an unlikely new team - the Guardians of the Galaxy. The Marvel Cinematic Universe expands into the cosmos when brash space adventurer Peter Quill steals a mysterious, all-powerful orb. Chased by relentless enemies, he forms an uneasy alliance with a ragtag band of misfits, leading to a desperate battle that will decide the fate of the galaxy. Avengers Age Of Ultron: Marvel Studios unleashes the next global phenomenon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe - Avengers: Age of Ultron. Good intentions wreak havoc when Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) unwittingly creates Ultron (James Spader), a terrifying A.I. monster who vows to achieve world peace via mass extinction. Now Iron Man, Captain America (Chris Evans), Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) - alongside Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) and Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) - must reassemble to defeat Ultron and save mankind... if they can! This action-packed adventure is a mind-blowing blast! Ant-Man: The next evolution of the Marvel Cinematic Universe introduces the newest member of the Avengers: Marvel Studios' Ant-Man. Armed with the amazing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang joins forces with his new mentor Dr. Hank Pym to protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from ruthless villains! With humanity's fate in the balance, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a daring heist against insurmountable odds. Filled with humour, awesome special effects and thrilling bonus features, this action-packed adventure takes you to new levels of pulse-pounding excitement! Included Extras: Iron Man 3: Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter, Iron Man 3 Unmasked, Deconstructing The Scene: Attack on Air Force One, Deleted & Extended Scenes, Gag Reel, Exclusive Behind The Scenes Look - Thor: The Dark World, Commentary By Shane Black and Drew Pearce Thor The Dark World: Marvel One Shot: All Hail The King, Featurette - A Brother's Journey: Thor & Loki, Exclusive Look - Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Featurette - Scoring Thor: The Dark World With Brian Tyler, Deleted & Extended Scenes, Gag Reel, Audio Commentary, Extended Celebration Scene, Jane Learns About The Aether, Loki: The First Avenger, Thor and Frigga Discuss Loki, Dark Elves Prepare For Battle Captain America: The Winter Soldier: Commentary by Joe and Anthony Russo, & Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, Gag Reel, Deleted Scenes: In Pursuit of Captain America, Hill and Sitwell Talk Loyalty, Nick Fury's Circle, Widow Reveals Her Past, Featurettes: On the Front Line: Inside Look at Captain America's Battlegrounds, On Set with Anthony Mackie: Cut the Check!, Steve Roger's Notebook Guardians Of The Galaxy: Featurettes: Guide to the galaxy with James Gunn, The Intergalactic visual effects for Guardians of Galaxy, Exclusive look at Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron, Gag reel, Deleted & extended scenes: Fake laugh, The Kyln will have to do, No, I'm the stupid one, Sisterly love, Dancing guard, Audio commentary with director James Gunn Avengers Age Of Ultron: From The Inside Out - Making Of The Avengers: Age Of Ultron, The Infinite Six, Global Adventure, Deleted & Extended Scenes, Gag Reel, Audio Commentary With Director Joss Whedon Ant-Man: Featurettes - Making Of An Ant-Sized Heist: A How To Guide, Featurettes - Let's Go To The Macroverse, Featurettes - WHIH News Front, Deleted & Extended Scenes - Audio Commentary By Peyton Reed And Paul Rudd, Gag Reel BLU-RAY Bonus Disc Additional Content: Deleted & Extended Scenes, Marvel One-Shot films and Commentary, From Here to Infinity: Phases 2 and 3 of the M.C.U., Tag Scenes: A Making-Of, Screen Test with Chris Pratt and Dave Bautista From Here To Infinity: Phases 2 & 3 Of The M.C.U. Phase 2 Tag Scenes: A Making-Of Gag Reel Marvel One-Shots: The Consultant [Thor] Marvel One-Shots: The Consultant With Audio Commentary By Clark Gregg [Thor] Marvel One-Shots: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Thor's Hammer [CA: The First Avenger] Marvel One-Shots: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Thor's Hammer With Audio Commentary By Clark Gregg [CA: The First Avenger] Marvel One-Shots: Item 47 [The Avengers] Marvel One-Shots: Item 47 With Audio Commentary By Louis D'Esposito, Max Hernandez, Titus Welliver And Jesse Bradford [The Avengers] Marvel One-Shots: Agent Carter [Iron Man 3] Marvel One-Shots: Agent Carter With Audio Commentary By Louis D'Esposito And Hayley Atwell [Iron Man 3] Marvel One-Shots: All Hail The King [Thor: TDW] Marvel One-Shots: All Hail The King With Audio Commentary By Drew Pearce And Ben Kingsley [Thor: TDW] Iron Man 3: Deleted Scenes Iron Man 3: Preproduction Creative Thor: The Dark World: Deleted Scenes Thor: The Dark World: Preproduction Creative Captain America: The Winter Solider: Deleted Scene Captain America: The Winter Solider: Deleted Scene With Audio Commentary By Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely Captain America: The Winter Soldier - Preproduction Creative Guardians Of The Galaxy: Deleted Scenes Guardians Of The Galaxy: Preproduction Creative Avengers: Age Of Ultron: Deleted Scenes Avengers: Age Of Ultron: Preproduction Creative: Hulk vs. Hulkbuster Ant-Man: Deleted Scenes, Ant-Man: Preproduction Creative
Wacky Professor Philip Brainard (Robin Williams) has just invented a revolutionary new compound. Its green it flies and it looks like rubber. Its Flubber! And it has the ability to save his financially troubled college as well as his broken engagement to his girlfriend Sara. That is until the gooey substance is stolen right from under the nose of his beloved but jealous robot assistant Weebo! Now the professor's got to get the goo and the girl back where they belong. Mix one
Oxford's favourite sons Detectives Robbie Lewis and James Hathaway return for a ninth series of the international hit drama, investigating the city's most complex and intriguing crimes. The arrival of new Chief Superintendent Joe Moody heralds a fresh dawn for Oxfordshire Police, but the high flyer soon clashes with Lewis over the latter's more traditional approach to detective work. With Hobson contemplating a round-the-world trip to witness the birth of her niece's baby, and the new boss piling on the pressure, will Lewis finally decide to call time on his policing career? Meanwhile, after years of avoiding the thorny issue of family ties, Hathaway is forced to confront his past.
The Tournament Has Begun! The Great Saiyaman Saga. Attending Orange Star high school, Gohan seems like a normal student, meeting girls, and playing baseball, except for one important difference: his the Great Saiyaman. Not wanting to bring attention to his friends and family, he disguises himself in a super suit, with a touch of a button on his watch he turns into the super hero everyone knows. Videl reluctint to find this hero to find out who it is, she unmasks him, to find out it's gohan. She threatens the young hero if he doesn't enter the world martial arts tournament, she'll reveal the identity of the great Saiyaman. Gohan enters the tournament to find out that he'll be up against some of the Z fighters, including: Goku who got a leave to return to earth for the tournament, krillin, along with his wife Android 18, Vegeta, Piccolo, Goten, and the last World Champion Hercule. Special Features Season 7 of Dragon Ball Z on Blu-ray 1x Poster 4x Art Cards packaged in an exclusive collectors slip case.
The comic genius of Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers meet again in The Return of the Pink Panther. The Pink Panther Diamond is stolen with only one clue left behind - a white glove, the trademark of the world-renowned jewel thief The Phantom (Christopher Plummer). Believed to be retired, he immediately becomes the chief suspect on Inspector Clouseau's list. Wanting to clear his name, The Phantom sets out to find the real thief and sends Clouseau bumbling along on a false trail. Inspector Clouseau's antics finally push his boss, Chief Inspector Dreyfus, over the edge and he sets out to murder Clouseau to rid of him once and for all! It's non-stop laughs in this timeless comedy masterpiece, hailed as the funniest in the Pink Panther series.
The most widely seen movie produced by a Hollywood studio, The Sound of Music grows fresher with each viewing. Though it was planned meticulously in pre-production (save for the scene where Maria and the children take a dipping in an Austrian lake that nearly cost a life), on each viewing one is struck anew by the spontaneous almost improvisatory air of the acting, notably of Julie Andrews under Robert Wise's direction. There are also the little human touches he brings to, for instance, the scene where Maria leads the children to the hills, over bridges and along tow paths where the smallest boy trips up and momentarily gets left behind: it creates a feeling that most of us have encountered. From the opening pre-credit sequence of muted excitement as the camera roves over the Austrian Alps (photographed in magnificent colour), where little phrases from the wind instruments on the soundtrack are flung as if on the breeze, foreshadowing the title song to follow, the production never puts a foot wrong. On the DVD: On the first disc the film itself has never looked or sounded better since its original presentation in Todd AO (prints of which are said to have disappeared forever). The disc also contains a separate audio guide that takes the viewer through the film sequence by sequence, with director Robert Wise commenting on the weather, the production design by Boris Leven, the sequences filmed on location and in Hollywood (like the interiors of the Von Trapp villa), and the naming of other actors who were eager for the lead roles, notably Doris Day and Yul Brynner. On the second disc there are the documentaries. "Salzburg Sight and Sound" was Charmian Carr's own record of her time on location in the summer of 1964, playing Liesl, the eldest Von Trapp daughter. "From Fact to Fiction", running two hours, begins with the birth of Maria in 1905 who inspired the film, charts her subsequent marriage to Captain Von Trapp, their escape from Nazi Germany not across the Alps but via a train across the Italian boarder, their home in Vermont and thence to the German film of the family that was brought to the attention of Rodgers and Hammerstein as an ideal vehicle for a stage musical. A second group of documentaries covers previews, television and radio commercials and a 1973 interview with Wise and Andrews. Overall, this is a marathon package but in its way is as compelling as the film itself. --Adrian Edwards
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