ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING FILMS FEATURING ALL NEW BONUS MATERIAL ARRIVE ON DVD MAY 8
THE GUNS OF NAVARONE: COLLECTOR’S EDITION
THE CAINE MUTINY: COLLECTOR’S EDITION
- Also Available, Classic Films LAWRENCE OF ARABIA and
BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI on All-New Two-Disc Sets -
CULVER CITY, CALIF. (February 26, 2007) – Sony Pictures Home Entertainment proudly releases collector’s editions of the Academy Award®-winning films The Guns of Navarone and The Caine Mutiny; also available, special two-disc sets of Lawrence of Arabia and The Bridge on the River Kwai. Each of these films brilliantly portrays the heroics and bravery soldiers faced when tasked with impossible missions during war time. The Guns of Navarone and The Caine Mutiny return with all-new special features including commentary and will each be available for an SRP of $24.96. Director David Lean’s spectacular classic war films, Lawrence of Arabia and The Bridge on the River Kwai will be available on two-discs set for an SRP of $24.96. Fans of war drama won’t want to miss the opportunity to add these films to their collections when released on DVD May 8.
The 1961 Academy Award-winning film for Best Special Effects, The Guns of Navarone, boasts a stellar cast including Gregory Peck (To Killing a Mocking Bird, Cape Fear), Anthony Quinn (A Walk in the Clouds, Lawrence of Arabia) and David Niven (Curse of the Pink Panther, Death on the Nile). Director J. Lee Thompson (King Solomon’s Mines, Battle for the Planet of the Apes) brings Alistair MacLean’s best-selling novel about allies’ saboteurs who are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi fortress and destroy two enormous long-range field guns to life. This two-disc set includes all new special features including documentaries, featurettes and an all-new commentary.
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny is the classic film of modern day mutiny aboard a naval vessel. Nominated in 1954 for seven Academy Awards including Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Film Editing, Music, Best Motion Picture, Sound Recording and Writing this film features an all-star cast including Fred MacMurray (The Absent Minded Professor, The Apartment), Humphrey Bogart (Sabrina, Casablanca), Robert Francis (The Long Gray Line), Tom Tully (Sea of Lost Ships) and Jose Ferrer (Lawrence of Arabia, Dune). This two-disc set is digitally remastered and includes all-new special features.
Synopsis: The Guns of Navarone
With the battle of Stalingrad turning the war against them, the Germans are attempting to bully neutral Turkey into joining the Axis; to this end they have trapped 2,000 British soldiers on Kiros, an island in the Aegean, with only one sea route for evacuation, a sea route commanded by two gigantic German antiship batteries deployed in a massive cliffside bunker on the island of Navarone. Immune to air attack and too much for Allied battleships to suppress, the British muster Keith Mallory (Peck) a commando officer who has been working on occupied Crete for nearly two years and who is an expert mountaineer, to ferry a team of British commandos to the only area of Navarone that is not monitored by the Germans, a 400-foot cliff. Greek resistance is to meet the team inland and guide them around German patrols to the area of the German guns. However, the commanding officer of the British team suffers grave injury in the climb and Mallory must take control of the mission, despite clashes with explosives expert John Anthony Miller (Niven), who upon the arrival of the night of the raid finds his equipment has been sabotaged, thus exposing a traitor in the team’s ranks. The Guns of Navarone has a run time of 157 minutes and is not rated.
DVD Bonus Features
• Two part documentary
o Genre discussion of the film being the first caper-style WWII epic
o Carl Foreman and J. Lee Thompson discuss the general production history and style of the film, including the special effects and stunts.
• Two Featurettes
o Dimitri Tiomkin’s score for The Guns of Navarone
o UCLA Restoration of The Guns of Navarone
• New commentary with Historian Sir Christopher Frayling
The Guns of Navarone: Collector’s Edition
DVD Catalog #: 16323
DVD UPC Code: 043396163232
DVD Order Date: 4/5/07
DVD SLP: $24.96
THE GUNS OF NAVARONE: COLLECTOR’S EDITION
THE CAINE MUTINY: COLLECTOR’S EDITION
- Also Available, Classic Films LAWRENCE OF ARABIA and
BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI on All-New Two-Disc Sets -
CULVER CITY, CALIF. (February 26, 2007) – Sony Pictures Home Entertainment proudly releases collector’s editions of the Academy Award®-winning films The Guns of Navarone and The Caine Mutiny; also available, special two-disc sets of Lawrence of Arabia and The Bridge on the River Kwai. Each of these films brilliantly portrays the heroics and bravery soldiers faced when tasked with impossible missions during war time. The Guns of Navarone and The Caine Mutiny return with all-new special features including commentary and will each be available for an SRP of $24.96. Director David Lean’s spectacular classic war films, Lawrence of Arabia and The Bridge on the River Kwai will be available on two-discs set for an SRP of $24.96. Fans of war drama won’t want to miss the opportunity to add these films to their collections when released on DVD May 8.
The 1961 Academy Award-winning film for Best Special Effects, The Guns of Navarone, boasts a stellar cast including Gregory Peck (To Killing a Mocking Bird, Cape Fear), Anthony Quinn (A Walk in the Clouds, Lawrence of Arabia) and David Niven (Curse of the Pink Panther, Death on the Nile). Director J. Lee Thompson (King Solomon’s Mines, Battle for the Planet of the Apes) brings Alistair MacLean’s best-selling novel about allies’ saboteurs who are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi fortress and destroy two enormous long-range field guns to life. This two-disc set includes all new special features including documentaries, featurettes and an all-new commentary.
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny is the classic film of modern day mutiny aboard a naval vessel. Nominated in 1954 for seven Academy Awards including Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Film Editing, Music, Best Motion Picture, Sound Recording and Writing this film features an all-star cast including Fred MacMurray (The Absent Minded Professor, The Apartment), Humphrey Bogart (Sabrina, Casablanca), Robert Francis (The Long Gray Line), Tom Tully (Sea of Lost Ships) and Jose Ferrer (Lawrence of Arabia, Dune). This two-disc set is digitally remastered and includes all-new special features.
Synopsis: The Guns of Navarone
With the battle of Stalingrad turning the war against them, the Germans are attempting to bully neutral Turkey into joining the Axis; to this end they have trapped 2,000 British soldiers on Kiros, an island in the Aegean, with only one sea route for evacuation, a sea route commanded by two gigantic German antiship batteries deployed in a massive cliffside bunker on the island of Navarone. Immune to air attack and too much for Allied battleships to suppress, the British muster Keith Mallory (Peck) a commando officer who has been working on occupied Crete for nearly two years and who is an expert mountaineer, to ferry a team of British commandos to the only area of Navarone that is not monitored by the Germans, a 400-foot cliff. Greek resistance is to meet the team inland and guide them around German patrols to the area of the German guns. However, the commanding officer of the British team suffers grave injury in the climb and Mallory must take control of the mission, despite clashes with explosives expert John Anthony Miller (Niven), who upon the arrival of the night of the raid finds his equipment has been sabotaged, thus exposing a traitor in the team’s ranks. The Guns of Navarone has a run time of 157 minutes and is not rated.
DVD Bonus Features
• Two part documentary
o Genre discussion of the film being the first caper-style WWII epic
o Carl Foreman and J. Lee Thompson discuss the general production history and style of the film, including the special effects and stunts.
• Two Featurettes
o Dimitri Tiomkin’s score for The Guns of Navarone
o UCLA Restoration of The Guns of Navarone
• New commentary with Historian Sir Christopher Frayling
The Guns of Navarone: Collector’s Edition
DVD Catalog #: 16323
DVD UPC Code: 043396163232
DVD Order Date: 4/5/07
DVD SLP: $24.96
