Posted Mon Mar 6, 2017 at 12:00 PM PST by Steven Cohen
Four films are hitting Blu-ray this month.
In an early announcement to retailers, Warner Archive is preparing 'S.O.B.,' 'World Without End,' 'Demon Seed,' and 'Finian's Rainbow' for Blu-ray throughout the month of March.
'Finian's Rainbow' (March 7) - An Irish rogue plants a stolen crock of leprechaun gold in the soil near Fort Knox to reap what he thinks will be a rich harvest. In tow are his spirited daughter, a lovestruck leprechaun and a bigoted Southern senator transformed by misbegotten magic.
The Blu-ray will feature 1080p video, a DTS-HD MA 5.1 soundtrack, and supplements will include:
- ORIGINAL ROADSHOW VERSION with Overture, Entr'acte/Intermission & Exit Music
- Watch Finian's Rainbow With Francis Ford Coppola: Introduction and Commentary by the Director
- Featurette: The World Premiere of Finian's Rainbow
- Original Theatrical Trailer (HD)
Suggested list price for the Blu-ray is $21.99.
'S.O.B.' (March 7) - Felix Farmer’s (Richard Mulligan) latest movie flops – and lots of Hollywood types spring into action. Agents are called. Lawyers are retained. Statements are issued. It’s what master comedy director Blake Edwards calls “Standard Operating Bull,” the subject of his gleefully satiric S.O.B. Julie Andrews is a wholesome superstar about to alter her image…radically. Aiding and abetting the madness are William Holden, Robert Preston, Robert Vaughn, Shelley Winters, Loretta Swit and more. Dialogue crackles like fat in a fire, gags range from dead-on deadpan to comedic broadsides, insights bristle and sting. Nothing standard here: S.O.B. is extraordinary.
The Blu-ray will feature 1080p video, a DTS-HD MA 2.0 soundtrack, and supplements will include the Original Theatrical Trailer.
Suggested list price for the Blu-ray is $21.99.
'Demon Seed' (March 14) - Susan Harris is alone in the house when, suddenly, doors lock, windows slam shut and the phone stops working. Susan is trapped by an intruder…but this is no ordinary thug. Instead, the intruder is a computer named Proteus, an artificial brain that has learned to reason. And to terrorize. In “one of her finest, most vulnerable performances” (Danny Peary, Guide for the Film Fanatic), Julie Christie plays Susan in this taut techno-thriller based on the Dean Koontz novel. Packed with suspense, surprise and special effects, Demon Seed follows Susan’s desperate attempts to outmaneuver and outthink her captor. Then Susan learns what Proteus wants: its own child, conceived in her womb and destined for domination.
Specs have not been detailed yet, but supplements will include the Original Theatrical Trailer.
Suggested list price for the Blu-ray is $21.99.
'World Without End' (March 28) - “CinemaScope’s first science-fiction thriller” sees four intrepid astronauts (Hugh Marlowe, Nelson Leigh, Rod Taylor and Christopher Dark) successfully complete mankind’s first Mars mission, only to run afoul of a warp in space. Tossed centuries into the future, they discover an Earth devastated by nuclear war, where mutant beast-men rule the surface. Underground is a society marked by listless males and lustful ladies (future- wear designed by Vargas!). Trapped in a tomorrow they never made, the four astronauts take on the mutant and the malicious while fighting to bring humanity back to the surface.
Supplements have not been detailed, but the Blu-ray will feature 1080p video and a DTS-HD MA 2.0 soundtrack.
Suggested list price for the Blu-ray is $21.99.
You can find the latest specs for all of the titles listed above linked from our Blu-ray Release Schedule, where they're indexed throughout March.
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