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For Immediate Release
Four Madcap Comedies Make DVD Debut
Victor/Victoria, The Great Race, S.O.B. and
Skin Deep
Released On DVD For First Time Ever June 4
New DVDs Celebrate Blake Edwards' Comic Genius
with All-New Digital Transfers, Commentaries by Edwards, Julie
Andrews and More!
Burbank, Calif., February 13, 2002 - On June
4, Warner Home Video (WHV) will release four of writer/director
Blake Edwards' outstanding comedies -- Victor/Victoria, The Great
Race, S.O.B. and Skin Deep -- for the first time on DVD. The new
widescreen format editions will be sold at the suggested retail
price of $19.98 SRP each.
Blake Edwards, whose movie hits also include the
"Pink Panther" comedies, will receive the Screen Laurel
Award from the Writers Guild of America West on March 2nd. Edwards'
other honors include the 1993 WGAW/DGA Preston Sturges Award --
only given to two others: Richard Brooks and Billy Wilder. He
has also received numerous Academy-Award® nominations and
Career Achievement Awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association
and the American Comedy Awards, USA.
The Blake Edwards DVDs feature the following:
Victor/Victoria
Blake Edwards' gender-bending comic musical about
a down-on-her-luck singer who pretends to be a female impersonator
and becomes the toast of the 1934 Paris cabaret scene. Julie Andrews,
James Garner and Robert Preston star and Henry Mancini and Leslie
Bricusse provide a marvelous Academy Award®-winning score.
DVD Special Features:
- All-New 2001 Digital Transfer
- Julie Andrews and Blake Edwards commentary
- All-New Dolby 5.1 Audio
- Trailer
- Cast/crew film highlights
- Format: WS [16X9 Panavision 2:35:1]
- Languages: English, French
- Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese,
Chinese, Thai, Korean
The Great Race
This comedy extravaganza stars Jack Lemmon, Tony
Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk and other drivers who wheel westward
in wacky turn-of-the-century autos for a New York-to-Paris race.
DVD Special Features:
- All-New Digital Transfer from Restored Elements
- All-New Remastered Dolby 5.1 Audio
- "Behind the Scenes with Blake Edwards" featurette
- Trailer
- Format: WS [16X9 Panavision 2:35:1]
- Languages: English (5.1), French
- Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese,
Chinese, Thai, Korean
S.O.B.
Edwards' blistering satirical sock to Hollywood's
kisser stars William Holden as a director who attempts to turn
an artsy flop into a racy, R-rated box-office hit by convincing
his wife (Julie Andrews) to do a nude scene. Called "an exemplar
of a vanishing breed - the serious American comedy" by The
Chicago Reader's Dave Kehr, S.O.B. also features Robert Preston,
Larry Hagman and Shelley Winters.
DVD Special Features:
- All-New Digital Transfer
- Trailer
- Format: WS [16X9 Panavision 2:35:1]
- Languages: English, French
- Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese,
Chinese, Thai, Korean
Skin Deep
Hedonistic Hollywood writer John Ritter can't keep
his womanizing in check in Edwards' "smart, sensitive film"
(The Chicago Sun-Times' Roger Ebert) sparked by wall-to-wall verbal
and physical wit and a hysterical "glow-in-the-dark"
sequence that became instantly legendary. DVD Special Features:
- All-New High-Definition Digital Transfer
- All-New Remastered Dolby 5.1 Audio
- John Ritter and Blake Edwards commentary
- Featurette
- Animated Interactive Menus
- Trailer
- Cast/crew filmographies
- Format: WS [16X9 Panavision 2:35:1]
- Languages: English, French
- Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
- Funny Guy: Blake Edwards
With operations in 78 international territories
- more than the video division of any other studio - Warner Home
Video commands the largest distribution infrastructure in the
global video marketplace. WHV's film library is the largest of
any studio, offering top quality new and vintage titles from the
repertoires of Warner Bros. Pictures, Turner Home Entertainment,
Castle Rock Entertainment, HBO Home Video and New Line Home Entertainment.
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