The Robe Special Edition

[domino harvey]

Title: The Robe
Starring: Richard Burton
Released: 17th March 2009
SRP: $19.98 (DVD)

Further Details:
Fox has announced DVD ($19.98) and Blu-ray ($34.99) special editions of The Robe for the 17th March. Extras on the DVD will include an introduction by Martin Scorsese, a commentary with Film Composer David Newman and Film Historians Jon Burlingame, Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman, a making of featurette, an isolated score, still galleries, and an interactive pressbook. The Blu-ray release will include all that, along with 2 additional featurettes (The CinemaScope Story, From Scripture to Script: The Bible and Hollywood), an audio interview with Screenwriter Philip Dunne, Movietone News, trailers, a poster gallery, and a picture-in-picture mode with additional features (The Robe Times Two: A Comparison of Widescreen and Standard Versions, A Seamless Faith: The Real-Life Search for The Robe featurettes).

[Petty Bourgeoisie]

Looking forward to this release. The film has obvious problems but it has a high rewatchability factor. The ending is great. I play it about once a year and during my last viewing I noticed how truly bad the current transfer is. Even a moderate improvement will be worth $15 to me. So I'll upgrade and continue waiting for "The Egyptian".