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©1963
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5 videodiscs (163 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Criterion collection #692
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1963. General release version and new high-definition digital transfer of 197-minute extended version
"About a group of strangers fighting tooth and nail over buried treasure, is the most grandly harebrained movie ever made, a pileup of slapstick and borscht-belt-y one-liners performed by a nonpareil cast"--Container
Blu-ray discs will not play in standard DVD players
Program notes (<18> p.) and illustrated map of movie scene locations (1 folded sheet) inserted in container
Special features: promotional spots for 1963 original release & 1970 rerelease; AFI's 100 years... 100 laughs; about the extended version; audio commentary by Mark Evanier, Michael Schlesinger and Paul Scrabo; restoration demonstration; Telescope; press interview, 1963; Stanley Kramer's reunion with the great comedy artists of our time; the last 70 mm Film Festival; sound and vision
Director of photography, Ernest Laszlo ; production design, Rudolph Sternad ; art director, Gordon Gurnee ; film editors, Frederick Knudtson, Robert C. Jones, Gene Fowler ; music by, Ernest Gold
Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, Jonathan Winters
Rated G
DVD: aspect ratio 2.76:1 widescreen presentation, Dolby Digital, region 1
Blu-ray: Region A ; dts-hd master audio ; 5.1 surround
English language track; English SDH