How the West Was Won (US - DVD R1 | BD RA)
Warner Home Video sends over artwork for the new Ultimate Collector's Edition
Title: How the West Was Won (IMDb)
Starring: John Wayne
Released: 26th August 2008
SRP: $20.97
Further Details:
Warner Home Video has announced a 2-disc special edition of How the West Was Won which stars John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and James Stewart. The set will be available to own from the 26th August, and should retail at around $20.97. As well as a remastered and restored widescreen presentation, the 2-disc release will include a Film Historian Commentary, Dave Strohmaier’s critically-acclaimed, feature-length documentary Cinerama® Adventure, Making of How the West Was Won (Archival featurette), and the original theatrical trailer. An Ultimate Collector’s Edition will also be available for $59.92. This will include the 2-disc special edition, as well as a 20-page theatrical press book reproduction, 10 behind-the-scenes photo cards and 10 postcards, and an exclusive movie poster offer.
Streeting simultaneously will also be a Blu-ray™ Hi-Def ($34.99 SRP) version. Again, all the 2-disc features will be included, along with special Digi-book packaging featuring 32-pages of rare press materials and behind-the-scenes photos. Also, exclusive to Blu-ray is the “SmileBox” version of the film which presents the image with a unique curvature that virtually recreates the true Cinerama® experience in a home theater. We've attached the official package artwork for the Ultimate Collector's Edition below:




News by Tom Woodward
Starring: John Wayne
Released: 26th August 2008
SRP: $20.97
Further Details:
Warner Home Video has announced a 2-disc special edition of How the West Was Won which stars John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and James Stewart. The set will be available to own from the 26th August, and should retail at around $20.97. As well as a remastered and restored widescreen presentation, the 2-disc release will include a Film Historian Commentary, Dave Strohmaier’s critically-acclaimed, feature-length documentary Cinerama® Adventure, Making of How the West Was Won (Archival featurette), and the original theatrical trailer. An Ultimate Collector’s Edition will also be available for $59.92. This will include the 2-disc special edition, as well as a 20-page theatrical press book reproduction, 10 behind-the-scenes photo cards and 10 postcards, and an exclusive movie poster offer.
Streeting simultaneously will also be a Blu-ray™ Hi-Def ($34.99 SRP) version. Again, all the 2-disc features will be included, along with special Digi-book packaging featuring 32-pages of rare press materials and behind-the-scenes photos. Also, exclusive to Blu-ray is the “SmileBox” version of the film which presents the image with a unique curvature that virtually recreates the true Cinerama® experience in a home theater. We've attached the official package artwork for the Ultimate Collector's Edition below:




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Billy Gates
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I don't know much about this movie other than hearing it's one of the best Westerns. That Cinerama replication feature sounds awesome though. I'm definitely gonna pick it up.
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I really hope they clean up the transfer from the DVD release. It looks like that in order to restore the widescreen presentation, the studio simply spliced the left and right parts back together that they lopped off in order to make the full screen version for TV. The problem was it was so obvious they did this that for me it was unwatchable. The left and right pieces were off-color and there were terrible lines splitting the picture into thirds. I will for sure give this film another try if they corrected the God-awful transfer/hackjob, because I believe it is one of the best western epics ever made.
I am buying this since I've never owned it.
I have this on VHS, and I always found it really over-stuffed and overlong. Really disappointing in my opinion.
roadogg31 wrote: It looks like that in order to restore the widescreen presentation, the studio simply spliced the left and right parts back together that they lopped off in order to make the full screen version for TV. The problem was it was so obvious they did this that for me it was unwatchable. The left and right pieces were off-color and there were terrible lines splitting the picture into thirds. I will for sure give this film another try if they corrected the God-awful transfer/hackjob, because I believe it is one of the best western epics ever made.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinerama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinerama
This'll look very nice next to the "Bonnie & Clyde" BD book packaging.

