The Robe (US - DVD R1 | BD RA)
Fox Home Entertainment sends over the details on an upcoming special edition
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).
Quote: One of the best Biblical epics of all time, based on a best-selling novel by Lloyd C. Douglas, THE ROBE tells the story of a Roman centurion named Marcellus Gallio (Burton) who is sent to Jerusalem, charged with overseeing the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Marcellus, a cynical and hardened man, wins the robe Jesus wore to the crucifixion while gambling with other Roman soldiers. He later becomes convinced that his hallucinations and violent outbursts are the result of a curse received from the robe, which is now in the possession of his escaped slave, Demetrius (Mature), somewhere in the Middle East. He sets out to find Demetrius in order to destroy the robe and the curse and finds faith instead, converting to Christianity.
News by Tom Woodward
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).
Synopsis
Quote: One of the best Biblical epics of all time, based on a best-selling novel by Lloyd C. Douglas, THE ROBE tells the story of a Roman centurion named Marcellus Gallio (Burton) who is sent to Jerusalem, charged with overseeing the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Marcellus, a cynical and hardened man, wins the robe Jesus wore to the crucifixion while gambling with other Roman soldiers. He later becomes convinced that his hallucinations and violent outbursts are the result of a curse received from the robe, which is now in the possession of his escaped slave, Demetrius (Mature), somewhere in the Middle East. He sets out to find Demetrius in order to destroy the robe and the curse and finds faith instead, converting to Christianity.
News by Tom Woodward
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They should release an Collector's Edition like Warner has done to Quo Vadis, How The West Was Won, Casablanca, etc Being the 1st Cinemascope movie (widescreen), I think it deserves an edition like this too.
Billy Gates wrote: That's a pretty bland cover. I know it's supposed to represent a robe, ...
... and a shadow of a cross.
... and a shadow of a cross.
Another lost oportunity from Fox to include the Full Screen version of the movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046247/alternateve...
Has there ever been a better portrayal of Caligula than Jay Robinson's ?
Shall add to my Netflix Q.
Good cover, but there's better Biblical epics.
Great cover
I think it's classy and simple. And the artwork with the little faces always looks really corny.
That's a pretty bland cover. I know it's supposed to represent a robe, but come on, even little faces of the actors on the bottom would have been cool.
With that said, I've never seen it, so I'll give it a rent on Blu-ray.
With that said, I've never seen it, so I'll give it a rent on Blu-ray.
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