Director Charles
Crichton’s 1988 jewel-heist comedy, A Fish Called Wanda — written by
Monty Python alum John Cleese — has been give a new 4K restoration from the
original film negative by Arrow Video and will be arriving at retail outlets on
Sept. 19 as a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack.
MVD Home Entertainment
will be directing the sales and distribution efforts in the domestic market.
Fellow Python Michael
Palin joins Cleese and America actors Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Kline in a
comedy of laugh-out-loud errors — mainly because of Kline’s over-the-top
jealous behavior as his lover, Curtis, seeks to seduce Archie Leach (Cleese), a
fuddy-duddy lawyer, into getting his client to reveal the new hiding place of
the pilfered diamonds.
As to bonus nuggets, John
Cleese provides commentary and documentary filmmaker Iain Johnstone’s 1988
feature-length “documentary,” titled John Cleese’s First Farewell Performance,
which is actually something of a behind-the-scenes look at the making of A
Fish Called Wanda (it’s damn near as funny as the film itself) is also
included here.
Other bonuses are
two-dozen deleted scenes, director John Cork’s 2003 retrospective, Something
Fishy, Robert Powell hosts a sight-seeing tour of the film’s locations
in Fish You Were Here, and there are new video sessions featuring composer John
Du Prez, production designer Roger Murray-Leach, executive producer Steve
Abbott and makeup supervisor Paul Engelen.
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