Mill Creek Entertainment
continued to expand its DVD and Blu-ray product offerings for the month of
September (street date: Sept. 11) with news this week that Born Free: The Complete
Collection will be available as a four-disc DVD collection for the
bargain price of just $19.98.
Before we get to the
details of that prized DVD collectible, Mill Creek announced this past week bonus
materials associated with the Aug. 7 release of the Blu-ray and DVD collections
of Masters
of Sex: The Complete Series (an eight-disc set) and Happy
Endings: The Complete Series (a six-disc collection). So let’s to those bonus goodies first!
Masters of Sex: The Complete Series comes with commentary for the pilot episode
featuring writer Michelle Ashford (Emmy nominee for her work on The
Pacific mini-series, plus WGA nomination for Masters of Sex),
executive producer Sarah Timberman (Elementary, Unforgettable, Justified,
etc.) and actors Michael Sheen, Lizzy Caplan, Caitlin FitzGerald and Teddy
Sears.
Other bonus features
include deleted scenes (approximately 40 minutes worth) and a whopping eight
featurettes — “Making Masters of Sex,” “A Masterful Portrayal: Michael Sheen as
Dr. Masters,” “Ahead of Her Time: Lizzy Caplan as Virginia Johnson,” “The Real
Masters: A Conversation with Thomas Maier,” “Surprising Facts About Sex: The
Masters’ Great Discoveries,” “The History of Sex,” “The Women of Sex” and “The
Men of Sex: Actors’ Roundtable.”
Happy Endings: The Complete Series is presented in “story continuity order,” plus
there are deleted scenes and outtakes and a quartet of featurettes — “Banana Republic Style Previews,” “Mike Relm
Remix,” “Mark Douglas Interview with Adam Pally and Casey Wilson” and “Mark
Douglas Parody Theme Song.”
With that bit of
housekeeping done, let’s return to the Sept. 11 DVD release of Born
Free: The Complete Collection.
This super collection joins the previously announced Blu-ray selections
for that same date — Benji: Off the Leash! (Blu-ray/DVD
Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), Community: The Complete Series (a 12-disc
set), Rescue Me: The Complete Series (a 16-disc collection) and the
Blu-ray double features of Age of Consent and Cactus
Flower … and Nightwing and Shadow of the Hawk.
The Born Free package
includes the original 1966 film release of director James Hill’s film
adaptation of the Joy Adamson book, Born Free, starring Virginia McKenna
as the naturalist Adamson, with Bill Travers as her husband, George. Born Free won two Oscars — Best Song
(“Born Free”) and Best Original Music Score (John Barry — nominated six times
for Best Music, Original Score … winning for Dances with Wolves, The
Lion in Winter and Born Free).
Teamed with it are
director Jack Couffer’s 1972 sequel, Living Free, with Susan Hampshire as Joy Adamson and Nigel
Davenport as George; the 1996 made for TV film, Born Free: A New Adventure
and all 13 episodes of the 1974 TV series, Born Free: The Series, featuring
Diana Muldaur as Joy Adamson and Gary Collins as George.
Also heading to DVD on
Sept. 11 is director Rod Hardy’s Emmy-nominated (Outstanding Miniseries and ten
others) 1995 mini-series adaptation of the Larry McMurtry novel, Buffalo
Girls (with Digital Copy), starring Anjelica Huston (Emmy nominated for
her performance here) as Calamity Jane and Melanie Griffith as Deadwood, South
Dakota madam, Dora DuFran.
Others in this notable
cast include Sam Elliott (Emmy-nominated) as Wild Bill Hickok, Reba McEntire as
Annie Oakley, Peter Coyote as Buffalo Bill, Russell Means as Sitting Bull, John
Diehl as Custer, plus Gabriel Byrne as Teddy Blue and Jack Palance as Bartle
Bone!!
Also on Sept. 11 is
director Philip Saville’s Emmy-nominated 1993 mini-series adaptation of Sue
Miller’s best selling novel, Family Pictures: The Complete Mini-Series,
starring Sam Neill and Kyra Sedgwick.
Both Buffalo Girls and Family
Pictures: The Complete Mini-Series are priced at just $14.98 each … and
both include Digital Copy.
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