One of the greatest western sagas ever made is now available as a 2 disc DVD special edition as well as a collector's set with some great extras. Cinema Retro has received this official press release from Genius Products:
Winner of seven Emmy®
Awards and one of the highest-rated miniseries in television history,
Lonesome Dove
will now be available with all-new bonus features and for the
first time digitally re-mastered, in widescreen picture, and 5.1 Surround Sound.
Lonesome Dove: 2-Disc
Collector’s Edition comes to 2-Disc DVD, 2-Disc Blu-ray™ High
Def, and Limited Edition Gift Set on August 5 from Genius Products and RHI
Entertainment.
Hailed by critics and
audiences as a masterpiece, this sprawling epic of the Old West is the story of
two former Texas Rangers battling the last defiant frontier, a daring 2,500-mile
cattle drive, and an undying love. The all-new bonus materials includes a
50-minute documentary entitled The Making of
An Epic; a Lonesome Dove
montage; a new interview with Emmy Award winning Director Simon
Wincer; original interviews from the set with stars Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee
Jones, and author Larry McMurtry (“Brokeback Mountainâ€); original call sheets,
casting notes, and concept drawings; a postcard of the original TV poster; and a
hand-written letter by Wincer. An essential addition to every DVD collection,
the Lonesome Dove:
2-Disc Collector’s Edition is priced at $19.95 SRP for the DVD
and $39.92 SRP for Blu-rayâ„¢ High-Def disc.
The Lonesome Dove Limited Edition Gift
Set includes the
Lonesome Dove: 2 Disc
Collector’s Edition in a collectible wooden box along with a
branded flask, deck of playing cards, and more! This must own collector’s item
will be available at the low price of $39.99 SRP.
Based on McMurtry's
Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (1986), Lonesome Dove
debuted on CBS February 5, 1989 and went on to 17 Emmy nominations (winning
seven) and four Golden Globe® nominations (winning two, Best Miniseries and Best
Actor for Duvall).
The illustrious
all-star cast includes performances by:
·
Oscar® winner Robert Duvall (Best
Actor, Tender Mercies,
1984)
·
Oscar® winner Tommy Lee Jones Jones
(Best Supporting Actor, The
Fugitive, 1994)
·
Oscar® winner Angelica Huston (Best
Supporting Actress, Prizzi’s
Honor, 1986)
·
Oscar® nominee Diane Lane (Best
Actress, Unfaithful,
2003)
·
Oscar® winner winner Chris Cooper
(Best Supporting Actor, Adaptation,
2003)
·
Danny Glover (Dreamgirls, Lethal Weapon
series)
·
Oscar® nominee nominee Frederic
Forrest (Best Support Actor, The
Rose, 1980)
·
D.B. Sweeney (Eight Men Out, Spawn)
·
Golden Globe® winner Rick Schroder
(The Champ, TV’s “24,†“NYPD
Blueâ€)
·
Steve Buscemi (Fargo, TV’s “The
Sopranosâ€)
·
Robert Urich (TV’s “Spencer: For
Hireâ€)
Synopsis: In the late nineteenth century, Augustus
McCrea (Duvall) and Woodrow F. Call (Jones), former Texas Rangers, are partners
and friends who have shared hardship and danger. Gus is the romantic, a
reluctant rancher who has a way with women and the sense to leave well enough
alone. Call is a driven, demanding man, a natural authority figure with no
patience for weakness. He is obsessed with the dream of creating a new
homestead. The two men could hardly be more different, but both are tough
fighters who have learned to count on each other, if nothing else. Call’s dream
not only drags Gus along in its wake, but also draws in a group of fearless
wranglers, trackers, and scouts. Through sandstorms, stampedes, bandits, floods
and snow, these characters live on to become legends of the great American
West.
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