SWEET CHARITY - BD

Release date: 27 September 2021
Standard Edition Blu-ray

The Limited Edition release of this title is now out-of-print. However, we do have some surplus LE components available in very limited numbers, which can be found in our Accessories section, including books and booklets. Click the link to explore.

The feature debut of the great Bob Fosse based on the Broadway hit, Sweet Charity is a musical re-imagining of Federico Fellini’s Nights of Cabiria, starring the wonderful Shirley MacLaine as a taxi dancer looking for love and escape in hippy-era New York.

INDICATOR STANDARD EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES

• 4K restoration
• Three presentations of the film: with original overture (150 mins); without overture (149 mins); and with alternative ending (145 mins)
• Alternative 2.0 stereo and 5.1 surround soundtrack options
• Audio commentary with film historians Lee Gambin, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Cara Mitchell (2020)
• The John Player Lecture with Shirley MacLaine (1971, 81 mins): archival audio recording of the celebrated actor in conversation at London’s National Film Theatre
• From Stage to Screen: A Director’s Dilemma (1969, 9 mins): original promotional film featuring interview material with Bob Fosse and rare behind-the-scenes footage
• The Art of Exaggeration (1969, 8 mins): original promotional film profiling the work of famed costume designer Edith Head
• Interview with Sonja Haney (2020, 70 mins): audio recording of the dance assistant in conversation with Lee Gambin
• Now and Then: Sammy Davis Jr (1968, 23 mins): archival interview featuring the actor and singer in conversation with broadcaster Bernard Braden
• Super 8 version: original cut-down home-cinema presentation
• Image gallery: publicity and promotional material
• Original theatrical trailer
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
  
  

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BBFC cert: PG
REGION B
EAN: 5060697921830