Product Description

For its Blu-ray release, South Pacific underwent a complete photochemical restoration of its original 65mm negative, and underwent an 8k high definition scan of the brand new interpositive.  For the first time in high definition, you can enjoy Leon Shamroy's widescreen photography of the Hawaiian locations and be dazzled by director Joshua Logan’s famous filtered sequences.  The original soundtrack will, for the first time ever, be presented in uncompressed, Lossless DTS audio.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4550 in DVD
• Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
• Released on: 2009-03-31
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 329 minutes

Features

• Rodgers and Hammerstein's Academy Award -winning "South Pacific" is a towering musical masterpiece and the tender love story of a na ve young Navy nurse (Mitzi Gaynor) and an older French Plantation owner (Rossano Brazzi) on a U.S. occupied South Sea island. The breathtaking score is highlighted by some of the most romantic songs ever written: "Some Enchanted Evening," "The

Customer Reviews

Wonderful
The theatrical cut on disk one looks AMAZING. I won't go off on the use of color filters or the other deficiencies of the film, the movie as a whole works and the performances are spot-on. Gaynor and Brazzi are excellent. The Road Show restoration on disk 2 is definitely worth checking out for a few minutes of extra footage here and there but overall the image is softer and less detailed. But the theatrical version on disk one is jaw dropping and well worth the price of the disk. Highly Recommended.

Forthcoming Blu-Ray has great extras
I have seen the 94-minute "making of" documentary that has been created for the Blu-Ray release. It is wonderfully crafted, with interviews from actual WWII Seabees and nurses, along with amazing Technicolor footage of the war. This documentary is hosted most charmingly by Mitzi Gaynor, who looks terrific and is completely self-effacing and enjoyable. It also includes interviews (but no peformance footage) of the stars of the new Lincoln Center revival. The observations by relatives of Rodgers, Hammerstein, and Logan are candid and insightful. This promises to be an excellent release.

not as happy as I should be
The Movie itself if fantastic, however the powers that be decided to only record the general release in Hi-DEF, with DTS Master audio, the Road Show version is in Standard Definition, and only Dolby Digital for the audio, how much more would it have taken to take the portions of the film that are duplicated in both versions and have it all in HD? and leave the additional footage in SD (it wouldn't make that much difference with the sub standard material)and DTS Master audio for both should have been little trouble, love the Movie, not happy with the way it has been packaged