TV & Film:Film History
THE BLUS BROTHERS: IMPRINT FILMS - THE ODD COUPLE COLLECTION + THE OUT OF TOWNERS + THE RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER + THE BAD NEWS BEARS IN BREAKING TRAINING
Imprint Companion is the only podcast on the Australian Internet about "DVD Culture."
Hang onto your slipcases because Alexei Toliopoulos (Finding Drago, Total Reboot) and Blake Howard (One Heat Minute) team up to unbox, unpack and unveil upcoming releases from Australia's brand new boutique Blu-Ray label Imprint Films. Our February Batch episode features in-depth reviews of The Return of the Pink Panther, The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training, The Out of Towners and The Odd Couple Collection.
After he lets a robbery transpire right under his nose, the ever-bumbling Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) is suspended by Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom). But, when the famed Pink Panther diamond is stolen from the National Museum in Lugash, the Shah requests Clouseau’s assistance, and he’s reinstated. Clouseau quickly concludes that the thief must be the infamous Phantom, against whom he has a grudge, but the inspector’s instincts are, as usual, wrong.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 1080p high-definition presentation
- Audio Commentary with Jason Simos of The Peter Sellers Appreciation Society
- The Return of Laughter – featurette
- Isolated music and effects audio track featuring score by Henry Mancini
- TV Spots
- Theatrical Trailers
THE BAD NEWS BEARS ARE ONE YEAR OLDER AND ONE YEAR WILDER.
The Bad News Bears In Breaking Training is the comic and poignant second-in-the-series of adventures with the pint-sized sandlot ballplayers initiated with the smash success, The Bad News Bears. The picture picks up the Bears’ career a year after their infamous second-place finish in the North Valley League. Faced with a chance to play the Houston Toros for a shot at the Japanese champs, they devise a way to get Texas to play at the famed Astrodome. On their pilgrimage to Houston, the Bears gain a new coach; dump that coach; add a new pitcher who can’t get his fastball over the plate; find another coach who shows him how it’s done, and go on to a come-back victory with all eyes on Japan.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 1080p high-definition presentation by Paramount Pictures
- Audio commentary by director Michael Pressman, moderated by Gillian Wallace Horvat (2022)
- Audio commentary by film historian Scott Harrison (2022)
- Theatrical Trailer
George (Jack Lemmon) has been offered a promotion that would relocate him to New York City. He flies in with his wife, Gwen (Sandy Dennis), to the city for the job interview. After their flight is redirected to Boston due to heavy fog, the couple meets with disaster. Their luggage is missing, leaving them without money, and the entire city seems to be striking. George and Gwen struggle to survive the night before George’s interview, questioning whether they want to move from their small town.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 1080p high-definition presentation by Paramount Pictures
- Audio commentary by film historian Lee Gambin (2022)
- Theatrical Trailer
CAN TWO DIVORCED MEN SHARE AN APARTMENT WITHOUT DRIVING EACH OTHER CRAZY?
A 3-disc celebration of Neil Simon’s legendary play ‘The Odd Couple’.
THE ODD COUPLE
In the original 1968 film starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Mathau, two divorced men decide to share an apartment. Felix Ungar is fussy and fastidious. Oscar Maddision is slovenly and sloppy. Sure, they can live together… but can they live together without killing each other?
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 1080p high-definition transfer by Paramount Pictures
- Audio commentary by Charlie Matthau and Chris Lemmon
- Audio commentary by film historians Nathaniel Thompson and Howard S. Berger (2021)
- In the Beginning – featurette
- Matthau & Lemmon / Lemmon & Matthau – featurette
- Memories from the Set – featurette
- Inside The Odd Couple – featurette
- The Odd Couple: A Classic – featurette
- Isolated audio track featuring Neal Hefti’s score
- Theatrical Trailer
- Film and Production Photo Galleries
THE ODD COUPLE II
In the 1998 reunion film, its twenty years later, and having gone their separate ways, the two are now together again en route to the wedding of their children. They’ve got the map, the rental car… and a tankful of arguments.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 1080p high-definition transfer by Paramount Pictures
- Audio commentary by film historian Scott Harrison (2021)
- Two Grumpy Men: Directing The Odd Couple II – interview with director Howard Deutch (2021)
- Promotional interviews with actors Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Jean Smart, writer Neil Simon and director Howard Deutch
- Jack Lemmon, America’s Everyman – 1996 documentary
- Walter Matthau, Diamond in the Rough – 1997 documentary
- Theatrical Trailer
- Photo Gallery
THE ODD COUPLE ON TELEVISION
In the 1970s television series, can two divorced men share an apartment without driving each other crazy? Ten episodes covering all five seasons explore this retorical quesiton. Tony Randall and Jack Klugman make the characters their own in the award-winning television version.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 1080p high-definition transfers
- Audio commentary by series executive producer Garry Marshall on “They Use Horseradish, Don’t They?”
- Two Original Series Promos
- Gag reel with audio introduction by producer Garry Marshall
- Opening titles without narration
- Isolated music and effects audio track on every episode
- Series Photo Gallery
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