Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: BOS018
- Format: Blu-Ray/DVD
- UPC: 797679001826
- Street Date: 03/25/14
- PreBook Date: 02/18/14
- Label: Grindhouse Releasing »
- Genre: Drama
- Run Time: 95 mins
- Number of Discs: 3
- Audio: STEREO
- Year of Production: 1968
- Region Code: 0
- Box Lot: 30
- Territory: NORTH AMERICA
- Language: English
Cast & Crew
- Actors:
- Burt Lancaster
- Janice Rule
- Marge Champion
- David Garfield
- Kim Hunter
- Charles Drake
- Director: Sydney Pollack
- Director: Frank Perry
- Producer: Frank Perry
- Producer: Roger Lewis
- Producers: Frank Perry
- Producers: Roger Lewis
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The Swimmer [3-Disc Deluxe Edition] (Blu-ray + DVD + CD)
A man sets out on what he thinks is an adventure but is instead a devastating portrait of the American Dream.
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Grindhouse Releasing is proud to present the ultimate late-60s studio-produced cult film, THE SWIMMER. In his finest performance, Burt Lancaster stars as Ned Merrill, a man who confronts his destiny by swimming home, pool by pool, through the suburban nightmare of upper class East coast society. Based on the acclaimed short-story by John Cheever, and directed by Frank Perry (DIARY OF A MAD HOUSEWIFE, MOMMIE DEAREST), THE SWIMMER is film like no other, a feature-length TWILIGHT ZONE episode by way of THE NEW YORKER.
Media
Bonus Materials
- Spectacular digital restoration created from 4K scans for optimal picture quality
- Revealing, in-depth interviews with stars Janet Landgard, Marge Champion and Joan Rivers
- Additional interviews with Joanna Lancaster, swimming instructor Bob Horn, composer Marvin Hamlisch, editor Sidney Katz, and assistant directors Michael Hertzberg and Ted Zachary
- The original NEW YORKER short story read by author John Cheever
- Rare production stills from the lost alternate scenes
- Liner notes by director Stuart Gordon (RE-ANIMATOR)
- Extensive still galleries, trailers and TV spots
- BONUS CD - original soundtrack album by Marvin Hamlisch - newly remastered in stunning 24 bit/192khz sound from the original master tapes
Sales Points
- Another cult movie classic from Grindhouse Releasing, who brought you the smash hits CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, THE BEYOND and THE BIG GUNDOWN
- WINNER! 'Best Overall Blu-ray/DVD of the Year (International Press Academy Satellite Awards - Honoring Achievement in Film, Television and New Media)
- Starring Academy Award-winning actor Burt Lancaster (FROM HERE TO ETERNITY)
- Produced by legendary producer Sam Spiegel (LAWRENCE OF ARABIA)
- Blu-ray produced by Chris Innis (Academy Award-winning editor of HURT LOCKER) and Bob Murawski (editor of the SPIDER-MAN trilogy and ARMY OF DARKNESS)
Press Quotes
Burt Lancaster is superb in his finest performance. Four stars.
—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Totally engrossing, thanks to its very strangeness, and to the superb performances and vivid location photography. Five stars.
—Geoff Andrew, Time Out New York
Burt Lancaster gives one of his most complex and sensitive performances...THE SWIMMER is an achievement that nears perfection, accomplished through uniform excellences before and behind the camera.
—John Mahoney, The Hollywood Reporter
Grim, disturbing and sometimes funny... the film has the shape of an open-ended hallucination.
—Vincent Canby, The New York Times
