DVD Features:
- Number of Discs: 4
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: November 28, 2006
- Originally Released: 1978
- Label: Warner Home Video
Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
4-Disc Set
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen - 2.40
Audio:
- Dolby Digital Surround Sound 5.1 - English, French
- Dolby Digital Surround Sound 2.0 - English, French
- Subtitles - English, French, Spanish - Optional
- Closed Captioned - English - Optional
DISC ONE:
Original 1978 Theatrical Movie with Soundtrack Remastered in Dolby Digital Surround Sound 5.1
Additional Release Material:
- Featurettes - 1. TV Spot
- Trailers - 1. Theatrical Trailers
- Commentaries - 1. Pierre Spengler - Producer; Ilya Salkind - Executive Producer
DISC TWO:
2000 Expanded Edition Movie
Additional Release Material:
- Music-Only Audio Track
- Commentaries - 1. Richard Donner - Director; Tom Mankiewicz - Creative Consultant
DISC THREE:
Additional Release Material:
- Restored Scenes
- Audio-Only Bonus - Additional Music Cues
- Featurettes:
- Screen Tests
- Documentary - "Taking Flight: The Development of SUPERMAN"
- Documentary - "Making SUPERMAN: Filming the Legend"
- Documentary - "The Magic Behind the Cape"
DISC FOUR:
Additional Release Material:
- Featurettes:
- "Vintage TV Special - 'The Making of SUPERMAN: The Movie'"
- 1951 Movie SUPERMAN AND THE MOLE-MEN Starring George Reeves
- "Nine 1940s Fleischer Studios SUPERMAN Cartoons Mastered from Vault Elements"
- "Superman"
- "The Mechanical Monsters"
- "Billion Dollar Limited"
- "The Arctic Giant"
- "The Bulleteers"
- "The Magnetic Telescope"
- "Electric Earthquake"
- "Volcano"
- "Terror on the Midway"
Performers, Cast and Crew:
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Starring
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Margot Kidder,
Christopher Reeve,
Gene Hackman,
Larry Hagman,
Trevor Howard,
Glenn Ford,
Marlon Brando,
Phyllis Thaxter,
Ned Beatty,
Susannah York,
Terence Stamp,
Valerie Perrine,
Phil Brown,
Jackie Cooper,
Jeff East &
Marc McClure
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Performer
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Marlon Brando,
Glenn Ford,
Terence Stamp,
Ned Beatty,
Trevor Howard,
Susannah York,
Phyllis Thaxter,
Jeff East,
Gene Hackman,
Jackie Cooper,
Valerie Perrine,
Marc McClure,
Larry Hagman &
Phil Brown
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Directed by
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Richard Donner
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Edited by
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Stuart Baird
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Screenwriting by
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Leslie Newman,
Robert Benton,
Mario Puzo &
David Newman
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Composition by
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John Williams
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Produced by
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Pierre Spengler
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Director of Photography
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Geoffrey Unsworth
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Executive Production by
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Ilya Salkind
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Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"You've got me? Who's got you?"
- Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) to Superman (Christopher Reeve)
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1978 -
Best Visual Effects
Entertainment Reviews:
Variety - 12/13/1978
"...A wonderful, chuckling, preposterously exciting fantasy....Reeve is excellent....Superman's ultimate triumph involves a lot more than super-feats of strength, exercising the heart muscles as well..."
New York Times - 12/15/1978
"...Good, clean, simple-minded fun....[Reeve] manages to be both funny and comic-strip heroic..."
USA Today - 05/04/2001
"...The movie still makes you believe a man can fly..."
Premiere - 12/01/2003
"Its overall design continues to be the template for comic-book-movie success..."
Ultimate DVD - 05/01/2007
5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he definitive superhero movie....This release offers a brand new lease of life for one of the most loved Science Fiction films of all time."
Product Description:
The Superman myth is well told, from his birth on the doomed planet Krypton to his childhood in a small Kansas town and beyond, in Richard Donner's blockbuster. After he comes of age, young Clark Kent, as his Earth parents have named him, learns the truth of his alien birth on a voyage of discovery to the Arctic. It is there that he learns--through a link to his long-dead birth parents--of his superhuman abilities and his responsibility to preserve and protect "truth, justice and the American Way." Once he adjusts to life in the big city, Metropolis, he discovers that hiding his superpowers as mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent (Christopher Reeve) isn't easy as he flirts with hard-nosed Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) and battles supervillain Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman). The film's all-star cast includes Jackie Cooper, Marlon Brando, Ned Beatty, Glenn Ford, Terence Stamp, and Valerie Perrine, among others, all camping it up wonderfully.
Plot Synopsis:
This star-packed extravaganza brings the comic book legend to the screen in grand style. It begins with Superman's scientist dad sending the infant superhero down to Earth just as the home planet, Krypton, explodes into a zillion pieces. Taking up permanent residence on Earth, the young Superman grows up into supernormal reporter Clark Kent, wooing winsome colleague Lois Lane and keeping his true identity hidden from the world. But when three villains come up with a dastardly real estate scheme that involves shoving California into the ocean, Clark Kent decides it's time to don his cape and fight the forces of evil.
Plot Keywords:
Action |
Adventure |
All-Star |
Blockbuster |
Comic Book |
Essential Cinema |
Family (General) |
Fantasy |
Recommended |
Science-Fiction |
Superheroes |
Switching Roles |
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