The Alamo - Director's Cut - Laserdisc Preservation - Blu Ray DVD Artwork

The Alamo: John Wayne produces, directs and stars in this larger than life chronicle of one of the most remarkable events in American history. At the Alamo - a crumbling adobe mission - 185 exceptional men joined together in a sacred pact: they would stand firm against an army of 7,000 and willingly give their lives for freedom. Filmed entirely in Texas only a few miles from the site of the actual battle, The Alamo, is a visually stunning and historically accurate celebration of courage and honour.

Co-starring Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey and Chill Wills, and garnering seven Oscar nominations, it is a truly memorable movie spectacle.

“A diamond-hard, ‘rough-hewn’ masterpiece... emotionally and dramatically potent enough to make all hearts beat with pride.” - The Chicago Daily News special features

Original Theatrical Trailer “John Wayne’s ‘The Alamo’” featurette The complete score

Restored original Director’s Cut. This edition was made from a 70mm master print, and transferred onto digital masters

Audio: English Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Audio: English Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Color / 202 Mins Approx

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16:9 Widescren 2.35:1

Transfer and Preservation - ElmoOxygen

The Alamo 1960 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved. “Academy Award” and “Oscar” are the registered trademarks and service marks of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. “Dolby” and the Double-D symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation.

Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment (Europe) Ltd. Warning the copyright proprietor has licensed the film (including the soundtrack) comprised in this DVD for home use only. All other rights reserved.

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The Alamo: John Wayne produces, directs and stars in this larger than life chronicle of one of the most remarkable events in American history.

At the Alamo - a crumbling adobe mission - 185 exceptional men joined together in a sacred pact: they would stand firm against an army of 7,000 and willingly give their lives for freedom.

Filmed entirely in Texas only a few miles from the site of the actual battle, The Alamo, is a visually stunning and historically accurate celebration of courage and honour. Co-starring Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey and Chill Wills, and garnering seven Oscar nominations, it is a truly memorable movie spectacle.

“A diamond-hard, ‘rough-hewn’ masterpiece... emotionally and dramatically potent enough to make all hearts beat with pride.” - The Chicago Daily News special features

Original Theatrical Trailer “John Wayne’s ‘The Alamo’” featurette The complete score

Restored original Director’s Cut. This edition was made from a 70mm master print, and transferred onto digital masters

Audio: English Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Audio: English Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Color / 202 Mins Approx

Design and Layout - pineapples101@gmail.com

16:9 Widescren 2.35:1

Transfer and Preservation - ElmoOxygen

The Alamo 1960 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved. “Academy Award” and “Oscar” are the registered trademarks and service marks of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. “Dolby” and the Double-D symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation.

Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment (Europe) Ltd. Warning the copyright proprietor has licensed the film (including the soundtrack) comprised in this DVD for home use only. All other rights reserved.

WW-BGSB 8007082951

NOTES: Here is the Roadshow director’s cut of John Wayne’s The Alamo (1960), the first of two films that Wayne was ever officially credited with directing. Now this Roadshow cut runs more than 40 minutes longer than the theatrical cut that you can find on DVD. It was released on laserdisc several times, my source was the 1992 version (the 1997 version had Dolby Digital 5.1, which I cannot output), and MGM has apparently let the restoration deteriorate to the point where it cannot be transferred to a new format, so this may be the best that it will look. Also on the DVD was a making-of of the film, but for some reason, they cut more than 25 minutes out of that too, and so the version included here runs the full, intended length.

The movie is split in two, with 2 hours 14 minutes of the movie on disc 1, and the final 68 minutes on disc 2, with the 68 minute making of also on disc 2. There’s also the theatrical trailer on disc 1.

I’ve also included the many iterations of Dimitri Tiomkin’s score, from the official release (along with a few extra tracks), to the 3 CD release of the full score released in 2010, as performed by the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. You can find them on the second stream of both the film and the making-of. There’s more info on the layout in the notes section of the DVD menus, but I will copy and paste that information below. Not mentioned is that I’ve also included a slideshow from the many liner notes on the 3 CD version of the score, if you want extensive information on the tracks. The slideshow is on disc 1 and runs 11 minutes, and also has scans of the various discs of the score that have been released. Not explained, but hinted at it in the notes*, is that disc 2 will allow you to skip right to the tracks from The Essential Tiomkin that can be found on the second half of the making-of documentary. That link can be found on the score notes section of disc 2.

As for the video transfer, I went from my laserdisc to a Panasonic DVD recorder (which outputs in 704x480, so I left it at that resolution when encoding), to Tmpeg Mastering Works 5, converting the image to anamorphic widescreen. The inherent softness and haziness of laserdisc is apparent, as using excessive DNR (there was a very small amount applied) would have washed it out. The DVD itself was made with DVD Styler. * Dimitri Tiomkin’s Oscar nominated score for The Alamo (1960) has been released in quite a few different forms over the years. To this date, you could get the officially released score, which runs 44 minutes, the extended score with some never-before-heard tracks, which runs 66 minutes, and the complete film score, performed by the Prague Philharmonic in 2010, which runs 164 minutes over 3 CDs. There are even some stray tracks on The Essential Dimitri Tiomkin (disc 3, if you’re a completist). Because I’ve broken up the film in two parts on two discs (disc 1 has 134 minutes of the movie, disc 2 has 68 minutes of the movie and the extended making-of, also 68 minutes), the score also had to be judiciously broken up. So, on disc 1 is the 66 minute extended score followed by CD of the complete score and 3 tracks from CD 2.

Disc 2 of this set has the remaining tracks from CD 2 of the full score, and 4 tracks of CD 3 of the score on the feature, while the remainder of CD3 is on the making-of documentary (as well as some tracks from Essential Tiomkin). This Laserdisc-sourced extended cut of the film is 40 minutes longer than the theatrical, and the making of is 25 minutes longer than the DVD version. The extra length provided the opportunity to showcase the whole score and the official score, without having to break it up into more audio streams which would have made this explanation that much longer.

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