South Pacific (US BD) in March

Fox Home Entertainment have announced the US Blu-ray Disc release of South Pacific (50th Anniversary Edition) on 31st March 2009 priced at $34.99 SRP. Adapted from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, South Pacific follows a Navy nurse forced to choose between love and prejudice during World War II.

This 50th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Disc includes the all-new BD Exclusive feature-length documentary “Passion, Prejudice and South Pacific: Creating An American Masterpiece” plus special bonus features such as Mitzi Gaynor’s screen test, “making of” featurette, vintage stage excerpts from the original Broadway stars, sing-a-long subtitles, and more.

Authored in BD-J with AVC (MPEG4) compression on two dual-layer 50GB discs, the film is presented in 1080P 2.20:1 widescreen with English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, English 4.0 Dolby Surround, English Stereo and French and Spanish DD5.1 Surround audio, plus English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Korean subtitles. Extras include...

Disc 1:

• Audio Commentary by Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization President Ted Chapin and Musical Theater Writer Gerard Alessandrini
• Sing-A-Long Karaoke Subtitles (English only)
• Songs-Only Option

Disc 2:

• Extended “Road Show Version” of South Pacific (with 15 additional minutes of footage)
• Commentary by Film Historian Richard Barrios
• BD Exclusive – “Passion, Prejudice and South Pacific: Creating An American Masterpiece” full-length documentary
• “Making Of South Pacific” featurette (Newly remastered in HD)
• “60 Minutes Exclusive: The Tales of the South Pacific” with Diane Sawyer and writer James Michener
• Fox Movietone News: “South Pacific on the Screen – A Perfect Hit” and “State Department Confers High Honor on South Pacific”
• Vintage Stage Excerpts Performed by Original Broadway Stars Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza
  • “Some Enchanted Evening”
  • “A Wonderful Guy”
• Mitzy Gaynor Screen Test (Newly remastered in HD)
• Original Theatrical Trailer

Region coding is TBC.