StudioCanal will release two classic Peter Sellers comedies on Blu-ray. They are: Two-Way Stretch (1960) and Heavens Above! (1963). The two releases are scheduled to arrive on the market on August 4.
Two-Way Stretch
Description: Starring the finest comic actor of his generation Peter Sellers (The Pink Panther), Two-Way Stretch is one of the funniest comedy crime capers of 1960s British Cinema. Also starring a supporting cast of comedy legends including Lionel Jeffries (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) and Bernard Cribbins (Crooks In Cloisters).
Constantly taking advantage of the prison governor's liberal methods towards authority, convict and criminal mastermind Dodger Lane (Sellers) decides to commit the ultimate crime with the ultimate alibi. Along with a misfit crew of fellow inmates he plans to escape from prison, steal a priceless cache of diamonds and then return to his cell before anyone notices. Who said genius was easy?
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW Peter Sellers: Criminally Good
NEW Two Way Stretch: Sellers on the Inside
Audio Commentary by Authors and Comedy Historians Gemma Ross and Robert Ross
Behind the Scenes stills gallery
Original Trailer
Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Heavens Above!
Description: The inimitable Peter Sellers stars as John Smallwood, an idealistic Reverend appointed to the parish of an upper-class village by mistake. With a bad habit of telling the truth at all times, Smallwood makes several clerical decisions that shock his wealthy, landed-gentry parishioners.
Inspired by an idea by British satirist Malcolm Muggeridge, the Boulting brothers' Heavens Above! was considered a bit too sacrilegious for general consumption on its 1963 release. Way ahead of its time, the film, featuring Sellers at his most iconoclastic, has since accrued a loyal and vocal following. A superb supporting cast includes Eric Sykes, Irene Handl, William Hartnel and Joan Hickson.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW Sellers Takes Off in Heavens Above!
NEW Heavens Above! - A Q&A with Daily Mash's Tom Whitley, Eva Griffith and Benedict Morrison
NEW Heavens Above! The Mask Behind the Mask
Audio Commentary by Authors and Comedy Historians Gemma Ross and Robert Ross
Lobby Cards gallery
Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
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