Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has detailed its upcoming Blu-ray release of director F.W. Murnau's legendary film
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), starring George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, and Margaret Livingston. The release will be available for purchase online and in stores across the nation on January 14th.
German Expressionist, F.W. Murnau's film won Academy Awards for Best Actress and Best Cinematography and remains a critically acclaimed piece of silent cinema. George O'Brien plays the young farmer who falls for The Woman From the City (Margaret Livingstone) and agrees to murder his Wife (Janet Gaynor) by drowning her. He is unable to fulfil his plan though, and is reconciled with his Wife. Together they embark on a celebratory adventure in the city (one of the most celebrated montage sequences ever filmed), but on their way home The Wife is lost overboard in a storm and believed drowned. The Woman from the City arrives to claim The Man, believing he has committed murder for her; but word arrives that his Wife has been saved and he rushes to her side.
Special Features:
- Original Fox Movietone Score (DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0)
- Olympia Chamber Orchestra Score Composed and Conducted by Timothy Brock (Dolby Digital 2.0)
- Original Fox Movietone Version and European Silent Version
- Commentary by ASC Cinematographer John Bailey
- Outtakes with Commentary by John Bailey
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Original Scenario by Carl Mayer with Annotations by F.W. Murnau
- Original Sunrise Screenplay
- Restoration Notes