Universal Studios Home Entertainment will release on Blu-ray Douglas Trumbull's cult sfi-fi film
Silent Running (1972), starring Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, and Ron Rifkin, and Robert Parrish's
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969), starring Roy Thinnes, Ian Hendry, and Patrick Wymark. The two releases will be available for purchase on April 7.
Silent Running
Botanist Freeman Lowell (Dern) has spent eight years aboard the space freighter Valley Forge preserving the only botanical specimens left from Earth under huge geodesic domes. When he receives orders to destroy the project and return home, Lowell rebels and hijacks the freighter, while plunging the craft into the gaseous rings of Saturn. From that moment on, he has only the trees, the gardens and two "Drone" robots, Huey and Dewey, to keep him company on his greatest adventure of all.
Special Features:
- The Making of Silent Running
- Silent Running by Douglas Trumbull
- A Conversation with Bruce Dern
- Douglas Trumbull: Then and Now
- Theatrical Trailer
- Optional Feature Commentary with Director Douglas Trumbull and Star Bruce Dern
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun
A planet is discovered in the same orbit as Earth's but is located on the exact opposite side of the sun, making it not visible from Earth. The European Space Exploration Council decide to send American astronaut Glenn Ross and British scientist John Kane via spaceship to explore the other planet. After a disastrous crash-landing Ross awakes to learn that Kane lies near death and that they apparently have returned to Earth, as evidenced by the presence of the Council director and his staff. Released to the custody of his wife, he soon learns things are not as they seem.