Warner Archive will release on Blu-ray Herbert Ross's film
The Sunshine Boys (1975), starring Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin, Lee Meredith, and Rosetta LeNoire. The release will be available for purchase this summer.
A showbiz partner often thinks his sidekick is a pain in the neck. Lewis and Clark have lower anatomical opinions of each other.
In writer Neil Simon's warm stage-to-screen adaptation, Walter Matthau and George Burns play feuding vaudevillians reteaming for a TV special - if they survive rehearsals. Matthau earned a 1975 Best Actor Golden Globe Award and Oscar nomination for his cantankerous Willy Clark. And as hilariously deadpan Al Lewis, George Burns turned his first on-camera film role in 36 years into a Best Supporting Actor Oscar-winning performance and a relaunch of his movie career. Also the winner of Golden Globes for Best Comedy/Musical and for Best Supporting Actor Richard Benjamin, The Sunshine Boys is comic perfection from masters of the art.
Special Features:
- Full-length feature commentary by Richard Benjamin
- Make-up tests (silent) with Walter Matthau and Jack Benny (originally intended co-star) (SD)
- Phil Silbers screen test (SD)
- The Lion Roars Again 1975 MGM promotional film featuring sequence with cast members of The Sunshine Boys (SD)
- Original Theatrical Trailer
Technical Specs:
- BD-50
- 1080p/1.78:1
- Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 (Mono)
- Subtitles: English SDH