"THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN" BLU-RAY EDITION

The Blu-ray edition of The Magic Christian was released by Olive Films with a nice AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 1.78:1 and a lossless DTS-HD Master Audio Mono track.

This 1969 British comedy looks today like a bridge between then-contemporaneous but overlapping styles of comedy, from Terry Southern satire to Goon Show silliness to Monty Python surrealism. Peter Sellers stars as the world's wealthiest man, who sets out with a young ally (Ringo Starr) to demonstrate that people, most especially rich people, will do anything for money. The film is more a series of sketches than an actual story, and some of those get pretty nasty, particularly when a bunch of aristrocrats start feeding from a vat of blood and manure. But in general this is a pretty funny film, and it's great to see a lot of famous and soon-to-be-famous faces on the same screen. Written by Southern, Joseph McGrath (who also directed), Sellers, and Python's John Cleese and Graham Chapman.

Product Details

• Actors: Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Raquel Welch, Laurence Harvey, Christopher Lee
• Directors: Joseph McGrath
• Writers: Terry Southern
• Format: Blu-ray, NTSC, Widescreen, Anamorphic, Color
• Language: English
• Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Olive Films
• DVD Release Date:2013
• Run Time: 92 minutes