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Superman: The Movie
4K UHD Disc
- Audio Commentary is the same one from days of yore, as mentioned below.
1080 Disc
- Audio Commentary: Recorded during separate sessions, executive producer Ilya Salkind and producer Pierre Spengler. The commentary is all business -- budgets, profits, publicity, power players, key decisions, successes, failures, broken records, legacies, career-defining moments, production disagreements, industry anecdotes, releases dates and the like.
- The Making of Superman: The Movie (SD, 52 minutes): A series of candid interviews (with Christopher Reeve and other cast and crew members) and behind-the-scenes footage in this 1978 TV special.
- Superman and the Mole-Men (SD, 58 minutes): 1951 theatrical feature film starring George Reeves as Clark Kent, Phyllis Coates as Lois Lane and Jeff Corey as Luke Benson, a short-sighted man who incites an angry mob into attacking a race of creatures who emerge from the mouth of an oil well. The film preceded the 1952 Adventures of Superman television series and introduced the world to Reeves' Superman.
- Cartoons (SD, 19 minutes): Three vintage Warner Bros. cartoons are available as well: "Super Rabbit" (1943) starring Bugs Bunny, "Snafuperman" (1944) and Stupor Duck (1956) featuring Daffy Duck.
- TV Spots & Trailers (SD, 4 minutes): A teaser trailer, a theatrical preview and a TV spot round out the first disc's special features.
Superman II
4K UHD Disc
- Audio Commentary is the same one from days of yore, as mentioned below.
1080 Disc
- Audio Commentary: Executive producer Ilya Salkind and producer Pierre Spengler details Superman II's troubled production, the differences between director Donner's original intentions and director Richard Lester's eventual film, and the producers' highly publicized split with Donner. Salkind and Spengler dissect the film's shoot, edit, release and critical reaction.
- The Making of Superman II (SD, 52 minutes): Like the television special featured on Disc 1, "The Making of Superman II" (1980). Interviews and behind-the-scenes footage
- Superman's Soufflé Deleted Scene (SD, 1 minute): Lois teaches Superman to make a soufflé in the Fortress of Solitude.
- First Flight: The Fleischer Superman Series (SD, 13 minutes): "It was an adventure script. Comedy was what cartoons did. No one had ever done a serious cartoon." Richard Fleischer (son of Max Fleischer), cartoon historian Jerry Beck and others discuss Max Fleischer's animated Superman series.
- Fleischer Studios' Superman (SD, 79 minutes): Nine Max Fleischer Superman cartoons are available in Technicolor (albeit in standard definition): "Superman," "The Mechanical Monsters," "Billion Dollar Limited," "The Arctic Giant," "The Bulleteers," "The Magnetic Telescope," "Electric Earthquake," "Volcano" and "Terror on the Midway."
- Original Theatrical Trailer (SD, 2 minutes)
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
4K UHD Disc
- Introduction by Richard Donner (HD; 1:54)
- Audio Commentary is the same one from days of yore, as mentioned below.
1080 Disc
- Audio Commentary: Director Richard Donner and creative consultant Tom Mankiewicz.
- Introduction by Richard Donner (SD, 2 minutes): Donner appears in an introduction to the film, touching on the work that went into restoring his cut of Superman II.
- Superman II: Restoring the Vision (SD, 13 minutes): A more in-depth look at the lengths to which Donner and his team went to reconstruct The Richard Donner Cut, as well as the challenges they faced along the way.
- Deleted Scenes (SD, 9 minutes): Six wisely trimmed deleted scenes are included: "Lex and Ms. Teschmacher Head North," "Lex and Ms. Teschmacher Head South," "The Villains Enter the Fortress," "He's All Yours Boys," "Clark and Jimmy" and "Lex's Getaway."
- Famous Studios' Superman Cartoons: (SD, 68 minutes): Six Famous Studio Superman cartoons round out the package: "Japoteurs," "Showdown," "Eleventh Hour," "Destruction Inc," "The Mummy Strikes," "Jungle Drums," "The Underground World" and "Secret Agent."
Superman III
4K UHD Disc
- Audio Commentary is the same one from days of yore, as mentioned below.
1080 Disc
- Audio Commentary: Executive producer Iilya Salkind and producer Pierre Spengler. They address the criticism the film has received, talk about the shift in tone and Richard Pryor's casting, Clark's return to Smallville, casting new villains, dealing with Hackman's absence and Kidder's reduced role, dealing with Superman's dark side and other aspects of the production.
- The Making of Superman III (SD, 49 minutes): A television special; this one from 1983. Once again, the cameras push far enough behind the scenes justify the special's inclusion and fly-on-the-wall footage of the cast and crew.
- Deleted Scenes (SD, 20 minutes): Eleven deleted scenes are included -- "Save My Baby," "To the Rescue," "Making Up," "Going to See the Boss," "Hatching the Plan," "The Con," "Rooftop Ski Resort," "Boss Wants This to Go," "Superman Honored," "Gus' Speech" and "Hanging Up on Brad" -- some of which, I have to say, are truly awful.
- Theatrical Trailer (SD, 3 minutes)
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
4K UHD Disc
- Audio Commentary is the same one from days of yore, as mentioned below.
1080 Disc
- Audio Commentary: Screenwriter Mark Rosenthal provides a thoughtful dissection of Quest for Peace, hitting on its themes, allegory, characters, dialogue, action, romance and drama, as well as the drastic cuts made to the film before its release, the filmmaker's dealings with the franchise's new producers, and Reeve and Hackman's return as the series' iconic hero and villain.
- Superman 50th Anniversary Special: Actor Dana Carvey... ahem, "Dana Carvey: Chief Historian, Junior Supermen of America" hosts this 50th Anniversary television special originally broadcast in 1988. From George Reeves to Max Fleischer to Christopher Reeve, Carvey charts the history of Superman on screen.
- Deleted Scenes (SD, 31 minutes): Fifteen deleted scenes are included -- "Clark's Morning," "Jeremy's Letter," "Superman's Visit," "Nuclear Man's Prototype," "Metropolis After Hours," "Lex Ponders," "Extended Flying Sequence," "Battle in Smallville," "Battle in the USSR," "Nuclear Arms Race," "Superman's Sickness," "Red Alert," "By My Side," "Clark and Lacy Say Goodbye" and "No Borders"
- Theatrical Trailer (SD, 2 minutes)
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