Major Dundee (1965) Arrow Extended 1080p BluRay x265 HEVC AAC-SARTRE

TITLE...........: Major Dundee (1965)
STARS...........: Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton
DIRECTOR........: Sam Peckinpah
WRITERS.........: Harry Julian Fink, Oscar Saul, Sam Peckinpah
GENRE...........: Adventure, War, Western
IMDB............: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059418
RUNTIME.........: 2h 15mn
SIZE............: 8.45 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 8000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1920x820
ASPECT RATIO....: 2.35:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO1..........: English AAC 5.1 390kbps (new score by Christopher Caliendo)
AUDIO2..........: English FLAC 1.0 (original score by Daniele Amfitheatrof)
AUDIO3..........: Commentary with Nick Redman, P.Seydor, G.Simmons & D.Weddle
AUDIO4..........: Commentary with Glenn Erickson and Alan K. Rode
AUDIO5..........: Commentary by historian and critic Glenn Erickson
SUBTITLES.......: BUL,CZE,DUT,ENG,FIN,FRE,GER,GRE,HRV,HUN,ITA,NOR,POL,POR
SUBTITLES.......: RUM,SPA-LAT,SPA-CAS,SRP,SWE,TUR
SOURCE..........: Arrow Limited Edition Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2023-06-25
Sam Peckinpah's 1965 feature Major Dundee was recut and rescored for re-release theatrically in 2005, 40 years after its original release. The "Extended Version," as it is known officially, tells essentially the same story as the original but with clearer motivations for the characters and much greater effectiveness. Major Amos Charles Dundee (Charlton Heston) is a West Point graduate who somehow exceeded his orders while serving in the Battle of Gettysburg and, as punishment, has been put in charge of a Union prison in New Mexico. He then gets word that marauding Apaches under Sierra Charriba (Michael Pate) have raided an American settlement, slaughtering the troops who were pursuing them and kidnapping three young boys, whom they've taken to their lair south of the Rio Grande. Dundee assumes responsibility for destroying the raiders and rescuing the captives, but he's forced to recruit prisoners and other "gentlemen of the South," to fill out his ranks. The mission takes them deep into Mexico, where they free the children but now find themselves being stalked by the very Apaches that they were hunting, as well as having to fight off the French troops stationed there. Though based on fiction and shot under incredibly (indeed, legendarily) chaotic conditions, the movie ultimately proves to be a rousingly disturbing examination of what it means to be an American, and the meaning of American ideals. It takes the sacrifice and deaths of many to get to that point, but the movie -- in this version -- gets us there convincingly, if in decidedly grim and bittersweet fashion.
Extras

• Outtakes and Extended Scenes
• Passion & Poetry - Sam Peckinpah Anecdotes
• Passion & Poetry - The Dundee Odyssey
• Photo and Poster Galleries
• Vintage Featurette - Riding for a Fall
• Visual Essay by David Cairns
• Commentary with historians Nick Redman, Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons and David Weddle (2013)
• Commentary by historian and critics Glenn Erickson & Alan K. Rode (2020)
• Commentary by historian and critic Glenn Erickson (2019)
• Trailers