Both Witches and Apple Gang DVDs Official Press Releases

[MickeyMouseboy]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEW-TO-DISNEY DVD FOR THE FIRST TIME ON SEPTEMBER 2

Walt Disney Pictures Presents

Escape To Witch Mountain
Return From Witch Mountain
The Apple Dumpling Gang

Classic Family Fun, Brimming With Bonus Features

BURBANK, Calif., August 18, 2003 – Three of the best-loved family film classics come to Disney DVD for the first time ever as ESCAPE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN, RETURN FROM WITCH MOUNTAIN and THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG make their DVD debuts from Walt Disney Home Entertainment. Each film has been lovingly restored, with 5.1 Dolby® Digital Surround Sound for the finest viewing experience in the pristine DVD format.
These must-have movies are accompanied by a bonanza of bonus features for hours of enjoyment. Included are audio commentaries with actors and filmmakers, Lost Treasure behind-the-scenes featurettes, classic animated Disney shorts, Disney Studio Albums and more (see attached for details).
ESCAPE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN, RETURN FROM WITCH MOUNTAIN and THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG are each priced to own at $24.99 (S.R.P.). Available September 2.

ESCAPE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN

13 year old Tony Malone (Iake Eisenmann, “Tom & Huck”) and his 11-year old sister Tia (Kim Richards), orphaned by the loss of their foster parents, live in a children’s home. Their incredible psychic powers attract rich and powerful Aristotle Bolt (film legend Ray Milland), who adopts them in order to exploit them. Running away, the children are pursued by their captors and the police. They discover that they are actually castaways from another planet, who must find the safe haven of Witch Mountain.
With Eddie Albert (TV’s “Green Acres”) and Donald Pleasence (“Fantastic Voyage”).

Bonus material:

• Audio Commentary with Director John Hough, and actors Kim Richard and Iake Eisenmann
• “Making The Escape”
• Classic Disney Cartoon: “Pluto’s Dream House”
• Lost Treasure: “Disney Effects, Something Special” Featurette
• “Disney Sci-Fi”
• 1975 Disney Studio Album
Rated: “G.” Bonus material unrated
Feature Running Time: Approximately 97 minutes
DVD Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1, formatted for 16x9 screens
Sound: Dolby® Digital 5.1 Surround Sound


RETURN FROM WITCH MOUNTAIN

In this exciting sequel to “Escape To Witch Mountain,” automobiles mysteriously fly and humans float in thin air as sinister masterminds Christopher Lee (“Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers,” “Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones”) and screen legend Bette Davis unleash a diabolical plan. The entire city of Los Angeles teeters on the brink of nuclear disaster when the greedy criminals manipulate Tony’s (Iake Eisenmann) supernatural powers for their own devious gain. But the youth’s sister Tia (Kim Richards) and a streetwise band of truants join forces in a desperate attempt to save the city from destruction.

Bonus material:

• Audio Commentary with Director John Hough, and actors Kim Richards and Iake Eisenmann
• “Making The Return Trip”
• Lost Treasure: “Christopher Lee, The Lost Interview”
• Classic Disney Cartoon: “The Eyes Have It”
• “The Gang’s Back In Town”
• “Disney Kids With Powers”
• 1978 Disney studio Album
Rated: “G.” Bonus material unrated.
Feature Run Time: Approximately 94 minutes
DVD Aspect Ratio: 1.75:1, formatted for 16x9 screens
Sound: Dolby® Digital 5.1 Surround Sound


THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG

Comedy legends Don Knotts (“Pleasantville,” Disney’s “The Haunted Mansion”) and Tim Conway (TV’s “The Tim Conway Show,” TV’s “The Carol Burnett Show”) team up as comical desperados in a hysterical old west comedy. When a huge gold nugget is discovered in Quake City, the race for the gold is on, with the bumbling “Hash Knife Outfit” providing the loudest laughs in the west.
With Susan Clark, Brad Savage, Bill Bixby, David Wayne, Slim Pickens, Harry Morgan.

Bonus material:

• Audio commentary with Susan Clark, Tim Conway, Don Knotts and Brad Savage
• “A Look Back With The Gang”
• “Disney’s Rootin’ Tootin’ Cowboy Heroes” – old cartoons beginning with “The Catcus Kid,” 1930
• Classic Disney Cartoon – “Two Gun Goofy”
• Lost Treasures: “The Disney Back Lot”
• Gallery – Production stills, biographies, advertising archives
• Conversations with Tim Conway
• 1975 Disney Studio Album
Rated: “G” Bonus material not rated.
Feature Run Time: Approximately 100 minutes
DVD Aspect Ratio: 1.75:1, formatted for 16x9 screens
Sound: Dolby® Digital 5.1 Surround Sound


Walt Disney Home Entertainment is distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc., a recognized industry leader. Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. is the marketing, sales and distribution company for Walt Disney, Touchstone, Hollywood Pictures, Miramax, Dimension and Buena Vista videocassettes and DVDs.
© Buena Vista Home Entertainment
These press materials are available in electronic form at www.BVHEpublicity.com
National press questions: Rick Rhoades 818-560-3272
Regional press questions: Michelle Medeiros 818-560-1777
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[TheMadHatter]

...Comedy legends Don Knotts (“Pleasantville,” Disney’s “The Haunted Mansion”)...

I thought Don Knotts decided against doing the role of "The Caretaker"?

Has things changed?

[Loomis]

They certainly sound like good sets.
Something I will have to check out in a few years when I've saved enough for everything I want to get (Check out the wishlist thread for Q4 in Off Topic!).

[MPeriolat]

Gee, like Disney needed to do anything to sell me on these. Even if they're not two disc sets, they're so crammed with goodies that I can get a lot of mileage out them.

Shame the WS version of Absent Minded Professor isn't going to be as loaded, but ah well.

[Captain Hook]

Gee, like Disney needed to do anything to sell me on these. Even if they're not two disc sets, they're so crammed with goodies that I can get a lot of mileage out them.

Shame the WS version of Absent Minded Professor isn't going to be as loaded, but ah well.

Oh well, they do look like they'll be crammed at any rate. I still want 2 disc though!