The Phantom of the Open - BluRay [Blu-ray]

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN follows Maurice Flitcroft (Mark Rylance), a dreamer and unrelenting optimist who managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship Qualifying in 1976 and subsequently shot the worst round in Open history, becoming a folk hero in the process.

When it turned out that presidential candidate T.K. Blair (George M. Cohan) had all the charisma of day-old bread, the party leaders were in a panic... until they stumbled upon affable carny-and exact lookalike-Doc Varney (Cohan, again). Their scheme to make Doc the campaign's public face even manages to fool Blair's lady (Claudette Colbert)... but can it last till the polls open? Jimmy Durante, George Barbier, Sidney Toler co-star; Rodgers-Hart score includes InchThe Country Needs a Man,Inch InchThe Medicine Show.Inch 78 min. Standard; Soundtrack English DTS HD mono Master Audio; Subtitles English (SDH).

Flicker Alley, in partnership with the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation is proud to present, F.W. Murnau's Phantom. Phantom marked a major turning point in the influential career and the groundbreaking style of cinema poet F.W. Murnau. In this beautifully reconstructed and restored edition from an amazingly detailed, original 1922 negative, Alfred Abel (Metropolis, Dr. Mabuse) plays Lorenz Lubota, a man obsessed with his own desires to achieve fame and wealth, who must confront the barriers of class keeping him from a woman (Lya de Putti) with whom he has had a fateful encounter. Featuring a magnificent orchestral score by Robert Israel, this powerfully expressive and surprisingly insightful film is a triumph of German Weimar cinema and a wonderful collaboration of many of it's most skilled artisans and recognizable performers. Through dazzling visuals and memorable characters, Phantom paints a portrait of the corrupting influence of money, the conformity of societal norms, and the redemptive power of family. Phantom was restored by L'Immagine Ritrovata, Bologna.