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THE WORLDWIDE UHD PREMIERE 2-DISC COLLECTION WITH 6+ HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDING THE FIRST-EVER HOME VIDEO PARTICIPATION OF MICHAEL MOORCOCK For more than 50 years, it’s been called “endlessly inventive” (The Guardian), “audaciously bonkers” (Frame Rated) and “unlike any movie you’ve ever seen” (B&S About Movies). Now experience the “weird gem that needs to be celebrated” (Mondo Bizarro) in UHD for the first time ever: In this premier adaptation of a Michael Moorcock novel, writer/director/production designer Robert Fuest (THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES, THE DEVIL’S RAIN) unleashes Moorcock’s lethal dandy genius Jerry Cornelius (Jon Finch of Hitchcock’s FRENZY and Polanski’s MACBETH) into a mind-melting conspiracy of mad scientists, pinball nuns and immortal ambisexuals bent on world domination. Jenny Runacre (THE PASSENGER), Sterling Hayden (THE KILLING) and Harry Andrews (THE NIGHTCOMERS) co-star in this “stylish acid comedy” (Boston Phoenix) – also known as LAST DAYS OF MAN ON EARTH – now scanned in 4K from the original camera negative by StudioCanal, with 6+ hours of Special Features that include audio commentaries, video essays and a revealing new on-camera interview with Michael Moorcock. Special Features for THE FINAL PROGRAMME: UHD: Audio Commentary With Andrew Nette, Co-Editor Of Dangerous Visions And New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 To 1985 Archival Audio Commentary With Director Robert Fuest And Actress Jenny Runacre, Moderated By Author/Film Historian Jonathan Sothcott Trailer Blu-ray: Audio Commentary With Andrew Nette, Co-Editor Of Dangerous Visions And New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 To 1985 Archival Audio Commentary With Director Robert Fuest And Actress Jenny Runacre, Moderated By Author/Film Historian Jonathan Sothcott A Brighter Apocalypse – Michael Moorcock On Jerry Cornelius And The Final Programme Performance Independent – Interview With Producer Sanford Lieberson From Pythons To Programmes – A Conversation With Producer John Goldstone Programmer Of Immortality – Jenny Runacre In Conversation With Kier-La Janisse, Author Of House Of Psychotic Women Dark Moons And New Worlds – Interview With James Riley, Author Of The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds And The End Of The Sixties Androgynous Android – Video Essay By Costume Historian Elissa Rose Archival Interview With Jenny Runacre A Feast Of Fuest With Kim Newman, Author Of Nightmare Movies Italian Title Sequence Trailer TV Spot Feature Specs for THE FINAL PROGRAMME: Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Runtime: 90 mins Audio: English Mono Closed Captions: English SDH Region: UHD: A/B/C, Blu-ray: A Wrap Artwork By Jacob Rolfe Rigid Slipcase Featuring Mal Dean’s Artwork From The Book’s UK First Edition Hardcover Limited To 3000 Units
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The Final Programme (1973)
89 min
Returning from Lapland, where he buried his father, a renowned scientist, Jerry Cornelius comes back to London with the firm intention of taking revenge on his brother Frank and snatching his beloved sister Catherine from his clutches. Since the recent gigantic global conflagration, things have changed considerably. If he wanted to, Jerry could easily get hold of napalm to blow up Frank's hideout. But he prefers to join forces with the disturbing Mrs Brunner, who, with the help of three scientists, Smiles, Lucas and Powys, is trying to recover a mysterious microfilm left to Frank by his father...

The Final Programme (1973)
89 min
Returning from Lapland, where he buried his father, a renowned scientist, Jerry Cornelius comes back to London with the firm intention of taking revenge on his brother Frank and snatching his beloved sister Catherine from his clutches. Since the recent gigantic global conflagration, things have changed considerably. If he wanted to, Jerry could easily get hold of napalm to blow up Frank's hideout. But he prefers to join forces with the disturbing Mrs Brunner, who, with the help of three scientists, Smiles, Lucas and Powys, is trying to recover a mysterious microfilm left to Frank by his father...