Superman III [videorecording] / Alexander Salkind presents an Alexander and Ilya Salkind production ; produced by Pierre Spengler ; screenplay by David and Leslie Newman ; directed by Richard Lester.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 119176 | Warner Home Video86852 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English, French Original language: English Publication details: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2006]Edition: Deluxe edDescription: 1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 1419841556
- 9781419841552
- Superman 3
- Superman three
- Superman III (Motion picture).
- Music, Ken Thorne ; original songs, Giorgio Moroder ; editor, John Victor Smith ; director of photography, Robert Paynter.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In a major departure from the tone of the preceding two Superman adventure films, this mix of vile deeds and fantasy heroics drops the "S" out of cosmic and goes for comic instead. Right at the starting gate, Gus Gorman (Richard Pryor) and a subsequent slapstick sequence upstage (Christopher Reeves again), who later develops an identity crisis. Gorman, newly trained as a computer whiz, starts working for a conglomerate run by the corporate nemesis Ross Webster (Robert Vaughn), intent on world domination. Gorman is sent to Superman's small town of Smallville to wipe out Columbia's coffee crop by fiddling with the computer side of a weather satellite. Clark Kent is in town for his class reunion, leading Superman to clash with Gorman, which in turn, leads Gorman to develop a hybrid red Kryptonite. Unwittingly, since Gorman's wits are always in doubt, the Red Kryptonite causes Superman to split into a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde schizophrenia -- but in two separate bodies. As the evil Superman swaggers around town, megalomaniac Ross Webster has other tricks in mind -- and in one of the more memorable action scenes (interspersed with a video game sequence), Superman is chased through the Grand Canyon by a fast-flying, very determined missile. Lana Lang (Annette O'Toole) is on hand for romantic interest (Margot Kidder only appears briefly -- she was growing tired of Lois Lane). ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
Originally released as a motion picture in 1983.
Special features: Commentary by executive producer Ilya Salkind and producer Pierre Spengler; vintage TV special "The making of 'Superman III'"; additional scenes; theatrical trailer.
Superman created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster.
Music, Ken Thorne ; original songs, Giorgio Moroder ; editor, John Victor Smith ; director of photography, Robert Paynter.
Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Annette O'Toole, Annie Ross, Pamela Stephenson, Robert Vaugh, Margot Kidder.
Meet Gus Gorman, a naïve computer programming natural. For Gus, a keyboard is a weapon - and, as a result Superman faces the microelectronic menace of his life. Superman's human side comes out as he sees Lana Lang at his Smallville High School class reunion. Superman becomes his own worst enemy after a Kryptonite exposure.
Canadian home video rating: PG.
MPAA rating: PG.
DVD, region 1, widescreen (letterbox, enhanced) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo., surround, dual-layer.
English (Dolby surround stereo.) or French (Dolby surround stereo.) dialogue, English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.