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Brando buffs or fans of True Hollywood Stories will get that sinking feeling if they're hoping for dish on this famously troubled production. Not that this two-disc \"Special Edition\" doesn't have a bounty of extras, but most concern the ship that was constructed for the film. \"Tour of the Bounty\" is a black-and-white newsreel that follows the meticulously re-created craft on its promotional voyages (\"Excitement grips the city,\" the narrator intones). A color short finds the Bounty at the \"1964 New York World's Fair.\" \"Story of the HMS Bounty,\" in black and white, is a detailed look at how the ship was recreated \"from the keel up\" with its creators and crew. The newly filmed where-is-it-now featurette, \"After the Cameras Stopped Rolling: The Journey of the Bounty,\" covers much the same ground. This set also unearths the film's original prologue and epilogue, in which discovered sole survivor William Brown relates the tragic saga of the Bounty. This framing device was excised before the film premiered, but was restored for the film's 1967 television broadcast, and has not been seen since. --Donald Liebenson
