The Prisoner Blu-ray Edition DVD
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- Format: Blu-Ray
- Rating: Not Rated
- Number of Discs: 5
- Run Time: 884 Minutes
- Aspect Ratio: Fullscreen
- Studio: A&E Video
- Blu-Ray Release Date: October 27, 2009
- Subtitles: English
- Audio: ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1
- Cast: Patrick McGoohangelo Muscat, Peter Swanwick, Leo McKern, Kenneth Griffin
- Genre: TV Series
- Color: Color
- Includes:
Don't Knock Yourself Out: Feature-Length Documentary
Two Brand New Featurettes:
- The Pink Prisoner
- You Make Sure It Fits!
Promo For AMC's The Prisoner Miniseries
Newly Restored Original Edit Of Arrival With Optional Music-Only Soundtrack
Original Edit Of The Chimes Of Big Ben Episode
Production Crew Audio Commentaries On Seven Episodes
Trailers For All Episodes
Archive Textless Material, Including Title Sequences
Commercial Break Bumpers
Image Archive With Over 1200 Stills
Production Paperwork Archive, Featuring Scripts, Call Sheets, and Press Releases - Release Date: 1967
- If a top-level spy decided he didn't want to be a spy anymore, could he just walk into HQ and hand in his resignation? With all that classified knowledge in his head, would he be allowed to become a civilian again, free to go about his life? The answer, according to the stylish, brilliantly conceived 1960s British TV series The Prisoner, is a resounding no. In fact, instead of receiving a gold watch for his years of faithful service, our hero (played by Patrick McGoohan) is followed home to his London flat and knocked unconscious. When he awakens, he finds himself in a picturesque village where everyone is known by a number. Where is it? Why was he brought here? And, most important, how does he leave?
As we learn in Episode 1, Number 6 can't leave. The Village's "citizens" might dress colorfully and stroll around its manicured gardens while a band plays bouncy Strauss marches, but the place is actually a prison. Surveillance is near total, and if all else fails, there's always the large, mysterious white ball that subdues potential escapees by temporarily smothering them. Who runs the Village? An ever-changing Number 2, who wants to know why Number 6 resigned. If he'd only cooperate, he's told, life can be made very pleasant. "I've resigned," he fumes. "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." So sets the stage for the ultimate battle of wills: Number 6's struggle to retain his privacy, sanity, and individuality against the array of psychological and physical methods the Village uses to break him.
So does he ever escape? And does he ever find out who Number 1 is? "Questions are a burden to others," the Village saying goes. "Answers, a prison for oneself." Within this complete 17-episode set, all is revealed. Or is it? --Steve Landau
