The pride of the Yankees Cobb
(DVD) 

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Pride of the Yankees originally released as a motion picture in 1946, Cobb in 1994.

Pride of the Yankees special features: Six featurettes: The making of The pride of the Yankees; The man behind the iron horse; What he left behind; Always: the story behind the song; Lou Gehrig's disease: the search for a cure; Curt Schilling: a legend on a legend.

Cobb special features: Commentary by Ron Shelton [optional audio feature]; Commentary by Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Wuhl [optional audio feature]; Additional scenes (8 min.); The real Al Stump [featurette] (2 min.); On the field with Roger Clemens [featurette] (3 min.); Theatrical trailer (3 min.).

Pride of the Yankees: director, Sam Wood ; producer, Samuel Goldwyn ; written by Jo Swerling and Herman J. Mankiewicz; original story by Paul Gallico.

Cobb: Director of photography, Russell Boyd ; edited by Paul Seydor, Kimberly Ray ; music composed by Elliot Goldenthal ; production designers, Armin Ganz, Scott T. Ritenour.

Pride of the Yankees: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Walter Brennan, Babe Ruth, Dan Duryea, Bill Dickey, Bob Meusel, Bill Stern.

Cobb: Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Wuhl, Lolita Davidovich, Lou Myers, Bradley Whitford, Stephen Mendillo, Eloy Casados, William Utay, J. Kenneth Campbell, Tommy Bush.

Pride of the Yankees: The moving, true story of New York Yankee immortal Lou Gehrig, the southpaw slugger who rose to the very top of the sport, only to be cut down at the peak of his career by an incurable illness.

Cobb: Set in 1960, "Cobb," is a series of duets between two men. Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb and Al Stump. "The Georgia Peach," while perhaps the greatest baseball player who ever lived, was also a racist, a wife-beater, and probably a killer. Stump was a sportswriter with the job of a lifetime--a biography with full access to the principal. Cobb envisions the book as his way of controlling how history sees him, a piece of self-serving, glorifying hogwash. Stump wants the real story, which Cobb (who's wrangled editorial approval) insists Stump cannot include. Stump writes the book Cobb wants, while secretly making notes for his own unvarnished biography. Stump published his version in 1994, and in keeping with its conclusions, the film dares to voice a truth most people regard as unwelcome: Sometimes greatness has nothing to do with goodness.

Pride of the Yankees MPAA rating: Not rated.

Cobb MPAA rating: R.

DVD; region 1; dual-layer format; full screen (The pride of the Yankees) and widescreen (Cobb); mono. (The pride of the Yankees), Dolby Digital (Cobb).

Pride of the Yankees: English dialogue; English and French subtitles.

Cobb: English dialogue; English, French, and Spanish subtitles.