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MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Suitable for Children, Adult Language Movie Release: 1976 DVD Release: 07/16/2002 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Edition: Restored/Remastered,Special Collection Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 28 mins Studio: Paramount Members Wishing: 7 Genres: Action, Comedy, Disaster Film, Parody/Spoof, Ensemble Film

The Big Bus is set aboard a nonstop, nuclear-powered luxury bus commandeered by Joseph Bologna. Naturally, Bologna is a tortured hero with a deep dark secret (he keeps insisting he didn't eat all those passengers on his last disastrous drive). Stockard Channing and Harold Gould play the designers of the big bus, and of course they have a few skeletons in their closet. In fact, there isn't a passenger on the all-star manifest that isn't hiding something. The supporting cast features contributions by René Auberjonois (parodying his M*A*S*H role), Ned Beatty, José Ferrer, Ruth Gordon (doing a devastating send-up of Airport's Helen Hayes), Sally Kellerman, Richard Mulligan, and many others; Murphy Dunne contributes a memorable bit as a smarmy cocktail pianist. Unfortunately, The Big Bus was dumped onto the summer 1976 release schedule without fanfare by Paramount, and it sank without a trace. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Joseph Bologna - Dan Torrance
Stockard Channing - Kitty Baxter
John Beck - Shoulders O'Brien
René Auberjonois - Father Kudos
Ned Beatty - Shorty Scotty

Before Airplane!, James Frawley's The Big Bus spoofed the disaster genre. The Big Bus comes to DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. Closed-captioned English soundtracks are rendered in both Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby Digital Mono, while a French soundtrack has also been recorded in Dolby Digital Mono. English subtitles are accessible. There are no supplemental materials of any consequence, but Paramount deserves credit for making this older film look and sound as good as it does on this disc. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide