For those of you who have Region 1 DVD capabilities, Gosford Park is now available to buy and rent.

The DVD has a lot of extras, including snippets of deleted scenes and some of them with REG in them. It also includes The Making of Gosford Park and some cast filmographies. REG is one of the cast members talking about the filming but most of the commentary is by Robert Altman, as would probably be expected. Other cast members such as Helen Mirren and Ryan Philippe have more “air time” than REG, but at least he’s there!

There is also a feature that shows some of the scenes that were deleted in the final cut. There were a lot, and quite a few of the cut scenes would have helped explain some of the stuff that was left in. This is usually the case with cut scenes however. These excluded scenes can still be found intact in the Shooting Script though, so if you want to know what was and wasn’t included in the final film then you’ll just have to get the script and read it.

The film probably would have stretched to over 3 hours had all scenes been included and REG lost about three scenes of dialogue in the cut.

Thanks to Pat for the info.