According to DVDActive.com, Flower Drum Song will finally blossom on DVD.
The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, which is the only screen musical by the team not to have been available on DVD, will be released by Universal Home Video on November 7th. Universal has not yet released information on the disc's special features, although it will be presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen, along with an English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, and English, French and Spanish subtitles will be included.Flower Drum Song is set in San Franciso's Chinatown and concerns conflicts between a younger generation of Chinese-Americans and their more traditional first generation parents. Nightclub owner Sammy Fong's father has ordered him a demure "picture bride" from China--Mei Li--but Sammy is already interested in a saucy dancer named Linda Low.The 1961 film, directed by Henry Koster, stars Miyoshi Umeki (who starred in the Broadway version), Nancy Kwan, Jack Soo, Benson Fong, and Juanita Hall, among others. It features a screenplay by Joseph Fields, based on the libretto that he wrote with Oscar Hammerstein II (the score, of course, features lyrics by Hammerstein and music by Richard Rodgers). The film version received five Oscar nominations, including a nod for costume designer Irene Sharaff.Videos