Brand new factory sealed dvd of the original release featuring Richard Pryor on a gatefold card stock snapcase. These usually have the chapter stops and or movie stills printed on the inside cover.

This rare cover-art version is no longer being manufactured as indicated by a cut-out mark thru the upc code on the back done at the factory. They wanted to downplay the fact that this is a comedy in the series by going to a more generic photo-shopped cover that is being offered now.

The big news about SUPERMAN 3 is, of course, the prescence of Richard Pryor in the cast. The plot involves the usual scheme to control the Earth. The villain this time is Ross Webster (Robert Vaughn), a mad billionaire who wants to use satellites to control the Earth's crops and become even richer. Exploiting the formerly unemployable Pryor's new-found computer wizardy as he tries to play multinational monopoly with such commodities as coffee and oil.

Superman, meanwhile, has a couple of things on his mind. After Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) leaves to go on vacation, Clark goes home to his Smallville High School reunion, and has a love affair with Lana Lang (Anette O'Toole). Then Ross Webster launches a pre-emptive strike against Superman with a dose of synthetic kryptonite whose impurities turn him into a meanie, which is good for some laughs (as a practical joke, he straightens the Leaning Tower of Pisa, blows out the Olympic's torch flame just before it's lit, etc.).

For a while refusing to 'do that nice stuff anymore', and neglecting new love Lana Lang for the upfront charms of Lorelei (Pamela Stephenson), the tarnished hero eventually pulls himself together in a literal scene of split personality, fragmenting his physique and psyche into a slug-fest between Superman's baser instincts and Clark Kent's super-ego.

Then, Superman faces the microelectronic menace of his life in a man-against-machine combat in the end!