DVD Release 4th May 2009

I thinki it was made at a time when directors commentaries, outtakes, and filming of the filming were not much practiced

You really should look at a few more DVDs of classic old movies.

Commentary tracks done by film historians (or similar people; biographers etc.) are usually more interesting and informative than the ones done by the directors and stars for current / recent movies. They aren't doing extended marketing in the same way, and they don't have the same kinds of motives to whitewash things so as to avoid ticking off potential future employers or coworkers. They also tend to have a better perspective for pointing out what was truly unique / original / ground breaking in a given movie.

Retrospective "making of" documentaries (as opposed to those produced during filming), generally also containing discussions about the films place in movie history etc., similarly tend to have much less of a "marketing in disguise" feel and have more well rounded information. Sometimes they include archival interview footage from interviews done decades later ..... after the people involved have much less reason to make everything sound more perfect than it was. (Most of the time the still don't actively bad-mouth anybody. But they've gotten past that marketing feel-good stage of making their most recent director always sound like the greatest in the history of world cinema.)

You're right that out takes and bloopers generally do not survive for older movies. I don't miss them much.

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