Bootstrap Bill (Stellan Skarsgard), left, joins Capt. Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) in "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest." Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) and Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) in "Miami Vice."

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The big screen scene: No prizes for guessing today's top release. After all, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" (Disney) plundered more than a billion dollars at the box office worldwide as Capt. Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) reunite for jolly (roger) good fun.

Battling "Pirates" for DVD dominance (good luck, guys) is "Miami Vice" (Universal). Director Michael Mann's update of his trend-setting '80s cop show stars Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx as cops Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs, who go undercover to bust international traffickers.

And the hip-hop musical "Idlewild" (also from Universal) stars OutKast's André Benjamin and Antwan A. Patton as opposite-sides-of-the-tracks pals who get mixed up with gangsters while entertaining at a raucous '30s speakeasy.

Elsewhere on the recent-release front, brothers recruit their college drinking buddies for a German "Beerfest" (Warner), while in "Pulse" (Weinstein/Genius), phantoms try to suck the life out of "Veronica Mars' " Kristen Bell and her teen pals. And an 11-year-old squares off against a schoolyard bully in "How to Eat Fried Worms" (New Line).

Critic's choice: Classics from great directors make at-long-last DVD debuts, led by "The Conformist" (Paramount), director Bernardo Bertolucci's visually resplendent 1971 breakthrough about an ambitious professor (Jean Louis Trintignant) in '30s Italy, whose climb up the fascist ladder includes an assignment to kill his university mentor.

"The Premiere Frank Capra Collection" (Sony), meanwhile, includes the DVD debut of the director's 1932 Depression drama "American Madness," along with previously issued Oscar-winners "It Happened One Night" (1934), "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" (1936), "You Can't Take It With You" (1938) and "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939), plus the documentary "Frank Capra's American Dream."

Capra's contemporary George Cukor directs the dream team of Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in "Holiday" (Sony), a 1938 charmer based on another play by "Philadelphia Story" author Philip Barry.

And the racy "TCM Archives: Forbidden Hollywood Collection" (Warner) features Jean Harlow as a gold-digging "Red-Headed Woman" (1932) and Barbara Stanwyck as a scheming "Baby Face" (1933).

Flashing forward to new movies that never played local theaters, Parker Posey, Paul Rudd and Danny DeVito headline the saucy comedy "The OH in Ohio" (HBO). And, direct from June's CineVegas film festival, "Lies and Alibis" (Sony) casts Steve Coogan as a reformed con man who covers for cheating spouses -- and winds up embroiled in comedic intrigue. Rebecca Romijn, James Marsden, James Brolin, John Leguizamo and Sam Elliott co-star.

Hot docs: Death Valley Junction's Marta Becket, inspires "Amargosa" (Cinequest), an Emmy-winning portrait of the artist and dancer's odyssey from New York to the isolated Amargosa Opera House.

"The Beales of Grey Gardens" (Criterion), meanwhile, revisits the eccentric mother and daughter sharing a decrepit Long Island mansion who inspired the 1975 cinema verité classic "Grey Gardens" (also from Criterion).

"Pucker Up" (Homevision), by contrast, explores the world of competitive whistling, while PBS' "Independent Lens" profiles a late, great editorial cartoonist in "Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire" (PBS).

And "The Walt Disney Legacy Collection: True Life Adventures" serves up four two-disc compilations of '50s nature documentaries, including Oscar-winners "The Living Desert" and "The Vanishing Prairie."

Kidvid corner: Multiple generations of cartoon pals turn up on DVD, from such recent favorites as "Animaniacs, Vol. 2," "Pinky and the Brain, Vol. 2" and "What's New Scooby-Doo, Vol. 10: Monstrous Tails" (all from Warner) to the baby boomer-era entry "The Yogi Bear Show: The Complete Series" (Turner).

TV transfers: Live, from New York, it's the groundbreaking "Saturday Night Live: The Complete First Season" (Universal), with original Not Ready for Prime Time Players Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman and Gilda Radner.

And, from 1966, "Mission: Impossible -- The Complete First Season" (Paramount) features Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Peter Lupus and Greg Morris as the original Impossible Missions Force -- with future "Law & Order" regular Steven Hill as IMF chief Daniel Briggs. (Peter Graves, playing Jim Phelps, didn't join the series until its second season.)

Also arriving on DVD: "The Dukes of Hazzard: The Complete Seventh Season" (Warner), "High School Musical: The Remix" (Disney), "Roseanne: The Complete Sixth Season" (Anchor Bay), "Survivor: Vanuatu -- The Complete Season" (Paramount) and "24: Season Five" (Fox).