Blu-ray/DVD/Streaming Reviews & News
Entries from August 2008
Sony has released Vol 3 of The Three Stooges classic short films. This batch includes all their work for Columbia during the period of 1940-1942. Curley fans will be particularly pleased as this era shows the comedic legend at his zenith. The shorts themselves are like most of the Stooges' work: somewhat erratic in terms of how durable they have remained. Some, such as You Nazty Spy (the boy's answer to Chaplin's The Great Dictator) are ambitious but somehow fall short of their comedic potential. One would think showing Moe as Hitler and Curley as Mussolini would be ripe for belly laughs, but the gag runs thin quickly. Others -such as A Plumbing We Will Go-Â remain indicative of their best work. I've grown up with The Three Stooges' work and it's amazing to me how funny most of it seems despite its sheer predictability. The fact that our politically correct era wouldn't allow such gouging, slapping and eye-poking on TV today makes their films all the more welcome. Yet, I remain virtually alone in my feeling that Shemp was the best Stooge of all and I eagerly await the release of that golden era on DVD as well. The only complaint- as usual- is that, despite the great picture quality on these shorts, the set is sans any extras whatsoever.- Lee Pfeiffer Here are the titles included in the 2 DVD set: 1940
You Nazty Spy!
Rockin' Thru the Rockies
A Plumbing We Will Go
Nutty But Nice
How High is Up?
From Nurse to Worse
No Census, No Feeling
Cookoo Cavaliers
Boobs in Arms
1941
So Long Mr. Chumps
Dutiful But Dumb
All the World's a Stooge
I'll Never Heil Again
An Ache in Every Stake
In the Sweet Pie and Pie
Some More of Samoa
1942
Loco Boy Makes Good
Cactus Makes Perfect
What's the Matador?
Matri-Phony
Three Smart Saps
Even as IOU
Sock-a-Bye Baby
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Fox and MGM will release a special campaign to promote 50 classic Hollywood musicals spread across 61 DVDs. The mammoth boxed set will also include postcard reproductions of the one sheet posters for every title. The shelf-breaking collection will be available on November 11 -- it's enough to have you fiddling on the roof! Here is the official press release: Start spreading the news… as Fox and MGM Home Entertainment present 50 of the most legendary musical motion pictures of all time in the Hollywood Musicals Collection on DVD November 11. These lively and larger-than-life production numbers span the golden age of musical theater and include multiple award-winning films such as West Side Story, which took home 10 Academy Awards, All That Jazz, which earned four Oscars, Guys and Dolls, which was nominated for four Academy Awards, Moulin Rouge! which won two Oscars and Sound of Music and The King And I, which took home five Academy Awards each. This quintessential set brings live theater to the living room with remarkable performances from Elvis Presley (Clambake, Flaming Star, Follow That Dream, Frankie and Johnny, Kid Galahad, Wild In the Country), Marilyn Monroe (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, There’s No Business Like Show Business) and Fred Astaire (Daddy Long Legs), among several other talented performers. Joining the melodic classics on DVD for the first time are the cherished Goldwyn Follies, Kid Millions and Whoopee!. Also in the collection are special Anniversary Editions of fan favorites Carousel, New York, New York, Oklahoma!, Sound of Music, State Fair, The King and I and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. All 50 of the films in the Hollywood Musicals Collection are packaged together in a 61 disc marquee collectible set and includes 50 exclusive postcard reproductions of the original theatrical one-sheets for the suggested retail price of $499.98 U.S. / $590.98 Canada. Prebook is October 15. Hollywood Musicals Collection Disc Specifics v     A Chorus Line v     A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum v     The Apple v     Alexander’s Ragtime Band v     March of The Wooden Soldiers (AKA Babes in Toyland) v     Beach Blanket Bingo v     Belle of the Yukon v     Bloodhounds of Broadway v     Call Me Madam v     Carmen Jones v     The Clambake v     Daddy Long Legs v     De-Lovey v     Down Argentine Way v     The Fantasticks v     Flaming Star v     Follow That Dream v     Frankie and Johnny v     Gentlemen Prefer Blondes v     Goldwyn Follies v     Guys and Dolls Deluxe Edition v     Hair v     Hans Christian Andersen v     Hallelujah, I’m A Bum v     Hello Dolly v     How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying v     Kid Galahad v     Kid Millions v     Moon Over Miami v     Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm v     Dolly Sisters v     All That Jazz Music Edition v     Can-Can Two Disc v     Carousel 50th Anniversary Edition Two Disc v     New York, New York 30th Anniversary Edition – Two Disc v     Oklahoma! 50th Anniversary Edition – Two Disc v     Sound Of Music 40th Anniversary Edition – Two Disc v     South Pacific Collectors Edition – Two Disc v     State Fair 60th Anniversary Edition v     The King and I 50th Anniversary Edition –Two Disc v     The Rocky Horror Picture Show 25th Anniversary Edition – Two Disc v     There’s No Business Like Show Business v     West Side Story Special Edition Two Disc v     Whoopee v     Wild In The Country v     With A Song In My Heart v     Love Me Tender Special Edition v     The Fiddler On The Roof v     Moulin Rouge – Two Disc v     Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Special Edition – Two Disc  CLICK HERE TO ORDER FROM AMAZON AND SAVE $125!
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One of the greatest western sagas ever made is now available as a 2 disc DVD special edition as well as a collector's set with some great extras. Cinema Retro has received this official press release from Genius Products: Winner of seven Emmy®
Awards and one of the highest-rated miniseries in television history,
Lonesome Dove
will now be available with all-new bonus features and for the
first time digitally re-mastered, in widescreen picture, and 5.1 Surround Sound.
Lonesome Dove: 2-Disc
Collector’s Edition comes to 2-Disc DVD, 2-Disc Blu-ray™ High
Def, and Limited Edition Gift Set on August 5 from Genius Products and RHI
Entertainment.
Hailed by critics and
audiences as a masterpiece, this sprawling epic of the Old West is the story of
two former Texas Rangers battling the last defiant frontier, a daring 2,500-mile
cattle drive, and an undying love. The all-new bonus materials includes a
50-minute documentary entitled The Making of
An Epic; a Lonesome Dove
montage; a new interview with Emmy Award winning Director Simon
Wincer; original interviews from the set with stars Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee
Jones, and author Larry McMurtry (“Brokeback Mountainâ€); original call sheets,
casting notes, and concept drawings; a postcard of the original TV poster; and a
hand-written letter by Wincer. An essential addition to every DVD collection,
the Lonesome Dove:
2-Disc Collector’s Edition is priced at $19.95 SRP for the DVD
and $39.92 SRP for Blu-rayâ„¢ High-Def disc.
The Lonesome Dove Limited Edition Gift
Set includes the
Lonesome Dove: 2 Disc
Collector’s Edition in a collectible wooden box along with a
branded flask, deck of playing cards, and more! This must own collector’s item
will be available at the low price of $39.99 SRP.
Based on McMurtry's
Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (1986), Lonesome Dove
debuted on CBS February 5, 1989 and went on to 17 Emmy nominations (winning
seven) and four Golden Globe® nominations (winning two, Best Miniseries and Best
Actor for Duvall).
The illustrious
all-star cast includes performances by:
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Oscar® winner Robert Duvall (Best
Actor, Tender Mercies,
1984)
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Oscar® winner Tommy Lee Jones Jones
(Best Supporting Actor, The
Fugitive, 1994)
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Oscar® winner Angelica Huston (Best
Supporting Actress, Prizzi’s
Honor, 1986)
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Oscar® nominee Diane Lane (Best
Actress, Unfaithful,
2003)
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Oscar® winner winner Chris Cooper
(Best Supporting Actor, Adaptation,
2003)
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Danny Glover (Dreamgirls, Lethal Weapon
series)
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Oscar® nominee nominee Frederic
Forrest (Best Support Actor, The
Rose, 1980)
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D.B. Sweeney (Eight Men Out, Spawn)
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Golden Globe® winner Rick Schroder
(The Champ, TV’s “24,†“NYPD
Blueâ€)
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Steve Buscemi (Fargo, TV’s “The
Sopranosâ€)
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Robert Urich (TV’s “Spencer: For
Hireâ€)
Synopsis: In the late nineteenth century, Augustus
McCrea (Duvall) and Woodrow F. Call (Jones), former Texas Rangers, are partners
and friends who have shared hardship and danger. Gus is the romantic, a
reluctant rancher who has a way with women and the sense to leave well enough
alone. Call is a driven, demanding man, a natural authority figure with no
patience for weakness. He is obsessed with the dream of creating a new
homestead. The two men could hardly be more different, but both are tough
fighters who have learned to count on each other, if nothing else. Call’s dream
not only drags Gus along in its wake, but also draws in a group of fearless
wranglers, trackers, and scouts. Through sandstorms, stampedes, bandits, floods
and snow, these characters live on to become legends of the great American
West. CLICK HERE TO ORDER THE 2 DVD SET
Cinema Retro has received the following press release from the British Film Institute: Salò or The 120 Days of Sodom,
the world’s most controversial film comes to DVD and Blu-ray in 2-disc editions,
released by the BFI on 29 September. Presented fully uncut and in its
most complete version, the film has been re-mastered from the original Italian
restoration negatives.
The two-disc set, in striking packaging,
contains a wealth of extras, some especially created for this release including
Coil - Ostia (the Death of Pasolini) the original 1987 track from Coil's
celebrated second album, Horse Rotorvator, with a newly created video
accompaniment, shot by Peter Christopherson.
The BFI website contains extensive
background details on the history of the film and its censorship at: http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/salo/
Description from Amazon : Pier Paolo Pasolini's notorious final
film, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, has been called nauseating,
shocking, depraved, pornographic . . . it's also a masterpiece. The
controversial poet, novelist, and filmmaker s transposition of the
Marquis de Sade s 18th-century opus of torture and degradation to 1944
Fascist Italy remains one of the most passionately debated films of all
time, a thought-provoking inquiry into the political, social, and
sexual dynamics that define the world we live in.
SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES: New, restored high-definition digital transfer The End of Salò, a 40-minute documentary about the film s final scene
Salò: Yesterday and Today, a 35-minute documentary featuring interviews
with Pier Paolo Pasolini, actor-filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette, and
Pasolini s friend Nineto Davoli Fade to Black, a new short
documentary about Salò, featuring interviews with filmmakers Bernardo
Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, and John Maybury New interviews with set designer Dante Ferretti and filmmaker/film scholar Jean-Pierre Gorin Optional English-dubbed soundtrack Theatrical trailer Optional English subtitles
PLUS: A booklet featuring new essays by Neil Bartlett, Roberto Chiesi,
Naomi Greene, Gary Indiana, and Sam Rohdie, and excerpts from Gideon
Bachman's on-set diary (This DVD is available from Criterion in the USA) CLICK HERE TO ORDER FROM AMAZON CLICK HERE TO ORDER FROM AMAZON UK
Of all the independent DVD production companies, Severin Films ranks near the top when it comes to producing first class editions of second-rate films. That isn't meant as a knock. The company, which specializes in making Italian "B" movies accessible to American audiences, has unearthed a number of interesting titles ranging from guilty pleasures to films that have far more entertainment value than one might be lead to expect. Such a case is Severin's recent release of a second series of Black Emanuelle films in a boxed set. Virtually everyone has heard of the original Emmanuelle, the artsy 1974 soft-core French movie that broke box-office records around the globe and extended erotic entertainment from the realm of guys with trench coats on their laps to everyday couples. In the wake of the film's success, virtually every independent European movie producer began to grind out sex films using the title Emanuelle, though most had nothing whatsoever to do with the original film. (For legal reasons, this character is minus an "m" from her name.) However, they do have one theme in common with the "real" Emanuelle: all of the movies center on the adventures of a promiscuous, beautiful young woman who is determined to try virtually every sexual thrill imagineable. (Don't you get bored with meeting women like this?) The set contains three films: Black Emanuelle 2 (1976), a bizarre romp set in a New York psychiatric hospital in which comely Sharon Lesley plays the titular character - a journalist who suffered a head injury in war-torn Beirut and who now has extended bouts of memory loss and psychotic behavior. Confined to a boring mental health facility, Emanuelle is fortunate to have the services a dedicated married doctor who nonetheless puts his profession first by catering to Emanuelle's problems morning, noon and night. The treatment includes having her disrobe and relive her previous erotic encounters in the hope it might stimulate her memory. (This is one physician who doesn't mind making a house call.) The treatment fails, but it does manage to stimulate everyone else in sight including the doctor's nymphomaniac niece (Dagmar Lassander), a fellow patient who passes the time with Emanuelle by introducing her to the joys of lesbianism. (Hey, it beats playing Parcheesi!) The film is basically a claustrophobic affair, though there are some great sequences filmed in Times Square at the height of its gloriously seedy era. (There are some shots of movie theaters, including one boasting "James Caan in Rollerball") There is a subplot in which Emanuelle mistakes her father for her former husband, with predictably cringe-inducing results but the main pleasure of the film is watching the incredibly sexy Lesley find every feasible excuse in the book to get naked. The opening sequence affords some kinkiness via a scene in which the chained and naked Emanuelle gets whipped in a dungeon, but the scene is fortunately (or unfortunately, depending upon your point-of-view) short-lived and explained as a fantasy. The DVD contains a recent interview with actress Dagmar Lassander as well as the original trailer. BLACK EMANUELLE/WHITE EMANUELLE (1976) casts exotic Laura Gemser as Emanuelle, though this time the character isthe world's top fashion model. The movie is a misfire dramatically, as it puts Emanuelle in the company of a pretentious group of free-loving pseudo-intellectuals who romp around a mansion in Egypt while spouting inane comments about religion and the meaning of life. It's like being trapped in a room with beautiful naked people, but having the experienced compromised by having tapes of L. Ron Hubbard's nutty lectures played over a loudspeaker. Still, the film does benefit from a trademark of the series, which is the eye-popping location footage. In this case, the movie provides some impressive scenery of Egypt's natural wonders, but the story itself is populated by characters who are self-centered egomaniacs. In fact, Gemser's Emanuelle is very much a supporting character. The main plot deals with Annie Belle as a nubile nymphet who is in competition with her mother to seduce a self-proclaimed religious prophet played by Al Cliver. What they find so appealing about him is mystifying, as Cliver's character has the wit and warmth of Ted Cassidy's Lurch. Nevertheless, there are the obligatory lesbian scenes between Genser and Belli, but the eroticism of the film itself is compromised by some scenes that provoke a "yuck" factor. (Belli's character likes to sleep naked with her mother, Emanuelle's boorish photographer boyfriend makes her pose naked amongst the bodies of families that have been murdered in the desert). Of the three films, this is the weakest, though it, too, is not without merit. Extras include interviews with Annie Belle, Al Cliver and an audio interview with Laura Gemser. There is also a theatrical trailer.
BLACK EMANUELLE AND THE WHITE SLAVE TRADE (1977) - is obviously the rarest of the three feature films in this set, according to Severin and has rarely been seen in recent years. Thus, the inclusion of the movie in this collection is most welcome -especially since its the most enjoyable of the lot. Like the other two titles, it isn't hardcore-but it's as close as you can get, with full female nudity on display throughout. Laura Gemser plays Emanuelle again, though this time she is no longer a model, but has reverted back to being an investigative journalist. The film opens with some breathtaking locations in Kenya, where Emanuelle and a fellow free-spirited girlfriend and wined and dined by a millionaire businessman they are seeking to interview. This first section of the movie follows Emanuelle and her friend through various sexual escapades including orgies and lesbian flings before Emanuelle returns to her home base of New York City where she picks up the trail of a white slave ring she is determined to investigate. Using herself as bait, she spies on a slave auction in which naked women are paraded on leashes in front of prospective buyers. However, the slave angle runs out of steam when Emanuelle ends up in a rather mundane situation in San Diego where her fellow prostitutes all seem to be cheerily engaging in sex of their own free will. Nevertheless, our intrepid female Jimmy Olson is determined to blow the lid off the ring -but not before being found out and marked for death. This leads to one of the most bizarre action sequences imaginable as the scene inexplicably switches to a bowling alley (!) where she is gang-raped after battling her attackers with the assistance of a drag queen who is an expert in kung fu. This sequence alone is worth the price of the entire set. Like Black Emanuelle 2, this movie benefits from some interesting vintage location scenery that shows New York in the 1970s, as well as an infectuous musical score by Nico Fedenco. Extras include a unique interview with director Joe D'Amato that was shot on-the-cuff by a group of fans who persuaded him to go drinking with them. This weird premise seems to have agreed with D'Amato who seems pleased to speak candidly about working on the Emanuelle films as well as in hardcore sex movies as well. There is also an original trailer.
As a terrific added bonus, Severin has included a soundtrack CD titled Getting Down with Emanuelle 2 that features original music from various movies in the series. In summary, the films retain an erotic appeal even today and serve as a reminder that there once was a time when sex movies actually involved people with at least a modicum of talent. (One bit of advice: if you want to watch the films in a serious mindset, use the original Italian language/English sub-title feature. If you want plenty of unintended laughter, watch the badly dubbed English language versions.) -Lee Pfeiffer CLICK HERE TO ORDER THIS DVD SET DISCOUNTED FROM AMAZON FOR REVIEW OF THE ORIGINAL EMMANUELLE SPECIAL DVD EDITION CLICK HERE
Cinema Retro just received word that Genius Products will be releasing the complete collection of Little Rascals shorts on DVD. Here is the official press release:
SANTA MONICA,
CALIF.
(July 28, 2008) – Generations have grown up with them and now Spanky, Alfalfa,
Buckwheat, Darla, Froggy, Pete the Pup and the rest of the gang return in their
best-loved comedies when Genius Products and RHI Entertainment debuts The
Little Rascals: The Complete Collection on DVD October 28. One of
the most famous and successful series in cinema history, the collection represents
all 80 shorts in chronological release date order created under the supervision
of legendary film producer Hal Roach from the dawn of the talkies (1929) until
the series was sold to MGM in 1938, an era generally conceded to be the series
“golden age.†Each short has been magnificently remastered from the
original camera negatives, restored using DVNR technology and available uncut
for the first time in years.
The Little Rascals: The Complete Collection also
features a wealth of bonus materials including introductions and commentaries
by various film historians and authors; interviews with former “Little Rascalsâ€
members, the five-part featurette Catching Up With
“The Rascalsâ€; the featurette The Story
of Hal Roach and “Our Gang;†the featurette
“The Rascals†and Racial Issues, a study of racism as part of the
Rascals; and three original silent shorts from the Hal Roach “Our Gangâ€
library: Dog Heaven (1927), Spook-Spoofing (1928) and Barnum
& Ringling, Inc. (1928). Also included with the set is a collectible
photo booklet containing classic images from the series, original movie
posters, fun facts, and lobby cards. The preeminent collection is a
must-have for all true fans and will be available for $89.95 SRP
Producer Hal Roach (who also launched Harold Lloyd and
Laurel & Hardy into immortality) introduced “The Little Rascals†in
1922. The short films featured ordinary, lower class kids acting like
real children, rather than stilted actors and the series immediately gained
popularity with film-going audiences. Although originally dubbed “Hal
Roach’s Rascals,†the name “Our Gang†caught on in popularity after one of the
early short’s titles and became the official name shortly afterward. The series
also broke new ground by including boys, girls, whites and blacks interacting
as equals.
In 1938, Roach sold the series outright to MGM, stepping
away from any active participation in his creation. The studio continued
to make “Our Gang†comedies, but without Roach, the series deteriorated in
quality and popularity and MGM discontinued production in 1944. In the
late ‘40s, Roach exorcized his option to buy back the rights to the 1927–1938
“Our Gang†shorts, repackaged them (without the “Our Gang†name and MGM logo,
to which the studio still owned the rights) and launched “The Little Rascalsâ€
on television in 1955, where they became, along with “The Three Stooges,â€
staples of after-school TV, enchanting whole new generations of children for
years to come.
In addition to the Academy Award® winning Bored of
Education (Best Short Subject/One-Reel, 1937) and Pups Is Pups
(1930) which was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in
2004, The Little Rascals: The Complete Collection includes the
shorts Small Talk, Railroadin’, Boxing Gloves, Lazy
Days, Bouncing Babies, Moan & Groan, Inc., Shivering
Shakespeare (all 1929); The First Seven Years, When the Wind
Blows, Bear Shooters, A Tough Winter, Teacher’s Pet, School’s
Out (all 1930); Helping Grandma, Love Business, Little
Daddy, Bargain Day, Fly My Kite, Big Ears, Shiver
My Timbers, Dogs Is Dogs, Readin’ and Writin’ (all 1931); Free
Eats, Spanky, Choo-Choo!, The Pooch, Hook and
Ladder, Free Wheeling, Birthday Blues, A Lad an’ a Lamp
(all 1932); Fish Hooky, Forgotten Babies, The Kid From
Borneo, Mush and Milk, Bedtime Worries, Wild Poses
(all 1933); Hi’-Neighbor, For Pete’s Sake, The First Round-Up,
Honky-Donkey, Mike Fright, Washee Ironee, Mama’s Little
Pirate, Shrimps for a Day (all 1934); Anniversary Trouble, Beginner’s
Luck, Teacher’s Beau, Sprucin’ Up, The Lucky Corner, Little
Papa, Little Sinner, Our Gang Follies of 1936 (all 1935); Divot
Diggers, The Pinch Singer, Second Childhood; Arbor Day;
Two Too Young; Pay As You Exit, Spooky Hooky (all 1936); Reunion
in Rhythm, Glove Taps, Hearts Are Thumps, Three Smart Boys,
Rushin’ Ballet; Roamin’ Holiday; Night ‘N’ Gales; Fishy
Tales; Framing Youth; The Pigskin Palooka; Mail and Female;
Our Gang Follies of 1938 (all 1937); Canned Fishing, Bear
Facts, Three Men in a Tub, Came the Brawn; Feed ‘Em and
Weep, The Awful Tooth, and Hide and Shriek (all 1938).
Special Features:
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Commentary from Film Historians and Authors
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Interviews with former “Little Rascals†members
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Film Introductions
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Three Original Hal Roach “Our
Gang†Silent Shorts
Dog Heaven (1927)
Spook-Spoofing (1928)
Barnum & Ringling, Inc. (1928)
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Featurette: The Story of Hal Roach
and Our Gang
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Featurette: “The Rascals†and Racial
Issues
·
5-Part Featurette: Catching Up With
“The Rascalsâ€
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12 page collectible photo booklet with trivia, images, and
collectible lobby cards
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Sony will debut four Hammer horror films on a 2-DVD set. Here is the official press release:
Four classic horror films from the legendary Hammer Studios
make their DVD debuts when Sony Pictures Home Entertainment releases Icons
of Horror 3 on October 14. The must-have collection for
thrill-craving fans includes The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb
(1964), and three films featuring legendary horror icon Christopher Lee: The
Gorgon (1964), The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960) and Scream
of Fear (1961). Each film has been digitally re-mastered for the best
possible quality picture and sound and the collector’s set includes the
original trailers. The two-disc DVD will be available for $24.96 SRP.
Directed by Terence Fisher (The Curse of the Werewolf)
and written by John Gilling (The Pirates of Blood River), The Gorgon
(1964) stars legendary horror icons Peter Cushing (Horror of Dracula)
and Christopher Lee (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sleepy Hollow),
as well as Barbara Shelley (Dracula: Prince of Darkness) and Michael
Goodliffe (Von Ryan's Express). In a Balkan village, a professor
investigates the suicide of his youngest son. No one is willing to help the
professor, so he enters the ruins of a local castle where he encounters the
legendary monster whose gaze turns men to stone. Before dying, the professor
warns his eldest son who continues the investigation.
The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb (1964) was
written and directed by Michael Carreras (These Are The Damned, One Million
Years B.C.) and stars Terence Morgan (Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet),
Ronald Howard (Come September), George Pastell (From Russia With Love),
and in a rare dramatic role, famed American comedy actor Fred Clark (How to
Marry a Millionaire, Auntie Mame). Handsomely photographed and
deliciously eerie, the film follows an expedition in Egypt as they open a cursed crypt.
The leader of the excavation crew decides to give the ruins to a museum, but a
fast-talking American grabs the tomb for a sideshow attraction.
Directed by Terence Fisher (Horror of Dracula) and
scripted by Wolf Mankowitz (Casino Royale) from the novel by Robert
Louis Stevenson, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960) stars Paul
Massie (Libel), Dawn Addams (The Moon is Blue, The Robe),
Christopher Lee (The Lord of the Rings trilogy), Norma Marla (The
Ugly Duckling), David Kossoff (Freud), and Francis De Wolff (From
Russia with Love), and in a very early role, Oliver Reed (Oliver!).
Absorbed in research directed towards the isolation of the two natures of man,
Dr. Jekyll (Massie) degenerates into Mr. Hyde, a vengeful maniac. While Hyde
wants revenge against a gambler whom his wife is in love with, Dr. Jekyll,
revolted by his second nature, takes steps to do away with his evil self.
Directed by Seth Holt and written by Jimmy Sangster, who
later reteamed for the Bette Davis vehicle The Nanny, Scream of
Fear (1961) stars Golden Globe® nominee Susan Strasberg (Picnic,
Stage Struck), Ronald Lewis (Billy Budd), Ann Todd (Alfred Hitchcock's
The Paradine Case), Christopher Lee (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of
the Clones), John Serret (The Sword and The Rose), and Leonard Sachs
(Thunderball). When wheelchair-bound Penny (Strasberg) pays a
visit to her father's Riviera
resort, she finds her father's corpse propped up in the backyard. Everyone
thinks she's crazy, but she believes it's a plot to drive her mad.
DVD Special Features Include:
Digitally Remastered Audio and Video
Uncut UK
versions in their original aspect ratios
Original trailers
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