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Gunman's Walk
BD - Lee Hackett (Van Heflin) became a
rancher the hard way, and he has two sons - different but still
part of him. His youngest (Tab Hunter), more in his mold, has
learned to settle things with a gun and is accused of murdering
a half-breed Indian. His eldest (James Darren) is sweet on the
murdered man's sister (Kathryn Grant). Phil Karlson's Gunman's
Walk weaves the story of these conflicts as adeptly as he's done
in the Noir style. The tension mounts as the 'bad seed' can only
be dealt with in one way. The result? - an excellent 50's
western. Blu-ray Release Date: November 6th, 2015
Prince of Foxes
BD - In this captivating epic of
intrigue, action and romance, the handsome and masterful Tyrone
Power (The Mark of Zorro) shines in the title role as Andrea Orsini, a bold and courageous warrior. The setting is
Renaissance Italy, where the notorious and violent Borgia
family, led by Cesare Borgia (Orson Welles,
Compulsion), is
determined to capture neighboring lands and expand the family's
empire, power, and wealth. As a Borgia spy-soldier, Orsini is
dispatched to a small territory Cesare hopes to capture.
Blu-ray Release Date: February 7th, 2017
The Sicilian Clan
BD - Roger Santet (Alain Delon) is a
convicted murderer sprung from prison by the Sicilian clan
headed by the aging Vittorio Manalese (Jean Gabin). They
conspire to steal a large cache of jewels from an exhibit in
Rome. As they are preparing for the heist, the mobster's
American friend Tony Nicosia (Amedeo Nazzarri) suggests that a
better way to get the rocks would be to hijack the transport
plane while it is en route to New York. The dogged inspector Le
Goff (Lino Ventura) is using all the available resources to
thwart their plans. Though the heist itself is successful,
Santet finds himself trapped by the mob because of his fling
with Manalese's daughter-in-law (Irina Demick.) Kino
Blu-ray
Release date: February 7th, 2017
The Swindle
BD - In this chilly thriller -- his 50th
feature-- he teams contemporary star Isabelle Huppert and
veteran star (of 80 films!) Michel Serrault as small time con
artists. Serrault is charming in a goofy way; an irritable loner
looking for laughs. Huppert now aging gracefully displays her
usual cold nonchalant beauty. They a have a respectful
father/daughter type relationship and pull innocuous little
swindles. Then, Huppert hatches a plan with another guy to dupe
the old man. Only she doesn’t know that the guy she is planning
to join is making his own double cross. Pretty soon everyone
involved is planning some kind of con. Blu-ray Release Date:
February 21st, 2017
Betty
BD - There is no plot, but we are hooked. We do
not know who Betty is, why she is drunk, who the widow is, or
why she is friendly. We learn more about the bar than its
patrons. The place is called The Hole, and it is run by a man
named Mario who collects the "twisted" - those with something
that sets them outside the ordinary. All of the patrons seem to
know about each other's twists. Blu-ray Release Date:
February 21st, 2017
L'Enfer
BD - Based on a script by Henri-Georges Clouzot, Chabrol
explores the point at which jealousy and obsession turn to
madness. François Cluzet plays Paul, a young husband who, along
with his beautiful wife (Emmanuelle Béart at her sexiest) runs a
country hotel. Paul soon becomes obsessed with his wife's
flirtations, but is it all in his head?
Blu-ray Release Date:
February 21st, 2017
Wait Until Dark
BD - Now two are left: Susy, recently blinded
and still learning how to live in a sighted world, and Roat, a
psychopathic killer. Roat wants a heroin-stuffed doll he thinks
Susy has. All Susy wants is to survive. Dim the lights, check
the door’s chain lock, and brace yourself for a chiller as
polished as the steel of Roat’s blade. Audrey Hepburn earned her
fifth Academy Award nomination as Susy. Alan Arkin is pure evil
as Roat, master of disguise and accents. Jack Weston and Richard
Crenna costar as his henchmen. Building to a heart-pounding
one-on-one confrontation, Wait Until Dark belongs to the
screen’s most memorable thrillers.
Blu-ray Release date: January
24th, 2017
The Survivor
BD - When a 747 crashes shortly after take-off, the
sole survivor is the pilot. Virtually unhurt, he and the
investigators look for the answers to the disaster. Meanwhile
mysterious deaths occur in the community and only a psychic, in
touch with the supernatural, can help the pilot unravel the
mystery surrounding the doomed plane. Blu-ray Release Date:
January 10th 2017
Willie Dynamite
BD - Who is Willie Dynamite? He s the flashiest
pimp in New York he drives a personalised purple-and-gold
Cadillac and wears some of the most eye-catching outfits ever
seen on a cinema screen. He wants to be number one, but with the
police, the D.A., fellow pimps and a tough-talking social worker
on his tail, can a man as arrogant and amoral as Willie D avoid
a downfall? Arrow's Blu-ray Release date: February 6th, 2017
Tower of London
BD - A remake of the 1939 feature of the same
name, Tower of London (1962) was an attempt by director Roger
Corman to do a more horrific portrayal of Richard III, the
infamous Duke of Gloucester, who was nicknamed "Crookback" due
to his misshapen anatomy. A potential heir to the throne of
England, Richard (Vincent Price) proceeds to remove any obstacle
in his path to the monarchy through murderous acts; one victim
is locked into an iron mask with a live rat, another is drowned
in a vat of wine. Madness eventually clouds the duke's judgment
and brings about his demise. Blu-ray Release Date: February
13th, 2017
Bad Day at Black Rock
BD - John J. Macreedy (Spencer
Tracy) doesn't know it, but when he steps off the train at the
jerkwater town of Black Rock, he will soon find himself the
object of fear, hatred, and even a murder plot! The altruistic
Macreedy came to Black Rock to hand over a posthumous military
award to a local man whose son had died gallantly in the Second
World War. What Macreedy couldn't know when he stepped off of
that train was that the town had a shameful secret, one that
must be kept at all costs. Blu-ray Release Date: January 17,
2017
Cover Girl
BD - Rita's gorgeous red hair made her a
natural for Technicolor, and her beauty is amply displayed in
this musical about a dancer who unexpectedly becomes a magazine
cover model. Dance partner and love interest, Gene Kelly (who
also served as an un-credited choreographer with Stanley Donen)
becomes jealous when her rising celebrity clashes with his
ambition. The songs are by Ira Gershwin and Jerome Kern.
Blu-ray Release Date: February 13th, 2017
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
BD - Warren Oates
plays Bennie, a piano player in a Mexican bar who gets himself
involved in the manhunt for Alfredo Garcia, a man with a
million-dollar price-tag on his head having impregnated the
daughter of crime boss El Jefe (Emilio Fernández). Sensing an
easy pay day, Bennie takes his girlfriend, Elita (Isela Vega) on
a trip that ll prove fatalistic for many of those involved.
During a career that was blighted by studio interference,
Peckinpah would later say that Bring Me the Head of Alfredo
Garcia was the only which ended up exactly as he wanted: I did
it exactly the way I wanted to. Good or bad, like it or not,
that was my film. And it was. This is as close to Pure Peckinpah
as it gets beautiful, violent, troubling, heartbreaking,
astonishing. Blu-ray Release Date: January 23rd, 2017
Universal Cult Horror Collection - From the Universal Studios
vaults come five digitally remastered horror classics featuring
madmen, fiends, murder and mayhem, many never released to home
video by TCM. These often overlooked cult titles represent
Universal doing what they did best in the 30's and 40's -
creating atmospheric and chilling B-Movie entertainment from a
studio synonymous with horror cinema. DVD Release Date: December
14th, 2016
Two Films By Marc Isaacs - Renowned British documentary
filmmaker Marc Isaacs brings together two films chronicling very
different perspectives on the nature of love, respect and
devotion. With these films Isaacs continues to seek out places
where a complete palette of humanity can be found. DVD Release
Date: January 30th, 2017
The Bride - Based on 'Bodas de sangre' by Federico García Lorca,
The Bride tells the story of a love triangle between two men and
a woman. Two lovers carried away by their passion defying all
moral and social rules even challenging their own judgment. The
same day of her wedding, the bride and her lover escape on
horseback to live their love. Their disobedience will have
devastating consequences. DVD Release Date: February 14th, 2017
The Harrow - Miller, a southern drifter, lives in seclusion in
an abandoned 100-year-old slaughterhouse -- his only company is
a vision of Gale, his dead lover who was murdered a decade ago.
When Gale's daughter Ruth arrives, looking to dig up the past,
she and Miller reassemble the shards of his shattered memory and
are horrified at what they uncover. DVD Release Date: January
24th, 2017
Blush - 17-year-old Naama spends most of her free time drinking
and partying in the hopes of escaping from her parents' constant
bickering, worsened by the recent disappearance of her AWOL
soldier sister. When a free-spirited new girl shows up at
school, Naama falls deeply in love for the first time and the
intensity of the experience at once confuses her and gives her
life new meaning. DVD Release Date: February 7th, 2017
The Witness For the Prosecution - From Sarah Phelps, adaptor of
And Then There Were None, featuring stars Toby Jones, Andrea Riseborough, Billy Howle and Kim Cattrall… 1920's London. A
brutal, bloodthirsty murder has stained the plush carpets of an
elegant London townhouse. The victim is the rich and glamorous
Emily French; and all the evidence points to Leonard Vole, a
handsome young man who stands to profit from the vast fortune
the victim has left in her will. But he is not alone. Leonard is
adamant that his partner, an enigmatic chorus girl, can prove
his innocence, and his down-at-heels solicitor is swiftly
convinced of this. Soon there is more than one life on the line,
and a terrible fate for the guilty party lies in the hands of
The Witness for the Prosecution. DVD Release Date: January 9th,
2017
The Female Animal - Never come between a woman and her prey in
the wickedly entertaining drama, The Female Animal! Hollywood
star Vanessa Windsor (Hedy Lamarr) is saved from a terrible
on-set accident by handsome studio extra, Chris Farley (George
Nader). In appreciation of his skills and good looks, she sets
him up as the “caretaker” of her beach house. When Vanessa’s
sultry daughter (Jane Powell) meets Chris, the claws come out as
both ladies try to stake out his affections in this campy,
glitzy battle for love. DVD Release Date: October 30th, 2015
Street of No Return - Sam Fuller's last film as a director, made
during his self-imposed European exile, stars Keith Carradine as
once glamorous pop singer Michael, who has been reduced to a
grizzled street bum scavenging for booze and food. The cause of
his downfall was his affair with the beautiful Celia (Valentina
Vargas), a mistress of ruthless crime boss Eddie (Marc de Jonge).
The mobster punished the singer "where it hurts most" -- by
slitting his throat and thus ruining his career. Years later,
Michael crosses paths with Eddie and his thugs again and gets a
chance for revenge. DVD Release Date: July 29th, 2003
The Spring River Flows East - Often cited as one of the
masterpieces of Chinese cinema, The Spring River Flows East is
an epic and tragic melodrama set in Shanghai and Chungking
around the time of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Part one, Eight
War-Torn Years, tells the heart-rending story of a working-class
couple, Sufen (Bai Yang) and Zhang Zhongliang (Tao Jin), who
marriage is torn apart when the war forces Zhongliang to flee
from Shanghai to Chungking. Part two, The Dawn, sees Zhongliang
return to Shanghai. His fortunes transformed, he has married
into a wealthy bourgeois family but his world is undone by a
chance meeting with the now-destitute Sufen. DVD Release Date:
February 20th, 2017
Lady on a Train - Young, pleasant Nikki Collins (Deanna Durbin)
witnesses a brutal murder while riding on a train on her way to
New York City. Though she desperately tries to inform others of
what she saw, no one believes her. In her scramble to convince
someone, anyone, of the crime, she finds an ally in a mystery
writer named Wayne Morgan (David Bruce). Trapped as she is on
the train, however, the more she tries to raise the alarm, the
more attention she draws to herself -- and the killer is
starting to notice. Universal "Vault Series" DVD Release Date:
September 28th, 2016
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