This week the DVD Savant takes a look at Warners' The Kid Stays in the Picture a riveting partisan docu on the wild high life of producer/studio head Robert Evans, told in his own words, Criterion's definitive disc of Vittorio De Sica's Umberto D., the last and acknowledged apex of the Italian Neorealist movement, MGM's Midnite Movies Double Feature of two Ingrid Pitt Hammer epics, Countess Dracula and The Vampire Lovers - the second of these sexy horror pictures has been extensively restored, fulfilling the promise of an article Savant wrote in 1998, HVe's picture-perfect disc of Merchant/Ivory's The Europeans a heady mixture of fine performances and a beautiful New England Autumn for a background and John Steinbeck's The Red Pony, an overlooked gem. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.