Greetings! Savant's new reviews today are
Sony
The Alice Faye Collection
On the Avenue, Lillian Russell, That Night in Rio and The Gang's All Here
Fox
and
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Warners
Hello! The big DVD news this week comes from The Digital Bits, which has revealed that Warner DVD is introducing a new budget line called Cult Camp Classics. Four sets will be released on June 26:
Volume 1 - Sci Fi Thrillers (Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, Giant Behemoth and Queen of Outer Space), Volume 2 - Women in Peril (The Big Cube, Caged and Trog), Volume 3 - Terrorized Travelers (Hot Rods to Hell, Skyjacked and Zero Hour) and Volume 4 - Historical Epics (Colossus of Rhodes, The Prodigal and Land of the Pharaohs). Each of the sets will start retail at $29.98, and the films will be available separately for $14.97 each.
It's great to see Warners digging deeper into its library, especially cracking open the Allied Artists vault. I personally don't mind the slightly derogatory inference that comes with the Camp Classics label, although Dick Dinman just told me that he's surprised to see Caged being treated like a campy women's prison film ... Eleanor Parker got an Oscar nomination for it and it's a very good movie, worthy of inclusion in a serious Noir set.
From the Classic Horror Film Board, Tom Weaver has leaked that the Volume One set will all have commentaries: "... some well-known FX guys-fans on Behemoth, Yvette Vickers and Weaver on 50 Foot Woman, and Laurie (The Queen) Mitchell and Weaver on Queen of Outer Space."
Zero Hour is of course the aerial jeopardy film that forms the basis for much of the movie Airplane! Also can't wait to hear the Dimitri Tiomkin music for Land of the Pharaohs in 5.1 Dolby .... Thanks for reading, Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at March 16, 2007 06:49 AM