VCI Entertainment has added two addition DVD release waves
for the month of February.
Already in place on Feb. 5 are the special edition release
of iconic filmmaker Sam Peckinpah’s Dead Companions: The Cary Roan Signature
Edition, plus the seven animated story collection titled Children's
Heroes of the Bible: New Testament and yjr comedy double-features of Norman
Wisdom: Double Feature, Volume 2 and Will Hay: Double Feature, Volume
2.
Now comes the Feb. 12 DVD release of the animated adventure
stories for children with a Christian theme titled Christian Cowboy Double Feature.
Priced at just $9.99 are two separate tales from the Old
West — Danger on the Pioneer Express (Brent Towers, the Christian
Cowboy, and his two young friends race to stop a plot to derail the Pioneer
Express) and Bedrock Valley Gang (Brent returns to crack the case of a
mysterious cattle disease that is being used to “rustle” cattle on the cheap).
Also on Feb. 12 is director Harold Schuster’s 1958 film, The
Power of the Resurrection, starring Jon Shepodd at Jesus, with two-time
Golden Globe and three-time Emmy-winner Richard Kiley as Peter.
The following week, Feb. 19, VCI Entertainment returns with
six addition DVD product offerings, including in this next wave of selections
are Brit comedians Will Hay and Norman Wisdom, plus four feature-length
Bible-themed films.
First up is Will Hay in the DVD release of Will
Hay: Double Feature, Volume 3, which includes Oh, Mister Porter (1937,
with Hay as an inept railway station manager who still finds a way to save the
day) and Convict 99 (from 1938, with Hay mistaken for a tough-as-nails
prison warden, who ends up running a prison for the worst of the worst … they
don’t know what they are in for!!!).
To the post-war period we have Norman Wisdom: Double Feature,
Volume 3. Included in this
volume are Just My Luck (1957, with Jill Dixon and a brief appearance by
Margaret Rutherford … a lovelorn Wisdom hits it big at the race, but collecting
might be a horse of a different color) and The Square Peg (1958, with Honor
Blackman and Edward Chapman … Wisdom is accidently drafted, parachuted into Nazi Germany
and then comes up with a brilliant plan to escape).
The four biblical epics included in the Feb. 19 release mix
are: Great
Leaders of the Bible (1965, starring Fernando Rey), Jacob:
The Man Who Forgot God (1963, with Judy Parker and Giorgio Cerioni), Joseph
and His Brethren (1962, with a cast that includes Robert Morley,
Belinda Lee, Terence Hill and Geoffrey Horne as Joseph) and Saul
and David (1964, Norman Wooland as Saul, with Gianni Garko as David).
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