VCI Entertainment heads
to the hills on June 11 with a trio of film vault treasures (actually four
films in all) making their way to DVD with a downhome, backwoods theme.
Way, way back in the
1960s the late Ferlin Husky was a top country singer with such hits as “Gone,”
“Wings of a Dove” “Once” and “Just For You.”
He spun that success into a brief stint with the movies, turning out two
musical comedies as the legendary crooner, “Woody Wetherby” — VCI has them
both: The Las Vegas Hillbillys (1966, with Jayne Mansfield and Mamie
Van Doren) and Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967, with a cast that includes Basil
Rathbone, Lon Chaney Jr. and John Carradine).
Rounding out the June 11
DVD release trio is the remastered double feature that toplines director Albert
S. Rogell’s 1940 film adaptation of the Al Capp comic strip, Li’l
Abner, with Jeff York (aka: Granville Owen) as Li’l Abner, Martha
O'Driscoll as Daisy Mae and none other than the old Stone Face himself, Buster
Keaton, as Lonesome Polecat.
This little moonshine comedy
gem is teamed with director Edward F. Cline’s 1942 film adaptation of the “Barney
Google and Snuffy Smith” comic strip, Private Snuffy Smith (Bud Duncan as
Snuffy, with Edgar Kennedy as Sergeant Cooper).
All three SKUs in this
promotion carry an SRP of just $9.98 each!
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