Olive Films has five new
Blu-ray and DVD releases ready for market on Jan. 20.
Director Allan Dwan,
whose career dated from the dawn of the art of filmmaker, both as a director
and technical innovator, was noted for such films as Heidi and Rebecca
of Sunnybrook Farm starring child star Shirley Temple, Brewster’s
Millions, Montana Belle (starring Jane Russell) and Sands of Iwo Jima, which
earned John Wayne a Best Actor Oscar nomination … and more.
In 1953 he directed
Audrey Totter (Lady in the Lake, The Set-Up and many more) as Kate Quantrill,
wife of Charles Quantrill (Brian Donlevy) — of Quantrill’s Raiders fame — in the luridly
titled Western, Woman They Almost Lynched.
Frank and Jesse James (Ben Cooper and James Brown respectively) are also
on hand … as is Joan Leslie as a “good” girl who is very much out of her league
(a saloon owner). This is one of those
guilty pleasures that we are glad to see, not only on DVD, but as a Blu-ray product
offering as well!
Also on the Jan. 20
calendar are director Robert Aldrich’s 1954 film
noir entry, World for Ransom, starring Dan Duryea and Gene Lockhart, with
veterans Reginald Denny and Nigel Bruce on hand for “color;” filmmaker R.G.
Springsteen’s 1956 crime thriller, Track the Man Down, teaming
songstress Petula Clark with B-movie veteran Kent Taylor and director Val
Guest’s 1956 murder mystery, The Weapon, teaming Lizabeth Scott
and Steve Cochran with Herbert Marshall.
Rounding out the Jan. 20
DVD and Blu-ray selections from Olive Films is Le Belle Captive is the 1983
French-language import from writer/director Alain Robbe-Grillet.
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