VCI Entertainment
announced this week a pair of new-to-DVD releases that will be available to
collectors, film buffs and the public at large during the month of January.
Streeting on Jan. 20 will
be the post-war comedy double feature of director Reginald Le Borg’s 1951
musical comedy, G.I. Jane, which is teamed with director Paul Landres’ 1949
film-within-a-film comedy, Grand Canyon.
In G.I. Jane, Tim Rawlings
(played by none other than Tom Neal), who is working in the new medium of
television, finds himself drafted into the Army and lets his imagination run
wild. A remote desert island becomes
his home, but not to worry as he manages to redirect a group of WACs to the
base, including Jan (Jean Porter) and Lieutenant Adrian (Iris Adrian).
Following World War II filmmakers were able to take to the
road and shoot on location (John Ford being the most notable among them). In Grand Canyon, film
editor-turned-director Paul Landres took his company of actors to the actual Grand
Canyon for this romantic comedy about a film company shooting on location who just
happens to lose their lead actor to an injury and scramble to come up with a
replacement.
The film’s cast is an interesting one, which includes
Richard Arlan, Mary Beth Hughes, Reed Hadley and Grady Sutton.
On Jan. 27, VCI Entertainment will be releasing ten vintage
episodes from the first season of the acclaimed Emmy-nominated crime series, Waterfront,
starring Preston Foster as the skipper of the Cheryl Ann. Title of the DVD collection is Waterfront TV Series: Collection One, which leads one to believe that more episodes
will be on the way.
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