Olive Films announced a
ten-strong selection of film vault treasures for release on both DVD and
Blu-ray this coming Feb. 17.
We begin with legendary
filmmaker Roger Corman’s summer of 1966 biker flick, The Wild Angels, which
teamed Peter Fonda (pre-Easy Rider) with songstress Nancy
“These Boots are Made For Walking” Sinatra in one of her rare film appearances
that took place between 1964 and 1968.
It’s making its Blu-ray
debut here (previously out on DVD through MGM Home Entertainment).
Of note, Mr. and Mrs.
Bruce Dern co-star in this all-action film … that would, of course, be Diane
Ladd (nominated three times for Best Supporting Actress … including Wild
at Heart and Rambling Rose, both of which
co-starred her daughter, Laura Dern).
Also counted among the cast members are newcomers Michael J. Pollard,
Gayle Hunnicutt and in an uncredited brawl sequence Peter Bogdanovich (two
years later this future auteur
filmmaker would make his directorial debut with the Corman-produced Targets).
That’s one hell of a cast
for a drive-in movie … Roger Corman sure knew (knows) how to spot talent!
Bruce Dern returns with
the 1968 Dick Clark-produced Psych-Out, which is also making its
Blu-ray debut on Feb. 17. Directed by
Richard Rush (Best Director nominee for The Stunt Man), the film starred Jack
Nicholson (also pre-Easy Rider) and Susan Strasberg, plus Dean Stockwell, Adam
Roarke and future cult filmmaker Henry Jaglom … and of course the
Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco.
Shifting to something a
little lighter, we have the late Annette Funicello starring as Dee Dee and
teaming with Frankie Avalon in both Muscle Beach Party (1964) and Beach
Blanket Bingo (1965).
Other vintage comedies
getting a Blu-ray push from Olive Films on Feb. 17 include Kiss Me, Stupid (1964,
directed by Billy Wilder and teaming Dean Martin with Kim Novak), How
To Murder Your Wife (1964, Jack Lemmon and Virna Lisi) and the final of
seven Bing Crosby/Bob Hope “Road” movies, The Road to Hong Kong (1962,
co-starring Joan Collins, with a cameo by Dorothy Lamour).
Rounding out this
ten-strong selection of new Blu-ray releases is the 1981 Ringo Starr comedy, Caveman,
co-starring the future Mrs. Starr, Barbara Bach, along with Shelley Long and
Dennis Quaid … and lastly, director Just Jaeckin’s 1981 film adaptation of the
D.H. Lawrence novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, with the
late Sylvia Kristel (who rose to fame Emmanuelle in Jaeckin’s 1974 film of the
same name) as Lady Chatterley.
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