VCI Entertainment
announced this past week that Apr. 28 will be the DVD debut date for The
Jerry Warren Collection, Volume Three, a double-feature presentation
that contains a pair of hard-to-find prison-themed film classics.
First up is director
Carlos Hugo Christiansen’s 1954 black and white prison break thriller, The
Violent and the Damned.
Originally filmed in Spanish and shot on location in the jungles of
Panama (which was a bit curious in that it was a joint Brazilian/Argentina film
production) and titled Mãos Sangrentas, it was subsequently
picked up by Jerry Warren’s A.D.P. Pictures, dubbed in English and released
theatrically in 1962.
Brutal and sadistic best
describe The Violent and the Damned as a group of prisoners, led by
Adriano (English-dubbed as “Rick Marson” — played by legendary Mexican actor Arturo
de Córdova, a three-time Silver Ariel Award-winner for Best Actor), savagely
murder their guards and escape to the nearby swamp. After a bloody encounter at a remote
village, the pursuing guards simply decide to wait the remaining convicts out …
the swamp will deal with them!!!
The double-bill, also an
A.D.P. Pictures pick-up, is director Tom Younger’s 1959 (released theatrically
in the United States in 1963) made-in-Sweden tale, No Time to Kill, which
stars John Ireland as Johnny Greco, a wrongfully-convicted man who served eight
long years in prison … and now he’s out of stir with revenge on his mind!
The trail leads him to,
well, Sweden of course, where he plans to frame the man for the crime that he
really committed, but is surprised to learn that he’s already dead! But that’s only the tip of this chilly
iceberg as Greco uncovers the real culprit … and that is the
shock-of-shockers!!!
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