Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will be bringing to the DVD
market place on Oct. 13 a three-disc, eight-film collection featuring early
1950s program Westerns starring Wild Bill Elliott.
Titled the Wild Bill Elliott Western Collection,
the collection features eight films from his post-Red Ryder series that he made
famous during the 1940s. Beginning in 1951,
fans can enjoy The Longhorn, directed by Lewis Collins and teaming Elliott
with Phyllis Coates, Myron Healey and I. Stanford Jolley.
Next are three of his Westerns from 1952 — Waco
(directed by Collins, with Pamela Blake), Kansas Territory (also directed by
Collins, with Peggy Stewart) and The Maverick (Thomas Carr handled
the direction and Elliott is reunited with Phyllis Coates — the same year she
would become the first Lois Lane on the Adventures of Superman television
series and Thomas Carr would handle most of the early series directing honors
for that series).
From 1953, we find Elliott starring in Rebel City (direction by Carr, with Marjorie Lord), Topeka
(with Carr and Coates) and Vigilante
Terror (direction by Lewis Collins, with an exceptional cast that
includes Fuzzy Knight, I. Stanford Jolley, Myron Healy and Mary Ellen Kay).
The last film in this collection in director Thomas Carr’s
1954 film release of The Forty-Niners, which teams
Elliott with Virginia Grey and such familiar faces as I. Stanford Jolley, Harry
Morgan and Harry Lauter.
Also announced this week from Warner Bros. Home
Entertainment is director Max Joseph’s film release of We are Your Friends,
starring Zac Efron as a wanna be DJ who double-crosses his mentor (Wes Bentley)
by falling for his girlfriend (played by Emily Ratajkowski).
The street date for the DVD-only release is Nov. 17.
The ARR is a zippy 81 and ticket sales were
a lackluster $3.6 million.
The only bonus nugget is the featurette titled, “How Zac
Efron Learned to DJ.”
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