Mill Creek Entertainment announced new, priced-to-collect
Blu-ray and DVD product offerings for the month of February this past week.
Streeting on Feb. 16 is director Kevin Conner’s Emmy-winning
(for Best Makeup) 2004 mini-series, Frankenstein. Mill Creek will be bringing both DVD and
Blu-ray editions to mark (priced respectively at just $9.98 and $14.98 each).
Told in flashback, Dr. Frankenstein (Alec Newman) is rescued
in the Arctic by explorer Capt. Walton (Donald Sutherland), who then proceeds
to relate his story and what events have brought him to the dangers of the ice
in the Arctic.
Quite different from the Universal Pictures 1930s vision of
Mary Shelley’s novel, the “Monster” here (played Luke Gross) is an articulate,
but tortured soul who ultimately comes in conflict — in very deadly terms —
with his creator.
Elsewhere on the Feb. 16 release calendar is the double-disc
DVD release of The Beast: The Complete Series. This FBI-themed series stars Patrick Swayze
as a grizzled agent — who is not afraid to “color outside the lines” — who is
assigned a new partner (Travis Fimmel), an IA mole assigned to see if Swayze
has gone rogue!
On the movie front, Mill Creek Entertainment has two
double-disc, six film DVD collections — priced at just $9.98 each — retail-ready
on Feb. 16.
Titled Street Heat, this collection
features XXX: State of the Union (2005, starring Ice Cube, Willem Dafoe
and Samuel L. Jackson), Hustle and Heat (aka: Ride
or Die — with Vivica A. Fox and Duane Martin), The Take (2007, teaming John
Leguizamo with Rosie Perez and Tyrese Gibson), Connor's War (2006, Treach
Criss and Nia Peeples), Simon Sez (1999, starring Dennis
Rodman) and The Contractor (2007, starring Wesley Snipes).
The other six-film collection in the mix on Feb. 16 is
titled Tales from the Prison Yard and it contains some real
hard-to-find film gems. Chief among
these is director Fred F. Sears’ 1955 gripping bio-drama, Cell 2455, Death Row,
starring William Campbell as the condemned to die “The Red Light Bandit,” Caryl
Chessman. Although Chessman never
committed murder — or any other “capital” crime — he was nevertheless convicted
under aspects of California’s then “Little Lindbergh Law” and ultimately died
in the gas chamber at San Quentin.
Other films in the Tales from the Prison Yard
collection are Escape from San Quentin (1957, also directed by Fred F. Sears
and starring Richard Devon, Johnny Desmond and Merry Anders), Convicted
(1950, with Glenn Ford, Dorothy Malone and Broderick Crawford) The
Last Detail (1973, directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jack Nicholson,
Otis Young and Randy Quaid), The Valachi Papers (1972, teaming
Charles Bronson with Jill Ireland) and once again San Quentin is the focus of
attention in director Irving Lerner’s 1959 atomic-age thriller, City
of Fear, starring Vince Edwards as an escaped killer with the deadliest
package of them all!
The DVD double-disc animated collection, Bump
in the Night: The Complete Series, featuring “monsters” Mr. Bumby
(voiced by Jim Cummings) and Squishington (voiced by Rob Paulsen) and their
“stuffed” doll friend, Molly Coddle (voiced by Gail Matthius) will be available
for fans to enjoy on Feb. 12. The SRP
is just $14.98 for all 25 fun-filled episodes!
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