Mill Creek Entertainment continues to expand its selection
of new priced-to-collect DVD and Blu-ray product offerings that will be
retail-ready during January. Five new
DVD selections and the Blu-ray debut of Mariah Carey’s Glitter all received
release dates this past week.
Jan. 3 will see two new collections on DVD (the SRP is
$14.98 each). The first of these is
the double-disc set titled 7 Western Showdown Collection, which
includes director Robert Rossen’s all-star Western, They Came to Cordura, starring
Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, Van Heflin, Richard Conte and Tab Hunter.
Other gems in this set are director George Marshall’s 1941
film release of Texas (starring William Holden, Glenn Ford and Claire Trevor)
and director Henry Levin’s The Man from Colorado, which was
released in 1948 and also starred William Holden and Glenn Ford.
Rounding out this magnificent seven selection of Westerns is
the 1948 Durango Kid Western, Blazing Across the Pecos, starring Charles
Starrett as the Durango Kid, director Raoul Walsh’s 1953 film release of Gun
Fury (teaming Rock Hudson and Donna Reed), The Black Dakotas (1954,
with Gary Merrill and Wanda Hendrix) and Cliff Robertson’s 1971 modern Western,
J.W.
Coop.
Also on Jan. 3 is the three-disc DVD collection titled The
Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes.
Five different actors give us their unique interpretation of Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle’s iconic detective, Sherlock Holmes.

As a bonus, The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes includes
five episodes from the 1950s TV series, Sherlock Holmes, starring Ronald
Howard as Holmes and Howard Marion-Crawford as Watson.
Shifting to Jan. 17 we find the kid-friendly double-disc DVD
collection titled Classic Storybook Collection, which features 32 stories hosted
by Hayley Mills, the 1994 mini-series Scarlett, starring Timothy Dalton as
Rhett Butler and Joanne Whalley as Scarlett — the action takes place eight
years after the Civil War — and the
double-feature release of Footprints and Friends for Life.