Mill Creek Entertainment announced this past week a
17-strong mix of priced-to-collect DVD and Blu-ray releases for the month of
March. The excitement arrives on
back-to-back street-date Tuesdays … Mar. 7 and Mar. 14.
Leading off the month of March on the seventh are five new
“instant library” 20 Movie Collection that are various themed as “Action,”
“Comedy,” “Horror,” “Westerns” and “Musicals.”
It is this latter category, 20 Movie Collection: Musicals,
that will certainly catch the eye of many film buffs and collectors. The SRP is just $24.98 for this five-disc
set and it includes not one or two of the classic Columbia Pictures’ Rita
Hayworth films of the 40s and early 50s, but five … that’s right five! If Music in My Heart (1940), You’ll
Never Get Rich (1941), Tonight and Every Night (1945), Down
to Earth (1947) and Miss Sadie Thompson (1953) were
purchased separately they would easily cost twice the cost of this package
alone.
And there are still 15 additional films included in the mix
… how can anyone say no to this deal?
Among the “free” films (if you want to look at it that way) is the 1956
landmark film, director Fred F. Sears’ Rock Around the Clock — showcasing
the talents of Bill Haley and the Comets and his iconic “Rock Around the Clock”
and The Platters renditions of “The Great Pretender” and “Only You.”
Other films in the mix include director Sidney Salkow’s 1941
film release of Time Out for Rhythm (with Rudy Vallee and Ann Miller), director
Leigh Jason’s Carolina Blues (Ann Miller teamed with Kay Kyser), the 1955 Technicolor
release of Three For the Show, starring Betty Grable, Jack Lemmon and
Marge & Gower Champion, and Mae West stars in the 1943 musical comedy The
Heat's On.
For a complete list of all twenty films in the five-disc 20 Movie
Collection: Musicals check out the Mill Creek Entertainment website at:
millcreekent.com.
We’re just getting started on the 20 Movie Collections. Just sampling each of the other four
collections we find the following (again, head on over to the Mill Creek
Entertainment for complete details on each multi-disc collection):
20 Movie Collection: Comedy includes Sally Field and Tom Hanks
in Punchline,
Matthew Broderick stars with Marlon Brando in The Freshman and Meryl
Streep and Shirley MacLaine are teamed in Postcards from the Edge. For star power, how about the likes of
Harrison Ford starring in Hollywood Homicide, Bruce Willis in Hudson
Hawk (with Andie MacDowell) and Wild Napalm, teaming Debra Winger
with Dennis Quaid … and there are 14 more comedies in this six-disc set.
20 Movie Collection: Westerns features director Robert Rossen’s
1959 gem, They Came to Cordura, starring Rita Hayworth, Gary Cooper, Van
Heflin, Richard Conte and Tab Hunter, Cliff Robertson stars in and directs the
1971 film release of J.W. Coop, and Randolph Scott stars
in — are you ready for this — six Western classics … A Lawless Street (1955,
with Angela Lansbury and Jean Parker), The Tall T (1957, co-starring
Maureen O’Sullivan and Richard Boone), Decision At Sundown (also from 1957),
Buchanan
Rides Alone (1958), Ride Lonesome (1959) and director Budd
Boetticher’s 1960 film release of Comanche Station.
20 Movie Collection: Action is loaded with such films as S.W.A.T.
(2003, Samuel L. Jackson and Colin Farrell), Basic (also 2003 and also
with Samuel L. Jackson, who is teamed with John Travolta), Arnold
Schwarzenegger stars in Last Action Hero and Mill Creek
Entertainment taps into the Columbia film vaults for such 1970s action classics
as The
Stone Killer (1973, Charles Bronson), Shamus (1972, teaming
Burt Reynolds with Dyan
Cannon) and The Anderson Tapes (1971, also with Dyan Cannon, but this time
is teamed with Sean Connery).
And
last, but certainly not least among the twenty-film collections is the five
disc set titled 20 Movie Collection: Horror.
Included here are the unrated director’s cut edition of both Hostel
and Hostel:
Part II, Anatomy and Anatomy 2 (both films starring Franka
Potente) and Hollow Man (the director’s cut) and Hollow Man 2. Also included in the mix are a series of
“creature features” — Bats: Human Harvest, Anaconda, Black Water
(a very hungry crocodile), Kaw and Nightwing.
Also
on Mar. 7 are a quartet of classic television series being released as
double-disc, 20-episode collections and priced at just $9.98 each. As a bonus, Mill Creek Entertainment will be
including their multi-platform streaming option with these for DVD selections —
“Purchase, Redeem and Stream!!!” The
classic TV selections are: Beverly Hillbillies, Bonanza,
Dragnet
and Lone
Ranger.
Whoa! Hold on … we are not quite done yet with the Mar. 7
array of new releases. There are two
new Blu-ray releases — these are writer/director Paul Golding’s 1988 sci-fi
chiller, Pulse, starring Cliff De Young and Roxanne Hart, and director Mike
Nichols’ 2000 sci-fi/comedy, What Planet Are You From?, featuring
an all-star cast that includes Garry Shandling, Annette Bening, Ben Kingsley, John
Goodman and Greg Kinnear. Both Blu-ray
SKUs are priced at just $9.98 each.
The following week, Mar. 14, Mill Creek Entertainment will
release both DVD and Blu-ray editions of the 2007 release of Marco
Polo: The Complete Mini-Series (with Ian Somerhalder as Marco Polo and Brian
Dennehy as Kublai Khan). Also getting
DVD push on Mar. 14 is Earthsea: The Epic Mini-Series.
There are two kidvid collections included in the month of
March second wave —five disc sets of the animated series Wheeled Warriors: The Complete
Series and C.O.P.S.: The Complete Series.
And rounding out the Mar. 14 home entertainment releases
from Mill Creek Entertainment is the three-disc DVD collection titled 10
Movie Collection: Faces of Horror (the SRP is just $14.98). There are
some real genre-fan gems in this mix, including writer/director Fred Walton’s When
A Stranger Calls (1979, Carol Kane), Happy Birthday To Me
(1981, Melissa Sue Anderson), writer/director Robert Hammer’s Don’t
Answer the Phone! and filmmaker Theodore Gershuny’s Silent Night, Bloody Night.
For a complete listing of the films included in the
multi-film collectible releases that are heading home in March (and more),
please check out Mill Creek Entertainment website at millcreekent.com.
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