Mill Creek Entertainment was back this past week with
addition DVD and Blu-ray priced-to-collect releases that will be heading to
retail in August.
Being released as both DVD and Blu-ray editions on Aug. 15
is director John Putch’s 2005 epic mini-series adaptation of Paul Gallico’s
ship disaster thriller, The Poseidon Adventure.
Instead of a tidal wave capsizing the massive S.S. Poseidon,
a terrorist organization has planted a bomb that blows a hole in the side of
the ship on New Year’s Eve. The
flooding eventually causes the ship to go turtle.
Steve Guttenberg stars as Richard Clarke, who is traveling
with his family from Cape Town to Sydney, and having an affair with a member of
the crew (played by Nathalie Boltt) at the same time. He is discovered by his wife Rachel (Alexa
Hamilton) and kicked out of the family stateroom.
Meanwhile, Clarke’s daughter has her eyes on the ship’s
doctor (Amber Sainsbury and C. Thomas Howell respectively) … when the ship
flips over, Clarke, the doctor, Clarke’s daughter and others decide to abandon
the “safety” of the ship’s main ballroom and seek rescue by working their way
up through the bottom of the ship (it’s upside down, of course). Those who refuse to listen to Clarke’s
pleadings to join them in their quest find a watery grave awaits.
The second half of the adventure deals with the escape, a
potential terrorist among the group of survivors and the ever-rising water
levels. Time is against them!
Also on the Aug. 15 release schedule from Mill Creek
Entertainment is the Sheena Queen of the Jungle Collection,
a six-disc DVD collection. Included in
the set is director John Guillermin’s 1984 theatrical release of Sheena,
starring Tanya Roberts as the legendary comic book character (created by Will
Eisner and Jerry Iger back in the 1930s).
Also packed into the mix are all 35 episodes of Sheena:
The Complete Series, starring Gena Lee Nolin (best known as Baywatch’s
Neely Capshaw) and five classic episodes from the mid-50s television series, Sheena:
Queen of the Jungle (aka: Sheena:
Queen of the Congo), starring Irish McCalla as Sheena.
For fans of mystery writer Mary Higgins Clark, Mill Creek
Entertainment has a three-film set on DVD titled Mary Higgins Clark: The Queen of
Suspense - 3 Films, Original Television Mysteries that will also be
available on Aug. 15. Included in the
set is Haven’t We Met Before, starring Nicollette Sheridan as a law
student who is being stalked by a demented individual who firmly believes that
she was his lover in a previously life … Anthony Lemke co-stars as Detective
Jack Cobel, who tries to keep her from harm.
Up next is Try to Remember, featuring Gabrielle Anwar as a detective who
returns to her home town and finds that her first case may (or may not) be a
series of revenge killings … the chief suspect is Jake Mitchell (Diego
Wallraff), a paroled murderer!
Lastly, A Crime of Passion stars Cynthia
Gibb as a newly married businesswoman (half-owner of a winery) who finds
herself involved in a murder mystery.
Is the murderer her husband? Could
the murderer be her business partner? Or
is there someone else involved? It will
keep you guessing right up until the end!
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