Monday, February 5, 2018

Mill Creek Entertainments Opens April (Apr. 04) With Blu-ray And DVD Collections Of Charles Bronson 4 Movie Collection


DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
Mill Creek Entertainment gave consumers a pick of what is coming in April in the price-to-collection DVD and Blu-ray release category.   Just a tease … one collection on both DVD and Blu-ray, with more, much more, to follow!

Available on Apr. 4 as both double-disc DVD and Blu-ray product offerings from Mill Creek Entertainment is the four-film collection titled Charles Bronson 4 Movie Collection.

Included in this collection are four action classics starring Bronson!   This kicks off with director Terence Young’s 1972 film adaptation of Peter Maas’ 1969 crime tell-all novel, The Valachi Papers.

Bronson stars as Joe Valachi, a member of the infamous Genovese Mafia “family,” who went before the U.S. Senate in 1963 (just prior to Kennedy’s assassination) to testify as to the inner-workings of the Mafia — a direct violation of the Omertà, which earned him a death sentence by Vito Genovese!

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph TribbeyNext up is director Michael Winner’s 1973 film adaptation of John Gardner’s novel, “A Complete State of Death,” which was re-titled for the screen as The Stone Killer.   This time Bronson is on the right side of the law as detective Lou Torrey, who stumbles upon a Mafia revenge plot — “The Night of Sicilian Vespers” — dating back to the early 1930s.

The third film title in this all-action collection is director Tom Gries’ 1975 thriller, Breakout, where Bronson stars as a helicopter pilot who is hired to break an innocent man (Robert Duvall) out of a high-security Mexican prison.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
And lastly we have auteur filmmaker Walter Hill’s 1975 Depression-era fight drama, Hard Times.   Bronson is a brawler and James Coburn is a shifty promoter … together they work their magic on the streets of New Orleans.

Of note, Charles Bronson’s wife, Jill Ireland co-stars in The Valachi Papers, Breakout and Hard Times.

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