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!
Next 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.
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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