Tuesday, May 29, 2018

MVD Launch Marquee Collection Blu-ray Line On Aug. 14 With Dwayne Johnson's Walking Tall


DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
MVD Entertainment Group’s popular “Rewind Collection” — which is the company’s specialty label for “classics and more from the video store” — has a new promotional banner in the works with the launch of the “Marquee Collection.”   

The Blu-ray and DVD product offerings under the “Marquee Collection” will feature a mix of studio and indie films that are a little too new to be cult, but just old enough to be “catalog” … that middle area; solid and entertaining films that are certainly worth a second look among collectors and film aficionados.

A great example — and the first release under MVD’s “Marquee Collection” on Aug. 14 — is director Kevin Bray’s 2004 theatrical hit, Walking Tall, starring Dwayne Johnson.

This all-action crime thriller is an update version of filmmaker Phil Karlson’s 1973 film release of Walking Tall, which was based on actual events surrounding the life of Sheriff Buford Pusser (played by Joe Don Baker).   This 2004 version changes some of the names, places and events, but it is basically the same story of a small town sheriff — Dwayne Johnson as Chris Vaughn — who takes on the local gambling, drug and even law enforcement problems after winning a rigged trial and becoming the new sheriff.   Johnny Knoxville and Ashley Scott co-star.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
Bonus goodies include two commentary options.  The first features Dwayne Johnson and the second includes director Kevin Bray (All About the Benjamins), film editor Robert Ivison and director of photography Glen MacPherson.

There are also deleted scenes, a blooper reel, an alternate ending and the featurette titled “Fight the Good Fight.”

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey



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