Mill Creek Entertainment will be celebrating movie classics from the 1970s in the New Year with the four-disc, eleven-film collection titled Through the Decades: 1970s Collection. The street date is Jan. 25.
So what film gems are included in this priced-to-collect package? Mill Creek has comedies, crime thrillers and dramas culled from the vast Columbia Pictures film library.
On the comedy front the Through the Decades: 1970s Collection set includes director Herbert Ross’ 1970 film adaptation Bill Manhoff’s Broadway play, The Owl and the Pussycat, teaming George Segal with Barbra Streisand in her first non-singing film role.
This romantic comedy featuring George Segal as a would-be author, but really a lowly book store clerk, and Barbra Streisand as a hooker, almost didn’t get cast with these two as both Alan Arkin and Barbara Harris were in the mix … there was even some talk that the Broadway leads, Diana Sands and Alan Arkin would be in the film version. Another casting note is that the actress named Evelyn Lang, in her film debut, would later change her name and become a star as “Marilyn Chambers” two years in the adult film classic, Behind the Green Door.
Another film in the mix starring Barbra Streisand started out as July Pork Bellies, which thankfully got changed to the 1973 comedy titled For Pete’s Sake.
The other comedy in the collection is director Ted Kotcheff’s 1997 film release of Fun with Dick and Jane, teaming George Segal with Jane Fonda.
On the action front, Through the Decades: 1970s Collection has director Sidney Lumet’s 1971 caper film, The Anderson Tapes, starring the late Sean Connery as Robert “Duke” Anderson, a master safecracker, who has just served a ten-year jolt in prison, comes up with an ingenious plan to rob all of the occupants of up-scale apartment (think: condo) complex on the Upper East Side of New York City. What Anderson doesn’t know is that the building has been secretly (and illegally) wired for surveillance.
You want action? How about iconic action star Charles Bronson in director Michael Winner’s 1973 organized crime thriller, The Stone Killer. Or sleuths? How about Albert Finney in director Stephen Frears’ 1972 tongue-in-cheek amateur detective tale, Gumshoe … both of these classic films are included in this collection.
You want a heist-comedy? How about writer/director Richard Brooks’ Christmas of 1971 hit, $ (Dollars) starring Goldie Hawn and Warren Beatty, plus Goldfinger’s Gert Frobe. You guessed it …it is here as well!!
Rounding out the selections are A Walk in The Spring Rain, Brother John, The Horsemen and director Hal Ashby’s 1974 film release of The Last Detail starring Jack Nicholson.
Eleven great films in one collection on DVD … Through the Decades: 1970s Collection. It will be ready to enjoy in the New Year on Jan. 25.
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