That’s the news from Dark Force Entertainment, sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group.
The Blu-ray release of Drive-In Double Feature, Volume 19 certainly is an interesting pairing, especially being toplined by a newly prepared scan — from the original CRI (Cintel Raw Image) digital files (and with color correction) — of writer/director Dan Seeger’s 1980 release of Smokey and the Judge (aka: Makin’ It), starring Gwen Owen (as Margo), Cathy Carson (as Carol) and Juanita Curiel (as Maria) as the singing group “Hot.”
If this is not ringing any bells, don’t feel bad, the film was made and released to take advantage of Smokey and the Bandit … and the film’s leading ladies are actually real-life recording artists whose only screen credits are Smokey and the Judge. The storyline is built-around the trio delivering a half-dozen songs in various seedy places … some familiar faces pop up here and there, including Rory Calhoun.
It came and went quickly, had VHS releases both in 1981, re-titled as Makin’ It in 1985 and then Televista followed with a DVD (likely scanned from the VHS) in 2007 … one of the popular “helper” sites put out a DVD in 2019 (likely a knock-off of the Televista DVD). Now on Blu-ray, this is the one.
Teamed with Smokey and the Judge is director Claude Fournier’s 1974 based-on-history Canadian adventure Alien Thunder, which was retitled for domestic consumption as Dan Candy’s Law.
Starring Donald Sutherland as a Mountie on a relentless revenge mission, Dark Force Entertainment’s Blu-ray presentation of Alien Thunder in a new scan from the Cinemascope original internegative. Should be absolutely gorgeous!
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