Paramount Home Media Sets Nov. 17 As The Street Date For The Release Of The Blu-ray Collection Of Mission: Impossible – The Original TV Series

WOW!   Now that is a very, very big Blu-ray box set.  If you don’t believe it check out what Paramount Home Media has in store for fans Mission: Impossible – The Original TV Series on Nov. 17.

All seven seasons, 171 episodes complete, or should we call them “impossible missions,” in a stunning 46-disc package.   First time on Blu-ray.

From Sept. of 1966 through March of 1973, the IMF team of secret government agents took on all enemies with the understanding … “Should you or any of your IM force be caught — or killed — the “Secretary” will disavow any knowledge of your action!!”

Also, of interest on the Blu-ray release front, Paramount Home Media has added a five-film collection titled 5 Movie Collection from the Written Works of Stephen King to its Sept. 15 release calendar.

The collection includes both of the Pet Sematary films (1989 and 2019), plus Silver Bullet and The Dead Zone.   And, for the first time under the Paramount banner, the mini-series, The Stand, starring Rob Lowe. 

 

 

 

Writer/Director Francis Xavier's Less Than A Whisper Makes Its DVD Debut On Nov. 10 Courtesy Of Bayview Entertainment

Bayview Entertainment announced this past week that writer/director Francis Xavier’s haunted house thriller, Less Than a Whisper, will be making its DVD debut on Nov. 10.

 

You’ve made it.   Robert Usher (Francis Xavier — Johnny Come Lately, Poe, The Tango Dancer) has a beautiful, exotic bride, Taylor (Sonia Monroy) and a lovely new home out in the San Fernando Valley.   

 

There’s just one little problem, the home comes with a history.   It seems that there was an “incident” a few years ago and the former residents were slaughtered.   The house, which is not one of those spooky old gothic mansions, but a modern home with large windows and is nicely landscaped.   It’s been off the market for a time, so the price was attractive.

 

No sooner have Robert and Taylor moved in when strange people begin to stop by.   The creep lady who seems to know way too much.  There are times when you are not even sure if Robert is actually having a real conversation when the weird guy just pop ups.   No matter, it is enough to spook the Ushers into calling the cops.

 

Soon, Robert begins to suspect that it’s the house behind his that is source of the visitations.   Maybe, maybe not.   The police stop by and in no time, there are forensics people digging up old bones … it’s a nightmare.   

 

Less Than a Whisper is a ghost story; a haunted-house story … a story of a husband and wife slowly losing their minds.   Maybe, just maybe, it’s time to leave, but like those before them, you can move in … but getting out is so much more difficult.

 

 

 

 

Dark Force Entertainment Looks To Dec. 15 For The Blu-ray Double-Bill Of Hollywood High And Teenage Mother

Dark Force Entertainment, with sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has tabbed Dec. 15 as the Blu-ray release for the latest installment in its popular “Drive-In Double Feature” series.

 

Getting the retro treatment, with new film transfers from the only known surviving 35mm prints (with “extensive scene by scene color correction,” we might add) is the exploitative double bill of director Patrick Wright’s 1977 teenage classic, Hollywood High and the Jerry Gross produced, written by and directed by 1967 sleaze-gem, Teenage Mother.

 

Hollywood High, features the sex-tease shenanigans of four Hollywood High School co-eds by the names of Jan (Susanne Severeid, in her film debut … she would continue her career with the likes of Van Nuys Blvd., Don’t Answer the Phone, Howling IV: The Original Nightmare, etc.), Candy (Sherry Hardin) Monica (Rae Sperling) and Bebe (Marcy Albrecht), who drive around, go to the beach, smoke some grass and attend class on occasion.

 

Oh yes, and they have boyfriends, including “The Fenz” (Kevin Mead), who can’t seem to “score” with these hot young things, but they do manage to tag along when the girls are invited over to the mansion of Hollywood High alumnus — a former “silent era” movie star by the name of June East (Marla Winters) — who schools the “boys” in the art of seduction … and proceeds to take advantage of each of them!! 

 

There are running jokes, plenty of “money” shots (involving topless young women), a lot of double-entendre snippets of dialogue and a twist ending involving Hy Pyke (The First Nudie Musical, Blade Runner, Nightmare in Blood, etc.) that perfectly wraps things up.

 

Teamed with Hollywood High is a film that came before I Drink Your Blood, I Eat Your Skin and Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, all of which were soon-to-be indie hits from producer, showman and film distributer Jerry Gross.   This is his 1967 exploitation flick, Teenage Mother.

 

Shot on a dime, using non-union talent — and as legend has it, he filmed in remote locations to avoid run-ins with the Screen Actors Guild — Teenage Mother is basically a shakedown story about a high school girl named Arlene who feigns being pregnant to entrap her boyfriend.   

 

“Arlene” is played by Arlene Farber, who would remain close friends with Jerry Gross until his death in 2002 … she also starred in other Jerry Gross films, including Girl on a Chain Gang, I Drink Your Blood and Female Animal (and was Angie in The French Connection).

 

A new teacher has arrived from Sweden, Miss Peterson (Julie Ange), who teaches sex-ed classes, and when Arlene pulls her stunt, Peterson is blamed for getting the “poor” girl pregnant.   

 

Now Jerry Gross realized at some point that he was going to need a “hook” to market this film and he came up with a doozy.   He found footage of an actual woman giving birth to a child and inserted the footage into the film as part of Miss Peterson’s sex-ed class.   He bicycled what few prints he had around the country … Teenage Mother played for a solid year!!

 

 

VCI Entertainment's 4K Film Restoration Of Director Edward Dmytryk's Mutiny Sails To DVD And Blu-ray On Dec. 15

VCI Entertainment announced this past week that director Edward Dmytryk’s 1952 War of 1812 swashbuckler, Mutiny, has undergone a new 4K film restoration from the film’s 35mm negative (filmed in glorious Technicolor) and will be ready for release as both DVD and Blu-ray product offerings on Dec. 15.

 

This independent film production from brother Frank and Maurice King (aka: King Brothers Productions — Dillinger, Gun Crazy, Drums in the Deep South, among others) was something of a gamble in that the film’s director, Edward Dmytryk, who had been nominated for Best Director in 1947 for Crossfire, had run afoul of House Committee on Un-American Activities.  

 

He served a year in prison and had been out of Hollywood for three years … this was his first film back.

The King brothers shopped the completed film around for distribution (filmed off the coast of California and on the sound stages of the Samuel Goldwyn Studio in Culver City), with at least RKO in the mix, but ended up back with United Artists, the company that had distributed a number of their previous films.

 

With that said, the United States has just declared war on Great Britain and with that the War of 1812 is underway.   The Concorde, under command of Captain James Marshall (Mark Stevens — The Dark Corner, The Street With No Name, Torpedo Alley) has orders to sail to France (which is currently neutral) and pick up a shipment of gold.   The British have set up a blockade and it will be a dicey proposition sailing there and back … and at all costs, the mission is to be kept secret.

 

Second in command is a former British naval officer, Captain Ben Waldridge (Patric Knowles — as Will Scarlet in Robin Hood, plus such films as How Green was My Valley, Of Human Bondage, From Earth to the Moon, etc.), who was drummed out of the navy for theft.   The two “captains” tend to butt heads over how a proper ship is run, but that’s the least of their problems.

 

Waldridge wasn’t particularly keen on voyage, but he had the incentive of bringing his former lover, Leslie (play by none other than Angela Lansbury, who by this time in her career had Oscar nominations for Gaslight and The Picture of Dorian Gray), back with him if things go as planned.   She is currently living in Paris.

 

There’s your set-up, a risky mission to sail to France and back, pick up a fortune in gold and reunite lovers.   What could possibly go wrong?    Vicious sea battles with the Royal Navy, double-crossing crew members and a woman who also wants in on the action and is willing to kill to get her share of the loot … those are just a few of the things that can go wrong!!  

    

Dec. 15, DVD or Blu-ray, Mutiny … stand by for plenty of action!!

 

 

 

 

New DVD • Blu-ray • 4K Ultra HD Additions For The Period Ending August 28, 2020

DVD New Additions

Acid Bath Productions (MOD)

08/25/20 — Released Mind Melters 2

 

Acorn Media

08/25/20 — Released Dead Still: Season One (2 disc set)

 

Alpha Video (MOD)

08/25/20 — Released Cisco Kid, Volume 4, Euro-Thriller Double Feature (2 film set: The Invisible Dr. Mabuse, The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse), Four Horseman of the Apocalypse (silent-1921), Mr. Lobo's Cinema Insomnia: Xenia: Priestess of Night, New Three Stooges, Run for the Hills, Three Silent Men, Wine of Youth (silent-1924), Without Children and Without Warning (aka: When London Sleeps)

 

Artsploitation

08/25/20 — Released Benjamin

 

Bayview Entertainment

11/03/20 — Sets Kickboxing Champion Techniques: Peter Sugarfoot Cunningham, Kids Defense - Martial Arts Made Easy, Kyusho-Jitsu: Self Defense, Kyusho-Jitsu: Triple Warmer, Law Enforcement Equipment, Legends Kickboxing Techniques: Bernie Willems, Legends Kickboxing Techniques: Joe Lewis the Golden Boy and Way Of Kubotan - Self-Defense For Beginners

Classicflix

08/25/20 — Released Complete Hal Roach Streamliner Collection, Volume 4: The Musicals (3 film set: All-American Co-Ed, Fiesta, Flying with Music)

 

EWTN

08/25/20 — Released @ Home with Jim & Joy: Jim and Joy Pinto Answer Viewer Calls, Questions, And E-Mails Live From the Pinto House, @ Home with Jim & Joy: Steven Hemler / Proposes answers that will bring true happiness and strengthen the Catholic Faith,  Called to Communion, EWTN Live: Fr. Mitch Pacwa & Doug Keck / Discuss praying through the crisis in the Church as describe in "Wheat & Tares" and Journey Home: John Davidson / Catholic Revert

 

Freestyle Digital Media (MOD)

08/25/20 — Released Divos, Pressure and What We Found

 

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

08/25/20 — Released aTypical Wednesday, Birth of Deceit, CBD Nation, Cruiser, Hold Fast, Good Luck, Lost Bayou and Prison Within

 

Greenwich Entertainment

08/25/20 — Released Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind

09/29/20 — Desert One

 

Hallmark Channel (MOD)

08/25/20 — Released Signed, Sealed, Delivered: From the Heart

 

Image Entertainment

10/20/20 — Sets Spree (ARR of 67 days; box office: $20,480)

 

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

08/25/20 — Released One Night in Bangkok and Washington (2 disc set)

 

MPI Home Media

08/25/20 — Released Trip to Greece (ARR of 95 days; box office: $8,340)

11/17/20 — Sets Summerland (ARR of 109 days; box office: $55,564)

 

Movie Detective (MOD)

08/11/20 — Released Casa Ricordi (Italian) and Hando Rubato un Tram (Italian)

08/18/20 — Released Crime in the Night Club (Czech), Dead of Summer (Italian) and Diary for My Children (Hungarian)

08/25/20 — Released Les Copains (French) and Rise Against the Sword (Japanese)

 

National Geographic (MOD)

08/25/20 — Released National Geographic: Everest Double Feature (2 short films: Lost on Everest, Expedition Everest)

 

PBS Direct

08/25/20 — Released Endeavour: The Complete Seventh Season (2 disc set) and Poetry in American: Season Two (2 disc set)

 

PCN Productions

08/25/20 — Released Women's Vote Centennial

 

Paramount Home Media

10/20/20 — Sets Vanished (with Digital Copy)

 

Passion River

08/25/20 — Released Heroin's Grip

 

Passion River (MOD)

08/25/20 — Released On Putin's Blacklist

 

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

08/25/20 — Released Golgotha (French)

 

SRS Cinema

08/25/20 — Released Hallucinations

 

Shout! Factory

11/17/20 — Sets Relic (ARR of 137 days; box office: $1,044,473)

 

Showtime Networks (MOD)

08/25/20 — Released Season with Florida State Football (3 disc set), Season with Navy Football (3 disc set) and Season with Notre Dame Football (3 disc set)

 

TMW Media Group (MOD)

08/25/20 — Released Basic Math Tutor: Add, Subtract, & Multiply Decimals, Basic Math Tutor: Adding & Subtracting Fractions, Basic Math Tutor: Adding & Subtracting Fractions & Finding Common Denominator, Basic Math Tutor: Adding 1 & 2 Digit Numbers, Basic Math Tutor: Adding 3 & 4 Digit Numbers, Basic Math Tutor: Decimal Place Value, Basic Math Tutor: Dividing 2, 3, & 4 Digit Numbers with Remainder, Basic Math Tutor: Dividing Decimals, Basic Math Tutor: Dividing Fractions, Basic Math Tutor: Division with a Remainder, Basic Math Tutor: Division with no Remainder, Basic Math Tutor: Introduction to Multiplication, Basic Math Tutor: Learn Your Multiplication Tables,Basic Math Tutor: Multiplication Problems, Basic Math Tutor: Multiplying Fractions, Basic Math Tutor: Percents, Basic Math Tutor: Ratio and Proportion, Basic Math Tutor: Simplyfying Fractions, Basic Math Tutor: Subtracting 1 & 2 Digit Numbers, Basic Math Tutor: Subtracting 3 & 4 Digit Numbers, Training in Digital Filmmaking - Everything You Need to Know About: Heavy Studio Dollies, Dolly Tracks, Dolly Moves Pro Mike Booms and Jib Moves, Training in Digital Filmmaking - Everything You Need to Know About: Matteboxes, Sunshades, French Flags, Electro-Monic Follow Focus & Monitor Holders and Training in Digital Filmmaking - Everything You Need to Know About: Tripods, Bags, Reflectors, Fluid Heads, Picking the Right Tripod, Camera Mounts

 

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

08/25/20 — Released Chicago Med: Season Five (6 disc set) and Chicago Fire: Season Eight (6 disc set)

 

Vertical Entertainment

08/25/20 — Released Infamous (ARR of 74 days; box office: $310,736) and Yes, God, Yes

 

Vision Films

08/25/20 — Released Last Shot

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

08/25/20 — Released Best of DC Animated Movies (8 movie set: Wonder Woman, All-Star Superman, Batman: The Killing Joke, Batman vs. the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Death of Superman, Justice League: Dark, Justice League vs. Teen Titans, Suicide Squade: Hell to Pay) (3 disc set)

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

08/25/20 — Released Strike Back: Season Seven (2 disc set) and Taz-Mania: The Complete Third Season (2 disc set)

 

Wild N True Marketing (MOD)

08/25/20 — Released 9 to 5, Aspen's Arrows and Antlers, Big Bucks Shore Nuff, Bowhunting Busts: Blunders & Breakdowns, Cuttin' Loose, Enon, Gobbler Bustin', Hard Times: Shouda, Woulda, Coulda, High Velocity: Spring Gobblers, Legacy of the Longbow, Longbeard Headquarters, Powder n Balls Whitetales, Ruttin' It, Totally Elusive and Whitetales Wild N True

 

Wild Eye Releasing

08/25/20 — Released Alien Scum, Are We the Waiting, Dark Tales, Evil Tale and Mind Rage

 

Zamora (MOD)

08/25/20 — Released Instrumental Oasis, Volume 1, Instrumental Oasis, Volume 2, Instrumental Oasis, Volume 3, Instrumental Oasis, Volume 4, Instrumental Oasis, Volume 5, Instrumental Oasis, Volume 6 and Instrumental Oasis, Volume 7

 

 

 

Blu-ray New Additions

 

 

 

Arrow Video

11/17/20 — Sets Silent Running

 

Blue Underground

08/25/20 — Released Cecilia (Spanish) and Eugenie (Spanish)

 

Eastern Star

08/25/20 — Released Caligula (2 disc set), Combattler V, Crusher Joe: OVA Series, Lupin III: The Third Dragon of Doom and VS Knight Lamune & 49 Fire

 

Epic Pictures Group, Inc.

08/25/20 — Released Uncle Peckerhead

 

Flicker Alley

08/25/20 — Released City Without Jews (silent-1924) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

 

FUNimation

08/25/20 — Released Fuuka: The Complete Series (2 disc set) and Human Lost: The Movie (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

08/25/20 — Released aTypical Wednesday, Birth of Deceit, CBD Nation, Cruiser, Hold Fast, Good Luck, Lost Bayou and Prison Within

 

Image Entertainment

10/20/20 — Sets Spree

 

Kino Lorber

08/25/20 — Released All I Desire, Balcony, Breezy, Hell Bend (silent-1918), Hollywoodland, Reginald Denny Collection (3 silent film set: The Reckless Age (1924), Skinner's Dress Suit (1926), What Happened to Jones? (1926)) (2 disc set), Sign of the Cross and There's Always Tomorrow

 

MPI Home Media

08/25/20 — Released Trip to Greece

11/17/20 — Sets Summerland

 

Menemsha Films

08/25/20 — Released Tobacconist (German)

 

Mill Creek Entertainment

11/17/20 — Sets Rita Hayworth: Ultimate Collection (12 film set: Music in My Heart, You'll Never Get Rich, Tonight and Every Night, Down to Earth, The Lady from Shanghai, The Loves of Carmen, Affair in Trinidad, Salome, Miss Sadie Thompson, Fire Down Below, Pal Joey, They Came to Cordura) (6 disc set)

 

Naxos

08/25/20 — Released Berliner Philharmoniker - New Year's Eve Concert 2019, DvoraK: Rusalka - Glyndebourne and United States Army Field Band: Soundtrack of the American Soldier (with Bonus CD)

 

PBS Direct

08/25/20 — Released Endeavour: The Complete Seventh Season (2 disc set)

 

PCN Productions

08/25/20 — Released Women's Vote Centennial

 

Sentai Filmworks

08/25/20 — Released Domestic Girlfriend: Premium Box Set (2 disc set) and Pet Girl of Sakurasou: Complete Collection - English Dubbed (4 disc set)

 

Severin Films

08/25/20 — Released Aenigma (Italian), Beast Must Die: Uncut, Demonia (Italian), Fulci For Fake (Italian) and Shining Sex (French)

 

Shout! Factory

08/25/20 — Released Tales from the Darkside: The Movie and Universal Horror Collection, Volume 6 (4 film set: The Black Castle, Cult of the Cobra, The Thing That Couldn't Die, The Shadow of the Cat) (4 disc set)

11/17/20 — Sets Relic

 

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

08/25/20 — Released Guantos Hardcore Crew: Murder Mansion - There Goes the Neighborhood and Zona 23: Sin Respeto

 

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

08/25/20 — Released Burnt Orange Heresy

 

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

08/25/20 — Released King of Staten Island (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

09/01/20 — Sets Irresistible (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

09/01/20 — Sets Young Sheldon: The Complete Third Season (2 disc set)

09/08/20 — Sets Bad Education and Kentucky Kernels

 

 

 

 

4K Ultra HD New Additions

 

 

 

Kino Lorber

11/24/20 — Sets Mad Max (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack)