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22 Classic Films Coming to DVD
For The First Time Ever
Twentieth Century Fox Home
Entertainment
Announces Film Classics Available Through Online
Retailers
During the Month of December and Just In Time for
the Holidays
LOS ANGELES (December 9,
2011) – Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment’s
“manufacturing on demand” (“MOD”) program continues to
expand with the newest selection of films as part of
MGM’s Limited Edition Collection. These 22 films will be
available through major online retailers in December.
This group of releases features classics from 1953 to
1994 including performances by Hollywood’s greats –
Edward G. Robinson, Susan George, Peter Fonda, Helena
Bonham Carter, and Rob Lowe to name just a few.
***
Enjoy your
favorite movies from across the decades including:
1950’s
·
The
Magnetic Monster (1953) – When a young scientist's
experiments with a new radioactive isotope cause it to
double in size every 12 hours, a nearby town's existence
is threatened by the deadly radiation. Stars Richard
Carlson; Jean Byron; King Donovan. Directed by Curt
Siodmak.
·
Vice
Squad (1953) – The life of a captain of
detectives during the course of an ordinary day in the
1950s. Stars Edward G. Robinson; Paulette Goddard; K.T.
Stevens. Directed by Arnold Laven.
·
The
Big Caper (1957) – An indebted con man persuades a
crime boss to bankroll a heist on a small town bank,
posing as a married couple with the boss’s girl. Stars
Rory Calhoun; Mary Costa; James Gregory; Robert Harris.
Directed by Robert Stevens.
·
Jungle
Heat (1957) - Japanese fifth columnists create
havoc in the industries and plantations of Pre-Pearl
Harbor Hawaii, until an American doctor helps defeat
them. Stars Lex Barker; Mari Blanchard. Direct by Howard
Koch.
1960’s
· Something Wild (1961) – A young girl leaves home to try and cope
with a brutal attack she suffers and keeps hidden from
her family. A
garage mechanic saves her from a deep depression but
will the past repeat itself in this raw drama. Stars
Carroll Baker; Ralph Meeker. Directed by Herb Gardner;
Jack Garfein.
· You Have To Run Fast (1961) – A doctor is on
the run from the mob after he identifies two hoods
involved in a murder. Stars Craig Hill; Elaine Edwards.
Directed by Edward L. Cahn.
· Diary of a Bachelor (1963) – The trials and
tribulations of a bachelor who recently gets engaged and
what happens when his bride-to-be accidentally stumbles
upon his "diary." Stars Joe Silver; Dom DeLuise; Arlene
Golonka; Paula Stewart; William Traylor. Directed by
Sandy Howard.
1970’s
·
Savage
Wild (1970) – A docudrama set in Northern
Canada about a nature photographer who raises three
timber wolf cubs to save them from hunters. Stars Gordon
Eastman; Carl Spore; Maria Eastman; Jim Timiaough; Arlo
Curtis. Directed by Gordon Eastman.
·
Busting
(1973) – Elliott Gould and Robert Blake
star in this comedy/drama about vice officers, assigned
to the mean streets of L.A., who wage a war against
crooked cops on the force.
Stars Elliott Gould; Robert Blake; Allen
Garfield; Antonio Fargas; Michael Lerner. Directed by
Peter Hyams.
·
A
Small Town in Texas (1976) – After serving three years in
prison, a young man's hopes of reuniting with his
sweetheart and baby are dashed when he discovers that
the sheriff has taken up with his girlfriend. Stars
Timothy Bottoms; Susan George; Bo Hopkins; Art Hindle;
Morgan Woodward. Directed by Jack Starrett.
1980’s
·
Up
the Creek (1984) – Four delinquents from the worst
university in the area have one chance to bring honor to
their institution, in this hilarious and titillating
whitewater raft race flick. Stars Tim Matheson; Dan
Monahan; Sandy Helberg; Stephen Furst; Blaine Novak.
Directed by Robert Butler.
·
Inside
Out (1986) – A drama that tackles agoraphobia,
the fear of open spaces. Gould plays a man who fears
leaving his New York apartment; his only contacts with
the world are through the phone and delivery services.
Stars Elliott Gould; Howard Hesseman; Jennifer Tilly;
Beah Richards; Dana Elcar. Directed by Robert Taicher.
·
Nutcracker:
The Motion Picture (1986) – The colorful holiday classic is
finally brought to the big screen, designed by famed
children's story author and artist Maurice Sendak, and
written for the first time to be as close as possible to
the original story. A
lavish, exciting and heart-warming celebration of dance,
of music, and of life. Based upon the Pacific Northwest
Ballet's original production. Stars Hugh Bigney; Vanessa
Sharp; Patricia Barker; Wade Walthall; Julie Harris.
Directed by Carroll Ballard.
·
Opposing
Force (1986) – The only female soldier in a
military experiment designed to simulate POW torture
conditions falls victim to the commanding officer--who
justifies his insidious actions upon her as a training
technique. Stars Tom Skerritt; Lisa Eichorn; Anthony
Zerbe; Richard Roundtree. Directed by Eric Karson.
·
Mercenary
Fighters (1988) – International mercenaries descend
on an African tribe to smother an uprising as pawns of a
corrupt African President.
Acting legend Peter Fonda stars as one of the
mercs who realize they've been duped and sets out to
make things right. Stars Peter Fonda; Reb Brown; Ron
O'Neal; James Mitchum. Directed by Riki Skelach.
·
Getting
it Right (1989) – Gavin Lamb is a 31 year-old
virgin who, in just a few days, will lose his virginity
to one woman, almost be forced to marry another, and
possibly find true love with a third in this hilarious
English comedy. Stars Jessie Birdsall; Helena Bonham
Carter; Peter Cook; John Gielgud; Shirley Ann Field;
Jane Horrocks; Judy Parfitt; Lynn Redgrave. Directed by
Randal Kleiser.
1990’s
·
Bullseye
(1990) – Michael Caine and Roger Moore play
two crooks who are dead ringers for two nuclear
scientists who are illegally auctioning off a super
energy producing cold fusion technique. Stars
Michael Caine; Roger Moore; Sally Kirkland. Directed by
Michael Winner.
· The
Finest Hour (1991) – Two Navy S.E.A.L.S. are sent on a
dangerous mission to destroy an Iraqi missile
installation containing chemical warheads aimed at the
U.S. ships entering the Persian Gulf. Stars Rob Lowe;
Gale Hansen; Tracy Griffith; Eb Lottimer. Directed by
Shimon Dotan.
·
Leather
Jackets (1991) – Leather-jacketed Elwes and
friends rip off and murder a Vietnamese mob bagman,
whose associates vow vengeance. A devastating human
drama about love, friendship and the pain of growing up
in a world gone wild. Leather Jackets explores the
fragile relationship between three friends desperate to
make sense of their lives before a brutal act of
violence rips them apart. Stars D.B. Sweeney; Bridget
Fonda; Cary Elwes. Directed by Lee Drysdale.
·
Time
Bomb (1991) – Michael Biehn stars in this
exhilarating story of a man who consults a psychiatrist
for help after he begins suffering an unrelenting series
of terrifying flashbacks.
Stars Michael Biehn; Patsy Kensit. Directed by
Avi Nesher.
·
Fatal
Charm (1992) – He may have been convicted of
raping and murdering six young women, but to a smitten
teenage girl who's initiated a relationship-by-mail,
he's just a cute guy who couldn't possibly be guilty. Did he...or didn't
he? Stars Christopher Atkins; Amanda Peterson; Mary
Frann. Directed by Fritz Kiersch.
·
Radio
Inside (1994) – A sexy coming-of-age story set in
the lush city of Miami Beach about a young man searching
for answers after his father's death, who soon falls for
his older brother's girlfriend. Stars William McNamara;
Dylan Walsh; Elisabeth Shue; Gil Goldstein. Directed by
Jeffrey Bell.
