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Sep 17, 2019 - 8:16 PM
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johnjohnson
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StudioCanal have announced that they will release on Blu-ray Claude Whatham's film That'll Be The Day (1973), starring David Essex, Ringo Starr, Rosemary Leach, James Booth, and Rosalind Ayres. The release will be available for purchase on October 21.
Synopsis: That'll Be The Day is a nostalgic trip back to the late 1950s, time of brothel- creeper shoes, drainpipe trousers,sideburns and greased back hair. David Essex makes his screen debut as wayward hero Jim MacLaine, who lives a life of dead-end jobs and one-night stands and dreams of becoming a rock star. Ringo Starr, as his fairground buddy, epitomizes the period and is joined by Billy Fury and Keith Moon in a living tapestry of memories for rock fans.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
BRAND NEW 4K RESTORATION
New Interview with David Puttnam
New Interview with Bob Stanley
New Interview with Ray Connolly
promotional materials
Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=25731
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StudioCanal will add to its vintage Classic Collection Robert Day's film The Green Man (1956), starring Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Jill Adams, and Raymond Huntley. The release will be available for purchase on May 18.
Synopsis: An irreverent black comedy adapted by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat from their play, Meet a Body, The Green Man marked the directorial debut of camera operator Robert Day.
A scintillating Alastair Sim plays Hawkins, a timid watchmaker with a part time job - he is also a professional assassin who bumps off the people we love to hate. But when the philandering MP Sir Gregory Upshott (Raymond Huntley) is the intended target, vacuum cleaner salesman William Blake (George Cole) and Hawkins' new neighbour Ann Vincent (Jill Adams) repeatedly get in the way. As the time of the assassination draws ever closer and Hawkins tracks his victim to a dilapidated seaside hotel called the Green Man, the laughs and the tension steadily rise to a brilliant climax. An enormously entertaining farce that ticks all the genre's boxes (mistaken identities, compromising positions, much panicking and slamming of doors), the film makes an interesting companion piece to Ealing's The Ladykillers (1955).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW RESTORATION OF THE FILM
NEW Alastair Sim and The Green Man: Interview Stephen Fry
NEW Interview with cultural historian Matthew Sweet
Those British Faces: Alastair Sim
Stills gallery
Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=26633
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Mar 12, 2021 - 11:16 AM
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johnjohnson
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StudioCanal will release on Blu-ray John Lemont's thriller The Frightened City (1961), starring Sean Connery, Herbert Lom, John Gregson, Alfred Marks, and Yvonne Romain. The release will be available for purchase on April 12.
Synopsis: A cool British noir set in 1960s gangland London, THE FRIGHTENED CITY follows the story of a low-level criminal (Connery) who gets embroiled in a dangerous racketeering syndicate when he accepts a job from local mobster Harry Foulcher (Alfred Marks). A year before he was thrust into stardom as James Bond in "Dr. No", Sean Connery gave a spell-binding performance as the brooding, muscular Irish enforcer Paddy Damion with a streak of rakish charm, with electrifying support from Yvonne Romain as the beautiful gangster's moll Anya and from Herbert Lom as criminal mastermind Waldo Zhernikov. NEW 4K RESTORATION.
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=28295
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Recently shown on talking pix i think. Was decent.
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Mar 20, 2021 - 7:38 AM
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johnjohnson
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StudioCanal will release on Blu-ray John Boorman's film Catch Us If You Can a.k.a. Having a Wild Weekend (1965), starring Dave Clark, The Dave Clark Five, Barbara Ferris, David Lodge, Ronald Lacey, and Clive Swift. The release will be available for purchase on April 5.
Description: John Boorman makes his directorial debut with this 1960s cult classic in which Dave Clark stars as a stuntman who gives up the rat-race to see the real world, along with his four friends (played by the Dave Clark Five Band). On his travels he picks up a pretty model who's also sick of the humdrum, money driven world of advertising and decides to come along for the ride. On a sunny island they mix with beatniks and society hipsters while singing classics beat hits during a wild weekend, as agents, ad men and the national press try to catch them…if they can.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW RESTORATION OF THE FILM
NEW interview with Journalist and film historian Matthew Sweet
Interview with Screenwriter Peter Nichols
Interview with Set Dresser Ian Whittaker
Stills Gallery
Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=28329
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