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 Posted:   Feb 19, 2019 - 8:06 PM   
 By:   johnjohnson   (Member)

Warner Archive announced today that it will add three new titles to its Blu-ray catalog: Frank Tashlin's The Glass Bottom Boat (1966), Jack Starrett's Cleopatra Jones (1973), and TV's Man from Atlantis (1977-1978). The three releases will be available for purchase in March.

The Glass Bottom Boat

Synopsis: Doris Day entered her eighth consecutive year as a top-10 box-office star when she boarded The Glass Bottom Boat, a hilarious blending of romantic comedy and the era's burgeoning spy-movie genre.

Day plays Jennifer, a girl Friday at a hush-hush aeronautics think tank. When colleagues suspect she's an espionage agent, Jennifer chaotically sets out to clear her name. Looney Tunes alumnus Frank Tashlin directs with a cartoonist's sensibility – or zany insensibility – embracing everything from spy guises to push-button chaos in a futuristic kitchen. With top comedians Arthur Godfrey, Paul Lynde, Edward Andrews, John McGiver, Dom DeLuise and Dick Martin in tow, The Glass Bottom Boat is loaded top to bottom with see-through fun.

Special Features and Technical Specs:
BRAND NEW REMASTER OF THE FILM
3 Vintage Featurettes
Catalina Island
Every Girl's Dream
NASA
"The Dot and The Line" - Cartoon short (HD)
Theatrical Trailer
Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature


Cleopatra Jones

Synopsis: A Turkish poppy field is torched -and a U.S. drug trafficker known as "Mommy" (Shelley Winters) is feeling pretty burned. She phones the local cops she owns and orders a retaliatory strike on an inner-city antidrug headquarters. Mommy's next call should be to 911. Because now she'll have to mess with Cleopatra Jones (Tamara Dobson).

Mommy is relentless in her vendetta – but Cleo responds with catlike karate stealth. (Bong So Hon, technical advisor on Billy Jack, supervised the karate sequences.) Doodlebug, Pickle, Snake and more of Mommy's offbeat stooges add glide to the story's stride. Their antics, Mommy's chortling sleaziness and Cleo's class shape the power and pizzazz of Cleopatra Jones.

Special Features and Technical Specs:
BRAND NEW REMASTER OF THE FILM
Original theatrical trailer
Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature


Man from Atlantis

Synopsis: He's the lone survivor of a lost civilization...thrust into ours. A giant storm tosses ashore a being who is both human and a creature from the deep. Mark Harris is the name given to him by the astonished scientists who study and protect their remarkable find. Harris is equally astonished, a fish out of water eager to learn about us. Patrick Duffy (a year before beginning his legendary run on Dallas) plays the Atlantean in the origin movie that (along with three more films) preceded the cult classic Man from Atlantis TV series. In this adventure, Harris uses his amazing underwater abilities to save mankind from a madman's (Victor Buono) plot to launch missiles from all the world's nuclear submarines!

Special Features and Technical Specs:
BRAND NEW REMASTER
Optional English SDH subtitles

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=24677

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 20, 2019 - 12:10 AM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

I'd sure like to know how the Warner Archive selects its candidates for HD upgrades. Randomly? Whatever is lying around with a decent HD master that was already made for TCM? Were these big sellers on DVD?

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 20, 2019 - 2:41 AM   
 By:   Rameau   (Member)

Another three picked out of the hat. Nothing for me, I'm sure the two features have their fans & they're happy campers, good for them, but with all the treasures that Warner are sitting on, The Man From Atlantis pilot, really! It's not even the series. Ha, oh well, more moaning next month.

 
 Posted:   Feb 20, 2019 - 7:24 AM   
 By:   Doug Raynes   (Member)

Pass!

 
 Posted:   Feb 21, 2019 - 9:48 AM   
 By:   Scott McOldsmith   (Member)

Man from Atlantis

Special Features and Technical Specs:
BRAND NEW REMASTER
Optional English SDH subtitles


No pass here! This is fabulous!

 
 Posted:   Feb 22, 2019 - 1:51 AM   
 By:   Adventures of Jarre Jarre   (Member)

  • Man from Atlantis

    Special Features and Technical Specs:
    BRAND NEW REMASTER
    Optional English SDH subtitles


    No pass here! This is fabulous!


    I'm not overly fond of this, but I'd definitely revisit it as a rental (impossible, I know). All I remember was Duffy's spastic swim.

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