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Tuesday, August 22, 2017

New on DVD and Blu-ray: August 22, 2017

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The new DVD and Blu-ray releases for the week of August 22nd, 2017 include the Marvel sequel "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" and the sci-fi actioner "Kill Switch" starring Dan Stevens. The TV series offerings are somewhat more varied and they include new seasons of "Ash Vs. Evil Dead", "Daredevil", "Lucifer", "Supergirl", "The Walking Dead" and the first season of "Jessica Jones".

Among the classics available on Blu-ray this week we have "Barton Fink", a 15th Anniversary Edition of "Whale Rider" (for the first time on Blu-ray), Criterion Collection editions for "La Poison" and "Sid & Nancy", and a limited edition steelbook for the horror film "Society".

Check out all the new movies and TV shows released on DVD and Blu-ray after the jump.





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MOVIES


GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 (2017)


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Product Description: Set to the all-new sonic backdrop of Awesome Mixtape #2, Marvel Studios' GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 continues the team's adventures as they traverse the outer reaches of the cosmos. The Guardians must fight to keep their newfound family together as they unravel the mystery of Peter Quill's true parentage. Old foes become new allies and characters from the classic comics come to their aid as the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues to expand.

Purchasing Links: DVD, Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD, Amazon Instant Video

Director: James Gunn

Starring: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper

Genre: Sci-Fi, Adventure, Action

Runtime: 136 min

Rating: PG-13

Language: English

Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment

Special Features:
  • Audio Commentary
  • Featurettes
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Gag Reel
  • Digital HD Copy




KILL SWITCH (2017)


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Product Description: In the future world, a physicist's experiment to harness unlimited energy goes wrong. Chased by drones and soldiers, Will Porter must race through an imploding world and retrieve the Redivider box to save his family - and all of humanity!

Purchasing Links: DVD, Blu-ray, Amazon Instant Video

Director: Dan Stevens, Bérénice Marlohe, Tygo Gernandt, Chloe-May Cuthill

Starring: TimSmiT

Genre: Sci-fi, Action

Runtime: 91 min

Rating: R

Language: English

Studio: Lionsgate

Special Features:
  • "The Visual Effect: Inside the Director's Process" Featurette
  • Audio Commentary with Director Tim Smit




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TELEVISION


ASH VS EVIL DEAD: Season 2


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Product Description: This season roars back into action with Ash leaving his beloved Jacksonville and returning to his home town of Elk Grove. There, he confronts Ruby, only to find that she too is now a victim of evil and in need of Ash's help. The former enemies have to form an uneasy alliance to give them a chance of success as Elk Grove soon becomes the nucleus of evil.

Purchasing Links: DVD, Blu-ray

Starring: Bruce Campbell, Ray Santiago, Dana DeLorenzo, Lee Majors, Lucy Lawless

Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror

Runtime: 341 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Lionsgate

Special Features:
  • Audio Commentaries
  • Season 2 First look
  • "Inside the World of Ash vs Evil Dead" Featurette
  • "Up Your Ash" Featurette
  • "Women Who Kick Ash" Featurette
  • "Puppets Are Cute" Featurette
  • "Dawn of the Spawn" Featurette
  • "Bringing Henrietta Back" Featurette
  • "The Delta" Featurette
  • "How to Kill a Deadite" Featurette
  • Fatality Mash-Up




DAREDEVIL: Season 2


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Product Description: The razor-thin line between redemption and retribution explodes with a vengeance in Marvel’s Daredevil: The Complete Second Season. With Wilson Fisk behind bars, Matt thinks his efforts to bring order to Hell’s Kitchen are succeeding—until chaos reignites with two new arrivals: Frank Castle (a.k.a. The Punisher), an anguished ex-soldier determined to visit bloody, irrevocable “justice” upon his adversaries, and Matt’s volatile old flame Elektra Natchios. Meanwhile, a lethal, relentless source of ancient evil continues to amass power. Now, as both the stakes and the body count rise, Matt faces a lifealtering choice that forces him to confront what it truly means to be a hero.

Purchasing Links: DVD, Blu-ray

Starring: Charlie Cox, Jon Bernthal, Elodie Yung, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Rosario Dawson

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Runtime: 673 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Disney/Buena Vista

Special Features:
  • None




JESSICA JONES: Season 1


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Product Description: Raw, riveting and relentlessly compelling, Marvel’s Jessica Jones: The Complete First Season ignites a fi restorm of suspense cloaked in the haze of a noir-inspired slow burn. Haunted by a tragedy that broke her world apart, Jessica Jones settles in Hell’s Kitchen, New York City, and opens her own detective agency, called Alias Investigations, with the hope of rebuilding her life and keeping the lights on in her apartment. She discovers that the source of her trauma, a mind-controlling sociopath named Kilgrave, has resurfaced, forcing her to use her gifts as a private eye to track him down before he causes more damage to her life or to anyone else.

Purchasing Links: DVD, Blu-ray

Starring: Krysten Ritter, Rachael Taylor, Eka Darville, David Tennant, Carrie-Anne Moss

Genre: Action, Drama

Runtime: 640 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Disney/Buena Vista

Special Features:
  • None




LUCIFER: Season 2


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Product Description: In Season Two, Lucifer Morningstar and LAPD Detective Chloe Decker are back solving murders on L.A.’s white-hot streets, with their relationship growing deeper, closer and more awkward for them both. To add fuel to the fire, Lucifer’s mum, Charlotte, escapes from Hell, bringing along a ton of emotional baggage. Now Lucifer and his angel brother Amenadiel — with whom Lucifer has serious sibling issues — must work together to deal with mommy dearest. Meanwhile, Dr. Linda, therapist and confidante to Lucifer, Amenadiel and Maze, is having a devil of a time doling out some of the most bizarre advice ever. Tensions (including the sexual kind) are sizzling in all 18 frighteningly fun, frivolous adventures. Welcome to Devil time!

Purchasing Links: DVD, Blu-ray

Starring: Tom Ellis, Lauren German, Kevin Alejandro, DB Woodside, Lesley-Ann Brandt

Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy

Runtime: 787 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Warner Bros.

Special Features:
  • Lucifer: 2016 Comic-Con Panel
  • Reinventing Lucifer in the City of Angels
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Gag Reel




SUPERGIRL: Season 2


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Product Description: Having left the safety of being Cat Grant’s assistant at Catco Worldwide Media in order to figure out what she really wants to do, Kara Danvers (Melissa Benoist) continues to work with Hank Henshaw (aka Martian Manhunter) and her adoptive sister Alex (Chyler Leigh) at the DEO as Supergirl – protecting the citizens of National City and searching for her missing father Jeremiah (Dean Cain) and the secret research lab Project Cadmus. Along the way, she will team up with her Kyrptonian cousin Kal El – aka Superman (Tyler Hoechlin) – to battle new villains both terrestrial and extraterrestrial, from the DC Universe, as she strives to balance her personal life with friends/allies James Olsen (Mehcad Brooks), Winn Schott (Jeremy Jordan) and more with her busy life as a new Super Hero in SUPERGIRL Season Two.

Purchasing Links: DVD, Blu-ray

Starring: Melissa Benoist, Mehcad Brooks, Chyler Leigh, Jeremy Jordan, Floriana Lima

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Runtime: 968 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Warner Bros.

Special Features:
  • Supergirl: 2016 Comic-Con Panel
  • Supergirl: Alien Fight Night
  • Aliens Among Us
  • Supergirl Lives Audio Commentary featuring Andrew Kreisberg and Kevin Smith
  • A Conversation with Andrew Kreisberg and Kevin Smith
  • Did You Know Facts for Fans




THE WALKING DEAD Season 7


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Product Description: Picking up immediately after the thrilling cliffhanger, Negan forces Rick and the group to fall under his will, brutally convincing them to live by his rules. To prevent further bloodshed, Rick genuinely believes they can make life under Negan, however terrible, work. But he soon learns that Negan can't be reasoned with, and they must prepare to go to war now. Victory will require more than Alexandria, and Rick will need to convince their new allies from the Kingdom and Hilltop to band together with the common goal of taking down Negan and his army.

Purchasing Links: DVD, Blu-ray

Starring: Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Lauren Cohen, Chandler Riggs, Danai Gurira, Melissa McBride, Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Genre: Drama, Horror, Action

Runtime: 441 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Lionsgate

Special Features:
  • Audio Commentaries
  • Deleted & Alternate Scenes
  • Featurettes




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CLASSIC FILMS


BARTON FINK (1991


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Product Description: John Turturro (O Brother, Where Art Thou?) shines in the lead role as Barton Fink, the Coen Brothers' (Fargo, No Country for Old Men) hilarious satire set in 1940s Hollywood. Barton Fink is a Broadway playwright who reluctantly relocates to Hollywood to write screenplays. Ordered to write a low budget screenplay about wrestling, Fink manages to type one sentence and then... nothing! Although his chatty insurance salesman neighbor Charlie (John Goodman, 10 Cloverfield Lane) helps out by teaching Barton about wrestling, the clock ticks, the temperature rises, and Barton's life spins more and more out of control. The top-notch cast includes Judy Davis (Naked Lunch), Michael Lerner (Busting), John Mahoney (TV s Frasier), Tony Shalhoub (TV s Monk), Jon Polito (Miller s Crossing) and Steve Buscemi (Reservoir Dogs), with a hauntingly beautiful score by Carter Burwell (Blood Simple) and gorgeous cinematography by Roger Deakins (The Big Lebowski). Barton Fink received three 1991 Oscar nominations - (Best Supporting Actor - Lerner, Art Direction/Set Direction and Costume Design), and also won Best Actor (Turturro) and Best Director (Joel Coen), as well as the coveted Palme d'Or at Cannes.

Purchasing Links: DVD, Blu-ray

Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Starring: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner, Tony Shalhoub

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller

Runtime: 116 min

Rating: R

Language: English

Studio: Kino Lorber

Special Features:
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Interviews
  • Featurette




WHALE RIDER: 15th Anniversary Edition (2002)


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Product Description: A small Maori village faces a crisis when the heir to the leadership of the Ngati Konohi dies at birth and is survived only by his twin sister, Pai (Academy Award nominee Keisha Castle-Hughes). Although disregarded by her grandfather and shunned by the people of her village, twelve-year-old Pai remains certain of her calling and trains herself in the ways and customs of her people. With remarkable grace and courage, Pai summons the strength to both challenge and embrace a thousand years of tradition in order to fulfill her destiny.

Purchasing Links: DVD, Blu-ray

Director: Niki Caro

Starring: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Cliff Curtis, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 101 min

Rating: PG-13

Language: English

Studio: Shout! Factory

Special Features:
  • Audio commentary with director Niki Caro
  • "Te Waka: Building The Canoe" Featurette
  • "Behind-The-Scenes of Whale Rider" featurette
  • Deleted Scenes with optional commentary
  • Poster art and photo gallery




LA POISON (1951) - Criterion Collection


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Product Description: The writer, actor, and director Sacha Guitry emerged from the theater to become one of France s best-known and most inventive filmmakers, and La poison marked his first collaboration with another titan of the screen, the incomparably expressive Michel Simon. With Guitry s witty dialogue and fleet pacing, the black comedy is the quintessential depiction of a marriage gone sour: after thirty years together, a village gardener (Simon) and his wife (Germaine Reuver) find themselves contemplating how to do away with each other, with the former even planning how he ll negotiate his eventual criminal trial. Inspired by Guitry s own post World War II tangle with the law a wrongful charge of collaborationism La poison is a blithely caustic broadside against the French legal system and a society all too eager to capitalize on others misfortunes.

Purchasing Links: DVD, Blu-ray

Director: Sacha Guitry

Starring: Germaine Reuver, Michel Simon

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Runtime: 85 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: French

Studio: Criterion Collection

Special Features:
  • New interview with filmmaker Olivier Assayas on director Sacha Guitry’s influence on French cinema
  • On Life On-screen: Miseries and Splendour of a Monarch, a 60-minute documentary from 2010 on the collaboration of Guitry and Michel Simon
  • More!
  • PLUS: An essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and a 1957 obituary for Guitry by François Truffaut




SID & NANCY (1986) - Criterion Collection


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Product Description: With the lacerating love story Sid & Nancy, Alex Cox reimagines the crash-and-burn affair between punk s most notorious self-destructive poster children: Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen brought to visceral life by brilliant performances from Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb. Cox turns his anarchic filmmaking style on the explosive energy of the London punk scene and the degenerate streets of seventies New York, making for an eviscerating depiction of excess and addiction. Through the lens of cinematographer Roger Deakins, the imagery goes from swooning to grimy, and the film s bleakness is balanced with surreal humor and genuine tenderness, making for an affecting, music-fueled vision of doomed love.

Purchasing Links: Blu-ray

Director: Alex Cox

Starring: Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Xander Berkeley. Andrew Schofield, Courtney Love

Genre: Biography, Drama, Music

Runtime: 112 min

Rating: R

Language: English

Studio: Criterion

Special Features:
  • Two audio commentaries: one from 1994 featuring cowriter Abbe Wool, actors Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb, cultural historian Greil Marcus, filmmakers Julien Temple and Lech Kowalski, and musician Eliot Kidd; the other from 2001 featuring cowriter-director Alex Cox and actor Andrew Schofield
  • England’s Glory, a 1987 documentary on the making of Sid & Nancy
  • Infamous 1976 Bill Grundy interview with the Sex Pistols on British television
  • Rare telephone interview from 1978 with Sid Vicious
  • Interviews with Vicious and Nancy Spungen from the 1980 documentary D.O.A.: A Right of Passage Archival interviews and footage
  • More!
  • PLUS: An essay by author Jon Savage and a 1986 piece compiled by Cox about Vicious, Spungen, and the making of the film




SOCIETY (1989) - Limited Edition SteelBook


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Product Description: After producing Stuart Gordon s hit Re-Animator, Brian Yuzna (Bride of Re-Animator, Return of the Living Dead III) turned his hand to directing with 1989 s Society, and gave birth to one of the ickiest, most original body horror shockers of all time.

Teenager Bill Whitney (Billy Warlock) has always felt like the odd one out in his wealthy, upper-class Beverly Hills family. For some reason, he just doesn t seem to fit in. But his sense of alienation takes a sinister turn when he hears an audio recording of his sister s coming-out party, which seems to implicate his family and others in a bizarre, ritualistic orgy. And then there are the strange things he s been seeing glimpses of people with their bodies contorted impossibly out of shape... Is Bill going mad or is there something seriously amiss in his neighborhood?

Packing stomach-churning grue and thought-provoking social commentary in equal measure, Society is a biting horror satire which culminates in one of the most gag-inducing climaxes in all of horror history.

Purchasing Links: Limited Edition Steelbook Blu-ray

Director: Brian Yuzna

Starring: Billy Warlock, Devin DeVasquez, Evan Richards

Genre: Comedy, Horror

Runtime: 99 min

Rating: R

Language: English

Studio: Arrow Video

Special Features:
  • Brand new audio commentary by Yuzna
  • Governor of Society – a brand new interview with Yuzna
  • The Masters of the Hunt – a brand new featurette including interviews with stars Billy Warlock, Devin DeVasquez, Ben Meyerson and Tim Bartell
  • The Champion of the Shunt – new featurette with FX artists Screaming Mad George, David Grasso and Nick Benson
  • 2014 Q&A with Yuzna, recorded at Celluloid Screams Festival
  • Brian Yuzna in conversation backstage at the Society world premiere
  • 'Persecution Mania' – Screaming Mad George music video
  • Collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic Alan Jones, illustrated with original archive stills and posters




THE LOVE OF A WOMAN (1953) - 2-Disc Special Edition


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Product Description: The Love of a Woman (L'amour d'une femme) was the final feature of the great French filmmaker Jean Grémillon, concluding a string of classics that included such greats as Remorques, Lumiere d'eteand Pattes blanches.

Marie, a young doctor, arrives on the island of Ushant to replace its retiring physician. She experiences prejudice from the mostly male population, but also love in the form of engineer André.

Starring Micheline Presle, whose impressive career has encompassed French, Italian and Hollywood cinema, and Massimo Girotti, best-known for his performance in Luchino Visconti's Ossessione, The Love of a Woman is a sad, beautiful, romantic masterpiece.

Purchasing Links: 2-Disc Special Edition Blu-ray + DVD

Director: Jean Gremillon

Starring: Micheline Presle, Massimo Girotti, Gaby Morlay

Genre: Drama, Romance

Runtime: 104 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: French

Studio: Arrow Academy

Special Features:
  • In Search of Jean Gremillon, a feature-length documentary on the filmmaker from 1969, containing interviews with director Rene Clair, archivist Henri Langlois, actors Micheline Presle and Pierre Brasseur, and others
  • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jennifer Dionisio



VARIETE (1925)


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Product Description: A rediscovered masterpiece of the German silent cinema, Ewald André Dupont's Varieté is a visually dazzling tale of love and betrayal, foreshadowing such great works as F.W. Murnau's Sunrise and Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel. Emil Jannings (The Last Laugh) stars as a carnival spieler who becomes entranced by a waifish dancer (Lya de Putti), and gradually betrays his wife, his honor, and his self-respect in an effort to be the sole possessor of her love. The dynamic camerawork by Karl Freund influenced an entire generation of filmmakers, and can at last be fully appreciated in this exquisite restoration by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.

Purchasing Links: Blu-ray

Director: Ewald André Dupont

Starring: Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Lya De Putti

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance

Runtime: 72 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: German

Studio: Kino Lorber

Special Features:
  • NEW score by Berklee Silent Film Orchestra
  • Short documentary on the creation of the score
  • The complete OTHELLO (German 1922) - Starring Emil Jannings and Lya De Putti, Werner Krauss - Directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki




MY BLUE HEAVEN (1990)


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Product Description: The FBI's Witness Protection Program is turned funny-side up when Steve Martin and Rick Moranis play mob informant Vinnie Antonelli and agent Barney Coopersmith in this criminally comic caper. Vinnie's got smooth moves, a swank wardrobe and a mean dance step. His identity, home and lawn mower are new, but he's still the same: a guy with an eternal scam. That makes overseer Barney a guy with a huge headache.

Costars Joan Cusack, Carol Kane, Melanie Mayron and William Hickey, director Herbert Ross (The Goodbye Girl) and writer Nora Ephron (You've Got Mail) ably aid and abet the two stars. No wonder My Blue Heaven is a paradise for lovers of funny, funny stuff!

Purchasing Links: Blu-ray

Director: Herbert Ross

Starring: Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, Joan Cusack, Carol Kane

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Runtime: 97 min

Rating: PG-13

Language: English

Studio: Warner Bros.

Special Features:
  • Remastered Original Trailer




EFFECTS (1980)


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Product Description: Cobbled together with loose change by George Romero's friends, EFFECTS is a mesmerizing D.I.Y. frightmare that no one talks about, but everyone should. A group of coked-up filmmakers -- including Tom DAWN OF THE DEAD Savini, Joe DAY OF THE DEAD Pilato, and John TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE: THE MOVIE Harrison -- gather in Pittsburgh to make a slasher. As filming begins and accidents happen, it's clear that something isn't right. And no one can be trusted. Landing somewhere between SNUFF and a student film by John Carpenter, EFFECTS is a meta-enhanced takedown on the philosophy of horror that doubles as a sleazy and terrifying movie on its own. Bonus features include: New 4K scan from the only 35mm theatrical print in existence, BEASTIE short film, Archival commentary track with John Harrison, Dusty Nelson, and Pasquale Buba, UBU short film, Liner notes by Joseph A. Ziemba of AGFA and Bleeding Skull!, AFTER EFFECTS documentary with optional commentary track

Purchasing Links: Blu-ray

Director: Dusty Nelson

Starring: Joseph Pilato, Susan Chapek, John Harrison

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Runtime: 84 min

Rating: R

Language: English

Studio: Studio: Agfa

Special Features:
  • Archival commentary track with John Harrison, Dusty Nelson, and Pasquale Buba
  • After Effects documentary with optional commentary track
  • Beasite - short film
  • UBU - short film
  • Liner notes by Joseph A. Ziemba of AGFA and Bleeding Skull!




BEGGARS OF LIFE (1928)


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Product Description: An American silent film classic, Beggars of Life (1928) stars Louise Brooks as a train-hopping hobo who dresses like a boy to survive. After escaping her violent stepfather, Nancy (Brooks) befriends kindly drifter Jim (Richard Arlen). They ride the rails together until a fateful encounter with the blustery Oklahoma Red (Wallace Beery) and his rambunctious band of hoboes, leading to daring, desperate conflict on top of a moving train. Based on the memoir of real-life hobo Jim Tully, and directed with adventuresome verve by William Wellman (The Ox-Bow Incident), Beggars of Life is an essential American original.

Purchasing Links: DVD, Blu-ray

Director: William A. Wellman

Starring: Wallace Beery, Louise Brooks, Richard Arlen

Genre: Adventure, Drama

Runtime: 100 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Kino Lorber

Special Features:
  • Digitally restored from 35mm film elements preserved by the George Eastman Museum
  • Audio commentary by actor William Wellman, Jr.
  • Audio commentary by Thomas Gladysz, founding director of the Louise Brooks Society
  • Booklet essay by film critic Nick Pinkerton
  • Musical score compiled and performed by The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, employing selections from the original 1928 Paramount cue-sheet




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