Kino Classics Reveals December Lineup Including Works From Paul Newman, Reese Witherspoon, Walter Matthau & More

Kino Lorber Studio Classics has unveiled the details of their December 2022 4K UHD and Blu-Ray releases including works from such icons as Paul Newman, Gene Hackman, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Reese Witherspoon, Burt Lancaster and more. Get all the details on this incredibly packed lineup below:

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THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (4K UHD BLU-RAY)

Street Date: 12/20/22

Synopsis: Screen legends Walter Matthau (Charley Varrick) and Robert Shaw (Force 10 from Navarone) team up with Martin Balsam (After the Fox) and Hector Elizondo (Valdez is Coming) to deliver a sure-fire entertainment that’s gripping and exciting from beginning to end and is guaranteed to give you the ride of your life. A gang of armed professionals hijack a New York subway train somewhere outside the Pelham station threatening to kill one hostage per minute unless their demands are met. Forced to stall these unknown assailants until a ransom is delivered or a rescue is made, transit chief Lt. Garber (Matthau) must shrewdly outmaneuver one of the craftiest and cruelest villains (Shaw) in a battle of wits that will either end heroically or tragically. Featuring masterful direction by Joseph Sargent (White Lightning), gorgeous widescreen cinematography by Owen Roizman (The French Connection), a classic rousing score by David Shire (The Conversation) and top-notch editing by Jerry Greenberg (Apocalypse Now) and Robert Q. Lovett (Cotton Comes to Harlem).

Bonus Features: DISC 1 (4KUHD): Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the Original Camera Negative | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson | Audio Commentary by Actor/Filmmaker Pat Healy and Film Programmer/Historian Jim Healy | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc | Optional English Subtitles / DISC 2 (BLU-RAY): Brand New 4K Master | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson | Audio Commentary by Actor/Filmmaker Pat Healy and Film Programmer/Historian Jim Healy | THE MAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE: Vintage Featurette from the Point of View of New York City Transit Policeman, Carmine Foresta, who appears in the Film as a Train Expediter | 12 MINUTES WITH MR. GREY: Interview with Actor Hector Elizondo | CUTTING ON ACTION: Interview with Editor Gerald B. Greenberg | THE SOUND OF THE CITY: Interview with Composer David Shire | Trailers from Hell with Josh Olson | Image and Poster Gallery | Theatrical Trailer | TV Spot | 2 Radio Spots | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles

NOBODY’S FOOL (4K UHD & BLU-RAY)

Street Date: 12/2Y/22

Synopsis: Screen legend Paul Newman (Twilight) delivers a brilliant performance as Sully, an out-of-work, hard-headed and hard-working construction worker with bad knees and a worse attitude. When the son he walked out on, Dylan Wash (Betsy’s Wedding), shows up with his grandson, Sully is forced to deal with emotions he’d prefer to forget. Sully’s overbearing landlord, Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy), in one of her last performances, and his ex-boss’ wife, Melanie Griffith (Paradise), are the women in his life that get to see a bit of his softer side. But it’s the new relationship with his grandson that really gets to him. This touching slice-of-life story garnered Academy Award nominations for Newman and writer/director Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer, Places in the Heart), and features Bruce Willis (Billy Bathgate), Pruitt Taylor Vince (China Moon), Gene Saks (A Thousand Clowns), Josef Sommer (Still of the Night), Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master) and Philip Bosco (Angie).

Bonus Features: DISC 1 (4KUHD): 2020 HDR/Dolby Vision Master by Paramount Pictures – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | Audio Commentary by Filmmaker/Film Historian Jim Hemphill | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc | Optional English Subtitles / DISC 2 (BLU-RAY): 2020 HD Master by Paramount Pictures – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | Audio Commentary by Filmmaker/Film Historian Jim Hemphill | Interview with Writer Richard Russo | Interview with Actress Catherine Dent | Theatrical Trailer (Newly Mastered in 2K) | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles

THE HALLELUJAH TRAIL (SPECIAL EDITION)

Street Date: 12/13/22

Synopsis: From legendary director John Sturges (Bad Day at Black Rock, The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape) comes this rip-roaring western comedy about the year Denver was nearly devastated by a drought—of whiskey—and had to have forty wagonloads imported through very harsh—and very thirsty—territory! Screen greats Burt Lancaster (Gunfight at the O.K. Corral), Martin Landau (North by Northwest) and Lee Remick (Days of Wine and Roses) star in this spry, sprawling and spirited adventure that “wins both laughs and thrills” (The Hollywood Reporter)! Also starring Jim Hutton (Major Dundee), Pamela Tiffin (One, Two, Three), Donald Pleasence (Soldier Blue) and Brian Keith (The Rare Breed), with epic Ultra Panavision 70 photography by Robert Surtees (Ben-Hur) and a rousing score by Elmer Bernstein (The Magnificent Seven), this irreverent and literally dry look at frontier life is “possibly the funniest western ever made” (Los Angeles Times)!

Bonus Features: HD Master by MGM – From a 2K Scan of the 35mm Reduction Inter-positive | NEW Audio Commentary by Filmmaker/Historian Michael Schlesinger and Author/Screenwriter C. Courtney Joyner | Includes the Roadshow Overture, Intermission, Entr’acte and Exit Music | Theatrical Trailer (Newly Mastered in 2K) | Optional English Subtitles

GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE

Street Date: 12/13/22

Synopsis: A wildly sexy time capsule from the swinging sixties, The Girl on a Motorcycle stars Alain Delon (The Sicilian Clan) and Marianne Faithfull (Intimacy)—two actors at the height of their impressive cool—as lovers with a taste for the open road. Faithfull stars as Rebecca, a bored housewife who bolts from her home in the French countryside to visit her lover, Daniel (Delon), in Germany. Wearing nothing but a form-fitting black leather suit (the film was re-released in the U.S. as Naked Under Leather), the lusty Rebecca races across the country, and in flashback remembers the start of their affair. She recalls the initial, furtive glances in her father’s bookstore, her elaborate sexual fantasies and their long-awaited consummation. Most important of all is the motorcycle itself, a gift from Daniel that seems to give her more pleasure than any man could deliver. Directed by legendary cinematographer and top-notch director Jack Cardiff (Dark of the Sun) in pulsating psychedelic hues, The Girl on a Motorcycle has emerged from obscurity to become more than a cult favorite; it is a touchstone film of 1960s Euro youth culture.

Bonus Features: Brand New 4K Restoration | Audio Commentary by Director Jack Cardiff | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Alexandra Heller-Nicholas | Theatrical Trailer | Optional English Subtitles

LAWS OF GRAVITY

Street Date: 12/27/22

Synopsis: The acclaimed debut of filmmaker Nick Gomez (New Jersey Drive), Laws of Gravity is a gritty, unflinching and frighteningly real look at small-time Brooklyn hoods who live and die by different laws. Peter Greene (Pulp Fiction, The Mask) and Adam Trese (The Underneath) star as Jimmy and Jon, two petty crooks who find the opportunity for a big score when Frankie, an old friend and ex-con, arrives in town with a load of illegal handguns for sale. The guns are the source of tension for the friends and their families. When a domestic dispute lands Jon in jail, Jimmy goes to sell the guns to raise the bail. But when Frankie discovers that his merchandise is missing, he goes after Jimmy and the guns. One of the hardest-hitting independent films of the 1990s, Laws of Gravity co-stars Edie Falco (TV’s The Sopranos), Arabella Field (Naked in New York) and Paul Schulze (Drowning Mona).

Bonus Features: NEW Audio Commentary by Writer/Director Nick Gomez, Moderated by Historian/Filmmaker Daniel Kremer | Theatrical Trailer

TWILIGHT

Street Date: 12/27/22

Synopsis: Twilight is an acclaimed whodunit packed with stars and suspense, directed by the great Robert Benton (The Late Show, Kramer vs. Kramer, Still of the Night, Billy Bathgate) and starring screen legends Paul Newman (The Sting), Gene Hackman (Mississippi Burning), Susan Sarandon (Lorenzo’s Oil) and James Garner (The Great Escape). Newman plays Harry Ross, a burned-out private eye who’s plunged into a murder mystery tied to a long-unsolved case of Hollywood dreams, schemes and cover-ups. The Nobody’s Fool renowned star and filmmaker reunite in this richly layered character-driven neo-noir. And Stockard Channing (Grease), Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line), Giancarlo Esposito (The Usual Suspects), Liev Schreiber (Spotlight), M. Emmet Walsh (Blood Simple) and Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty) are among the locals who inhabit a Tinseltown world of privilege and sleaze, sexuality and desperation, trust and double-cross. From beginning to end, Twilight glows.

WALK PROUD

Street Date: 12/13/22

Synopsis: Robby Benson (Ice Castles, The Chosen) stars as Emilio, a wrong-side-of-the-tracks Chicano kid who runs with Los Aztecas, an L.A. street gang. After experiencing this world of brutality and power plays for some time, he yearns for a way out, and with the help of his girlfriend (Sarah Holcomb, Animal House, Caddyshack) decides to start a new life. From acclaimed writer Evan Hunter (The Blackboard Jungle, The Birds) and veteran TV director Robert L. Collins (Police Story, Gideon’s Trumpet), Walk Proud is a riveting gang-life drama in the vein of The Warriors and The Wanderers. Co-starring Henry Darrow (The Hitcher), Pepe Serna (Scarface) and Trinidad Silva (Colors).