Kino Lorber Studio Classics has unveiled the details of their March 2022 4K UHD and Blu-Ray releases including works from such icons as Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Viggo Mortensen, David Cronenberg, Rock Hudson, Bing Crosby, Edward James Olmos and more. Get all the details on this incredibly packed lineup below:
THE APARTMENT (4K UHD & BLU-RAY)
Street Date: 3/8/22
Synopsis: Unlock the door to The Apartment and welcome legendary director Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot) and screenwriter I.A.L. Diamond (One, Two, Three) at their scathing, satirical best. C.C. “Bud” Baxter (Jack Lemmon, The Fortune Cookie) knows the way to success in business…it’s through the door of his apartment! By providing a perfect hideaway for philandering bosses, the ambitious young employee reaps a series of undeserved promotions. But when Bud lends the key to big boss J.D. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray, Double Indemnity), he not only advances his career, but his own love life as well. For Sheldrake’s mistress is the lovely Fran Kubilek (Shirley MacLaine, Irma La Douce), elevator girl and angel of Bud’s dreams. Convinced that he is the only man for Fran, Bud must make the most important executive decision of his career: lose the girl…or his job. By turns heartwarming and heartbreaking, The Apartment won five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay. Movie-wise, there has never been anything like it…love-wise, laugh-wise or otherwise-wise!
Bonus Features: 4KUHD Disc 1: NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Joseph McBride, Author of Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge | Audio Commentary by Film Historian Bruce Block | 5.1 Surround & Original 2.0 Mono | Optional English Subtitles | Triple-Layer UHD100 Disc / BLU-RAY Disc 2: NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Joseph McBride, Author of Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge | Audio Commentary by Film Historian Bruce Block | Inside The Apartment: Documentary (29:36) | Magic Time: The Art of Jack Lemmon (12:47) | Theatrical Trailer | Optional English Subtitles | Dual-Layer BD50 Disc
TOUCH OF EVIL (4K UHD & BLU-RAY)
Street Date: 3/15/22
Synopsis: Directed by Hollywood legend Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, The Stranger, The Lady from Shanghai), Touch of Evil is a film noir masterpiece whose Hollywood backstory is as unforgettable as the movie itself. Starring Charlton Heston (The Big Country, Ben-Hur), Janet Leigh (The Manchurian Candidate, Psycho) and Welles himself, this dark portrait of corruption and morally compromised obsessions tells the story of a crooked police chief who frames a Mexican youth as part of an intricate criminal plot. With its iconic ticking-bomb opening shot, shadowy cinematography by Russell Metty (Spartacus), evocative score by Henry Mancini (Arabesque) and memorable supporting turns by Akim Tamiroff (The General Died at Dawn) and Marlene Dietrich (Desire), Touch of Evil is a stylistic triumph that stands the test of time. This 3-disc special edition features 4K restorations of three versions of the film: the Theatrical version, the Preview version and the Reconstructed version based on Orson Welles’ original vision.
Bonus Features: DISC 1: Brand New Dolby Vision HDR Master of the Theatrical Cut | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Tim Lucas | Audio Commentary with Writer/Filmmaker F.X. Feeney | Theatrical Trailer (2:10) | Optional English Subtitles | Triple-Layer UHD100 Disc / DISC 2: Brand New Dolby Vision HDR Master of the Reconstructed Cut | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Imogen Sara Smith | Audio Commentary by Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and Reconstruction Producer Rick Schmidlin | EVIL LOST AND FOUND: Featurette (17:06) | Optional English Subtitles | Triple-Layer UHD100 Disc / DISC 3: Brand New Dolby Vision HDR Master of the Preview Cut | Audio Commentary with Orson Welles Historians Jonathan Rosenbaum and James Naremore | BRINGING EVIL TO LIFE: Featurette (20:59) | Optional English Subtitles | Triple-Layer UHD100 Disc
EASTERN PROMISES (4K UHD & BLU-RAY)
Street Date: 3/22/22
Synopsis: Visionary filmmaker David Cronenberg (Scanners, The Fly) and muse Viggo Mortensen (The Indian Runner, Green Book) follow up A History of Violence with another acclaimed joint effort, the mesmerizing Eastern Promises. Mortensen delivers an Oscar-nominated performance as Nikolai, a ruthless and mysterious Russian who has ties to one of the most dangerous crime families in London. His carefully maintained existence is jarred when he crosses paths with Anna (Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive, King Kong), a midwife who has come across potentially damaging evidence against the family. Their unusual relationship sets off an unstoppable chain of deceit, death and retribution. Brilliantly written by Steven Knight (The Girl in the Spider’s Web) with terrific supporting turns by Vincent Cassel (Black Swan) and Armin Mueller-Stahl (Music Box), this brooding and provocative masterpiece is “no ordinary crime thriller, just as Cronenberg is no ordinary director” (Roger Ebert). Top-notch cinematography by Peter Suschitzky (Figures in a Landscape, Dead Ringers).
Bonus Features: 4KUHD Disc 1: Brand New HDR Dolby Vision Master – Approved & Color Graded by Cinematographer Peter Suschitzky | 5.1 Surround & 2.0 Stereo | Optional English Subtitles | Triple-Layer UHD100 Disc / BLU-RAY Disc 2: Feature Film: Brand New UHD SDR Master – Approved & Color Graded by Cinematographer Peter Suschitzky | NEW Interview with Screenwriter Steven Knight | Secrets and Stories: Featurette with Director David Cronenberg (10:32) | Marked for Life: Featurette with David Cronenberg (6:42) | Two Guys Walk Into a Bath House: Featurette with David Cronenberg (1:55) | Watts on Wheels: Featurette with Naomi Watts (0:55) | Theatrical Trailer One (2:22) (Newly Mastered in 2K) | Theatrical Trailer Two (1:54) (Newly Mastered in 2K) | 5.1 Surround & 2.0 Stereo | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 3/8/22
Synopsis: From legendary Hollywood director Howard Hawks, Man’s Favorite Sport? is a hilarious fish-out-of-water tale in the screwball style of Hawks’ classic Bringing Up Baby. Rock Hudson (Come September, Blindfold) is Roger Willoughby, happily employed as one of the world’s great angling experts. Unfortunately, even his own boss doesn’t know that Roger has never been fishing in his life. So when press agent Abigail Page (Paula Prentiss, What’s New Pussycat?, The Black Marble) arranges for Roger to participate in her resort’s upcoming fishing tournament, he’s thrown into a panic. At the resort, he and Abby commence a crash course to turn him into a genuine outdoorsman—only to have their plan riotously upset by a surprise visit from Roger’s fiancée. With a sparkling score by composer Henry Mancini (The Pink Panther), Man’s Favorite Sport? is a comedy classic you’ll fall for hook, line and sinker!
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS (SPECIAL EDITION)
Street Date: 3/8/22
Synopsis: Screen great Rock Hudson (Man’s Favorite Sport?) and Italian bombshell Gina Lollobrigida (Come September) are an estranged couple on the verge of a riotous reconciliation in this delightful comic confection. Carter Harrison (Hudson) is a high-powered company exec who needs to polish up his public image. When a P.R. expert (Gig Young, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?) tells him the answer lies in patching up his shaky marriage, Carter jets off to London to rekindle the affections of his fiery Italian wife Toni (Lollobrigida)—who is already planning her second marriage. But even as she begins to repeat the outrageously eccentric behaviors that split them up in the first place, Carter finds himself falling in love with the irresistible Toni all over again. Wonderfully directed by Melvin Frank (Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, A Touch of Class), Strange Bedfellows is a rollicking cinematic treat filled with slapstick antics and hilarious sight gags!
Bonus Features: NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Eddy Von Mueller | Theatrical Trailer | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 3/8/22
Synopsis: Special effects guru John Dykstra (Star Wars) brings his technical expertise to this futuristic vision of the maiden flight of the world’s first hypersonic transport jet. Touted as a technological breakthrough, the super-speed aircraft debarks amid much fanfare. All systems are “go” until a misguided missile renders the craft helpless, pushing it into a deadly orbit above Earth that threatens the total annihilation of its passengers. Time is running out for the Starflight One, a.k.a. Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land, in this nerve-jangling space-age disaster movie directed by suspense specialist Jerry Jameson (Airport ’77, TV’s Superdome) with music by the great Lalo Schifrin (Coogan’s Bluff, Bullitt). Heading the all-star cast of this sci-fi adventure are Lee Majors (TV’s The Six Million Dollar Man) as the ship’s captain, Hal Linden (TV’s Barney Miller) as the scientific genius behind the machine, Tess Harper (Tender Mercies) as Majors’ wife, Lauren Hutton (Gator) as Majors’ lover and Ray Milland (Panic in Year Zero) as the high-powered chairman of the aerospace company.
Bonus Features: Brand New 2K Master | Theatrical Trailer (Newly Mastered in 2K) | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 3/15/22
Synopsis: Morgan Paull (Blade Runner) is Dirty O’Neil, a small-town policeman with a big-time libido. On the rare occasions when his pants are on, he patrols the neighborhood and coaches the girls’ basketball team. But when three nasty hoodlums appear in his peaceful California town, Dirty wastes no time dispensing justice. This sizzling slice of ’70s exploitation will quench your thirst for raunchy cop comedy! Co-directed by Leon Capetanos (Secret Life of a Schoolgirl Wife) and Lewis Teague (Alligator), and co-starring Art Metrano (Andy Sidaris’ Seven), Pat Anderson (TNT Jackson), Jeane Manson (The Young Nurses) and Katie Saylor (Invasion of the Bee Girls).
Bonus Features: Brand New 2K Master | Theatrical Trailer (Newly Mastered in 2K) | Optional English Subtitles
FAST CHARLIE…THE MOONBEAM RIDER
Street Date: 3/15/22
Synopsis: David Carradine (The Long Riders, Kill Bill) and Brenda Vaccaro (Midnight Cowboy, Heart of Midnight) star in this action-packed comedy from legendary producer Roger Corman (The Raven, Bloody Mama). During the 1920s, World War I veteran and conman Charlie Swattle (Carradine) dreams of being the first person to win a transnational motorcycle race and enlists his comrades from the war to help. Romance and adventure ensues as Charlie meets sassy waitress Grace (Vaccaro) and her son as he pursues the big win on his classic Moonbeam motorbike. Action specialist Steve Carver (An Eye for an Eye, Lone Wolf McQuade, River of Death) directs this high-spirited cross-country escapade co-starring L.Q. Jones (The Wild Bunch), R.G. Armstrong (White Lightning), Terry Kiser (Weekend at Bernie’s) and Jesse Vint (Silent Running).
Bonus Features: Brand New 2K Master | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Eddy Von Mueller | Theatrical Trailer (Newly Mastered in 2K) | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 3/15/22
Synopsis: Part fascinating fact, part dazzling fiction, Zoot Suit is Luis Valdez’s (La Bamba) blistering film adaptation of his own critically acclaimed stage drama based on the “zoot suit riots” that rocked 1940s Los Angeles. When barrio leader Henry Reyna (Daniel Valdez, The China Syndrome) and a group of his friends are unjustly convicted on circumstantial evidence and sent to San Quentin, activist lawyers Alice Bloomfield (Tyne Daly, The Enforcer) and George Shearer (Charles Aidman, Kotch) fight the blatant racially motivated miscarriage of justice to win Henry and his friends their freedom. Featuring Edward James Olmos (Stand and Deliver) in the role of the mythical “Pachuco” that catapulted him to stardom, Zoot Suit is a scorchingly searing and seductively provocative work that skillfully blends action, drama, romance and music! Zoot Suit features a rousing score by the film’s star Daniel Valdez and beautiful cinematography by David Myers (THX 1138).
Bonus Features: NEW Interview with Writer/Director Luis Valdez | NEW Audio Commentary by Filmmaker/Historian Daniel Kremer | Reversible Art | Theatrical Trailer (Newly Mastered in 2K) | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 3/22/22
Synopsis: Screen legends Gary Cooper (Desire, Beau Geste) and Carole Lombard (Hands Across the Table, Nothing Sacred) star along with the irresistible Shirley Temple (Since You Went Away, I’ll Be Seeing You) in Now and Forever. Penny (Temple) is a poor-little-rich girl whose father, Jerry (Cooper), a jewel thief and con artist, comes to claim her from his late wife’s stuffy relatives. Together with new spouse Toni (Lombard), Jerry has sworn to mend his ways and set a good example for his beloved daughter. He soon discovers that old habits die hard, especially when the best schools cost money that Jerry does not have. Directed by Hollywood great Henry Hathaway (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Peter Ibbetson) and featuring unforgettable performances, this endearing tale of love, honor and sacrifice will touch your heart—now and forever.
Bonus Features: Brand New 2K Master | NEW Audio Commentary by Author/Film Historian Lee Gambin and Costume Historian Elissa Rose | Theatrical Trailer | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 3/22/22
Synopsis: Back Street, one of the most popular and endearing romance novels of all time, has been brought to the silver screen several times over the years. This sublime 1941 adaptation stars the luminous Margaret Sullavan (The Good Fairy, The Shop Around the Corner) and the dashing Charles Boyer (When Tomorrow Comes, Gaslight). Five years after meeting and falling in love with a banker (Boyer), a willful shop girl (Sullavan) decides to become his “back street” woman upon learning he has since gotten married and had a son. This classic story of an illicit love affair from author Fannie Hurst (Imitation of Life) is brought to vivid life by director Robert Stevenson (Jane Eyre, Mary Poppins) with wonderful supporting roles by Richard Carlson (All I Desire), Frank McHugh (Going My Way) and Tim Holt (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre). Featuring an Oscar-nominated score by Frank Skinner (The Tarnished Angels), this elegant tearjerker packs a hefty dramatic punch.
Bonus Features: Brand New 2K Master | NEW Audio Commentary by Author/Film Historian Lee Gambin and Costume Historian Elissa Rose | Theatrical Trailer (Newly Mastered in 2K) | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 3/22/22
Synopsis: Screen legends and Holiday Inn co-stars Bing Crosby (The Emperor Waltz) and Fred Astaire (Daddy Long Legs) reunite for another dazzling Irving Berlin musical spectacular, Blue Skies. Dancing star Jed Potter (Astaire) and singer/nightclub owner Johnny Adams (Crosby) are both in love with songstress Mary O’Hara (Joan Caulfield, Larceny). She marries Johnny but his passion for buying and selling nightclubs drives them apart. So Jed steps in, hoping to win Mary’s heart—until fate steps in and changes the lives of all three. Wonderfully directed by the versatile Stuart Heisler (Among the Living, Beachhead) and featuring thirty Irving Berlin songs including the showstopper “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” Blue Skies remains one of the all-time great musicals!
Bonus Features: Brand New 2K Master and Newly Remastered Audio | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Critic and Author Simon Abrams | Trailers | Optional English Subtitles
EDGAR G. ULMER SCI-FI COLLECTION
THE MAN FROM PLANET X/BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER/THE AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN
Street Date: 3/29/22
Synopsis: This collection features three sci-fi shockers directed by the sensational Edgar G. Ulmer (The Black Cat, Detour). THE MAN FROM PLANET X (1950) – On the coast of Scotland, where there’s enough fog to hide an alien landing, an astronomer discovers that one has actually occurred. But it’s soon realized that the creature, the “Man from Planet X,” has definite plans—not for friendship, but for domination—unleashing “out-of-this-world” havoc on the villagers! BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER (1960) – In 1960, U.S. Air Force Major William Allison pilots the X80 jet, which is capable of speeds up to 5,000 miles an hour and reaching heights of more than 100 miles above Earth. Upon nearly reaching outer space, Allison is unaware that the X80’s tremendous velocity has propelled him through a time barrier and into the post-apocalyptic year of 2024. He soon finds himself held captive in an underground city known as the Citadel, whose inhabitants have been menaced by mutants and a deadly virus. Now Allison must find a way to return to the past and warn humanity of impending disaster. THE AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN (1960) – In this pulse-pounding sci-fi classic, safecracker Joey Faust is snatched out of prison and made invisible with an atomic ray gun, apparently—and transparently—for the sole purpose of stealing nuclear fuel for a villain named Krenner and his beautiful moll Laura. But when Faust realizes his radiation-generated new look is slowly poisoning him, the tables are quickly turned, and his simple heist could now become the decade’s most horrifying nuclear nightmare of vengeance!
Bonus Features: Brand New 2K Masters for BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER and THE AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN | Audio Commentary for THE MAN FROM PLANET X by Film Historians Tom Weaver, David Schecter, Dr. Robert J. Kiss and Filmmaker Joe Dante | Audio Commentary for THE MAN FOR PLANET X by Film Historian Gary D. Rhodes and Arianne Ulmer Cipes (Edgar G. Ulmer’s Daughter) | NEW Audio Commentary for THE MAN FROM PLANET X by Film Historian Richard Harland Smith | NEW Audio Commentary for BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER by Film Historians Tom Weaver, David Schecter and Gary D. Rhodes | NEW Audio Commentary for THE AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN by Film Historian David Del Valle | Theatrical Trailers for All Three Films | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 3/29/22
Synopsis: His Camera Was More Deadly Than a Gangster’s Gun! From Joseph Pevney, the acclaimed director of Because of You, Six Bridges to Cross, Foxfire, Female on the Beach and The Midnight Story, comes this thrilling tale of crime and celluloid. Two-bit press photographer Jack Early (Howard Duff, Woman in Hiding) is sent to snap a shot of notorious racketeer Nick Palmer (Brian Donlevy, The Great McGinty), who takes the unscrupulous shutterbug under his wing. Jack decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Nick and another crime boss (Lawrence Tierney, Prizzi’s Honor) against one another. All the while, he seduces—and manipulates—newspaperwoman Ellen Bennett (Peggy Dow, The Sleeping City) and Nick’s moll Nita (Anne Vernon, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg). Eventually, Jack must pay for his wicked ways, in this hard-hitting, double-crossing film noir with shadowy black-and-white photography by Irving Glassberg (Larceny).
Bonus Features: Brand New 2K Master | NEW Audio Commentary by Professor and Film Scholar Jason A. Ney | Trailers | Optional English Subtitles
Synopsis: Scandinavian bombshell Diana Kjær (Fanny Hill) is Dagmar, a classy call girl in Copenhagen. To Dagmar, pleasure is a business. And business is a pleasure. But after two years in the trade, she’s ready to quit. Join Dagmar on the final day of her career as she visits various clients and female friends for one last hurrah. Also known as Dagmar & Co. and co-starring Robert Strauss (Stalag 17), Anne Grete (Without a Stitch), Inger Sundh (The Daughter: I, a Woman Part III) and Tommy Blom (The Seduction of Inga), Dagmar’s Hot Pants, Inc. is a charming ’70s sex comedy that’s sure to satisfy!
Bonus Features: Brand New 2K Master | Theatrical Trailer (Newly Mastered in 2K) | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 3/29/22
Synopsis: A group of college students are spending a weekend away at a remote cabin. To pass the time, they decide to tell scary stories to one another. The first story focuses on a couple being terrorized by a Bigfoot-like creature while in the woods. The second story follows a group of fraternity brothers who spend the night in an abandoned hospital reputed to be haunted, while the third story concerns a young woman who begins to lose her grip on reality after experiencing an attempted rape. After telling their stories, they discuss an alleged wind spirit who haunts the lake near the cabin in which they are staying which becomes the most terrifying story of them all. Now watch this film from a 2K scan of the original 16mm A/B roll camera negative, that includes the legendary thought-to-be-lost fourth story involving a creepy tree witch!
Bonus Features: 2K SCAN of the UNCUT Director’s Edition | Original Theatrical Cut | Interview with Star Gil Glasgow | Theatrical Trailer | Optional English Subtitles
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