Kino Lorber Studio Classics and Kino Cult have unveiled the details of their February 2025 4K UHD and Blu-Ray releases including works from such icons as James Cagney, Steve McQueen, Diane Keaton, John Candy, Jessica Lange, Pierce Brosnan, John Cusack and more. Get all the details on this incredibly packed lineup below:
KILL THEM ALL AND COME BACK ALONE/THE HELLBENDERS (4K UHD BLU-RAY)
Street Date: 2/4/25
Synopsis: This special edition includes two classic Spaghetti Westerns. Kill Them All and Come Back Alone (1968) – From Enzo G. Castellari, the legendary director of Street Law, The Big Racket, Keoma and The Inglorious Bastards comes this action-packed spaghetti western starring screen and television great Chuck Connors (The Big Country, TV’s The Rifleman and Branded). In 1864, a mercenary Clyde McKay (Connors) leads a squad of tough-as-nails cutthroats on a mission for the Confederate high command to infiltrate an enemy fortress and steal millions in gold from the Union Army. Frank Wolfe (Once Upon a Time in the West) co-stars in this fully restored first-rate tale of betrayal and revenge. The Hellbenders (1967) – From Sergio Corbucci, the legendary director of Django, Navajo Joe, The Great Silence and The Mercenary comes this classic spaghetti western starring screen icon Joseph Cotten (The Third Man, Duel in the Sun) as the fanatical patriarch of a family of ex-Confederate killers who massacre an army convoy carrying millions in cash to finance an invasion of the North. But before they can re-ignite the Civil War, they’ll have to smuggle a coffin crammed with the stolen cash across a frontier enflamed by lust, violence and extreme vengeance. Aldo Sambrell (For a Few Dollars More) and Al Mulloch (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) co-star in this fully restored western shocker. The Hellbenders—also known as The Cruel Ones, Features a rousing score renowned composer Ennio Morricone (A Fistful of Dollars).
Bonus Features: 2020 UHD SDR Masters by StudioCanal | Includes Both the 99-Minute English and 100-Minute Italian Cuts of KILL THEM ALL AND COME BACK ALONE | Audio Commentaries (Both Films) by Filmmaker Alex Cox, Author of 10,000 Ways to Die: A Director’s Take on the Italian Western | Theatrical Trailers (Both Films) | KILL THEM ALL – Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc | THE HELLBENDERS – Dual-Layered UHD66 Disc | Optional English Subtitles
FILM NOIR: THE DARK SIDE OF CINEMA XXIII
ROPE OF SAND/KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE/NEVER LOVE A STRANGER
Street Date: 2/11/25
Synopsis: This collection features three gripping film noir classics. Rope of Sand (1949) – A Sand-Swept Saga of Savage Greed, Sultry Love and Wild Adventure! Produced by Hal B. Wallis (Casablanca, Desert Fury) and directed by William Dieterle (The Accused), this suspense-noir classic brings the dynamic Burt Lancaster (I Walk Alone) and dazzling Corinne Calvet (Peking Express) together with three great co-stars of Casablanca: Paul Henreid, Claude Rains and Peter Lorre. To claim a cache of diamonds, Mike Davis (Lancaster) returns to the same remote South African city where he was tortured and left for dead at the hands of a sadistic police commandant (Henreid). He recruits the assistance of a mysterious stranger (Lorre) and the doctor who had helped him back to health (Sam Jaffe). But the scheming head of the diamond syndicate (Rains) recruits a femme fatale (Calvet) to seduce and betray Mike as an alternative to brute force. An exotic gem of noir—Rope of Sand boasts striking Charles Lang (A Foreign Affair, Female on the Beach) cinematography and a Franz Waxman (Sunset Boulevard) score. The amazing cast also includes Sam Jaffe (Gunga Din) and legendary noir heavy Mike Mazurki (Murder, My Sweet, Dark City). Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950) – As Only James Cagney Can Portray It! Screen legend Cagney (The Roaring Twenties, White Heat) in his final great gangster role… Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye offers Cagney at his nastiest! The star plays career criminal Ralph Cotter, a lowlife maniac who doesn’t care about anything except his next kill. After busting out of prison and murdering his partner, the cold-blooded mobster satisfies a pent-up lust for violence in an unstoppable and vicious crime spree. Dirty cops (Ward Bond and Barton MacLane) try to strong-arm the fascinating creep, but he turns the tables and blackmails them with the help of a crooked lawyer (Luther Adler). Upon its theatrical release, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye was banned in the state of Ohio as “a sordid, sadistic presentation of brutality and an extreme presentation of crime.” Now, it’s hailed as a hardboiled Cagney classic! Stylishly directed by Gordon Douglas (Only the Valiant) and featuring Barbara Payton, Helena Carter, Steve Brodie, Rhys Williams and William Frawley. Never Love a Stranger (1958) – Raw and Violent as the Book That Sold 3,000,000 Sizzling Copies! In one of the roles that made him a major star, screen great Steve McQueen (The Great Escape) is out to stop organized crime as special investigator Martin Cabell. The man he’s after: onetime boyhood pal Frank Kane (John Drew Barrymore, While the City Sleeps). These are the red-hot ingredients in Harold Robbins’ (Nevada Smith) screen adaptation of his bestselling debut novel, Never Love a Stranger. Robbins, a master at depicting the steamier, darker side of life, paints a tragic portrait of Frank Kane. Starting out as a “numbers runner,” Kane loses his girlfriend, Julie (Lita Milan, The Left Handed Gun) to mob boss “Silk” Fennelli (Robert Bray, My Gun Is Quick). Climbing up the underworld ladder, Kane reaches the top, where he succeeds in winning Julie back and making a bitter enemy of Fennelli. With Fennelli gunning for him and Cabell looking to put him away, Kane’s days seem to be numbered in this sultry noir of lust, violence and friendship torn apart. Superbly directed by Robert Stevens (TV’s The Twilight Zone and Coronet Blue). Co-starring legendary character actor R.G. Armstrong (White Lightning).
Bonus Features: 2021, 2019 & 2022 HD Masters by Paramount Pictures – From 4K Scans | NEW Audio Commentary for ROPE OF SAND by Film Historian/Screenwriter Gary Gerani | NEW Audio Commentary for KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE by Author/Film Historian Alan K. Rode | NEW Audio Commentary for NEVER LOVE A STRANGER by Film Historian/Writer Julie Kirgo and Writer/Filmmaker Peter Hankoff | Theatrical Trailers (Rope of Sand / Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye) | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 4/22/25
Synopsis: Without warning, day becomes night; air turns to fire, and solid ground melts beneath white-hot lava. From director Roger Donaldson (No Way Out, Species) comes an adrenaline-pumping adventure starring Pierce Brosnan (GoldenEye, The Thomas Crown Affair) and Linda Hamilton (The Terminator, T2: Judgment Day). Welcome to the charming Pacific Northwest town of Dante’s Peak…where a long-dormant volcano is about to erupt with devastating force! The race is on for volcanologist Harry Dalton (Brosnan) and Mayor Rachel Wando (Hamilton) to evacuate the townspeople before it’s too late. Who will survive when the inferno unleashes its fury? The answer will leave you breathless, and the special effects will blow you away! Written by Leslie Bohem (Daylight) and beautifully shot in Cinemascope by Andrzej Bartkowiak (Speed).
Bonus Features: DISC 1 (4KUHD): Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | Audio Commentary by Director Roger Donaldson and Production Designer Dennis Washington | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc | Optional English Subtitle | DISC 2 (BLU-RAY): Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | Audio Commentary by Director Roger Donaldson and Production Designer Dennis Washington | Getting Close to the Show: The Making of Dante’s Peak | Theatrical Trailer | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitle
Street Date: 2/11/25
Synopsis: Woody Allen’s wonderful comedy was his first film with Diane Keaton, a relationship that would continue to produce great films like Sleeper, Love and Death, Annie Hall and Manhattan. Allen plays Allan, a fanatical movie buff with an outrageous recurring hallucination: Humphrey Bogart (Jerry Lacy) offering tips on how to make it with the ladies. His married friends Dick and Linda (Tony Roberts and Diane Keaton) fix him up with several eligible young ladies, but his self-confidence is so weak that he’s a total failure with them all. Eventually Allan discovers that there is one woman he’s himself with: Linda, his best friend’s wife. The final scene is a terrific takeoff on Casablanca’s classical ending, complete with roaring plane propellers, heavy fog and Bogie-style trenchcoats. Play It Again, Sam was penned by Woody Allen, based on his own 1969 Broadway play, and directed by Herbert Ross (The Goodbye Girl, California Suite).
Bonus Features: Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | NEW Audio Commentary by Screenwriter/Producer Alan Spencer and Author/Film Historian Justin Humphreys | Theatrical Trailer | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 2/11/25
Synopsis: What would you do to share a sun-splashed week in the Caribbean with someone special? Battle a pirate?…A hurricane?…A hijacking goon squad? Prep-schooler Dan Bartlett (John Cusack, Better Off Dead) does all that and more when he takes off in Hot Pursuit of his island-bound girlfriend (Wendy Gazelle, Triumph of the Spirit). Although he’s better prepared for the S.A.T. than jungle warfare, Dan summons up some Everyman moxie, saves the day (and his neck) and takes you along every riotous step of the way! The hilarious cast also features Robert Loggia (Big), Keith David (The Thing), Jerry Stiller (Highway to Hell) and Ben Stiller (Tropic Thunder) in his movie debut. Co-written and directed by Steven Lisberger (Tron).
Bonus Features: Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Joe Ramoni | Theatrical Trailer | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 2/18/25
Synopsis: The great John Candy (Summer Rental, Spaceballs) stars in this outrageous comedy as an idle, good-natured bachelor who’s left in charge of his nephew and nieces during a family crisis. Unaccustomed to suburban life, fun-loving Uncle Buck soon charms his younger relatives Miles (Macaulay Culkin, Home Alone) and Maizy (Gaby Hoffmann, Now and Then) with his hefty cooking and his new way of doing the laundry. His carefree style doesn’t impress everyone, though—especially Tia (Jean Louisa Kelly, Mr. Holland’s Opus), his rebellious teenage niece, and Chanice (Amy Madigan, Field of Dreams), his impatient girlfriend. Uncle Buck is the last person you’d think of to watch the kids. But with a little luck and a lot of love, he manages to surprise everyone in this heartwarming family classic from iconic filmmaker John Hughes, writer-director of Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
Bonus Features: DISC 1 (4KUHD): Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Joe Ramoni | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc | Optional English Subtitles | DISC 2 (BLU-RAY): Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Joe Ramoni | Sixteen Going on Seventeen: NEW Interview with Actress Jean Louisa Kelly | Theatrical Trailer | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 2/18/25
Synopsis: Comedy legend Carl Reiner (Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid) directed this tale of a family man who takes a vacation from sanity when he takes a lease on a Florida Summer Rental. Comedy icon John Candy (Uncle Buck) plays the stressed-out air traffic controller whose much-needed family holiday yields one hysterical misadventure after another—from settling into his hovel, to settling down on a “party” beach, to settling the score with a nut at sea. The fun’s in the sun, and so’s the moral: taking it easy is tougher than landing a 747! Co-starring Richard Crenna (The Flamingo Kid), Rip Torn (Dodgeball), John Larroquette (Blind Date), Kerri Green (The Goonies), Joey Lawrence (TV’s Blossom) and Karen Austin (The Ladies Club).
Bonus Features: Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Joe Ramoni | Ear Candy: The Music of Summer Rental – A NEW Featurette by Entertainment Journalists Max Evry (10:14) | Theatrical Trailer | Optional English Subtitles
ARE YOU BEING SERVED? – THE MOVIE
Street Date: 2/18/25
Synopsis: Screwball shenanigans are served in this feature-length 1977 movie version of Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft’s beloved BBC television series that has become one of the most popular British comedies in PBS history! While London’s Grace Brothers department store undergoes renovations, the staff is treated to a continental holiday in sun-kissed Costa Plonka where they tangle with the local cuisine, swap cheeky lust letters—and are caught in the middle of an armed rebel insurrection. Join Mr. Humphries (John Inman), Mrs. Slocombe (Mollie Sugden), Captain Peacock (Frank Thornton), Mr. Lucas (Trevor Bannister), Miss Brahms (Wendy Richard), Mr. Grainger (Arthur Brough), Mr. Rumbold (Nicholas Smith), Mr. Harman (Arthur English) and Young Mr. Grace (Harold Bennett) as the bullets and knickers fly!
Bonus Features: Audio Commentary by Authors and Comedy Historians Gemma and Robert Ross | Theatrical Trailer
Street Date: 2/18/25
Synopsis: Jessica Lange (Tootsie) delivers an exhilarating, unforgettable performance as Frances Farmer, the notorious 1930s movie star whose impassioned opinions and outspoken behavior created scandal throughout the industry. But when she was betrayed by the studio system and committed to a mental asylum by her domineering mother (Kim Stanley, Séance on a Wet Afternoon), Frances descended into a madness that shook the world. Her story is shocking, disturbing, compelling…and true. Also starring Sam Shepard (Fool for Love) and nominated for two Academy Awards® for the year 1982—Best Actress (Lange) and Best Supporting Actress (Stanley)—Frances is a dramatic triumph, as harrowing as it is heartbreaking.
Bonus Features: NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian David Del Valle and Film Historian/Producer Dan Marino| | Archival Audio commentary by director Graeme Clifford and David Gregory | “A Hollywood Life: Remembering Frances” featurette (30:52) | Theatrical Trailer | Optional English Subtitles
GRAVEYARD SHIFT (4K UHD & BLU-RAY)
Street Date: 2/25/25
Synopsis: Stephen King took you to the edge with Carrie, The Shining, Cujo, Pet Sematary and Misery. This time…he pushes you over! Gates Falls, Maine. When an abandoned textile mill is reopened, several employees meet mysterious deaths. The link between the killings: all occurred between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m.—the Graveyard Shift. The sadistic mill foreman has chosen a group to clean up the mill’s rat-infested basement. But what the workers find is a subterranean maze of tunnels leading to the cemetery—and an unimaginable horror that comes alive in the dead of night. Based on the short story by Stephen King, Graveyard Shift offers nerve-gnawing suspense, grisly practical effects and a whole new reason to fear the dark! Starring David Andrews (Cherry 2000), Stephen Macht (The Monster Squad), Kelly Wolf (Triumph of the Spirit), Andrew Divoff (Wishmaster) and Brad Dourif (Death Machine) as The Exterminator.
Bonus Features: DISC 1 (4KUHD): Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Howard S. Berger and Marc Edward Heuck | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc | Optional English Subtitles | DISC 2 (BLU-RAY): Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Howard S. Berger and Marc Edward Heuck | Interview with Director Ralph S. Singleton | Interview with Actor Stephen Macht | Interview with Actress Kelly Wolf | Interview with Actor Robert Alan Beuth | Theatrical Trailer | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 2/25/25
Synopsis: Hollywood icon John Wayne (The Searchers, Hatari!) stars as the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan in the lavish period epic The Conqueror. Produced by the legendary Howard Hughes (The Outlaw), the directorial debut of actor Dick Powell (Christmas in July, Pitfall) features a cast of thousands and period costumes recreating 12th century China. Boasting an international cast that includes Susan Hayward (Canyon Passage), Agnes Moorehead (CItizen Kane), Pedro Armendariz (From Russia WIth Love) and William Conrad (The Killers), this infamous Eastern Western showcases “The Duke” in one of his most unusual roles ever.
Bonus Features: Audio Commentary by Film Historian David Del Valle and Film Historian/Producer Dan Marino | Theatrical Trailer
Street Date: 2/25/25
Synopsis: James Clavell’s (Shōgun) blockbuster novel of rivalry, extortion and murder comes to life in this mesmerizing miniseries set in the high stakes business world of Hong Kong. Ian Dunross (Pierce Brosnan, Goldeneye) is named “Tai-Pan” (supreme leader) of the powerful British-East Asia trading company, Struan & Co., just as a rival (John Rhys-Davies, The Lord of the Rings) attempts a hostile takeover. Suddenly plunged into a criminal underworld of international espionage, deception and financial crises. Dunross turns up the heat by engaging in a dangerous romance with his nemesis’s aide (Deborah Raffin, Death Wish 3). But with danger lurking around every corner, Dunross ultimately sees he has no choice but to fight for his company’s honor and survival.
Bonus Features: Episode 1 Audio Commentary by TV Historian Amanda Reyes | Episode 2 Audio Commentary by TV Historian Amanda Reyes and Hong Kong Film Historian Frank Djeng | Episode 3 Audio Commentary by TV Historian Amanda Reyes and host of The Projection Booth podcast Mike White | Episode 4 Audio Commentary by TV Historians Amanda Reyes and Scott Humphries
Street Date: 3/4/25
Synopsis: Enter Crawlspace…and enter a new dimension of terror! Perennial villain Klaus Kinski (Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Nosferatu the Vampyre) stars in this gruesome modern Gothic as psychotic landlord Karl Gunther, who keeps a close watch on his tenants. Spying on his female renters from an elaborate network of crawlspaces, he lures new victims into his torture chamber with an incessant “tap, tap, tap!” Can a new prospective renter stop this apartment building’s rapid turnover rate…or will the fiendish Gunther continue to make a killing? Also starring Talia Balsam (The Kindred) and Tané (Death Spa), directed by David Schmoeller (Tourist Trap, Catacombs, Puppet Master), photographed by Sergio Salvati (The Beyond) and featuring a haunting score by Pino Donaggio (Dressed to Kill), this creeping cult classic will make your flesh crawl.
Bonus Features: NEW Audio Commentary by film historian John Harrison | Audio Commentary by Writer/Director David Schmoeller | Interview with Makeup Effects Artist John Vulich (8:33) | Please Kill Mr. Kinski – Short Film by David Schmoeller (9:05) | Theatrical Trailer | TV Spots
THE SACRIFICE (4K UHD BLU-RAY)
Street Date: 2/4/25
Synopsis: The Sacrifice is Andrei Tarkovsky’s (Stalker) final masterpiece, a haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation. As a wealthy Swedish family celebrates the birthday of their patriarch Alexander (Erland Josephson, Cries and Whispers), news of the outbreak of World War III reaches their remote Baltic island — and the happy mood turns to horror. The family descends into a state of psychological devastation, brilliantly evoked by Tarkovsky’s arresting palette of luminous greys washing over the bleak landscape around their home. (The film’s masterful cinematography is by Sven Nykvist, Ingmar Bergman’s longtime collaborator.) For Alexander, a philosopher troubled about man’s lack of spirituality, the prospect of certain extinction compels the ultimate sacrifice, and he enters into a Faustian bargain with God to save his loved ones from the fear which grips them. The Sacrifice was made as Tarkovsky was dying of cancer, and stands as a profoundly moving summation of his extraordinary life and career. 2023 4K SDR Restoration carried out by the Swedish Film Institute from the original 35mm camera negative. Audio mix restored from magnetic tape.
Bonus Features: DISC 1 (4KUHD): Audio Commentary by Layla Alexander-Garrett, Tarkovsky’s translator on the set of The Sacrifice | DISC 2 (BLU-RAY): Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky (1988, a documentary on the making of The Sacrifice) | Interview with Michal Leszczylowski (editor of The Sacrifice and director of Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky) | Trailers
OSCAR MICHEAUX: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION (BLU-RAY)
Street Date: 2/11/25
Synopsis: In this unprecedented undertaking, Kino Classics, in cooperation with the Library of Congress and several international film archives, pays homage to one of cinema’s most historically important artists: Oscar Micheaux (1884-1951). Operating on shoestring budgets completely outside the studio system, Micheaux explored the Black experience with nuance and depth, often challenging the negative stereotypes so commonly portrayed in films of the era. This five-disc collection showcases the director’s entire surviving body of work, including seven new restorations: Within Our Gates, The Symbol of the Unconquered, Body and Soul, God’s Step Children, Veiled Aristocrats, Murder in Harlem, and The Notorious Elinor Lee. It also showcases Micheaux’s rarely seen genre films, such as Lying Lips, Underworld, and Swing! from the best surviving film elements.
Bonus Features: Introductions by series curator Rhea L. Combs | Printed booklet of film notes | Theatrical trailers for select films | 2024 Theatrical re-release trailer
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