Kino Lorber Studio Classics and Kino Cult have unveiled the details of their September 2025 4K UHD and Blu-Ray releases including works from such icons as Peter Sellers, William Holden, Dolly Parton, James Brolin, Burt Reynolds, Myrna Loy, Dean Martin, and more. Get all the details on this incredibly packed lineup below:
Street Date: 9/9/25
Synopsis: In this British comic gem of the ’60s, the mighty Peter Sellers (The Ladykillers, The Pink Panther) stars as Pearly Gates, the cockney kingpin of London’s most efficient gang of thieves, organizing spectacular robberies from behind the front of a haute-couture dress salon. Everything goes well until the police start appearing after every job to confiscate the loot. The cunning Pearly realizes there’s a traitor amongst his crew, and no one is above suspicion—not even his fashion model girlfriend Valerie (Nanette Newman, The Raging Moon). Much laughter and lunacy ensue! The smashing cast also features Bernard Cribbins (The Railway Children) as gangster “Nervous” O’Toole and Lionel Jeffries (Two Way Stretch) as Inspector Fred “Nosy” Parker.
Bonus Features: 2023 HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Journalist Laurence Lerman | The Long Arm of the Screenwriter: Interview with Screenwriter John Antrobus | Theatrical Trailer | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 9/9/25
Synopsis: Joan Caulfield (Blue Skies) and William Holden (Sabrina) star in this delightful romantic comedy based on the Broadway play by Norman Krasna (White Christmas, Indiscreet). Teenager Miriam Wilkins (Mona Freeman) is an energetic activist during World War II, involving her family in causes without first gaining their consent. Her parents (Edward Arnold and Mary Phillips) are puzzled when young Lieutenant Bill Seacroft (Holden), on leave from the Italian front, appears at their home asking for their 22-year-old daughter Ruth (Caulfield). Unbeknownst to all, Miriam has been writing letters to Bill and signing Ruth’s name as part of a program to keep up soldiers’ morale. Although Ruth has just gotten engaged to her co-worker (Billy De Wolfe), she agrees to see Bill and pretend she wrote the letters. Holden and Caulfield light up the screen in this box-office hit of 1947 that “bubbles and sparkles its way into your heart” (The New York Times)!
Bonus Features: Audio Commentary by Film Historian Farran Smith Nehme
NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER (4K UHD & BLU-RAY)
Street Date: 9/16/25
Synopsis: The grit and intensity of late-1970s New York City is depicted in stark detail in this relentlessly action-packed cult classic. Twenty-four hours of nerve-jangling tension and suspense begin when a twisted psychotic (Cliff Gorman, Cops and Robbers, All That Jazz) kidnaps a teenaged girl, mistaking her for the daughter of a wealthy real estate developer. Her determined father (James Brolin, The Car, The Amityville Horror), a hard-hitting ex-cop, doggedly pursues them through New York’s seamy streets, decaying, burned-out Bronx tenements, and the grimy subterranean corridors beneath the city itself. Based on the novel by William P. McGivern (The Big Heat, Odds Against Tomorrow) and co-starring Richard S. Castellano (The Godfather), Julie Carmen (In the Mouth of Madness), Dan Hedaya (Blood Simple) and Mandy Patinkin (The Princess Bride), Night of the Juggler is a thrilling example of no-holds-barred, pure adrenaline-fueled filmmaking. The film’s original director Sidney J. Furie (The Ipcress File, The Appaloosa) was replaced by Robert Butler (Up the Creek, Turbulence) a few weeks into production.
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 Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 | 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 Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson | Summer of ‘78: NEW Interview with Actor James Brolin | The Sweet Maria: NEW Interview with Actress Julie Carmen | Pandemonium Reflex: An Inquest into Sidney J. Furie’s Night of the Juggler | Theatrical Trailer (Newly Mastered in 2K) | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles
FATHER BROWN, DETECTIVE
Street Date: 9/16/25
Synopsis: Walter Connolly (It Happened One Night) stars as Father Brown, a humble Roman Catholic priest who doubles as a sleuth, using his intuition and keen understanding of human nature to solve mysteries and crimes. Paul Lukas (By Candlelight, The Lady Vanishes) plays the notorious jewel thief Flambeau, who intends to steal precious diamonds from a cross in Father Brown’s church as a gift for the lovely Evelyn Fischer (Gertrude Michael, Murder at the Vanities). The crime-busting clergyman Father Brown fights to retain the cross, and also to reform and redeem the soul of the elusive troublemaker Flambeau! This charming comedy-mystery is based on “The Blue Cross,” the inaugural story in G.K. Chesterton’s celebrated Father Brown detective series.
Bonus Features: Audio Commentary by Professor and Film Scholar Jason A. Ney
AIRPLANE II: THE SEQUEL (4K UHD & BLU-RAY)
Street Date: 9/23/25
Synopsis: There’s a mad bomber on board, the first lunar shuttle is about to self-destruct, the engines are not working, and—worst of all—the flight crew discovers they are completely out of coffee! It’s the high-flying lunacy of Airplane! all over again as Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty fly totally out of the ozone to recreate their hilarious original roles. The crew of crazies includes Sonny Bono, Lloyd Bridges, Raymond Burr, Chuck Connors, Chad Everett, Peter Graves, William Shatner, Rip Torn and many others. Can Hays save the day again—without caffeine? Fasten your seatbelts for a ride you’ll never forget—Airplane II: The Sequel.
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 Mike White of The Projection Booth Podcast | NEW Audio Commentary by Television Writer/Showrunner Patrick Walsh | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 | 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 Mike White of The Projection Booth Podcast | NEW Audio Commentary by Television Writer/Showrunner Patrick Walsh | Theatrical Trailer | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 9/23/25
Synopsis: From celebrated playwright Terence Rattigan and director Anthony Asquith (The Winslow Boy, The Browning Version) comes this effervescent comedy-of-manners starring the ever-charming Ray Milland (Arise My Love) and Ellen Drew (Christmas in July). Adapted from Rattigan’s 1936 play (which made Rex Harrison a star), this 1940 film version begins when Diana (Drew), the sister of a young Englishman studying at a language “cramming” school in the south of France, arrives in town to flirt with all of her brothers’ schoolmates. Alan (Milland), one of the students, tries his hardest to resist Diana’s charms—to no avail, of course! Deliciously entertaining, French Without Tears is a sly satire on the “civilized” romantic entanglements of the upper-crust milieu.
Bonus Features: NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian/ Screenwriter Gary Gerani | Optional English Subtitles
THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS
Street Date: 9/23/25
Synopsis: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas documents in rousing song and dance, a new Texas legend, which now joins the Alamo as a historical institution, immortalized in story, song, book, play and movie. The demise of the real-life Chicken Ranch inspired the hit stage musical, and now this boisterous big-screen adaptation headed by superstar Burt Reynolds (Smokey and the Bandit) as Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd and red-hot country legend Dolly Parton (9 to 5) as the Chicken Ranch’s proprietress, Miss Mona. The two join together not only in romance, but to fight big-city TV crusader Melvin P. Thorpe (Dom DeLuise, The Cannonball Run) in his efforts to expose the Chicken Ranch to public scandal, and thus close it down. The mighty Charles Durning (The Sting) earned an Oscar nomination (Best Supporting Actor, 1982) as the Governor of Texas in this irresistible Southern-fried classic from filmmaker Colin Higgins (Harold and Maude, Foul Play, 9 to 5). Show-stopping musical numbers include “Sneakin’ Around,” “Hard Candy Christmas,” and Dolly’s eternal ballad, “I Will Always Love You.” Y’all come back now, you hear?
Bonus Features: Brand New HD Master – From a 2K Scan of the 35mm Interpositive | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Paul Anthony Nelson and Perri Cummings | NEW Audio Commentary by Entertainment Journalists/Authors Bryan Reesman and Max Evry | The Making of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas: Featurette (7:18) | Outtakes (4:06) | Theatrical Trailer (Newly Mastered in 2K) | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 9/30/25
Synopsis: Take a nonstop flight with an all-star cast to a world of tension-filled human drama in this trend-setting box-office blockbuster. Based on Arthur Hailey’s runaway bestseller, the emotion-charged adventure stars Burt Lancaster as the manager of a glamorous international airport who must juggle personal crises with professional responsibilities as he attempts to keep his blizzard-torn facility open to rescue a bomb-damaged jetliner. The lavish Ross Hunter (Portrait in Black) production co-stars a veritable Who’s Who of Hollywood’s most glittering personalities including Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy, Van Heflin, Maureen Stapleton, Lloyd Nolan and Helen Hayes in the role that won her a second Oscar (Best Supporting Actress, 1970). Nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Screenplay for legendary writer-director George Seaton (Miracle on 34th Street, The Proud and Profane), this movie milestone remains a gripping trip from suspenseful take-off to senses-shattering landing.
Bonus Features: DISC 1 (4KUHD): Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of 35mm Inter-positive Reduction Elements | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian/Writer Julie Kirgo and Author/Screenwriter C. Courtney Joyner | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 | Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc | Optional English Subtitles | DISC 2 (BLU-RAY): Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of 35mm Inter-positive Reduction Elements | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian/Writer Julie Kirgo and Author/Screenwriter C. Courtney Joyner | Theatrical Trailer (Newly Mastered in 2K) | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles
AIRPORT 1975 (4K UHD & BLU-RAY)
Street Date: 9/30/25
Synopsis: “Something hit us…the crew is dead…help us, please, please help us!” With these terrifying words, 22 of Hollywood’s greatest stars find themselves aboard a pilotless jumbo jet headed on a collision course with destruction in the nerve-chilling sequel to the greatest disaster movie ever made. Charlton Heston is in the cockpit for this incredible adventure as the only man who can save the 747 and its passengers when it’s hit in midair by a private plane. Karen Black is the chief stewardess who must act as the blinded pilot’s hands and eyes to take control of the plane or die trying. Myrna Loy, Helen Reddy, Linda Blair, Dana Andrews, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Sid Caesar, George Kennedy (recreating his acclaimed Airport role) and Gloria Swanson (playing herself in her final film) are also aboard trying to survive the deadly skies of this high-flying thriller helmed by veteran director Jack Smight (Harper, Midway).
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 Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 | 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 Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson | Theatrical Trailer (Newly Mastered in 2K) | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles
AIRPORT ’77 (4K UHD & BLU-RAY)
Street Date: 9/30/25
Synopsis: Take a luxurious, privately-owned 747 jumbo jet full of VIP’s. Load it with a cargo of priceless art treasures and send it flying over the hazardous Bermuda Triangle. Add a few desperate hijackers for good measure and you’ve got the makings of one of the most harrowing adventure stories ever put on film. James Stewart is the philanthropic owner of the doomed plane and Jack Lemmon is the fearless pilot risking death at every turn in an attempt to save the luxury airliner when it is skyjacked and sent crashing to the ocean’s floor. Aboard for the ill-fated trip are Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland, Darren McGavin, Christopher Lee and returning Airport co-star George Kennedy. All face danger in the air and beneath the sea in the most thrilling Airport movie of them all, directed by action-adventure ace Jerry Jameson (Superdome, Raise the Titanic).
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 Historian/Writer Julie Kirgo and Writer/Filmmaker Peter Hankoff | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 | 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 Historian/Writer Julie Kirgo and Writer/Filmmaker Peter Hankoff | Theatrical Trailer (Newly Mastered in 2K) | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles
THE CONCORDE…AIRPORT ’79 (4K UHD & BLU-RAY)
Street Date: 9/30/25
Synopsis: Matchless intrigue soars out of the sky at supersonic speed in this incredible tale of airborne suspense derived from Arthur Hailey’s all-time bestseller. Susan Blakely headlines the star-studded, tension-packed international drama as a jet-setting TV reporter who puts everyone on board a Moscow-bound Concorde in jeopardy when she becomes the target of her former lover, traitorous arms smuggler Robert Wagner. The lives of Alain Delon, Sylvia Kristel, Eddie Albert, Bibi Andersson, Charo, John Davidson, Martha Raye, Cicely Tyson, David Warner, Mercedes McCambridge and the mighty George Kennedy hang in the balance amid flying missiles and exploding bombs in this enthralling globe-trotting adventure helmed by director David Lowell Rich (The Horror at 37,000 Feet, SST: Death Flight), a specialist of sky-high suspense.
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 Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 | 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 Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson | Theatrical Trailer (Newly Mastered in 2K) | 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 | Dual-Layered BD50 Disc | Optional English Subtitles
Street Date: 9/16/25
Synopsis: Nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film, and directed by the fearlessly talented Agnieszka Holland (Green Border, Europa Europa), Angry Harvest is a beautifully acted drama of a forbidden romance under Nazi occupation. It is 1943 in Poland, and Leon (Armin Mueller-Stahl, Eastern Promises) is a rich Polish farmer who lives a quiet life in the middle of the forest. His life is changed forever when he finds Rosa (Elisabeth Trissenaar, Berlin Alexanderplatz), a married Jewish woman on the run from the Nazis who has collapsed from exhaustion. Leon hides her and nurses her back to health, and is tortured by his growing attraction to her. They slowly grow closer, with the entire country against them, and death at their doorstep.
Bonus Features: Audio Commentary by Film Critic Bilge Ebiri
Street Date: 9/16/25
Synopsis: A milestone of Queer Cinema, Maedchen in Uniform is Géza von Radványi’s 1958 screen adaptation of the groundbreaking play by Christa Winsloe. Romy Schneider (The Trial) stars as Manuela, a sensitive pupil who forms an attachment to a compassionate instructor (Lilli Palmer, Body and Soul) while at a militaristic boarding school. After performing the role of Romeo in the school play, an intoxicated Manuela openly declares her love for Miss von Bernburg, scandalizing the student body and inciting the wrath of the school’s conservative headmistress (Therese Giehse). Previously filmed in 1931 by Leontine Sagan, Maedchen in Uniform is a timeless coming-of-age classic that captures the heartache and confusion of a young woman’s sexual awakening.
Bonus Features: Audio Commentary by Writer and Filmmaker Drew Burnett Gregory
DAN CURTIS’ LATE-NIGHT MYSTERIES
Street Date: 9/23/25
Synopsis: Perhaps no figure exerted a greater influence on 1970s television horror than Dan Curtis. Having created the daytime drama Dark Shadows (1966-71), and while producing popular primetime TV movies (The Night Stalker, The Norliss Tapes), his company produced stand-alone thrillers for ABC Television’s Wide World Mystery. Originally shot on videotape, the four productions in this collection have been carefully adapted to HD for this Blu-ray release. Shadow of Fear stars Claude Akins (B.J. and the Bear) as a disgraced police officer hired to investigate crimes surrounding a psychologically troubled housewife (Anjanette Comer). In The Invasion of Carol Enders, the spirit of a car crash victim is reincarnated into the body of another patient (Meredith Baxter, Family). Come Die With Me follows the cat-and-mouse relationship between a cavalier playboy (George Maharis, Route 66) and the housekeeper who tries to blackmail him (Eileen Brennan, Private Benjamin). A wholesome family experiences a Kafkaesque miscarriage of justice when they are accused of drug trafficking in Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest.
Bonus Features: Introductions to All Four Films by Jeff Thompson, Author of House of Dan Curtis: The Television Mysteries of the Dark Shadows Auteur | Shadow of Fear Commentary by Amanda Reyes, Author of Are You in the House Alone? A TV Movie Compendium 1964-1999 | The Invasion of Carol Enders Commentary by Television Historian Scott Skelton | Come Die WIth Me Commentary by Author/Podcaster Dan Budnik and Film Historian Robert Kelly | Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest Commentary by Film Historian Amanda Reyes and Heidi Honeycutt, Author of I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies
ILSA, SHE WOLF OF THE SS (4K UHD BLU-RAY)
Street Date: 9/30/25
Synopsis: The textbook example of Nazisploitation, and a cornerstone of the 1970s sexploitation cinema, Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS dramatizes the atrocities performed by a sadistic commandant (Dyanne Thorne) at a German concentration camp. Ilsa uses male prisoners as sexual playthings and women as subjects of medical torture, then brutally executes all who fail to satisfy her unholy desires. Despite being condemned by film critic Gene Siskel as “the most degenerate picture I have seen…a textbook for rapists and mutilation freaks,” Don Edmonds’s orgy of violence became a runaway success, immortalizing Thorne as a grindhouse goddess and inspiring three sequels and a host of imitations, none of which could rival the shocking depravity of the original.
Bonus Features: Audio Commentary by Actress Dyanne Thorne, Director Don Edmonds, and Producer David F. Friedman, Moderated by Humorist Martin Lewis | NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Kat Ellinger and Evgueni Mlodik | She Wolf of the SS: Interview With Don Edmonds, by Elijah Drenner | Theatrical Trailer | Stills Gallery
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