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Thursday, November 20, 2014

Witness to Murder, The Emerald Forest, The Package, The Offence, Hickey and Boggs, The Quatermass Xperiment, The Missouri Breaks, Buffalo Bill and the Indians, Avenging Force and Running Scared Will Make their Blu-ray Debuts in December


Kino Lorber is proud to announce the release, on its Kino Lorber Studio Classics label, of Witness to Murder, The Emerald Forest, The Package, The Offence, Hickey and Boggs, The Quatermass Xperiment, The Missouri Breaks, Buffalo Bill and the Indians, Avenging Force and Running Scared, all making their Blu-ray debuts in December. Starring some of Hollywood's biggest names -- Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Hackman, Tommy Lee Jones, Sean Connery, James Woods, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Paul Newman, Burt Lancaster and Harvey Keitel, to name but a few -- this lineup of classic films come to Blu-ray for the first time from Kino Lorber, giving collectors the chance to own these sought-after classics in the best possible quality.

Kino Lorber Announces its December Blu-ray Releases on its Kino Lorber Studio Classics Label Including Films by Robert Altman, Sidney Lumet, John Boorman, Arthur Penn and others
Ten Star-Studded Hollywood Classics Including Witness to MurderThe Emerald ForestThe PackageThe Offence,Hickey and BoggsThe Quatermass XperimentThe Missouri BreaksBuffalo Bill and the IndiansAvenging Force and Running Scared All Making their Blu-ray Debuts from Kino Lorber in December 


NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 20, 2014 - Kino Lorber is proud to announce the release, on its Kino Lorber Studio Classics label, of Witness to Murder, The Emerald Forest, The Package, The Offence, Hickey and Boggs, The Quatermass Xperiment, The Missouri Breaks, Buffalo Bill and the Indians,Avenging Force and Running Scared, all making their Blu-ray debuts in December.

The SRP for each of these releases is $29.95 for the Blu-ray edition, and $19.95 for the DVD edition (except for Witness to Murder and Avenging Force, which are $24.95 each for the DVD editions). The Offence, Hickey and Boggs and The Quatermass Xperiment are available on Blu-ray only.

Witness to Murder stars the great Barbara Stanwyck as a woman who must convince the police that she was a witness to a murder. George Sanders co-stars in this film noir, which comes to Blu-ray and DVD on December 2nd, in a newly remastered HD transfer.

The Emerald Forest is John Boorman's adventure classic starring Powers Boothe as an engineer desperately searching the Amazon rainforest for his lost son, who has been adopted by a native tribe and raised as one of their own. This film from the director of Deliverance will become available on Blu-ray and DVD on December 2nd in a newly remastered HD transfer.

Also streeting on December 2nd is Andrew Davis' (The Fugitive) gripping thriller, The Package, starring Gene Hackman and Tommy Lee Jones as two military men who uncover a government conspiracy. Bonus features include audio commentary by director Andrew Davis and actress Joanna Cassidy, an on-camera intro by director Andrew Davis, an on-camera interview with actress Joanna Cassidy, and the original theatrical trailer.

The Offence is Sidney Lumet's acclaimed crime drama, starring Sean Connery as a detective tracking down a child molester. Co-starring Trevor Howard, this powerful film will become available on Blu-ray December 2nd.

Hickey and Boggs reunites I Spy stars Bill Cosby and Robert Culp as a couple of detectives who have a run-in with an especially vicious gang while investigating a kidnapping case. James Woods co-stars in this action-packed crime drama that comes to Blu-ray on December 2nd.

Also streeting on Blu-ray on December 2nd is the sci-fi horror classic The Quatermass Xperiment, starring Brian Donlevy and directed by Val Guest, about a spaceship that lands on earth containing a horrifying creature that is set loose. This edition comes packed with bonus features including Carpenter on Quatermass: Interview with legendary director, John Carpenter; The Quatermass Xperiment: From Reality to Fiction, a featurette with director Val Guest; The Quatermass Xperiment: Glenn Erickson Comparing the Versions featurette; on-camera Val Guest interview by Hammer film historian Marcus Hearn; audio commentary by Director Val Guest and Marcus Hearn; "Trailers From Hell" with Ernest Dickerson; alternate main title; and original theatrical trailer.

The Missouri Breaks is a western classic, directed by Arthur Penn and notable as the only screen pairing of acting legends Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson. Co-starring Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton and Randy Quaid, it will become available on Blu-ray and DVD December 9th.

Robert Altman's revisionist western satire Buffalo Bill and the Indians also streets on December 9th, with bonus features including "From the Prairie to the Palace" featurette. Paul Newman, Harvey Keitel, Burt Lancaster, and Geraldine Chaplin star in this classic from the celebrated director of such films as The Long Goodbye, MASH and Nashville. 

Michael Dudikoff stars in Avenging Force, about a secret service agent protecting his friend from a group of extremist right-wing terrorists. This thriller streets on Blu-ray and DVD December 9th, with bonus features including audio commentary by director Sam Firstenberg and Star Michael Dudikoff, an on-camera intro by director Sam Firstenberg, an on-camera interview with star Michael Dudikoff, and the original theatrical trailer.

Also streeting December 9th on Blu-ray and DVD is the 1986 action comedy Running Scared, starring Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines as a couple of tough Chicago cops who run up against a notorious drug kingpin. Bonus features include audio commentary by director Peter Hyams, a featurette, Billy Crystal outtakes, selected electronic press kit scenes, and the original theatrical trailer.

Witness to Murder

Newly Remastered in HD!
Blu-ray and DVD Street Date: December 2, 2014
Blu-ray SRP: $29.95
DVD SRP: $24.95
1954/USA/English/Film Noir/83 mins/NR/B&W/1.75:1
Director: Roy Rowland
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill, Jesse White, Juanita Moore

Synopsis: A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder. One sleepless night, Cheryl Draper (Barbara Stanwyck, Double Indemnity) witnesses a young woman being strangled to death in an apartment across the street. She reports the killing to the police, but when the police arrive there's no body to be found. The policemen are convinced that Cheryl probably dreamt the murder and leave ignoring her pleas. Similar to Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, which opened less than a month later and overshadowed this top-notch film noir featuring great direction by Roy Rowland (The Girl Hunters) and beautiful black-and-white cinematography by legendary John Alton (He Walked by Night). Co-starring George Sanders (A Shot in the Dark) and Gary Merrill (All About Eve).

Bonus Features: 

Original Theatrical Trailer

Emerald Forest 

Newly Re-mastered in HD!
Blu-ray and DVD Street Date: December 2, 2014
Blu-ray SRP: $29.95
DVD SRP: $19.95
1985/UK/English-Portuguese/English subtitles/Adventure/114 mins/R/Color/2.35:1
Director: John Boorman
Cast: Powers Boothe, Meg Foster, Charley Boorman, Estee Chandler

Synopsis: From John Boorman, the director of Deliverance comes a wildly ambitious parable that transports us to a singularly imaginative realm. The Emerald Forest is an exotic and erotic nightmare replete with one lushly enrapturing scene after another. For ten years, engineer Bill Markham (Powers Boothe, Extreme Prejudice) has searched tirelessly for his son, Tommy, who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when Bill's adventure truly begins. For his son (Charley Boorman) is now a grown tribesman who moves skillfully through this beautiful-but-dangerous terrain, fearful only of those who would exploit it. And as Bill attempts to "rescue" him from the savagery of the untamed jungle, Tommy challenges Bill's idea of true civilization...and his notions about who needs rescuing. Co-starring Meg Foster (The Osterman Weekend).

Bonus Features:

Original Theatrical Trailer

The Package

Blu-ray and DVD Street Date: December 2, 2014
Blu-ray SRP: $29.95
DVD SRP: $19.95
1989/USA/English/English subtitles/Thriller/108 mins/R/Color/1.85:1
Director: Andrew Davis
Cast:Gene Hackman, Tommy Lee Jones, Joanna Cassidy, John Heard, Dennis Franz, Pam Grier

Synopsis: From Andrew Davis, the director of The Fugitive comes a brilliant, explosively entertaining action/thriller featuring powerful performances by screen legends Gene Hackman (The French Connection) and Tommy Lee Jones (No Country for Old Men). Featuring a superb supporting cast that includes Joanna Cassidy (Blade Runner), Dennis Franz (TV's NYPD Blue), Pam Grier (Foxy Brown) and John Heard (Cutter's Way), this top-notch thriller really delivers. Sergeant Johnny Gallagher (Hackman) thinks he's been given a routine assignment: to escort a rebellious American soldier (Jones) from Europe to the U.S. for a military court martial. Gallagher soon learns, however, that the assignment is anything but routine, when he uncovers a terrifying military conspiracy. The clock is ticking down to a historic superpower summit, and Gallagher must stop the deadly plot before it's too late...for him and his country.

Bonus Features:

Audio commentary by director Andrew Davis and actress Joanna Cassidy
An on-camera intro by director Andrew Davis
An on-camera interview with actress Joanna Cassidy
Original theatrical trailer

The Offence 

Blu-ray Street Date: December 2, 2014
Blu-ray SRP: $29.95
1972/UK-USA/English/Crime Drama/112 mins/R/Color/1.85:1
Director Sidney Lumet
Cast: Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Vivien Merchant, Ian Bannen, Peter Bowles

Synopsis: When is the accuser the accused? Sidney Lumet (Prince of the City) directs Sean Connery (The Great Train Robbery) as a British police detective whose 20 years of handling murder, rape and other violent cases culminate in a deadly loss of control during a routine interrogation. A harrowing and compellingly constructed chamber drama of police brutality and mental anguish, The Offence takes director Lumet's obsession with the policeman's conflicted position as his brother's keeper into the realms of the psychological thriller. Connery is devastatingly desperate as Officer Johnson on the trail of a serial child molester. The Offence was based on a play by John Hopkins entitled This Story of Yours. The stellar supporting cast includes Trevor Howard (The Third Man), Vivien Merchant (The Homecoming) and Ian Bannen (The Hill).

Bonus Features: 

Original Theatrical Trailer

Hickey and Boggs

Blu-ray Street Date: December 2, 2014
Blu-ray SRP: $29.95
1972/UK-USA/English/Crime Drama/111 mins/PG/Color/1.85:1
Director: Robert Culp 
Cast:Bill Cosby, Robert Culp, James Woods, Michael Moriarty, Vincent Gardenia, Ed Lauter 

Synopsis: I Spy stars, Bill Cosby and Robert Culp are united again in this modern film noir about two detectives investigating a kidnapping and running into a gang of vicious criminals responsible for a string of murders. The world of Private Investigators is thoroughly exposed by Hickey & Boggs in this action-packed crime thriller scripted by the great Walter Hill (The Long Riders) and directed by Culp, his one and only directorial effort. When the deadly duo is called upon to find a missing girl they inadvertently stumble upon something far bigger, and end up chasing down a gang of thieves and a $400,000 loot. Featuring a top-notch supporting cast that includes James Woods (The Onion Field), Michael Moriarty (Report to the Commissioner), Vincent Gardenia (Death Wish 1 & 2), Bill Hickman (Bullitt) and Ed Lauter (Breakheart Pass).

Bonus Features: 

Original Theatrical Trailer

The Quatermass Xperiment 

(aka The Creeping Unknown)
Blu-ray Street Date: December 2, 2014
Blu-ray SRP: $29.95
1955/UK/English/Science Fiction-Horror/82 mins/NR/Color/1.85:1
Director: Val Guest
Cast: Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Margia Dean, Richard Wordsworth, Gordon Jackson, Lionel Jeffries

Synopsis: Val Guest (The Day the Earth Caught Fire) directed this chilling film about a spacecraft returning to earth with a frightening surprise on board. Two of the ship's three astronauts have mysteriously vanished, while the third is sick with an unidentifiable illness. While doctors try to help the third man recover, an investigation takes place to figure out just what happened to his comrades. As it turns out, the survivor's body has been taken over by an alien fungus that needs blood to survive. After the astronaut escapes from the hospital, he transforms into a monster, attacking everyone who gets in its way. Meanwhile, Scotland Yard detective Lomax (Jack Warner, The Blue Lamp) and Professor Bernard Quatermass (Brian Donlevy, The Glass Key), a determined scientist, attempt to track down the creature before it finds new victims. Also known as The Creeping Unknown.

Bonus Features:

* Carpenter on Quatermass: Interview with legendary director, John Carpenter
* The Quatermass Xperiment: From Reality to Fiction - Featurette featuring director Val Guest
* The Quatermass Xperiment: Glenn Erickson Comparing the Versions - Featurette
* On-camera Val Guest Interview by Hammer Film Historian Marcus Hearn
* Audio Commentary by Director Val Guest and Marcus Hearn
* "Trailers From Hell" with Ernest Dickerson
* Alternate Main Title
* Original Theatrical Trailer

The Missouri Breaks

Blu-ray and DVD Street Date: December 9, 2014
Blu-ray SRP: $29.95
DVD SRP: $19.95
1976/USA/English/English subtitles/Western/126 mins/PG/Color/1.85:1
Director: Arthur Penn
Cast: Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: In their only cinematic pairing, screen legends Marlon Brando (The Godfather) and Jack Nicholson (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest) are a dynamic star combo who set the screens ablaze in this intense and startlingly realistic western classic from director Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde). Montana Badlands rancher David Brazton is a self-made man, through years of tireless effort and determination; he has transformed his vast and rugged land into a thriving, prosperous empire. So when his livestock, fortune and family are threatened by a ruthless horse thief (Nicholson), Braxton takes matters into his own hands by hiring a sadistic bounty hunter (Brando) to track down the outlaw. Braxton intends to liberate the territory from crime, but what he initiates instead is a complex series of events that result in brutality and savagery far beyond anything he ever thought possible. Co-starring Randy Quaid (The Long Riders), Frederic Forrest (Hammett), John P. Ryan (Avenging Force) and Harry Dean Stanton (Paris, Texas), scripted by Thomas McGuane (92 in the Shade) and shot throughout majestic Montana, the Missouri Break is every bit as powerful and affecting as its dynamic leading men.

Bonus Features:

Original Theatrical Trailer

Buffalo Bill and The Indians 

Blu-ray and DVD Street Date: December 9, 2014
Blu-ray SRP: $29.95
DVD SRP: $19.95
1976/USA/English/English subtitles/Western/123 mins/PG/Color/2.35:1
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Paul Newman, Burt Lancaster, Harvey Keitel, Joel Grey, Geraldine Chaplin, Kevin McCarthy

Synopsis: From director Robert Altman (The Long Goodbye) comes an uproarious, high-spirited look at "Buffalo Bill" Cody, the legendary Western adventurer. With a fine cast that includes Paul Newman, Harvey Keitel, Burt Lancaster, Joel Grey and Geraldine Chaplin, Buffalo Bill And The Indians is a hilarious yet poignant comedy that shows the "Old West" as you've never seen it before! Although Buffalo Bill (Newman) has fought Indians and Civil War battles, nothing can prepare him for his newest challenge; show business! His Wild West Show is hugely popular, but when he signs a former enemy, Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, for a featured role, a hysterical clash of cultures reverberates far beyond the boundaries of their sprawling outdoor theater. And the complications only multiply when the troupe discovers it must put on a special command performance - for none other than the President of the United States!

Bonus Features:

"From the Prairie to the Palace" Featurette
Teaser Trailer
Original Theatrical Trailer

Avenging Force

Newly Re-mastered in HD!
"Michael Dudikoff's style is reminiscent of a young Clint Eastwood" - The New York Times

Blu-ray and DVD Street Date: December 9, 2014

Blu-ray SRP: $29.95
DVD SRP: $24.95
1986/USA/English/Action/104 mins/R/Color/1.85:1
Director: Sam Firstenberg
Cast: Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, John P. Ryan, James Booth, William Wallace

Synopsis: Matt Hunter (Michael Dudikoff, American Ninja) is an ex-secret service agent trying to protect his best friend from a super band of rightwing terrorists known as Pentangle. When the ruthless organization torches his ranch and kidnaps his little sister, Hunter is forced into Pentangle's barbaric "manhunt", played out in the remote swamplands of Louisiana. It's the ultimate game of cat-and-mouse, as Hunter employs an awesome array of martial arts skills in his desperate fight for survival... and revenge. Stylishly directed by action veteran Sam Firstenberg (Revenge of the Ninja) with a stellar cast that includes Steve James (Hero and the Terror), James Booth (Robbery) and John P. Ryan (Runaway Train).

Bonus Features:

Audio Commentary by Director Sam Firstenberg and Star Michael Dudikoff
On-camera Intro by Director Sam Firstenberg
On-camera Interview with Star Michael Dudikoff
Original Theatrical Trailer

Running Scared 

Blu-ray and DVD Street Date: December 9, 2014
Blu-ray SRP: $29.95
DVD SRP: $19.95
1986/USA/English/English subtitles/Action Comedy/107 mins/R/2.35:1
Director: Peter Hyams
Cast: Billy Crystal, Gregory Hines, Steven Bauer, Jimmy Smits, Joe Pantoliano, Dan Hedaya, Darlanne Fluegel, Jon Gries

Synopsis: Peter Hyams (Busting) directs Gregory Hines (White Nights) and Billy Crystal (City Slickers) in the motion picture that asks the question, "How come the bad guys always drive the good cars?" The answer has themRunning Scared in this lightning-paced comic thriller. Ray and Danny are the wild men of the Windy City's police force. The pair's unorthodox methods get results in a tough town - until they come up against Julio Gonzales (Jimmy Smits, TV's NYPD Blue), a smooth-talking drug dealer who is bucking to become Chicago's first Spanish Godfather. Trying to nail Gonzales, they blow a delicate undercover operation and are sent on a forced vacation to Key West - where they discover the good life of warm weather and warmer women. The new locale makes them decide to retire... but not before putting Gonzales behind bars first. The stellar cast includes Steven Bauer (Scarface), Darlanne Fluegel (To Live and Die in L.A.), Joe Pantoliano (The Fugitive), John Gries (Real Genius) and Dan Hedaya (Blood Simple).

Bonus Features: 

Audio Commentary by Director Peter Hyams
Featurette
Billy Crystal Outtakes
Selected Electronic Press Kit Scenes
Original Theatrical Trailer

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