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Triple Action - Three Times Fast!!!
FAST COMPANY/FAST AND
LOOSE/FAST AND FURIOUS TRIPLE FEATURE (1938-1939) Meet the
Sloans, rare book dealer Joel and his spousal secretary Garda bust crime when
their not lip-locked in a clinch. The wise-cracks, workplace romance and murder
may put viewers in mind of a certain girth-lacking gentleman, but the Sloans
serve up their own brew of cinematic froth. And adding extra-boost to the
mystery menu? Three different pairings in each installment! Melvyn Douglas and
Florence Rice inaugurate the series in high fashion, mere months before
Melvyn's career would go meteoric (thanks to a little picture called Ninotchka)
in 1938's Fast Company. Claire Dodd shares top billing as the film's femme who
may or may not turn out to be fatale. Next up, Fast and Loose pairs up the dry
wits of Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell as the Sloans get swept up in
purloined Shakespeare. Finally, no less a luminary than Busby Berkeley takes
the director's chair in 1939’s FAST AND FURIOUS guiding the able hands of
Franchot Tone and a Maisie-hot Ann Sothern as Garda who finally goes to the
beach for her long awaited vacation. Unfortunately, Joel gets caught up in a
deadly scheme...
NICK CARTER MYSTERIES
TRIPLE FEATURE (1939-1940) Nick Carter began his stint as
literary icon and criminal foe over 125 years ago on the pages of dime novels.
As times and media change, he's donned a wide spectrum of hero hats:
proto-superman, pulp detective, radio gumshoe, paperback spy-sassin - "the
American Sherlock Holmes"... Perhaps the best incarnation of Nick Carter
can be found in these three high-flying, white knuckling, brawling adventure
mysteries starring the great Walter Pidgeon. Not yet confined by the probities
of the leading support roles he would be called on to play, Walter's Carter is
equal parts cranium and cool, mixing the ratiocination with romance and
fisticuffs. The looming war in
Nick Carter, Master Detective
(1939) sees Nick tackling espionage and sabotage in the aviation industry with
Rita Johnson providing earth-bound distractions. Phantom Raiders (1939) sees Nick tackling the sinking of
supply ships with Fast Company star Florence Rice. Sky Murder (1940) has Nick trying to clear Karen Verne of a
locked aircraft murder. Future Falcon, Tom Conway is also aboard for the ride!
Three Stars Will Shine Tonight
DR. KILDARE: THE
COMPLETE FIRST SEASON (1961-1962) Richard Chamberlain and
Raymond Massey don the surgical scrubs first made famous by the film team of
Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore for the equally successful TV incarnation in the
1960s. Richard Chamberlain star ascended quickly, as the show swept him from
relative unknown to full-on teen idol (in a show pointed squarely at adults, no
less). The show was also blessed to have the talents of a young Jerrald
Goldsmith on hand to pen the shows score. Kildare's title theme, “Three
Stars Will Shine Tonight”, became a monster hit on its own, sung by Mr.
Chamberlain himself. Notable guests include Lee Marvin, Ellen Burstyn, Dorothy
Malone, Joseph Cotten, Mary Astor, Margaret O’Brien and more! And as an
added bonus, we've dug up a "lost" episode - "The Eleventh
Hour," the ORIGINAL, never-aired pilot for the Wendell Corey psychiatric
drama, teaming Dr. Theodore Bassett up with Drs. Gillespie and Kildare to get
to the bottom of what the devil is wrong with Ann Costigan (Vera Miles). All
episodes have been newly remastered especially for this DVD premiere release.
Initial quantities of this release will be traditionally replicated (pressed)
in anticipation of high consumer demand.
HBO Presents
ETHEL (2012)
Filmmaker Rory Kennedy corrals a most unlikely, and most inspiring subject for
this documentary, her very private and very extra-ordinary mother, Ethel
Kennedy.This personal portrait, featuring candid interviews with Ethel Kennedy
– her first extended interview in more than two decades – and her
children Kathleen, Joe, Bobby, Courtney, Kerry, Chris and Max, spans her
political awakening, the life she shared with Robert Kennedy and the years
following his death, when she raised their 11 children. Ethel is the first film
made about the Kennedys from within the family.
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