Upcoming Warner Archive Blu-rays
The Warner Archive Collection announced six new Blu-rays to be released later this year. While we do not have specific release dates for these titles, we do have details of some, if not all, of the special features.
Here are the full details from the Warner Archive Collection Facebook page:
QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE (1958)
NEW 2018 1080p HD remaster!
Run Time 80:00
Subtitles English SDH
Sound Quality DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English
Aspect Ratio ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO – 2.35:1, 16 X 9 LETTERBOX
Product Color COLOR
Disc Configuration BD 50
Special Feature: Commentary by Laurie Mitchell and Film Historian Tom Weaver
Breaking news from space! The bad: An intrepid captain and his men have landed on a planet where males are outlawed. The good: Some women there are eager to break the law! Queen of Outer Space is a milestone of movie camp. Eric Fleming plays the granite-jawed leader who shares with his crew the crime of maleness. That’s just the start of their troubles. The man-hating Venusian Queen (Laurie Mitchell) aims to destroy Earth once a Beta Disintegrator is operational. But a gossamer-gowned scientist (Zsa Zsa Gabor) and her curvy cohorts eye the men, and they like what they see. This bijou bauble has sets, costumes and effects from Flight to Mars, Forbidden Planet and World Without End. Have fun spotting them. Botchino!
THE CYCLOPS (1957)
NEW 2018 1080p HD remaster!
Run Time 66:00
Subtitles English SDH
Sound Quality DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English
Aspect Ratio 16 X 9 WIDESCREEN, ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO – 1.78:1
Product Color BLACK & WHITE
Disc Configuration BD 25
Special Feature: Theatrical Trailer (HD)
Lovely Susan Winter organizes an expedition deep into the wilds of Mexico. She hopes to find her aviator fiancé, lost after his plane crashed. Instead, she and her three male companions find behemoth bugs, giant battling lizards, mountains practically glowing with uranium and a 25-foot-tall human beast with a single eye, a melted-cheese-sandwich face and a very scary attitude. If you like nifty ’50s horror, The Cyclops is the kind of over-the-top frightfest that’ll have you spilling your popcorn. Among the cast: Lon Chaney (The Wolf Man) as a manipulative wheeler-dealer who’d just love to become a uranium millionaire…no matter the danger to the rest of the expedition. Writer/director Bert I. Gordon (Beginning of the End, The Amazing Colossal Man) masterminds the menace.
THE SWARM (1978) (EXTENDED VERSION)
NEW 2018 1080p HD remaster!
Run Time 156:00
Subtitles English SDH
Sound Quality DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English
Aspect Ratio 16 X 9 LETTERBOX, ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO – 2.40:1
Product Color COLOR
Disc Configuration BD 50
Special Features: Behind The Scenes Documentary Inside the Swarm; Theatrical Trailer (HD)
Producer/director Irwin Allen (The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno) unleashed an end-of-the-world thriller based on scientific fact – Killer Bees -then active in Africa and South America, were on the move…into North America!
There are enough stars for five movies – Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Olivia de Havilland, Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray, Richard Chamberlain, Jose Ferrer, Patty Duke Astin, Lee Grant and Bradford Dillman. But the scene-stealers are the supporting cast: an estimated 22 million bees, deftly deployed to depict deadly attacks on people and places. It’s a nightmare that will give you quite a buzz!
LOOKER (1981)
NEW 2018 1080p HD remaster!
Run Time 93:00
Subtitles English SDH
Sound Quality DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English
Aspect Ratio ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO – 2.40:1, 16 X 9 LETTERBOX
Product Color COLOR
Disc Configuration BD 50
Special Features: Introduction and Commentary by Michael Crichton; Deleted Scene (As Used in Network Television Version); Theatrical Trailer
That TV commercial actress is so seductive she could sell you anything. She’s only a computer-generated illusion. What about the real beauty who was the computer’s model? Sorry, you can’t meet her: She and others like her have been murdered.
Writer/director Michael Crichton (ER, Coma) reaches into his brain-teasing bag of tricks for a mesmerizing thriller full of unfriendly persuasion generated by high-tech trickery. Albert Finney stars as a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon whose supermodel clients start dying mysteriously. Susan Dey plays his latest patient, also now in peril. And James Coburn is the head of a research facility which has developed a subtly hypnotic way to sell things. Take a good look at sleek, chic, scary Looker. There’s a lot more than meets the eye.
PAPILLON (1973)
Back in Print on Blu-ray Disc!
Run Time 150:00
Subtitles Spanish, French, English SDH
Sound Quality DTS HD-Master Audio 5.1 – English
Aspect Ratio 16 X 9 LETTERBOX, ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO – 2.40:1
Product Color COLOR
Disc Configuration BD 50
Special Features: Featurette “The Magnificent Rebel”; Theatrical Trailer
They called him Papillon, meaning butterfly. If only he had wings to go with the name. Unable to fly, Henri Charriere virtually willed himself free. He persisted until he did the impossible: escape Devil’s Island. Based on Charriere’s bestseller and shot in Spain and Jamaica, Franklin J. Schaffner’s film of Papillon united two stars at key career junctures. After a decade of fine work in The Great Escape, The Sand Pebbles and Bullitt, Steve McQueen found in Charriere another ideal tough-guy role. Coming off The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy and Little Big Man, Dustin Hoffman again distinguished himself as Dega, Charriere’s scruffy friend.
BIG WEDNESDAY (1978)
NEW 2018 1080p HD remaster!
Run Time 119:00
Subtitles English SDH
Sound Quality DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English
Aspect Ratio ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO – 2.40:1, 16 X 9 LETTERBOX
Product Color COLOR
Disc Configuration BD 50
Special Features:
Feature-Length Audio Commentary by Director/Cowriter John Milius;Retrospective Documentary “Capturing the Swell”; Theatrical Trailer
No matter what rolled in on the tides of time, California surfing buddies Matt, Jack and Leory knew they’d stick together. And that they’d be ready when a rare 20-foot swell hit the coast at last.
Big Wednesday celebrates surfing as much as the most dedicated kid who ever waxed a board. It’s also a fascinating 1962-1974 chronicle of friendships and lifestyles in transition. John Milius (Apocalypse Now, Red Dawn) directs and coscripts with a passion for the ultimate ride and a truthful feel for those turbulent times. Stars Jan-Michael Vincent and William Katt are accomplished surfers; colead Gary Busey (Point Break, 1991) learned for the role. And the vivid camerawork drops you inside awesome barrels of ocean blue.
