BLU FOX: Von Ryan's Express, Big Trail & Barbarian and the Geisha

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Von Ryan's Express (Blu-Ray) November 6th 20th Century Fox Retail: $24.99, Our: $19.99

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The Big Trail (Blu-Ray) November 13th 20th Century Fox Retail: $19.99, Our: $15.99

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The Barbarian and the Geisha (Blu-Ray / DVD Combo) November 13th 20th Century Fox Retail: $19.99, Our: $15.99

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Fox has announced Von Ryan's Express (Blu-Ray) for release on November 6th.

Bonus features are expected to carry over from the standard 2-disc special edition.

This Blu debut of Express also comes with news that two titles previously exclusive to Walmart, The Big Trail (Blu-Ray) and The Barbarian and the Geisha (Blu-Ray / DVD Combo), will be available for wide distribution on November 13th.

  Central Italy, August 1943. With the collapse of the Italian war effort, the SS herds 400 Allied POWs aboard a heavily guarded freight train and embarks for an internment camp in Austria. Realizing it's their only chance to escape, Colonel Joseph Ryan (Sinatra) and a handful of officers manage to subdue their guards and hijack the train. Barreling across Nazi-occupied Italy, Ryan and his men race for the Swiss border, as German troops, the Gestapo and a dive bombing fleet of Messerchmitts follow in deadly pursuit. "Fast, suspenseful and exciting" (Variety), Von Ryan's Express is "a whacking good war yarn" (Life)!

BONUS FEATURES:

• Isolated Score Track with Commentary by Jon Burlingame, Lem Dobbs and Nick Redman.
• Featurette:  Reliving the Adventure of Von Ryan's Express
• Hollywood and World War II Films
• The Music of Jerry Goldsmith
• Bringing Movies to Life: The Legacy of Jerry Goldsmith
• Theatrical Trailer
• Spanish Trailer
• 3 TV Spots
• Interactive Pressbook Gallery
• Still Gallery

KINO: They Made Me a Fugitive (Blu-Ray) in July

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They Made Me a Fugitive (Blu-Ray) July 24th Kino Retail: $29.95, Our: $23.99

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Kino has announced They Made Me a Fugitive (Blu-Ray) for release on July 24th. Bonus features are not likely.

It will retail for $29.95, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $23.99.

SYNOPSIS:
Alberto Cavalcanti (Dead of Night), one of the key figures in French and British cinema for several decades, turns his sights on the London underworld in the engrossing Brit Noir gangland drama They Made Me a Fugitive.

Set in unsettled postwar England where crime is on the upsurge, Fugitive is a suspenseful genre film which uses the picturesque Soho district as background to brilliant effect. The brooding and atmospheric cinematography of cameraman Otto Heller (Funeral in Berlin) is in the noir visual tradition, while the film's authenticity is due to the director's command of documentary technique. The London pubs, alleys, and back bedrooms turn into the poetry of urban realism. Also evident is Cavalcanti's deep understanding of the troubled characters, well-drawn in the script by noted playwright Noel Langley, the screenwriter of The Wizard of Oz.

Trevor Howard (Brief Encounter) gives one of his greatest performances as Clem, an ex-serviceman who is fed up after the War and drawn to the excitement of black-marketeering. His psychopathic, sadist gang boss, Narcy (Griffith Jones), betrays him when he refuses to deal in drugs, and the story becomes a breathtaking tale of revenge. The complex ending of They Made Me a Fugitive is not a trivial resolution, but lives up to the social consequences of this violent and disturbing film.

BLU: Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) in November

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Mutiny on the Bounty (Blu-Ray) (1962) November 8th Warner Retail: 19.98, Our: $15.99

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Previously released in a standard 2-disc edition, as well as the now defunct HD-DVD format, Lewis Milestone's Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) makes its way to Blu-Ray on November 8th.

The single disc release will retail for $19.98, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $15.99. Bonus features (below) will carry over from previous releases.



SYNOPSIS:
1787. HMS Bounty sets out on a journey that will take it through perilous seas to a tropical paradise... and into history as one of the most ill-fated vessels ever to sail for King and country.

Lewis Milestone (All Quiet On The Western Front) directed this color-drenched spectacular, nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture. Filmed before in 1935 and again in 1984's The Bounty, the gripping story centers on two men. Marlon Brando plays first officer Fletcher Christian as a dandy transformed into a man of action. Trevor Howard is Capt. Bligh, uncompromising in his command or his cruelty. "Fear is [my] best weapon," Bligh proclaims. But it's also the most costly, driving men to desperation and mutiny. Richard Harris, Hugh Griffith and Richard Haydn also star in this epic adventure.

BONUS FEATURES:

• Alternate Prologue and Epilogue Sequences Not Seen Theatrically
• Featurette: After The Cameras Stopped Rolling: The Journey Of The Bounty
• 4 Vintage Featurettes:
  
  • Story Of The HMS Bounty
  • Voyage Of The Bounty To St. Petersburg
  • Tour Of The Bounty
  • 1964 New York World's Fair Promo
• Theatrical Trailer