EIGHT IS ENOUGH Among Warner Archive's New Releases
By: Caryn Robbins Aug. 13, 2013
The Warner Archive Collection announces its newest releases:
NOT NEARLY ENOUGH!EIGHT IS ENOUGH: THE COMPLETE FOURTH SEASON (1979-1980) The Bradfords bid adieu to the Seventies by ushering in even more changes to the clan dynamic in season four. First up, minor league ball player Merle 'the Pearl' Stockwell (Brian Patrick Clarke) sweeps Susan (Susan Richardson) off her feet. An engagement soon follows, but there's one problem - David (Grant Goodeve) has already set THEIR date for HIS wedding. And Nancy (Dianne Kay) has a singing telegram gig the same day! First comes marriage, then comes Mary (Lani O'Grady) finding a home pregnancy test, but whose is it? Meanwhile Joanie (Laurie Walters) and Tom (Dick Van
Patten) become competing journalists, Nicholas (Adam Rich) curses the family by breaking a chain letter, and Tommy (Willie Aames) runs for Prom Queen! On the more tender side, Abby (Betty Buckley) comes to grips with the memories of her deceased husband while Tom is forced into a reunion with the father he has not seen in forty years, and he's about to turn fifty! And join the Bradford's on a Honeymoon trip to Hawaii... with ALL the Bradfords!
THE FROZEN DEAD (1966) What has Dana Andrews, Nazis on ice, murder, mad science and heads that wouldn't die? The answer is found in this sci-fi horror entree in all its cyanotic glory. Fugitive Nazi Doc Norburg has been living the high life incognito in an English Castle on the ODESSA dime all while trying to defrost the Third Reich's finest warriors that were put on ice during the closing days of WWII. Unfortunately his to-the-manor-born innocent ingénue of a daughter comes calling earlier than expected with a buxom schoolchum in tow just as Norburg's Nazi bosses pay a surprise call. Horror, not hi-jinks ensue. From writer/director/producer Herbert J. Lederer. Unlike it's theatrical release, this newly remastered 16x9 Widescreen presentation is now in its original aspect ration and original color palate (Although released in black and white, the film was shot in eye-popping color!)
Written and directed by Michael McCarthy with Christopher Lee, Donald Wolfit, Robert Bray and Jane Griffiths. Newly Remastered 16x9 Widescreen presentation HANDS OF A STRANGER (1962) Maurice Renard's horror archetype, Les Mains d'Orlac, proves its immortal versatility yet again in this suspenser that flips the original's onus for murder from the metaphysical to the mind.
Young concert pianist Vernon Paris (James Noah as "James Stapleton") is on the brink of stardom when his hands are destroyed in a car accident.
Thanks to Dr. Gil Harding (Paul Lukather), Vernon's hands are replaced with those of a recent murder victim's. Revolted by his transplanted limbs, the musician embarks on a murderous spree of vengeance. Written and directed by Newt Arnold. And keep an eye out for a very young Sally Kellerman. Newly Remastered 16x9 Widescreen presentation
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What's new on our Warner Archive Instant streaming service? We've recently added the documentary, That's Dancing (1985) with Gene Kelley and more, The Honeymoon Machine (1961) starring Steve McQueen and Marshall Brickman's far out comedy, Simon (1980) with Alan Arkin - all in 1080p HD! Watch our selection of hundreds of rare and hard-to-find movies and TV shows, direct from the studio vaults FREE for 2 weeks!
SUNDAY SCREENINGS COAST TO COAST!
Dateline: Brooklyn! This Sunday catch Gordon Park's The Learning Tree (1969) at BAM Rose Cinemas in 35mm that's part of BAMcinématek's "A Time for Burning: Cinema of the Civil Rights Movement"http://www.bam.org/film/2013/the-learning-tree
Dateline: Los Angeles! Also on Sunday, check out an ultra-rare 35mm screening of The Phynx (1970) at Cinefamily. Host Patton Oswalt guides us through a this infamous rock 'n roll spy spoof featuring cameos by Johnny Weismuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Rudy Vallee, Pat O'Brien, Ruby Keeler, Joan Blondell and Colonel Sanders.
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