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\"\"<\/a>Olive Digs Republic: <\/strong>Well, we\u2019re happy to report that it didn\u2019t take long for Olive to get to their newly acquired library of titles from Republic Pictures. The new releases include Cyrano De Bergerac <\/a>(1950) with Jose Ferrer in an Oscar-winning tour-de-force as the cavalier who coaches a friend to woo the beautiful Roxanne (Mala Powers) because of his consciousness over his big nose\u2026A Double Life<\/a> (1947) with Ronald Colman in an Oscar-winning turn as a brilliant actor with multiple personalities whose problems become apparent during a production of Othello\u2026Speaking of Shakespeare, there\u2019s Orson Welles\u2019 Macbeth<\/a> (1947), a stark and stylish adaptation of the Bard\u2019s tragedy mounted by Welles, available in its full 107 min. version.<\/p>\n

Olive also has several Paramount titles in the loop including the much-requested Walter Matthau-Elaine May farce A New Leaf<\/a> (1971); Child\u2019s Play<\/a> (1972), directed by Sidney Lumet, with Beau Bridges as a young teacher and Robert Preston and James Mason as veteran educators dealing with unsettling behavior by students in a Catholic school; and\u00a0 Man on a Swing<\/a> (1974), helmed by Frank Perry, in which police chief Cliff Robertson believes psychic Joel Grey may have something to do with a murder case he\u2019s investigating.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Universal\u2019s Ghouls Go Blu: <\/strong>\u00a0This news is scary good!\u00a0Universal Classic Monsters: The Essential Collection<\/a> is an eight-disc Blu-ray set consisting of the great vintage studio monster movies including Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Invisible Man,\u00a0 The Bride of Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, The Phantom of the Opera and regular and 3-D versions of The Creature from\u00a0 the Black Lagoon. Also on the way in the format is Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein.<\/p>\n

Hitch Goes Blu: <\/strong>In Alfred Hitchcock: The\u00a0Masterpiece Collection<\/a> (Limited Edition), Hitch\u2019s Universal-owned films have been collected for an impressive boxed set. Included are Saboteur, Shadow of a Doubt, Rope, Rear Window, The Trouble with Harry, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, The Birds, Marnie, Torn Curtain, Topaz, Frenzy and Family Plot.<\/p>\n

More Alfred-o suspense sauce is on the way with Warner\u2019s Blu-ray releases of Strangers on a Train<\/a> and the 3-D version of Dial M for Murder.<\/p>\n

Good eve-ning.<\/p>\n

Superman Goes Blu<\/strong>: Look! Up on the screen! It\u2019s gorgeous animated images of the Man of Steel in Max Fleischer\u2019s classic cartoons! Fans of the all-American superhero are in for a treat with Max Fleischer\u2019s Superman: Collector\u2019s Edition<\/a>, a 17-short, two-disc collection of colorful and exciting animation produced in the early 1940s.\u00a0 Titles include \u201cSecret Agent,\u201d \u201cThe Mummy Strikes\u201d and \u201cThe Bulleteers.\u201d Included is a deluxe booklet about the shorts and their creators.<\/p>\n

Foxy Titles: <\/strong>An enclave of DVD films from Fox Entertainment has been issued by Anchor Bay. Among the titles are the creepy The Entity (DVD and Blu-ray) with Barbara Hershey, Six Pack with Kenny Rogers, The Pirate Movie with Christopher Atkins and Kristy MacNichol, Hear No Evil with Marlee Matlin, the shocker Ghost in the Machine, Tough Enough with Dennis Quaid and Jack the Bear with Danny De Vito.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Bright Fights, Big Budget<\/strong>: Some people think it is cool. Others consider it a disaster, something so bad it is unintentionally funny. Whatever your take on 1982\u2019s Megaforce <\/a>is, you don\u2019t have to wait any longer for it to arrive on DVD. Barry Bostwick stars as commander Ace Hunter, called on by the president to save the world from a diabolical dictator, using his Megaforce band of specialists.\u00a0 Heavy on Spandex, weird weapons and souped-up vehicles, Megaforce was helmed by comedy action expert Hal Needham (Smokey and the Bandit, The Villain). Persis Khambatta, Henry Silva, Michael Beck and Edward Mulhare also star in this delirious (and often daffy) mix of sci-fi, action, stunts and glitzy costumes.<\/p>\n

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