New Blu-ray/DVD Releases

[Lunkenstein]

I was also wondering about some of the other '50s titles like TARANTULA, THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN, THE MOLE PEOPLE, etc. I know a few have turned up on BD in other countries, but why not here?  C'mon Universal!

[Mord]

Agreed. Would especially love BDs of THE BLACK CAT and THE RAVEN.

I like those more than some of the "monster" films. They should do horror and sci-fi collections like the DVD ones a few years back.

[Monsters For Sale]

            Atomic Attack, 1954 - Alpha Video - DVD Released May 15, 2018

Walter Matthau, Phyliss Thaxter and Patty McCormack


On May 18, 1954, The Motorola Television Hour presented Atomic Attack, a gripping portrayal of a suburban family struggling to survive after a nuclear bomb is dropped on U.S. soil. Fifty miles away from a decimated New York City, the Mitchell family are trapped inside their house, with looters and poisonous radioactive fallout right outside their door. As the hours drag on, their nerves are stretched to the breaking point...as they realize that not all of them will survive this holocaust.

Atomic Attack was produced in conjunction with the Office of Civil Defense, and opens with the disclaimer, ""The happenings that will now follow on your screen might be taking place in a suburban community some 50 miles from New York...but are entirely fictitious, of course.""


     PLUS BONUS SHORTS:

OPERATION DOORSTEP (1953): A haunting Civil Defense film in which two houses in Yucca Flats, NV (populated entirely by frighteningly lifelike mannequins from J.C. Penny) are subjected to an open-air atomic blast. The parts of the houses most affected are emphasized in order to get viewers to avoid those rooms in the event of an attack but the complete disregard for the dangers of radioactive fallout meant the government declared this film obsolete in 1959, recalling all copies from schools.

THE ATOM AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE (1953): An Encyclopedia Britannica film on the (seemingly benign) effects that radioactivity has on plants and animals. A rat is fed radioactive table sugar, and doesn't seem to mind. You might want to avoid that nuclear-saturated corn, however.

[Monsters For Sale]

         The Day After - BLU-Ray - Kino Lorber - Announced Release Date:  August 7, 2018

Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg and John Lithgow.


Against the real-life backdrop of the US deployment of WMDs in Europe during the escalating Cold War, this dramatically involving and agonizingly graphic film about nuclear holocaust detonated a direct hit into the heartland of America, becoming the most watched TV movie of all time.

This controversial, potent drama remains one of the most talked-about programs in history. When Cold War tensions reach the ultimate boiling point, the inhabitants of a small town in Kansas learn – along with the rest of America – that they have less than 30 minutes before 300 Soviet warheads begin to appear overhead! Can anyone survive this ultimate nightmare... or the nuclear winter that is sure to follow?


     Special Features:

-Includes both Original 122-Minute TV Cut (1.33:1) and the 127-Minute Theatrical Cut (1.78:1)
-Interview with star JoBeth Williams
-Interview with director Nicholas Meyer
-Audio Commentary by Film Historian Lee Gambin and Comic Artist/Writer Tristan Jones

[Monsters For Sale]

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man - BLU-Ray - Universal - Announced Release: August 28, 2018


No special features.

(I will count Trailers as "special" when they are restored to pristine quality right along with the movies.)

[Mike Scott]

What's wrong with this picture?

[Monsters For Sale]

What's wrong with this picture?

Maybe there are more silos in front of her - or maybe she can already the incoming missiles.


                 And maybe that's why Kino included reversible graphics for this release:       






This is how the 2-Page ad in TV Guide looked:

[Mike Scott]

Maybe there are more silos in front of her - or maybe she can already the incoming missiles.

Yeah, that too, but I was thinking of the angle of the missiles. If they are headed to Russia from the mid-west, they should appear to be going straight up (at that altitude).

[Monsters For Sale]

Yeah, that too, but I was thinking of the angle of the missiles. If they are headed to Russia from the mid-west, they should appear to be going straight up (at that altitude).

Maybe Kansas just decided they've taken all the crap they're going to from Missouri.

[ChristineBCW]

No mo' MO!!  ha ha

I love how they've pasted the many launches just behind her house.  That's one huge concentration of silos, alright... probably can't do a lot for the sale value of that home. 

I've never heard of that ATOMIC ATTACK (1954 TV) so I'm very excited about this prospect. 

Matthau had only a dozen TV-episode credits to his career at that point but those included multiple episodes on Lux Theatre and Studio One before this TV-movie.  In 1955, he scored a couple of western/pioneer films, then returned to contemporary America in 1956 and 1957 with James Mason's BIGGER THAN LIFE and Andy Griffith's A FACE IN THE CROWD.  In 1961, he scored his first starring TV role as the big detective in TALLAHASSEE 7000. 

He kept bouncing between TV and supporting film roles in the early '60s, too.  I didn't realize he was so adept and so, well, 'useful' in both camps.   He may have been the poster-boy for Having It Both Ways.

[Gory Glenn]

Release date 8/28/18 (Blu-ray). Had I known about this I would have skipped buying the individual Blu-ray legacy sets. Typical.

https://www.amazon.com/Universal-Classic-Monsters-Complete-Collection/dp/B07DKY35N5/ref=sr_1_4?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1529687887&sr=1-4&refinements=p_n_theme_browse-bin%3A2650371011%2Cp_n_format_browse-bin%3A2650305011&dpID=61j9pCFLhkL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

[Mike Scott]

Release date 8/28/18 (Blu-ray).

Price is down to $150 (from $200). Below the price for all the individual sets. Plus you get the '43 Phantom.

[Gory Glenn]

Price is down to $150 (from $200). Below the price for all the individual sets. Plus you get the '43 Phantom.

And it could drop down further by the time it releases. I already bought the Frank, Drac, Wolfman and Mummy Blu-ray legacy sets (paid $20 apiece) and already have Phantom '43 on Blu-ray so I'll probably just buy Creature Blu-ray Legacy when it releases and that will be it. Not a huge fan of the Invisible Man movies so my DVD legacy set will do for that plus I already have the first film on Blu-ray anyways.

[Mike Scott]

And it could drop down further by the time it releases.

Coo with me!

[Mord]

Coo with me!

Is that a request?  Glenn should seek out HR.