Vigilante Force (1976): A variation on Death Wish set in the boondocks of California casts Kris Kristofferson as a Vietnam vet who enlists his pals to take justice on rowdy oil workers who have taken over the town. When a group of thugs steal his coins, he joins forces with pal Tommy Lee Jones to get all medieval on them. William Devane plays the Vietnam vet scorned by his wife, family and neighbors when he returns home. Rolling Thunder (1977): Quentin Tarantino had such affection for this brutal revenge drama penned by Paul Schrader he named his now-defunct distribution company after it. Current plans are to release them at a steady clip.Īmong the highlights of the first batch are:
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Presented like Warner’s Archive and Sony’s Columbia Classics lines in the DVD-R format, some of MGM’s releases will include a trailer as a lone extra.
In all, it’s an impressive reservoir of films that have been much-requested and, in many cases, unavailable on DVD in the past. Also part of the library are eclectic cinematic pickings from a pool of production companies that have gone bankrupt over the last 25 years, including Avco Embassy, American International Pictures, Filmways, Fries Entertainment, Atlantic Releasing, Nelson Entertainment, Orion Pictures, Cannon Pictures, MCEG, The Samuel Goldwyn Company, Trans World Entertainment, Island Alive and others. What primarily constitutes MGM’s library at present are films released by United Artists over the years. MGM, though, is ready to join Warner and Sony in starting a program that will make some of the most demanded titles in their library available to film buffs at last. As of right now, that will remain the same. Over the last few years, MGM titles have been handled by Fox Studios’ DVD arm. In fact, it’s currently on the sales block again. Many people know that most of the classic films of the fabled studio have belonged to Warner Brothers for years.Īnd the studio that once gave us The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind and Ben-Hur has been bought and sold several times in recent decades. MGM is getting into the DVD-on-demand business.
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