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Coming July 23rd!
https://kinolorber.com/product/underground-aces

Underground Aces (1981)
� Brand New HD Master � From a 2K Scan of the 35mm Interpositive
� NEW Audio Commentary by Horror-Fix.com�s James G. Chandler and Ash Hamilton
� Limited Edition O-Card Slipcase
� Optional English Subtitles

Color 95 Minutes 1.85:1 Rated PG
Dirk Benedict (TV�s The A-Team), sexy Melanie Griffith (Cherry 2000) and Frank Gorshin (TV�s Batman) star in this zany romantic comedy from director Robert Butler (Up the Creek, Turbulence). Deep below a posh Beverly Hills hotel you�ll find the Underground Aces�a fun-loving, fast-driving, slightly larcenous team of car-parking jockeys. Life in the underground parking lot is far from dull. There�s soccer, for a start�played with a giant weather balloon and two sports cars�then there�s false fire alarms, a kidnapping on horseback and a lovesick sheik to contend with. When the Aces aim to instruct the sheik in the intricacies of American-style romance, their scheming goes a bit too far and what started as a little simple matchmaking turns into an all-out riot complete with high-speed chases�and even a trained housefly. Underground Aces has got to be one of the funniest, wackiest, warmest films you�ll ever see! The amazing supporting cast includes Michael Winslow (Police Academy), Robert Hegyes (TV�s Welcome Back, Kotter), Sid Haig (House of 1000 Corpses), Jerry Orbach (TV�s Law & Order), T.K. Carter (Runaway Train), Randy Brooks (Reservoir Dogs), Audrey Landers (TV�s Dallas) and Ernie Hudson (Ghostbusters).

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filmlover22

I buy every silent I can from Kino. I have the MoC lubitsch collection, otherwise I would have gotten those from Kino. To think I can get silents on bluray for $10 (on-sale) is insane. Looking to get those silent box sets next time.

Kino Lorber Insider

Coming to Blu-ray July 9th from Kino Classics and the F.W. Murnau Foundation!

Carmen (1918)
Starring Pola Negri and Harry Liedtke
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch

Pre-order: https://kinolorber.com/product/carmen

Polish-born actress Pola Negri was already popular when she began appearing in German silents in the 1910s, but it was her collaborations with Ernst Lubitsch that transformed her into a silver screen goddess, a mesmerizing presence as formidable in comedies (The Wildcat) as in tragedies (Madame Dubarry). Released in the U.S. as Gypsy Blood, Carmen retells Prosper Merim�e�s classic tale of a Romani woman who seduces a military officer and sends each of them on a trajectory of dramatic self-destruction. Restored in 4K by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, Carmen features a lively score by Tobias Schwenke, performed by the orchestral ensemble Kontraste.

SPECIAL FEATURES
*Audio commentary by film historian Anthony Slide
*Short documentary on the film's restoration (5 min.)
*Silent with German intertitles and optional English subtitles

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VanKilman

This cast is positively bursting with actors I love to watch. I cannot believe that I have somehow never heard of this movie before.

Very excited to check it out.

Starman22

I saw Underground Aces on Kino Lorber Studio Classics Facebook page today and I never heard of it.

ilenewoodsfan99

Yay! More Lubitsch!

CMG

UNDERGROUND ACES (1980) was released on VESTRON VIDEO, circa 1985, and by the '90s disappeared from view for a long time as it was not released on DVD and virtually forgotten . . . until now.

When 'brick-and-mortar' video stores started selling off their ex-rentals in the 1990s a lot of obscure movies were subsequently no longer available for the public to rent and disappeared into the Video Abyss.

But now in 2024 . . .

The ♣♠ UNDERGROUND ♣♠ has ♦RESURFACED♦!

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Another movie I can think of released on VHS in the early 1980s (by VCI Communications, Inc), but never released on DVD and then ~was~ issued on Blu-Ray was the 1979 horror anthology SCREAMS OF A WINTER NIGHT.

Can't think of any other movies offhand which were released on VHS "back in the day", skipped DVD and then materialized on Blu-Ray.

UNDERGROUND ACES and SCREAMS OF A WINTER NIGHT are all I can think of at present. Gotta be a few more titles than that, I would think, but I'll be darned if I can come up with any more.

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ALSO: Director ROBERT BUTLER only died 7 months ago. He was 95 when he died in early November 2023 -- just a couple of weeks shy of his 96th birthday. He also directed some Disney movies from 1969-78 + UP THE CREEK (1984), NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER (1980) and TURBULENCE (1997). He did a lot of directorial chores in TV, too.

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Trivia Nuggets: Another director who died not too long ago was 'Elliott Silverstein', who helmed "Cat Ballou", "The Car", "A Man Called Horse" and "The Happening", among others. He passed on in late November 2023 at age 96.

THE HAPPENING (1967) has never had any kind of homevideo release, to date. It has aired on Turner Classic Movies at least twice in the past few years, but no "physical media" release yet. → Perhaps a similar circumstance to REMEMBER MY NAME (1978-Drama) -- which has aired multiple times on Turner Classic Movies over the years but due to music rights issues has never been released on any homevideo format?

Maybe The Supremes song from "The Happening" has kept it from a physical media release due to expensive licensing issues? Just a thought. I really don't know.

Φ The more 'CATALOG TITLES' Kino-Lorber issues the better.

Jobla

Kino recently released SPLIT IMAGE (1982) on Blu-ray. It had been released on VHS by Embassy, but I think it skipped DVD.

I'm sure there are other such films as well.

CMG

@JOBLA: I wish I could think of a few more. I like this kind of 'homevideo trivia'.

I could only think of one other title: The 1970 British seriocomedy THE MAN WHO HAD POWER OVER WOMEN was issued on Blu-Ray in England as a limited release of sorts, apparently. I forgot the video label that issued it offhand. But it was never released on DVD anywhere. MAGNETIC and EMBASSY both put the movie out on VHS, but the MAG tape was a Tv print missing the [R]-rated footage.

Millibar

Do KL have a sister company or collaboration that releases their titles in the UK? I'm thinking specifically about the upcoming Hairdresser's Husband release. TIA
(I'm not interested in the old German release).

Kino Lorber Insider

Coming July 30th on 4KHUD!
https://kinolorber.com/product/peril...-sudden-terror

PERIL & DISTRESS: Two Terrifying 1970s Thrillers (1970)
� 2019 UHD SDR Masters by StudioCanal - From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negatives
� Audio commentary for And Soon the Darkness by Director Robert Fuest and Co-Writer/Co-Producer Brian Clemens, Moderated by Journalist Jonathan Sothcott
� Audio Commentary for Sudden Terror by Director John Hough and Uncredited-Writer/Producer Bryan Forbes; Moderated by journalist Jonathan Sothcott
� Audio Commentary for And Soon the Darkness by Film Historian Troy Howarth
� Audio Commentary for Sudden Terror by Film Historians Howard S. Berger and Nathaniel Thompson
� Theatrical Trailers (And Soon the Darkness / Sudden Terror / Eyewitness)
� Radio Spot (And Soon the Darkness)
� Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc
� Limited Edition O-Card Slipcase
� Optional English Subtitles

Color 99|91 Minutes 1.85:1|1.66:1 NR
This special edition includes two terrifying 1970s thrillers. AND SOON THE DARKNESS � Two young British nurses (Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice) bicycling through the desolate French countryside. A mysterious stranger on a lonely stretch of road. The women become separated and soon after, one of them disappears. Now the remaining girl, alone and frightened, begins an increasingly desperate search for answers among the strangely uncooperative locals. Where is her friend? Was there a murder? And as the darkness approaches, is the killer now stalking her? Directed by Robert Fuest (The Abominable Dr. Phibes), And Soon the Darkness remains a favorite of thriller fans for its sexual menace, sinister style and one of the most quietly chilling final twists in �70s British cinema. SUDDEN TERROR � Young boy (Mark Lester) with an overactive imagination witnesses an assassination attmept, the hired killers are now hunting the young boy and his sister (Susan George) who escape numerous attempts on their lives while aided by their grandfather (Lionel Jeffries) and under the spectre of martial law. Ace filmmaker John Hough (Dirty Mary Crazy Larry) packs Sudden Terror aka Eyewitness with plenty of tense style, stunning locations and startling violence. Jeremy Kemp and Peter Vaughn co-star in this shocking and terrifying suspence thriller featuring music by legendary British art-rock bands Fairfield Parlour and Van der Graaf Generator.

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Matt89

Nice. And Soon the Darkness is a great horror film. It has atmosphere in spades. Super underrated.

Kino Lorber Insider

Neither of these sold well enough to release on 4K, And Soon the Darkness sold well, Sudden Terror (Eyewitness), less.

But we will continue with this series, if this first one does well.

We will also remove 1970s from the final art, so we can include titles from the 60s and 80s.

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Kino Lorber Insider

Tomorrow's announcement is the final KLSC July one.

Sunday's is a late 90s 4KUHD one.

gregmtl92

Would they always be SDR?

Kino Lorber Insider

Not always, but the next potential one or two would be.

Watershipdownisgood

Will the two film 4K UHD set announced today also be a two film Blu-Ray set too? Just wondering as I don't have a 4K UHD Blu-Ray player please tell me that there will also be a two film Blu-Ray set.

dmabuse

Totally forgot about this one, but remember seeing it on HBO back in the day.

MifuneFan

They're available on BD separately

Kino Lorber Insider

No Blu-ray. The Blu-ray releases are both still available.