Kino-Lorber Insider Announcement Thread (Read Guidelines Post #3) (8 Viewers)

[ahollis]

Fun title.

 

[OttoIsHere]

Saturday’s Facebook Announcement:

Coming Soon on Blu-ray!

The Ballad of Josie (1967) Starring Doris Day, Peter Graves, George Kennedy, Andy Devine, William Talman, David Hartman, Don Stroud, Paul Fix & Harry Carry Jr. – Shot by Milton R. Krasner (How the West Was Won) – Music by De Vol (Cat Ballou) – Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen (McLintock!, Shenandoah, Cahill U.S. Marshall, Ffolkes).

I don't know much about this movie (never seen it), interesting cast of the era, and a late-60's Universal picture making its Blu-Ray debut with Kino-Lorber is my catnip so I'll be looking forward to the release date and be buying this one as soon as I can.

 

[Matt Hough]

One of Doris' lesser known or seen films makes it a prime release! My Day collection is nearing completion!

 

[BobO'Link]

Wow! I don't know that I've ever heard of this one (and I'd have been ~12 when it came out and paid attention to movies so you'd think I would have heard of it). It's a sure fire purchase as I tend to like Doris Day movies.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Wow! I don't know that I've ever heard of this one (and I'd have been ~12 when it came out and paid attention to movies so you'd think I would have heard of it). It's a sure fire purchase as I tend to like Doris Day movies.

It used to play on local TV in NYC metro area.

 

[BobO'Link]

It used to play on local TV in NYC metro area.

I looked it up and the plot sounds very familiar - but I also think a similar plot was done before (possibly with Maureen Ohara?). Could be either... too many years and too many movies seen, often only once for those outside horror and SF.

 

[borisfw]

I have the old Universal dvd-r. Will be upgrading.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Sunday's Facebook Announcement:

Coming Soon on 4KUHD!

Brand New HDR Dolby Vision Master!

Vice Squad (1982) Starring Season Hubley, Gary Swanson, Wings Hauser, Pepe Serna, Beverly Todd, Lydia Lei, Kelly Piper & Grand L. Bush – Shot by John Alcott (The Shining) – Music by Joe Renzetti (The Exterminator) – Directed by Gary Sherman (Dead & Buried, Wanted: Dead or Alive).

 

[Sultanofcinema]

I saw Vice Squad opening night at the RKO Stanley Warner in Wayne, NJ with a sold-out audience. I have never heard so many loud vocal comments hurled at the screen (not because they didn't like what was going on) from an audience in my life, what fun that night was. Poor Nina Blackwood.

 

[battlebeast]

I saw Vice Squad opening night at the RKO Stanley Warner in Wayne, NJ with a sold-out audience. I have never heard so many loud vocal comments hurled at the screen (not because they didn't like what was going on) from an audience in my life, what fun that night was. Poor Nina Blackwood.

Nina Blackwood? Was she introducing it?

What names these actors have… “Wings,” “Grand,” “Season”… wild.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Nina Blackwood? Was she introducing it?

What names these actors have… “Wings,” “Grand,” “Season”… wild.

Nina Blackwood played a prostitute in the film.

 

[Robert Crawford]

I saw Vice Squad opening night at the RKO Stanley Warner in Wayne, NJ with a sold-out audience. I have never heard so many loud vocal comments hurled at the screen (not because they didn't like what was going on) from an audience in my life, what fun that night was. Poor Nina Blackwood.

I watched it opening night too. I’m not a fan of this movie.

 

[t1g3r5fan]

I first learned about Vice Squad through the compilation film Terror in the Aisles, which was like a cinematic Rosetta Stone of horror movies and thrillers both well known as well as lesser known at that time. I will agree that it's undeniably sleazy, but I will concur with Leonard Maltin's opinion on Wings Hauser in that he was well cast as the sadistic pimp Ramrod.

 

[TravisR]

I first learned about Vice Squad through the compilation film Terror in the Aisles, which was like a cinematic Rosetta Stone of horror movies and thrillers both well known as well as lesser known at that time. I will agree that it's undeniably sleazy, but I will concur with Leonard Maltin's opinion on Wings Hauser in that he was well cast as the sadistic pimp Ramrod.

I saw Terror In The Aisles on TV when I was probably 8 or 9 so that's where I had first heard of Vice Squad too. It was probably the last one of the movies featured in Terror that I eventually saw but it's a decent sleazy exploitation movie.

 

[Claude North]

I first learned about Vice Squad through the compilation film Terror in the Aisles, which was like a cinematic Rosetta Stone of horror movies and thrillers both well known as well as lesser known at that time. I will agree that it's undeniably sleazy, but I will concur with Leonard Maltin's opinion on Wings Hauser in that he was well cast as the sadistic pimp Ramrod.

I was in high school when this was a staple on cable TV. A friend of mine frequently referenced "Ramrod, the vicious killer pimp" in conversation, usually to make an unflattering comparison to whatever teacher incurred her wrath at a given moment...

 

[battlebeast]

Nina Blackwood played a prostitute in the film.

Wow… I didn’t know she was a actress as well as a VJ…

 

[B-ROLL]

Wow… I didn’t know she was a actress as well as a VJ…

I don't think she was a VJ in the film ... here's her cv on imdb https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0085986/

 

[xochipilli]

I remember that the first post on this thread used to include the titles that had gone out of print. Was that list moved to another thread on the site or is it gone completely?

 

[Robert Crawford]

Saturday's Facebook Announcement:

Coming Soon on Blu-ray!

Brand New HD Master - From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative!

Summer Rental (1985) Starring John Candy, Richard Crenna, Rip Torn, Karen Austin, Kerri Green, Joey Lawrence, John Larroquette & Richard Herd - Shot by Ric Waite (48 Hrs.) - Music by Alan Silvestri (Back to the Future) - Directed by Carl Reiner (Oh, God!, The Jerk, Summer School).

 

[Robert Crawford]

I remember that the first post on this thread used to include the titles that had gone out of print. Was that list moved to another thread on the site or is it gone completely?

It appears the Kino Insider stopped updating that first post with that information almost two years ago.