Doctor at Large
All the Bare Facts and Figures that Add Up to a Young Medic’s Love Life!
Dr. Sparrow learns to keep one step ahead of the opposite sex while learning the route to his becoming a surgeon.
This is part of the hugely popular Doctor series of films, with Dirk Bogarde reprising his role as Dr. Simon Sparrow. By now he is a fully-fledged doctor in a casualty department. Longing for excitement, he gets more than he bargained for while treating an important patient rudely, he gets his marching orders! His new job won’t cure his desires to be a surgeon, but, the opposite sex will keep him on his toes and moving through the hilarious situations that make Dr. Sparrow the envy of his superiors.
1957 | 98 min | Color | Optional English Subtitles | 1.85:1 – 16×9/4×3 Letterbox | Dolby Digital 2.0 & 5.1 Enhanced | Region 1 | NR
Special Features:
- Commentary with Muriel Pavlow and Donald Sinden
- Photo GalleryReview:
“Another entry in [this] pleasing series,…” – Leonard Maltin
Dirk Bogarde, Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, James Robertson Justice, Shirley Eaton, Derek Farr, Michael Medwin, George Coulouris, Anne Heywood, Lionel Jeffries, Mervyn Johns, Ernest Thesiger
Directed byRalph Thomas
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Boss Nigger (Boss) [DVD-Blu-ray combo]
First time on Blu-ray!
Part devil, part legend and all man, Boss (former football star Fred Williamson) is an ex-slave who’s “decided to hunt white folks for a change,” becoming a bounty hunter and setting out on the trail of fugitive outlaw Jed Clayton (William Smith). With his comic sidekick Amos (D’Urville Martin), he rides into the town of San Miguel, finds that it has no sheriff and takes the job himself. Boss takes a bite out of local crime, chases women and brings the hammer down on Clayton in this amusing and action-filled parody of the 1970s blaxploitation genre, instituting black man’s law in this white man’s town! 1975|87 min.|Color| 2.35:1/Cinemascope|Rated PG
SPECIAL FEATURES: “A Conversation with Fred ‘The Hammer’ Williamson” with Joel Blumberg; “A Boss Memory” with Producer Myrl Schrelbman; Jack Arnold Tribute by producer Myrl Schrelbman.
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George Reeves Double Feature
THUNDER IN THE PINES: Action and comedy abound in this buddy movie with George “Superman” Reeves and Ralph “Dick Tracy” Byrd locking horns in a north woods logging camp over the hand of a fickle mail order bride! |1948|60 minl.|Sepiatone|1.33:1, NR
JUNGLE GODDESS: A plane carrying the young daughter of a millionaire crashes into an African jungle. The girl survives and the rescuing natives proclaim her their “White Goddess.” Six years later, two flyers locate the girl…and then the trouble begins! 1948|64 min.|B&W|1.33:1|NR
SPECIAL FEATURES: “The Life and Legacy of George Reeves” – a documentary by Capricorn Entertainment which features Thunder in the Pines & The Jungle Goddess by Jan Alan Henderson, “George Reeves: His Life and Legacy” by Carl Glass, “The George Reeves Memorial” by Steven Kirk, “George Reeves as I Know Him” by Jim Nolt, “At Least It’s Better Than a C” by Lou Koza, Song: Oh, George by Richard C Potter, Hollywoodland – “Flight of the Innocent” by Lou Koza, Photo Gallery of George Reeves, Bios, Trailers
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Celebrity Billiards Vol. 1
The charismatic, colorful, Minnesota Fats boasted he was “the greatest pool shooter of all time,” and, no doubt, he was not only an excellent player, but equal parts publicist, entertainer, and huckster! Here is your chance to see “Mr. Fats” in top form…having a great time playing with his quick witted show business pals 1967|76 min|Color|1.33:1|NR
Groucho Marx vs. Minnesota Fats (9 Ball)
The Smothers Brothers vs. Minnesota Fats (Last Ball)
Milton Berle vs. Minnesota Fats (3 Cushion).
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Jerry Warren Vol. 1 – Man Beast/Wild World of Batwoman/Curse of the Stone Hand
MAN BEAST: The trail to the top of the world leads to terror as Americans on a Himalayan climbing expedition are led into the mountainous lair of the ape-like Yeti by a sinister native guide. Producer-director Jerry Warren specialized in movies made with few dollars and less sense but Man Beast finds the Hollywood underground’s “Abominable Showman” at the top of his low-budget game with a twisty script and excellent snowy locations. 1956|67 min|B&W|1.85:1 (widescreen)|NR
WILD WORLD OF BATWOMAN: Holy rip-off! At the 1960s height of Batmania, schlock movie master Jerry Warren concocted this way-out tale of Batwoman (Katherine Victor with a bat drawn on her chest with eyeliner), a distaff crimefighter who, with her Bat Girls, is hired to protect the Ayjax Development Company’s newest invention, an atomic hearing aid, from the arch-villain Ratfink. “Wonderfully woeful and thoroughly brain-dead” — The Phantom of the Movies. 1966|70 min.|B&W|1.85:1 (widescreen)|NR
CURSE OF THE STONE HAND: A twin-pack of south-of-the-border shudders, this anthology horror flick combines a 1946 chiller about a man who joins a gambling club only to find that it’s actually a suicide club, and a 1959 Mexi-movie about a sadistic child who grows up to lead a life of evil. Hollywood-made “framing scenes” star master of menace John Carradine and schlock-film seductress Katherine Victor. 1964|72 min|1.33:1|NR
SPECIAL FEATURES: Audio interview with Kathering “Batwoman” Victor, with Tom Weaver (reenactment); Original Theatrical Trailers; More
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