Quentin Tarantino's Rolling Thunder Pictures Triple Feature

[pro-bassoonist]

PRESS RELEASE:



AMAZON PRE-ORDER
http://www.amazon.com/Quentin-Tarant...ripple+picture

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Quentin Tarantino's Rolling Thunder Pictures Triple Feature comes to DVD April 16th from Lionsgate Home Entertainment and Miramax. This DVD compilation offers a sampling of films from the specialty label Rolling Thunders Pictures, which was launched by Tarantino and Miramax in 1995 to release older exploitation movies and undiscovered imports to the mainstream movie-going audience. Tarantino brought these films back to life, even personally recording intros and outros for the home video releases. The release of Quentin Tarantino's Rolling Thunder Pictures Triple Feature coincides with the home entertainment release of Tarantino's latest, Academy Award® winning film, Django Unchained. A must-have for Tarantino fans, this classic collection will be available on DVD for the suggested retail price of $14.98.



THE MIGHTY PEKING MAN SYNOPSIS

Treat yourself to one of the funniest and campiest movies ever made: The Mighty Peking Man! After a colossal ape-like creature is captured in the jungle and brought to civilization - along with the scantily clad blonde bombshell he protects - the fearsome beast breaks loose and goes looking for giant-size payback!



CAST

Evelyne Kraft Lady Dracula, The Fifth Commandment

Danny Lee The Killer, City on Fire



DETROIT 9000 SYNOPSIS

Jam-packed with nonstop action, sexy distractions and funky music, this hip crime story follows two Detroit cops, whose pursuit of a dangerous gang responsible for a high-society heist ignites a powder keg of corruption and violence!



CAST

Alex Rocco The Godfather, Smokin' Aces, STARZ's "Magic City"

Hari Rhodes TV's Roots, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

and Vonetta McGee TV's "L.A. Law," Repo Man

Herb Jefferson, Jr. TV's "Battlestar Galactica," TV's "The Devlin Connection"

and Ella Edwards Dirty O'Neil, Mr. Ricco, Sweet Sugar



SWITCHBLADE SISTERS SYNOPSIS

A riotously entertaining mix of sex, jealousy and massive firepower, Jack Hill's Switchblade Sisters is the action-packed story of the toughest gang of teenage girls to ever hit the streets - the Dagger Debs. Bad to the bone, these outrageous high school vixens go where they want...and create mayhem wherever they go!



CAST

Robbie Lee Big Bad Mama, The Therapist

Joanne Nail Full Moon High, The Gumball Rally

Asher Brauner The Boss' Son, American Eagle, Merchants of War

Kitty Bruce Bad

Janice Karman TV's "The Chipmunks," TV's Breaking Up is Hard to Do

Marlene Clark TV's "Sanford and Son," Lord Shango, The Baron

and Monica Gayle TV's "General Hospital," Nashville Girl



PROGRAM INFORMATION

Year of Production:

The Mighty Peking Man:1977

Detroit 9000: 1973

Switchblade Sisters: 1975

Title Copyright: © 2013 Miramax, LLC

Type: DVD Collection Premiere

Rating:

The Mighty Peking Man:PG-13 for violence and sensuality

Detroit 9000, Switchblade Sisters: R

Genre: Action, Drama

DVD Closed Captioned: NA

Subtitles: NA

Feature Running Time:

The Mighty Peking Man:90 minutes

Detroit 9000: 106 minutes

Switchblade Sisters: 91 minutes

DVD Format:

The Mighty Peking Man:16x9 Widescreen (2.35:1)

Detroit 9000: 16x9 Widescreen (1.78:1)

Switchblade Sisters: 16x9 Widescreen (1.85:1)

DVD Audio Status:

The Mighty Peking Man:English 2.0 Dolby Digital

Detroit 9000, Switchblade Sisters: English Monaural Dolby Digital

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[Hubunkey]

Sucks no blu-ray but I hope they do Volume 2 in the same grindhouse style artwork, even though the other 3 movies aren't really grindhouse style. I'm glad they will have the Tarantino intro/outro

My ideal Vol 2 would be
Hardcore Logo
Curdled
Sonatine

I plan on getting the UK blu of Chungking Express for the Tarantino extras

Also is this single disc or 3 seperate disc?

[pro-bassoonist]

Originally Posted by Hubunkey

Also is this single disc or 3 seperate disc?

The press release does not specify, Hubunkey. But Amazon lists 1 disc only.

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[davidthenikonuser]

If Switchblade Sisters really is 16x9 widescreen then I'll have to pick this up since my old DVD was just 4x3 letterbox.

Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist

PRESS RELEASE:



AMAZON PRE-ORDER
http://www.amazon.com/Quentin-Tarant...ripple+picture



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[benricci]

Man, I wish this was blu!!

[davidthenikonuser]

Saw this review on amazon for the release. May pick it up for the SBS as it's 16x9.

By A. Snyder
With Miramax licensing their catalogue to both Lionsgate and Echo Bridge Entertainment we have been seeing loads of bargain sets of their films pop up. Distraught on how Echo Bridge was handling many of the titles I waited until I read some reviews to see if buying this Lionsgate triple feature was worth it. Now I can confirm that it is!

The set is made of up three Exploitation films from the 70s that helped inspire director Quentin Tarantino, whose Rolling Thunder pictures re-released the films in the 90s. All three films were previously released on DVD in single editions and this new triple feature set has all three films on a single sided, duel layered disc. I was disappointed at first as I was hoping it would be a double disc set along the lines of Shout! Factory's Roger Corman sets but alas the quality of the transfers doesn't suffer too much from being crammed onto one disc and the set is FAR better than the bargain Miramax sets Echo Bridge has been pumping out.

There are no special features and the entertaining commentary with director Jack Hill and Quentin Tarantino on the single DVD release of "Switchblade Sisters" is missing but a nicely priced bargain set like this one can't complain. The widescreen transfers are all anamorphic and the digital blocks common with cramming three films onto a single dvd is kept to an absolute minimum and didn't hinder my enjoyment of the films at all. Blu-Ray enthusiest will no doubt be disappointed but again this is a bargain set and the transfers are much better than expected for all films being on a single disc. If your a fan of 70s exploitation films then this set is a must own!

[Gardenofstone10]

That's really odd to see a new release like that NOT on Blu Ray. Oh well, still will look great, I'm sure

[OrlandoEastwood]

Well Go USA was trying to put out Mighty Peking Man, if I remember correctly a few years back.

[davidthenikonuser]

Well got this the other day manly for Switch Blade Sister's because the old DVD was not 16x9.

Not sure how they crammed 4 hours and 45 minutes on to one DL DVD, but it looks pretty damn good. IMO, SBS is deserving of a Special Edition Blu-ray.