Kino Lorber have detailed their upcoming Blu-ray release of Sidney W. Pink's film
Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962), starring John Agar, Ove Sprogøe, Carl Ottosen, Peter Monch, and Louis Miehe-Renard. The release will be available for purchase on April 5.
Synopsis: It's the year 2001 and most of the solar system has been explored by spacemen with the exception of the seventh planet from the sun, Uranus. The United Nations sends a five-man international team to check Uranus out. There, they are confronted by the "Being", whose mysterious brain cuts to the inner thoughts of the explorers and causes their thoughts to appear as mirages. Uranus is soon filled with a bevy of beautiful girls thought up by the spacemen. to go along with some quicksand, a one-eyed rodent and a really mean giant centipede...
Special Features:
- New HD Master
- Audio Commentary by Film Historian Tim Lucas
- Trailer Gallery
STREET DATE: APRIL 5.
Kino Lorber have also revealed the cover art for two more catalog titles that will be released on Blu-ray on the same date: Robert Parrish's
The Purple Plain and Robert Montgomery's film
The Gallant Hours.
The Purple Plain
Synopsis: After losing his bride in a Luftwaffe air raid, bomber pilot Forrester becomes a solitary killing machine, who doesn't care whether he dies. The reckless Canadian pilot is both admired and feared by the rest of his squadron in World War II Burma. The squadron physician is assigned to determine the embittered Bill Forrester's fitness for duty. To break through the nightmare-haunted man's wall of silence, the physician drives Forrester to visit an outpost of English-speaking refugees, which includes an alluring young Burmese woman. Starring Gregory Peck, Bernard Lee, Win Min Than, Brenda de Banzie, and Maurice Denham.
The Gallant Hours
Synopsis: This docu-drama traces the days before the battle of Guadalcanal, in which Admiral William F.Halsey, Commander of the South Pacific Forces, makes courageous and crucial decisions that start to turn the tide against the Japanese. More a biography than a war picture, this film focuses on leadership in war and is not for those who crave gory battle scenes. Starring James Cagney, Dennis Weaver, Ward Costello, Vaughn Taylor, and Richard Jaeckel