British label 101 Films will add four new titles to its Blu-ray catalog in March: Johnny Martin's
Vengeance (2016), Henry Selick's
Monkeybone (2001), Douglas Hickox's
Sky Riders (1976), Roy Del Ruth's
Alligator People (1959), and Irwin Allen's
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962).
Vengeance
Synopsis: In a factory town where factories no longer exist, Teena Maguire is brutally raped by four meth heads while her 12-year-old daughter witnesses the crime. After a defense attorney manipulates the law to his clients' advantage, the criminals are set free, much to the disgust of Officer John Dromoor, who seeks revenge. Starring Nicolas Cage, Don Johnson, Deborah Kara Unger, and Nicole Barré.
STREET DATE: MARCH 27.
Monkeybone
Synopsis: Happy to have just sold his character Monkeybone to a television company, cartoon artist Stu Miley (Fraser) is getting ready to propose to his girlfriend Julie (Fonda) when he is involved in a terrible accident. Sinking deep into a coma, Stu is then joined by Monkeybone (voice of John Turturro) in an unlikely journey in a bizarre nightmare realm. But Monkeybone escapes from the dream and begins creating all kinds of libidinous havoc in the real world. Can Stu somehow find a way back and put a stop to this animated simian chaos? Starring Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, John Turturro, Doug Jones, and Rose McGowan.
STREET DATE: MARCH 27.
Sky Riders a.k.a. Assault on the Forbidden Fortress
Synopsis: When a rich industrialist by the name of Bracken (Culp) finds that his wife and children have been kidnapped by terrorists, he has the police try to capture them and rescue his family. But the police fail in every attempt and Bracken's last hope lies in his wife's former husband McCabe (Coburn) who has his own plan of action and recruits a team of professional hang gliders for a daring mountain top rescue. Starring James Coburn, Susannah York, Robert Culp, Charles Aznavour, Harry Andrews John Beck, and Zouzou.
STREET DATE: MARCH 20.
The Alligator People
Synopsis: A newlywed couple sit in a train. The husband receives a frantic telegram. He gets off at a station to make a phone call, the train pulls away without him on it, and that's the last his wife sees of him. Years later after a long search she finally tracks him down on his family's southern estate where she discovers that a failed medical treatment has turned him into an alligator mutant... Starring Lon Chaney Jr., Bruce Bennett, George Macready, Beverly Garland, and Frieda Inescort.
STREET DATE: MARCH 13.
Five Weeks in a Balloon
Synopsis: From Irwin Allen, the master of fantasy adventures, comes this upbeat comedy based on Jules Verne's wildly popular novel. A crew of unlikely associates, including a nineteenth-century explorer, his assistant, a troublesome reporter, an absent-minded professor, and a liberated schoolteacher, undertake a balloon expedition in uncharted African territory. Hoping to plant a flag for the British Empire, this mismatched group must weather storms, hostile slave traders, sneezing sultans and, worst of all, each other! Starring Red Buttons, Fabian, Barbara Eden, Cedric Hardwicke, and Peter Lorre.
STREET DATE: MARCH 6.