Warner Archive has confirmed that it will add two more titles to its Blu-ray catalog: Sam Peckinpah's
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) and Leon Capetanos'
The Gumball Rally (1976). The two releases will arrive on the market this summer.
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Synopsis: It's 1908. The West has changed. Grizzled frontiersman Cable Hogue (Jason Robards) hasn't. Despite the fortune he's made selling water to thirsty desert travelers, he lies in wait. Someday two no-account desert rats - who long ago robbed Hogue and left him to die in the baking Arizona sand - will drop by for a drink.
After the violence of The Wild Bunch, director Sam Peckinpah shifted moods with this memorable fable, less a tale of revenge that it is a lyrical, touching tribute to the last days of the West's pioneering spirit. Stella Stevens and David Warner lead an excellent supporting cast that also includes L.Q. Jones and Strother Martin as Hogue's old enemies.
Special Features and Specs:
- NEW Remaster
- Audio Commentary by Nick Redman, Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons and David Weddle
- Featurette - "The Ladiest Damn'd Lady: An Afternoon with Stella Stevens"
- Original Theatrical Trailer (HD)
- Optional English SDH subtitles
The Gumball Rally
Synopsis: It's fast, funny, outrageously illegal — and the granddaddy of the cross-country speed spectacles that have raced across movie screens in the past two generations. Put your pedal to the metal for The Gumball Rally.
New York City is the starting point, and this supersonic contest ends 2,900 miles later in Los Angeles. In between, director Chuck Bail (coordinator of many classic movie stunt sequences) and a crew of actors and stuntpersons treat you to a truly breakneck road comedy. Gary Busey plays a daredevil in a 600-horsepower Camaro. Raul Julia portrays an Italian Grand Prix champ who's also an incurable romantic in a fast Ferrari. Michael Sarrazin as the race's crafty, overconfident organizer pilots a classic Cobra. Ready, set, zoom!
Special Features and Specs:
- NEW Remaster
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles