U.S. label Scorpion Releasing will bring to Blu-ray Piers Haggard's film
A Summer Story (1988), starring Imogen Stubbs, James Wilby, Susannah York, Kenneth Colley, and Jerome Flynn. The release will be available for purchase on February 20.
Synopsis: A country girl has a brief, life-shattering moment when she falls for a young lawyer. Adapted from John Galsworthy's The Apple Tree, the film tells of the relationship between a young London lawyer, Frank Ashton (James Wilby, Handful of Dust) and Megan David (Imogen Stubbs, True Colors), the innocent girl who helps him during his recovery from a twisted ankle at the farm where she lives. The attraction between the two is overpowering; they make love in the farm hayloft and vow never to be parted. But Frank goes to Torquay where he meets an old schoolfriend and his lovely sister Stella (Sophie Ward). Thus, Frank's plans become muddled and Megan comes looking for him. A Summer Story of young love. Also starring Susannah York (Tom Jones, The Maids) and Jerome Flynn (TV's Game of Thrones).
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The label is also ending the limited run of William Girdler's thriller
Grizzly, which will be available for purchase at online vendor Amazon on February 6.
Synopsis: When an eighteen-foot, two-thousand-pound grizzly bear starts mauling campers and hikers at a state park, a park ranger (Christopher George, Day of the Animals, Enter the Ninja) springs into action. But the job is too big to tackle alone, so he enlists the aid of a naturalist (Richard Jaeckel, The Dirty Dozen) and a helicopter pilot (Andrew Prine, They're Playing with Fire) to take this freak of nature down. Meanwhile, the giant grizzly, not content with picnic baskets, continues to kill indiscriminately, leaving pools of blood and piles of body parts in his wake. Can the ranger and his cronies end the grizzly's reign of terror without resorting to excessively extreme measures? This post-Jaws, nature-runs-rampant thriller was directed by William Girdler (The Manitou), and was a box office hit and the top-grossing independent film of 1976.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Beverly Screening Q&A with co-star Andrew Prine and Producer David Sheldon
- Featurette: Jaws with Claws - Featuring David Sheldon, Writer Harvey Flaxman, Actors Andrew Prince and Joan McCall
- 5.1 Surround Audio
- Fun Facts & Trivia
- Original Theatrical Trailer