Kino: 4K Remaster of Frank Lloyd's The Last Command Detailed for Blu-ray

Kino Lorber have dated and detailed their upcoming Blu-ray release of director Frank Lloyd's film The Last Command (1955), starring Sterling Hayden, Richard Carlson, Arthur Hunnicutt, Ernest Borgnine, and J. Carrol Naish. The release will be available for purchase on December 11.

Synopsis: In this fact-based film, legendary Texan Jim Bowie (Sterling Hayden) attempts to come to a nonviolent compromise with Mexican President Santa Anna (J. Carrol Naish), but the negotiations soon turn sour. Consuelo de Quesada (Anna Maria Alberghetti), a Mexican girl with close ties to Jim, then warns him that Santa Ana's men are planning to invade. So Jim, Davy Crockett (Arthur Hunnicutt) and a tiny crew of courageous Texans hide out in an abandoned mission, awaiting the violent confrontation.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

• BRAND NEW 4K REMASTER struck from the 35mm Trucolor Original Negative
• Audio Commentary by Alamo Historian Frank Thompson, the author of "Alamo Movies" and "The Alamo: A Cultural History"
• Trailers
• Optional English SDH subtiltes for the main feature

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Also on the same date, the distributors will bring to Blu-ray Don Taylor's made for TV film Wild Women (1970), starring Hugh O'Brian, Anne Francis, Marilyn Maxwell, Marie Windsor, and Sherry Jackson.

Synopsis: In this 1970 western directed by Don Taylor (The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday), Hugh O'Brian (Ambush Bay) plays an Army engineer who recruits a band of boisterous female prisoners to accompany him on an undercover map-making assignment. The wonderful cast includes Anne Francis (The Satan Bug), Marie Windsor (Support Your Local Gunfighter), Marilyn Maxwell (The Lemon Drop Kid), Sherry Jackson (Come Next Spring) and Cynthia Hull (High Yellow).

Special Features and Technical Specs:

• BRAND NEW 2K REMASTER struck from the original camera negative
• Audio Commentary by Film Historian Lee Gambin