Network Announces July Releases
HomeNetwork Announces July Releases
Posted May 31, 2021 04:28 PM by Webmaster
British label Network Releasing has announced its July batch of Blu-ray releases. They are: Rentadick (1972), The Rainbow Jacket (1954), Just Like A Woman (1967), and Young Wives' Tale (1951).
Rentadick
Description: Originally scripted by comedy legends John Cleese and Graham Chapman, this hilarious farce was the first of only two main features from cult director (and Oscar-winning editor) Jim Clark. Starring James Booth, Richard Briers and Richard Beckinsale as three hapless private investigators, Rentadick is featured here as a brand-new High Definition remaster from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio.
Armitage, a rich scientist, has problems. Not only is his luscious wife being pursued (and caught) by all and sundry, but his laboratory is under threat of industrial espionage. He engages private detectives to protect both his business and his wife, but the service he receives is certainly not what he expected!
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The Rainbow Jacket
Description: Ealing Films' exciting horseracing drama features a memorable performance from Bill Owen as a jockey with a troubled past. Also starring Kay Walsh, Robert Morley and Wilfrid Hyde White, The Rainbow Jacket was filmed on many of the country's key racecourses – including Newmarket, Epsom and Sandown Park – and is featured here as a High Definition remaster from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio.
Sam Lilley, a champion jockey who lost his license, trains young George – a keen racegoer with ambitions to ride professionally. But when George gets his first race it comes down to a photo-finish – and Sam has bet heavily on the boy winning.
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Just Like A Woman
Description: Wendy Craig and Francis Matthews star as a bickering couple going through an acrimonious separation in this swinging, offbeat comedy from producer Bob Kellett and idiosyncratic writer/director Robert Fuest. Also starring John Wood, Dennis Price, Miriam Karlin, Peter Jones and Clive Dunn, Just Like a Woman is presented here as a brand-new High Definition restoration from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio.
Lewis and Scilla's rocky marriage finally breaks apart – a situation made worse by the fact that Scilla is a key part of the television show that Lewis produces. But while Lewis copes by picking up a passing starlet, Scilla indulges her passion for bathrooms by getting one custom-designed by an ex-Nazi architect!
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Young Wives' Tale
Description: Joan Greenwood reprises her hit stage performance as a frustrated housewife in the film adaptation of this popular West End farce. Co-starring Nigel Patrick and Derek Farr – and showcasing a memorable early performance from Audrey Hepburn – Young Wives' Tale is featured here as a brand-new High Definition remaster from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio.
Compelled to live together due to the post-war housing shortage, the Pennants and the Bannings just about get along... but add in a brace of babies, a succession of nannies and a shy-but-pretty lodger, and the situation very soon starts to unravel!
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The label has added one more title to its June slate as well. See full detailed below.
Harry Birrell Presents Films of Love and War
Description: A prolific yet unknown filmmaker, Harry Birrell created films throughout the 20th century.
Harry was given his first cine-camera as a boy in 1928 and spent his life recording incidents great and small - his entertaining and errant adventures are recorded in over 400 films, diaries and photographs that were recently brought to light by his Granddaughter Carina.
His home movies of family events and fine romances now ache with fond nostalgia but Harry's life was also filled with far away adventures and the film captures a vivid sense of wartime years spent in Bombay, the jungles of Burma and the mountains of Nepal. From commanding a battalion of Ghurkas in the Indian army at the start of the WWII, to dangerous sorties deep behind enemy lines in Burma at its end; from the Ballroom dances of his youth in the 1930s to teaching his children to twist in the 1960s – Harry filmed his whole life with the intimacy of home movies but on the scale of Lawrence of Arabia.
Matt Pinder's beautifully composed, captivating documentary delivers one man's cinematic vision of the 20th century and his own incredible journey through it.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Rentadick
Description: Originally scripted by comedy legends John Cleese and Graham Chapman, this hilarious farce was the first of only two main features from cult director (and Oscar-winning editor) Jim Clark. Starring James Booth, Richard Briers and Richard Beckinsale as three hapless private investigators, Rentadick is featured here as a brand-new High Definition remaster from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio.
Armitage, a rich scientist, has problems. Not only is his luscious wife being pursued (and caught) by all and sundry, but his laboratory is under threat of industrial espionage. He engages private detectives to protect both his business and his wife, but the service he receives is certainly not what he expected!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEWLY RESTORED FROM ORIGINAL FILM ELEMENTS
- Fullscreen as-filmed version
- Theatrical trailer
- Brand new 2021 interview with Veronica Clifford
- Image gallery
- Limited edition booklet written by Adrian Smith
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
The Rainbow Jacket
Description: Ealing Films' exciting horseracing drama features a memorable performance from Bill Owen as a jockey with a troubled past. Also starring Kay Walsh, Robert Morley and Wilfrid Hyde White, The Rainbow Jacket was filmed on many of the country's key racecourses – including Newmarket, Epsom and Sandown Park – and is featured here as a High Definition remaster from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio.
Technical Specs:
- NEWLY RESTORED FROM ORIGINAL FILM ELEMENTS
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Just Like A Woman
Description: Wendy Craig and Francis Matthews star as a bickering couple going through an acrimonious separation in this swinging, offbeat comedy from producer Bob Kellett and idiosyncratic writer/director Robert Fuest. Also starring John Wood, Dennis Price, Miriam Karlin, Peter Jones and Clive Dunn, Just Like a Woman is presented here as a brand-new High Definition restoration from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio.
Lewis and Scilla's rocky marriage finally breaks apart – a situation made worse by the fact that Scilla is a key part of the television show that Lewis produces. But while Lewis copes by picking up a passing starlet, Scilla indulges her passion for bathrooms by getting one custom-designed by an ex-Nazi architect!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEWLY RESTORED FROM ORIGINAL FILM ELEMENTS
- New interview with title sequence designer Derek Nice
- Theatrical trailer
- Image gallery
- Limited edition booklet written by Neil Sinyard
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Young Wives' Tale
Description: Joan Greenwood reprises her hit stage performance as a frustrated housewife in the film adaptation of this popular West End farce. Co-starring Nigel Patrick and Derek Farr – and showcasing a memorable early performance from Audrey Hepburn – Young Wives' Tale is featured here as a brand-new High Definition remaster from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio.
Compelled to live together due to the post-war housing shortage, the Pennants and the Bannings just about get along... but add in a brace of babies, a succession of nannies and a shy-but-pretty lodger, and the situation very soon starts to unravel!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEWLY RESTORED FROM ORIGINAL FILM ELEMENTS
- Image gallery
- Limited edition booklet written by Melanie Williams
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
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The label has added one more title to its June slate as well. See full detailed below.
Harry Birrell Presents Films of Love and War
Description: A prolific yet unknown filmmaker, Harry Birrell created films throughout the 20th century.
Harry was given his first cine-camera as a boy in 1928 and spent his life recording incidents great and small - his entertaining and errant adventures are recorded in over 400 films, diaries and photographs that were recently brought to light by his Granddaughter Carina.
His home movies of family events and fine romances now ache with fond nostalgia but Harry's life was also filled with far away adventures and the film captures a vivid sense of wartime years spent in Bombay, the jungles of Burma and the mountains of Nepal. From commanding a battalion of Ghurkas in the Indian army at the start of the WWII, to dangerous sorties deep behind enemy lines in Burma at its end; from the Ballroom dances of his youth in the 1930s to teaching his children to twist in the 1960s – Harry filmed his whole life with the intimacy of home movies but on the scale of Lawrence of Arabia.
Matt Pinder's beautifully composed, captivating documentary delivers one man's cinematic vision of the 20th century and his own incredible journey through it.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Interview with Johnny Birrell
- Interview with Anne Birrell
- Interview with Judy Birrell
- London Diary (1939
- Officer Cadet Training Camp (1940)
- Around Tamu (1944)
- When We Are Young (1959)
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature