Jess Franco Collection Vol. 2
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availability: Due for release on 21/05/2007
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Review
Anchor Bay presents The Jess Franco Collection 2, a selection of his best works now available together with digitally re-mastered picture and sound. Experience Downtown Heat, Down Town, Macumba Sexual, The Story Of O, Inconfessible Orgies of Emmanuelle and The Mansion Of The Living Dead as never before, with brilliant colours, clear sounds and technical perfection surpassing the originals by far.
Technical Details
Certificate 18 years and over
Screen Widescreen 16:9
Languages Dolby Digital (2.0) Stereo
Region Region 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players.
The above is from play.com re: The Jess Franco Collection Vol. 2, reportedly coming from Anchor Bay UK. I'm trying to dig up some more specific info on this set. Titles include MACUMBA SEXUAL, MANSION OF THE LIVING DEAD, ...ORGIES OF EMMANUELLE, SEXUAL STORY OF O, DOWNTOWN, DOWNTOWN HEAT. A mixed bunch of Severin releases along with the 1975 Erwin Dietrich produced crime film. Surprised to see the 1990 French-Spanish coproduction DOWNTOWN HEAT in there. There is also the separate Severin Films US DVD release of SEXUAL STORY OF O and ORGIES OF EMMANUELLE scheduled in April. Looks like another busy year on the Jess Franco DVD front already.
A rather glossy production, DOWNTOWN HEAT is a gritty and pretty interesting crime flick. Mike "Touch" Connors is featured as a special agent out to bust Eurocrime Lord Radeck (Craig Hill). Connors, who started his career in such Roger Corman B film entries as the WIP SWAMP WOMEN, is his usual hard edged self and gives everybody hell.
"Touch" may be pissed if it all turns out to be a mistake. And you don't want to deal with a pissed off "Touch" Connors.
Any additional information or updates on this release will be much appreciated.
(c) Robert Monell, 2007
So is Anchor Bay doing an anamorphic DOWNTOWN before Erwin C. Dietrich's Jess Franco Collection version or are they using the same letterboxed non-anamorphic master (some of Anchor Bay UK's other set have had some non-anamorphic titles).
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure what they are using in the UK. I will wait for Dietrich's anamorphic version which I hope appears.
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