DVD Drive-In have reported the next wave of Midnite Movies Double-Features, due March 22nd 2005, including this brace of apocalyptic sixties AIP favourites (neither of which I've ever seen, so an interesting pairing for me).

But where, oh where, is NO BLADE OF GRASS? And who owns it - I seem to remember somebody on the old MHVF telling me it's now a Warner property, and so not to expect it any time soon...this is another downbeat SF title I've never been able to track down so a DVD would be super-nice. So, whoever it is that's sitting on this one...release it!

This is really great news. In the twilight months of laserdisc, this double feature was announced and then cancelled. To me, these two films (along with Corman's DAY THE WORLD ENDED) are the most important source films for NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and are hugely entertaining, well-made movies in their own right.

Also on deck is the Mini-Skirt Mob, check out this cast:

Jeremy Slate - Lon
Diane McBain - Shayne
Sherry Jackson - Connie
Patty McCormack - Edie
Ross Hagen - Jeff Logan
Ron Rondell - L.G.
Harry Dean Stanton - Spook

Sherry Jackson and Diane McBain - Hot, hot, hot!

now that 's a no-brainer purchase in me'book.

Sherry Jackson is as sexy as any woman who ever lived.

Best enjoyed as camp, THE MINI-SKIRT MOB is pretty entertaining late-night trash with its far-out fashions, silly dialogue and frequent fights and chases. Screenwriter James Gordon White also wrote THE INCREDIBLE TWO-HEADED TRANSPLANT and THE THING WITH TWO HEADS for American-International Pictures. Les Baxter's loungy score sounds like it was pulled from an old TV show. Patty McCormack also performs the hilarious theme song ("Disregard their good looks/they're just a bunch of dirty crooks...").

These bikers ride Hondas too!

Marty,

I LOVE SHERRY JACKSON! , I even forked out a few bucks for the 1967 issue of Playboy that has a pictorial of her from GUNN - hey where's the DVD release for that 1967 film???

Does anyone know what's the story on that one - film of a hit TV series, direction by Blake Edwards - hot women;Sherry, Laura Devon... why no DVD???

I can't/don't understand why she didn't become a bigger star once she reached adulthood? She was sexy as hell and seemed to have had reasonable acting chops...

NO BLADE OF GRASS is owned by WArner brothers, as it was a MGM film, so it is now a property of WB.

Sherry Jackson was also real good as the villianess in 1978 action film STINGRAY, sexy and deadly!

Actually, the disc was on the market briefly. It's been one of the few I've held onto, along with The Innocents, Burn Witch Burn, and The Blue Iguana =)

Yep, I've got that double-feature too. The transfer of both films is phenomenal. I'll probably hold onto it even still, because I'll bet the uncompressed sound will be better.

It's a great-looking LD package, and fittingly, given the titles, the last LD I ever purchased.

Don't forget INVISIBLE INVADERS!

Now when is MGM going to get to HOT RODS TO HELL?! Perhaps one of the greatest movies ever made!!! :lol:

"no good punks!"

I think Warner Brothers now owns HOT RODS TO HELL, Roger. This was a pre-1985 film from MGM, so WB bought it with in their gigantic library purchase. Same goes for PRIVATE PARTS, WICKED WICKED and hundreds of others lounging in WB's vaults. As much as I adore their classic DVD releases, someone should jump on the cult movie bandwagon over there and release a similar double-feature series!

I think that Warner also controls the Allied Artists library. Plenty of cult titles there.

I thought that MGM had the Allied Artists library. ROLLERBALL is AA and was released on MGM DVD. There are couple of other AA titles on MGM too, but I can't remember them off the top of my head.

It was great package, and it was especially nice to get something like that in the waning days of the LD. I also recall Image charging a DVD-type price for it, something like $29.99.

I sold my copy on ebay about 3 years ago for $100. That certainly wouldn't happen now.

I think you're referring to UA -- UNITED ARTISTS -- not Allied Artists. AA was folded into Lorimar and in turn bought up by Warner Brothers.

Don't you hate it when companies use similar names? AA vs. UA, Warner Brothers vs. Woolner Brothers, American International Pictures vs. anyone else that's horked the AIP initials...It could drive a man to drink.

Of course too much of that, and he'll end up at a different AA. :D

You're quite right of course. I realized my error when I went home and put the ROLLERBALL DVD in again. My bad.

And ROLLERBALL was certificated 'AA' in the UK to confuse things further.