Cinema Arcana: Super Video

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Monday, August 19, 2013

The VHS Archives: David Neil Gottlieb's THE HOLLYWOOD DREAM (1977)

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THE HOLLYWOOD DREAM

David Neil Gottlieb's Game Show Models (1977)

The VHS Archives Factsheet

Label: Super Video, Inc.

Catalog: SV25

Box Type: Clamshell

Year of Release: 1985

Runtime: 88:29

Print: 1.33:1 / English / No subs

Extras: None

About the Film

Director: David Neil Gottlieb

Year of Release: 1977

Country of Origin: U.S.A.

Stars: John Vickery, Gilbert DeRush, Diane Thomas, Diane Sommerfield, Dick Miller, Thelma Houston

AKAs: Game Show Models, Teenage Models, Game Show, The Hollywood Game, The Seventh Dwarf

Verbatim Box Synopsis

Dozens of gorgeous but naive young women move to Hollywood in search of stardom. They sign on with a talent agency that promises them their "big break."

Roger, the president of the agency, uses his power and charm to seduce the girls and fulfill all his sexual fantasies. A young writer for the agency discovers the swinging activities and decides to have an affair of his own with one of Roger's prize clients.

The star-struck lovelies all parade through Roger's bedroom giving him sexual favors in exchange for fame. They soon realize he's exploiting them when their bodies are used as prizes in a wild game show orgy!

U.S. Super Video, Inc. sleeve!

Looking for The Hollywood Dream on VHS? It's available on Amazon here. An even better bet is the excellent DVD release from Vinegar Syndrome; transferred from the original negative, it contains both Sam Sherman's sexed-up Game Show Models reedit and the original, hardly-seen The Seventh Dwarf assembly, along with director's commentary, outtakes and more!

Investigate more titles with Project: SUPER!

For a look at other labels, check out The VHS Archives!

Sunday, March 10, 2013

The VHS Archives: Kenneth W. Richardson's MISSION TO DEATH (1966)

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MISSION TO DEATH

Kenneth W. Richardson's Mission to Death (1966)

The VHS Archives Factsheet

Label: Super Video, Inc.

Catalog: SV23

Box Type: Clamshell

Year of Release: 1985

Runtime: 70:37

Print: 1.33:1 / English / No subs

Extras: None

About the Film

Director: Kenneth W. Richardson

Year of Release: 1966

Country of Origin: U.S.A.

Stars: Jim Brewer, James McLarty, Robert Stolper, Jim Westbrook

AKAs: Deadly Mission, Missions of Death

Verbatim Box Synopsis

In just a matter of hours and -- at any cost -- American soldiers must destroy a secret Nazi radar station in France. The Allied Air Force strike taking place in 24 hours will be shot down if the radar isn't destroyed.

As the GI's ambush a German truck, the French prisoners escape and hide in a nearby hay wagon. The Frenchmen pose as peasants and drive the hay wagon past a Nazi patrol to get their attention.

Meanwhile, the American GI's infiltrate the German lines. Once the Frenchmen are discovered they are tortured and executed by the Nazis for helping the Americans. But it's too late! Despite bloody battles with the Nazis and many casualties, the GI's demolish the radar station in time for the full blown air strike!

U.S. Super Video, Inc. sleeve!

Original trailer, uploaded by Independent International Pictures!

Looking for Mission to Death on VHS? It's available on Amazon here. (Be careful: there was another, later VHS release not from Super Video.) You can also get it on DVD from Fox Lorber, if so inclined.

Investigate more titles with Project: SUPER!

For a look at other labels, check out The VHS Archives!

Saturday, June 23, 2012

The VHS Archives: Miguel Iglesias Bonns' NIGHT OF THE HOWLING BEAST (1975)

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NIGHT OF THE HOWLING BEAST

Miguel Iglesias Bonns' La maldicion de la beastia (1975)

The VHS Archives Factsheet

Label: Super Video, Inc.

Catalog: SV04

Box Type: Clamshell

Year of Release: 1984

Runtime: 86:46

Print: 1.33:1 / English / No subs

Extras: None

About the Film

Director: Miguel Iglesias Bonns

Year of Release: 1975

Country of Origin: Spain

Stars: Paul Naschy, Grace Mills, Silvia Solar, Gil Vidal, Luis Induni

AKAs: The Werewolf and the Yeti, Hall of the Mountain King, In the Claws of the Werewolf, The Curse of the Beast

Verbatim Box Synopsis

A scientific mission goes to Tibet in search of the Abominable Snowman. One man is bitten by two sensuous female cannibals and becomes a werewolf. He thinks he will die, but instead lives on becoming more beast-like with each passing day and longing for blood. The expedition loses some of its members to a cruel war-like native leader. This man is dying from an incurable disease and is being treated with human flesh from live victims.

The werewolf and the native chief have a fight to the death and the chief is killed. The members of the expedition are still trapped by a cruel female leader and are thrown in her torture dungeon. In a wanton orgy of blood a rescue is attempted and eventually the werewolf has the curse lifted from him.