Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.misc From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Trio of comedies arrives for holidays Date: Thu, 26 Nov 92 15:00:28 EST Message-ID: Lines: 80 \SE M;WASHINGTON WEEKEND;PHANTOM OF THE MOVIES \HD Trio of comedies arrives for holidays Among the comedy videos heading our way in December are a trio from Columbia/TriStar: Hilary Wolf in Big Girls Don't Cry - They Get Even, Shannen Doherty in the action-laced Freeze Frame, and Jocelyn Moorhouse's Proof ($89.95 each). Fox debuts Bernard and the Genie ($59.98), starring Lenny Henry and Rowan (Blackadder) Atkinson, who returns in Fox's BBC import Blackadder's Christmas Carol ($19.98), co-starring Robbie Coltrane and Miranda Richardson; and Alec Baldwin, Meg Ryan and Kathy Bates in Prelude to a Kiss ($94.98). Walt Disney presents Michael Caine, Carol Burnett and John Ritter in Noises Off! and Bob Hoskins, Tim Curry and Maureen Stapleton in Passed Away ($94.95 each). Elsewhere on the laugh front, Dave Thomas and Sally Kellerman top-line in the live-action Boris and Natasha: The Movie (Academy, $89.95), Kid 'N Play cavort in Class Act (Warner, $94.99), Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn enjoy a marriage of inconvenience in Housesitter, while Matthew Broderick and Jeffrey Jones go Out on a Limb in Francis Veber's American-made farce (both from MCA, $94.98 each). Corey Haim, Robbie Coltrane and Genevieve Bujold inhabit the 1950s-set coming-of-age comedy Oh, What a Night (New Line, $89.95). GOING APEMAN For vintage Tarzan fans, MGM/UA unleashes three previously unavailable jungle thrillers starring Johnny Weissmuller as Edgar Rice Burroughs' swinging hero and Maureen O'Sullivan as his more sophisticated mate: Tarzan Finds a Son, Tarzan's New York Adventure and Tarzan's Secret Treasure ($19.98 each). The same tag applies to three Tarzan re-releases featuring the same stars - Tarzan, the Ape Man, the restored, uncut Tarzan and His Mate and Tarzan Escapes - plus the Bo Derek rendition of Tarzan, the Ape Man, co-starring Richard Harris and Miles O'Keeffe. MGM/UA also recently introduced the 1962 version of Beauty and the Beast ($14.95), starring Mark Damon. CONTINUUM CARTOONS New Jersey's Science-Fiction Continuum (800/232-6002) has several oft-requested animated tele-series available, including three Clutch Cargo and Colonel Bleep half-hour shows ($14.99 each), the early Jay Ward-created Crusader Rabbit vs. the Pirates and Crusader Rabbit vs. the State of Texas ($14.99 each), Gigantor Vol. 1-3 ($19.99 per three-episode tape), the 12-cartoon Krazy Kat: Kokonino County Capers ($14.99), three half-hour Space Angel episodes ($14.99 each) and several Speed Racer shows ($19.99 for hour-long episodes, $14.99 for half-hour entries). STARMAKER UPDATE Some of the newer titles issued by Starmaker in separate SP ($19.95) and EP ($9.99) editions include Rod Cameron in the 1964 Western The Bounty Killer and Hammered: The Best of Sledge Vol. III, Gordon Scott in Hercules vs. the Sea Monster, How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way; Kirk Douglas in Last Train From Gun Hill, Man Facing Southeast; Paul Naschy in The Mummy's Revenge, George Peppard in Night of the Fox, Blake Edwards' Peter Gunn, Terry O'Quinn in Pin, Virus, Warlock, The Wife of Monte Cristo and a pair of Sophia Loren/Marcello Mastrioanni comedies, Marriage, Italian Style and Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. PHAN MAIL Dear Phantom: I've been trying to find a movie but don't know the name. It stars Jean Gabin and Alain Delon, who pull off a diamond heist and fly the stuff to the United States. - Josephine Petti, Brooklyn, N.Y. A: Say no more - the movie you're looking for is 1969's The Sicilian Clan; unfortunately, the film has yet to join the video ranks. Send your video comments and queries to Mondo Video, Phantom of the Movies, The Washington Times, 3600 New York Ave NE, Washington, D.C. 20002. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM