Good news is worth repeating….me hardies
“On June 10, Sony will release a 2-DVD set called “Icons of Adventure: The Hammer Films Collection Vol. 1”. The set will include THE STRANGLERS OF BOMBAY, THE TERROR OF THE TONGS, PIRATES OF BLOOD RIVER and DEVIL SHIP PIRATES. According to Sony’s publicity site, all four titles will be presented in their original aspect ratios with anamorphic enhancement. All four titles will have audio commentaries (some of them with legendary Hammer screenwriter Jimmy Sangster), and other extras will include original theatrical trailers, the cartoon: “The Merry Mutineers” (1936), Chapter One of the Serial: “The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd” (1951) and the short subject: “Hot Paprika” (1935) starring Andy Clyde. The SRP is $24.96. Note that this is “Vol. 1” of a “Hammer Films Collection.” “
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Comments
Comment from El Santo
Time: April 10, 2008, 7:19 pm
Ooh… Stranglers of Bombay… I’ve been wanting to see that.
Comment from hman
Time: April 11, 2008, 10:11 am
Until I get pulled out of spam hell, I’ll have to use assumed names, won’t I? Anyways, I’ve always wanted to see one of the b-masters take on Terror of the Tongs. Missed the chance to watch this one when TNT did their two-day, Price/Lee MonsterVision.
Comment from KeithA
Time: April 11, 2008, 10:23 am
I got so excited about these that I pre-ordered them the day they were announced.
Now if only they’d release the rest of the Hammer caveman movies…
Comment from hman
Time: April 11, 2008, 10:37 am
Rest? You mean Creatures that Time Forgot? I remember Starlog calling it “The Creatures that Hammer Forgot.”
Comment from KeithA
Time: April 11, 2008, 12:11 pm
And When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth — which I really think is a really fun film.
Comment from hman
Time: April 11, 2008, 12:23 pm
“The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms: Year One.” I thought it was better than “1,000,000 Years B.C.” in some respects. What is the general fanboy consensus: Victoria Vetri or Raquel Welch?
Comment from El Santo
Time: April 11, 2008, 1:54 pm
“Until I get pulled out of spam hell, I’ll have to use assumed names, won’t I?”
Okay, I’m intrigued. What’s this about?
Comment from hman
Time: April 11, 2008, 2:01 pm
I’m actually Blake, but all of my messages are getting caught in the spam filter, and I feel bad for always bothering Nathan to free them.
Comment from lyzard
Time: April 11, 2008, 4:58 pm
Hearties! Not “hardies”.
Yeah, we know; we just like jerking you around. 
(You were pretty slow on the trigger this time, actually.)
Comment from Matthew Fudge
Time: April 12, 2008, 2:32 am
Terror and Stranglers have pretty much dissapeared over here because they were thought to be racist, but I can’t say because I haven’t seen them
Comment from Ed
Time: April 13, 2008, 10:08 am
Pirates of Blood River sounds pretty good. I may have to check this out.
Comment from KeithA
Time: April 14, 2008, 2:45 pm
imdb quotes insists that it’s “hardies” — and as we all know, if it’s in the imdb, it must be true.
Comment from hman
Time: April 14, 2008, 3:59 pm
You can make it truer if you put it in a podcast.
Comment from lyzard
Time: April 14, 2008, 4:28 pm
Melville preferred ‘hearties’, and so did Flaubert. And Dickens, but like I’d take his word for anything.
Of course, I realise that as authorities, these hardly stack up against the IMDb.
Comment from KeithA
Time: April 14, 2008, 5:24 pm
I’m going to stick with “Me Hardees,” because, mmmm…roast beef!
Comment from The Rev. D.D.
Time: April 15, 2008, 10:47 am
I’m thinking Arby’s!
….is pretty crap.
Comment from Blake
Time: April 10, 2008, 5:49 pm
I can’t wait for one of you guys to review “Terror of the Tongs.” I remember missing it on TNT when they did a two-day Vincent Price/Christopher Price festival. I was bummed.