Warner Bros. Archives have announced nine new made to order releases
Cleopatra Jones & the Casino of Gold (1975) – Special Agent Cleopatra Jones knows the heroin pipeline stretches from Hong Kong to the U.S. and shes dead set on shutting the pipeline off at its source. But the Dragon Lady (Stella Stevens), lecherous, drug-running underworld queenpin, is taking dead aim against Cleo. Tamara Dobson returns in beautiful, brainy, fighting form to her signature role in Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold. Amid the picturesque sprawl of Hong Kong and Macao locales, Cleo faces relentless danger. She kicks, flails and transforms a street corner into a chopping center. Breathless excitement is in store when she slips inside the Dragon Ladys plush gaming rooms. Thats one sure entertainment bet!
The Doberman Gang/The Daring Dobermans (1973) – Heres howl the crimes go down. After a bungled bank job, a clever con realizes he needs a new gang. So he teams with Baby Face Nelson, Bonnie and Clyde, Dillinger, Ma Barker and Pretty Boy Floyd. Theyre not people; theyre The Doberman Gang dogs, trained to avoid human error and pull off the perfect bank heist. In the sequel The Daring Dobermans, the law cant find those four-legged thieves, but three pals hoping to pull off a daring heist do, using sound waves to call the dogs. The dutiful Dobies are soon in training for another bold caper, one that will take them up a high-rise elevator, into offices, across rooftops, down a laundry chute and into a waiting van. Do they pull it off? Sit stay watch!
They Came to Rob Las Vegas (1968) – Casino dealer Tony Vincenzo knows how to figure the odds, and he figures the job hes planned is close to a sure thing. He knows about the route and the security measures taken to protect an armored car hauling cash from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. He knows no one will find the car after hes detoured it off the road and into a specially constructed subterranean desert vault. And yet he doesnt know enough. Gary Lockwood, Elke Sommer, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Palance and classic caper star Jean Servais (Rififi) are the marquee lights in this tale of a heist as improbable in execution as it is fun to watch. Grab a thriller equivalent to Leones Westerns, reworking old formulas and paying tribute to them at the same time (Adrian Turner, Time Out Film Guide).
Atlantis, The Lost Continent (1961) – Rejoice, citizens of Atlantis! Princess Antillia, lost upon uncharted seas, has been guided home by intrepid Greek fisherman Demetrios. In a strange act of Atlantean gratitude, Demetrios is cast into slavery. He will endure the macabre House of Hell. Fight for his life before a cheering arena throng in the Ordeal of Fire and Water. And rescue the princess again as they flee the realms volcanic doom. Welcome to Atlantis, the Lost Continent, where royal guardsmen wear uniforms that could easily be from the wardrobe of Ming the Merciless and where some unfortunate slaves are turned into bovine-headed beasts. Yes, that kind of movie: popcorn-worthy and spearheaded by legendary fantasy film producer George Pal (The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine).
Operation Daybreak (1975) – The mission: Assassinate SS Obergruppenfuehrer Reinhard Heydrich, the diabolical murderer William L. Shirer called the genius of the Final Solution. Directed by Lewis Gilbert (The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker), written by The Pianist Academy Award winner* Ronald Harwood and filmed where the real events occurred, this taut thriller stars Timothy Bottoms, Anthony Andrews and Nicola Pagett as brave Czechs who defy their German invaders. Youll see the abortive first assassination attempt and the flawed yet successful second. Youll witness furious Nazi reprisals, including the annihilation of Lidice. And youll marvel at the bold last stand of seven patriots. Throughout, youll know these seven were real people in a real time. Ordinary people by everyday standards. Heroes by every other measure.
Chubasco (1967) – After assaulting a cop during a beach party blowout, teen rebel Chubasco (Christopher Jones) gets two choices: do time for the crime or join the crew of a high seas clipper and face the inherent risks of commercial fishing. Choosing the latter and before boarding ship, Chubasco elopes with girlfriend Bunny (Susan Strasberg) and then finds himself on a tuna boat skippered by the one man whod rather see him dead: Bunnys irate father Sebastian (Richard Egan). When Sebastian learns his new deckhands identity, tensions rise with the tides and only one man may return to Bunnys waiting arms. A solid movie debut for Jones, soon to achieve greater fame in Wild in the Streets, Three in the Attic and Ryans Daughter, this scenic romance also boasts a seasoned supporting cast: Ann Sothern, Audrey Totter, Preston Foster and Simon Oakland.
Inside Out (1975) – Ever heard of a prison break-in? When the goal is Hitlers secret cache of $6 million in gold and the only man who knows its location is doing life inside the worlds most secure prison, youve got to get him Inside Out. Telly Savalas, Robert Culp and 50-year screen veteran James Mason star in this tense, action-packed heist caper. A high-rolling con man, an ex-jewel thief and a former German concentration camp commandant concoct an elaborate scheme to recover a gold shipment hijacked by the S.S. in 1941. It hinges on removing a member of the Nazi high command from West Berlins fortress-like Siegfried Prison. Then, to jog the inmates memory, hell be taken to a chilling recreation of German headquarters (complete with a bogus Hitler) in a converted air-raid shelter across the Iron Curtain.
Betrayed (1944) – Before he made Betrayed, Robert Mitchum was picking up occasional paychecks as a villain in Hopalong Cassidy flicks. Afterward, he was headed to stardom. In this chilling, iconic film noir, Mitchum plays a new brides (Kim Hunter) former beau, who provides a strong shoulder to lean on when his ex suspects the mysterious man she married (Dean Jagger) may be a killer. Future horror innovator William Castles inventive direction drenches the action in claustrophobic tension: the sequence with Hunter lit by flashing neon is a classic. And the scene where Mitchum loses his trademark cool in an eruption of emotion foreshadows his audience-jolting performances in The Night of the Hunter and Cape Fear.
The Power (1968) – Who has The Power? The Power to control minds, move objects, and murder by telekinesis? Thats what scientists at a space lab want to know when they realize they are targeted by one of their own someone who possesses a superhuman power and a terrifying secret agenda. Producer George Pal brings the imagination and craft that turned his The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine into sci fi-classics to this eerie tale heightened by a suspenseful Miklos Rozsa score. The fine cast, led by George Hamilton and Suzanne Pleshette, includes two talents forever emblematic of paranoid post-war sci-fi/creature features: Michael Rennie (The Day the Earth Stood Still) and Richard Carlson (Creature from the Black Lagoon).