MELINDA (1972) - Blu-ray Release of Crime Drama Starring Calvin Lockhart & Rosalind Cash

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Product Description: Blaxploitation superstars Calvin Lockhart, Rosalind Cash, Vonetta McGee and Jim Kelly take on the mob in this super-charged, action-packed thriller. When Melinda Lewis (McGee) is found brutally murdered in his L.A. apartment, smooth-talking disk jockey Frankie J. Parker (Lockhart) turns sleuth to clear his name. Chased and attacked by junkies, dealers and thugs, Frankie soon learns Melinda is the ex-mistress of a Chicago mobster and has evidence the gangster wants back. Enlisting the aid of a jealous ex-flame (Cash) and a karate master from the hood (Kelly, in his screen debut), Frankie sets out to track down the mob boss who framed him and avenge Melinda's death. A box-office success on its original release, Melinda was one of the few Blaxploitation films produced, written and directed by African-Americans and boasts a fantastic funk score by R&B legend Jerry Butler and Grammy-winner Jerry Peters.

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THREE THE HARD WAY (1974) - Blu-ray Release of Blaxploitation Film Starring Jim Brown, Fred Williamson & Jim Kelly

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Product Description: At the height of their big-screen popularirty, three 1970s superstars head the cast of the action-thriller THREE THE HARD WAY.Directed with style and panache by Gordon Parks, Jr., the film stars Jim Brown, Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly as a unitrio out to stop a secret white supremacist organizaton that plans to contaminate the water supplies of Detroit, Los Angeles and Washington D.C. with a substance that is a lethal poison only to the Black population. Long only seen in an edited 89 minute version, this new Blu-ray presentation restores the film to its original theatrical version.

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New on Blu-ray: BLACK BELT JONES (1974) Starring Jim Kelly

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Product Description: A former International Karate Champion, Jim Kelly made a blazing screen debut with Bruce Lee in the martial-arts landmark ENTER THE DRAGON. Now as Black Belt Jones, Kelly's fiery fighting expertise rips the screen apart in his first solo star turn. featuring Scatman Crothers (The Shining) and sultry Glory Hendry (Live and Let Die). Pop Boyd (Crothers) owns a thriving karate school near downtown Los Angeles. Unfortunately, it sits on a piece of land upon which a local mob wants to build its own civic center. When the gangsters' muscling of Pop leads to tragedy, Black Belt Jones steps forward to exact his individual brand of lightning-charged revenge. Filmmaker Robert Clouse, who showcased Lee in Enter the Dragon and Jackie Chan in The Big Brawl serves up masterful action sequences of which Kelly said every move was choreographed like a ballet. That unique blend of ballistic combat and colorful comic characters make Black Belt Jones light on its feet -- and heavy on entertainment!

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New on Blu-ray: AL ADAMSON - THE MASTERPIECE COLLECTION (1960-2019) - 32 Movies

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Product Description: For the first time ever, experience the complete legacy of writer/producer/director Al Adamson, with 31 remastered films on 14 Blu-ray discs, plus the award-winning documentary BLOOD & FLESH: THE REEL LIFE & GHASTLY DEATH OF AL ADAMSON. This set is also filled with a huge collection of special features, including trailers, featurettes, commentaries, outtakes, and 126-page book!

Exhaustively compiled for the first time ever, Adamson's oeuvre spans a wild beyond-belief world of bloody brains, vicious cowboys, naughty nurses, decrepit actors, sexy stewardesses, mad scientists, brutal bikers, Blaxploitation mayhem, kung fu killers and "scenes so SICK the Movies could never show them before!" The life and career of B-movie maverick Adamson - known for such low budget classics as SATAN'S SADISTS, DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN and THE NAUGHTY STEWARDESSES (as well as his own grisly 1995 murder) - reveals perhaps the most bizarre career in Hollywood history.

Films Included: Angels' Wild Women, Black Heat, Black Samurai, Blazing Stewardesses, Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death Of Al Adamson, Blood Of Dracula's Castle, Blood Of Ghastly Horror, Brain Of Blood, Carnival Magic, Cinderella 2000, Death Dimension, Dracula Vs. Frankenstein, Dracula's Castle, Five Bloody Graves, Girls For Rent, Half Way To Hell, Hell's Bloody Devils, Horror Of The Blood Monsters, Jessi's Girls, Lost, Mean Mother, Nurse Sherri, Nurses For Sale, Psycho A-Go-Go, Satan's Sadists, Sunset Cove, The Dynamite Brothers, The Fakers, The Female Bunch, The Fiend With The Electric Brain, The Naughty Stewardesses, Uncle Tom's Cabin

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