DVD & Blu-ray: WORLD OF GIANTS - The Complete Series - ClassicFlix Rare TV

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Product Description: Now available for the first time on Blu-ray from ClassicFlix—the fantastic science fiction-espionage TV series World of Giants!During a secret mission behind the Iron Curtain, a freak accident involving an exploding rocket shrinks American agent Mel Hunter (Marshall Thompson, Daktari) to the size of six inches. But instead of ending his career, it turns out to be to his, and “The Bureau’s”, advantage as the pocket-sized operative is able to infiltrate areas closed off to the average G-man. Hunter is aided by his full-sized partner Agent Bill Winters (Arthur Franz, The Sniper), gal Friday Miss Brown (Marcia Henderson, The Glass Web) and Bureau Commissioner Hall (John Gallaudet, Perry Mason).Touting a $4,000,000 budget, CBS tapped prolific production company Ziv TV to produce World of Giants (WOG) which started shooting in early 1958—with an expected fall network debut. Production was later halted when CBS was unable to obtain sponsorship for WOG causing the network to delay the series premiere a full year. But when shooting wrapped in 1959, World of Giants was still without a sponsor and CBS scrapped the idea of network distribution entirely which allowed WOG to go into first-run syndication starting in 1961.WOG’s high production values allowed Ziv to hire such luminary sci-fi directors as Nathan Juran (20 Million Miles to Earth), Jack Arnold (Creature from the Black Lagoon) and Byron Haskin (The War of the Worlds), as well as involve famed production designer and art director Robert Kinoshita—known for his creation of iconic sci-fi robots such as “Robby the Robot” (Forbidden Planet) as well as for art direction on TV series’ such as Lost in Space.World of Giants - The Complete Series includes all 13 episodes produced by Ziv and features guest stars including Peggie Castle, Gavin MacLeod, Tom Brown, Berry Kroeger, Bill Walker, Pamela Duncan, Ziva Rodann, Douglas Dick, Maria Palmer, Narda Onyx, Edgar Barrier, Nestor Paiva, Gregg Palmer and Allison Hayes.

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New on Blu-ray: IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE (1958)

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Product Description: Summoned to the silver screen by sci-fi specialist Edward L. Cahn (Curse of the Faceless Man)—and too terrifying to even have a name!—“It” is a seemingly invincible monster that is hell-bent on killing everybody on a mission to Mars. This life-devouring alien brushes aside bullets and even nuclear blasts—making it one very cold-hearted Cold War-style invader. When his crew is brutally murdered on a Mars expedition, Commander Carruthers (Marshall Thompson, First Man into Space) becomes the prime suspect. Taken into custody and facing a court-martial back on Earth, he discovers that the real killer—a grotesque, slithering “It”—has stowed aboard the earthbound ship. But the indestructible creature has already begun a harrowing in-flight rampage, knocking off the members of the crew one by one. Now, as the spaceship heads home toward a panic-stricken Earth, the remaining crew must find some way to stop the unstoppable…“It.”

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New on Blu-ray: NO MAN IS AN ISLAND (1962) Starring Jeffrey Hunter & Barbara Perez

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Product Description: December 7, 1941. Navy man George Tweed (Jeffrey Hunter, The Searchers, A Kiss Before Dying) is ecstatic to be spending his last day on Guam after receiving his discharge papers. But this is the day “which will live in infamy,” as America—and Tweed—are suddenly thrust into global conflict with the Japanese bombing attack on Pearl Harbor. At this fateful moment, all American military personnel on Guam are either killed or surrender to the invading Japanese forces. All, except for five seamen who escape into the mountains. One by one they are tracked down and killed. There’s only one survivor: Tweed. Alone, hungry and hunted by the enemy, he begins a heroic ordeal that lasts almost three years. Co-starring Marshall Thompson (To Hell and Back) and introducing the “Audrey Hepburn of the Philippines,” Barbara Perez, No Man Is an Island is an incredible true story filled with action, thrills and ultimately, love.

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