New on 4K Ultra HD: BLUE THUNDER (1983) Starring Roy Scheider - Arrow Limited Edition

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Product Description: In 1983, director John Badham (WarGames) followed his smash hit Saturday Night Fever with Blue Thunder, an adrenaline-packed fusion of techno-thriller grit and blockbuster spectacle. This tale of airborne surveillance and institutional overreach became a defining genre snapshot of Reagan-era anxiety, shot through with Hollywood muscle and a prescient distrust of unchecked technology.

Roy Scheider (Jaws) stars as Frank Murphy, a veteran LAPD helicopter pilot picked to test-fly Blue Thunder, an experimental attack chopper bristling with unprecedented surveillance capabilities. When Murphy uncovers a covert plot to weaponize the aircraft for domestic policing, he takes to the skies in open rebellion. Hunted through the city by his own unit and shadowy government architects, Murphy's final patrol becomes a white-knuckle fight for justice - and survival.

Co-starring Warren Oates (Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia), Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange), and Candy Clark (American Graffiti), Blue Thunder delivers heart-pounding suspense and sky-high stakes. A landmark of analog-age futurism, it remains a razor-sharp thrill ride that fires on all cylinders from beginning to end.

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William Friedkin's SORCERER (1977) - Criterion Collection Blu-ray & 4K Release

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Product Description: A hallucinatory journey into the heart of darkness, William Friedkin’s pulse-pounding reimagining of the suspense classic The Wages of Fear was dismissed upon its release, only to be recognized decades later as one of the New Hollywood’s boldest auteur statements. In a remote Latin American village, four desperate fugitives—a New Jersey gangster (Roy Scheider), a Mexican assassin (Francisco Rabal), an unscrupulous Parisian businessman (Bruno Cremer), and an Arab terrorist (Amidou)—take on a doomed mission: transporting two trucks full of highly explosive nitroglycerin through the treacherous jungle. Aided by Tangerine Dream’s otherworldly synth score, Friedkin turns each bump in the road into a tour de force of cold-sweat tension—conjuring a hauntingly nihilistic vision of a world ruled by chance and fate.

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New on Blu-ray: 52 PICK-UP (1986) Starring Roy Scheider & Ann-Margret

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Product Description: Greed! Extortion! Revenge! Based on the explosive bestseller by the great American crime writer, Elmore Leonard (Out of Sight), and with top-notch direction by legendary filmmaker John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate, Ronin), 52 Pick-Up evokes the chilling reminder that if you have a lot, you have a lot to lose. Life is good for Los Angeles entrepreneur Harry Mitchell (Roy Scheider, The Seven-Ups, Jaws)—great business, beautiful home and gorgeous wife (Ann-Margret, Viva Las Vegas, Carnal Knowledge). Just when Harry thinks he’ll land a seat on the city council, his life suddenly spins out of control when a trio of pornographers, led by the ruthless Alan Raimy (John Glover, Masquerade), shows up with a videotape of Harry in bed with his mistress (Kelly Preston, The Experts). And when Harry goes on the offensive and tries to pit one blackmailer against the other, the tension mounts—as does the possibility of murder. The stacked cast also features Vanity (Neon City), Clarence Williams III (Reindeer Games) and Doug McClure (At the Earth’s Core).

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New on Blu-ray: SEAQUEST DSV - The Complete Series

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Product Description: Travel to the spectacular undersea world of SeaQuest DSV with all 57 groundbreaking episodes from all 3 seasons. The amazing adventure begins in the mid-21st century, as humankind expands its undersea colonization efforts and a tenuous world peace is enforced by the United Earth Oceans (UEO). In order to protect the fledgling underwater colonies from unknown dangers and hostile invaders lurking in the depths of Earth's last frontier, the UEO recruits Captain Nathan Bridger (Roy Scheider) to command the high-tech battle submarine SeaQuest and its diverse and eclectic crew. Along for the ride are a roster of stellar guest stars, including Charlton Heston, William Shatner, Seth Green, Kellie Martin and Kent McCord.

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DVD & Blu-ray: THE RUSSIA HOUSE (1990) Starring Sean Connery & Michelle Pfeiffer

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Product Description: Author John le Carré’s novel “The Russia House” is brought to life by director Fred Schepisi (Six Degrees of Separation) and screenwriter Tom Stoppard (Empire of the Sun) in this political thriller set during the peak of the Cold War. Sean Connery (Goldfinger) and Michelle Pfeiffer (The Fabulous Baker Boys) play spies and lovers in a game of cat and mouse to prevent a highly sensitive manuscript from falling into the wrong hands. A chorus of bureaucrats are vividly brought to life by Roy Scheider (Jaws), James Fox (The Remains of the Day), John Mahoney (Moonstruck) and, in a scene-stealing turn, Ken Russell (Women in Love).

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DVD & Blu-ray: PUZZLE OF A DOWNFALL CHILD (1970) Starring Faye Dunaway

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Product Description: Jerry Schatzberg, the acclaimed director of The Panic in Needle Park, Scarecrow, The Seduction of Joe Tynan, Honeysuckle Rose and Street Smart, made his directorial debut with this brilliantly innovative and fascinating drama starring screen legend Faye Dunaway (The Thomas Crown Affair, Chinatown, Network, Mommie Dearest). Lou Andreas Sand (Dunaway), a beautiful but disturbed young woman whose life has fallen into a downward spiral including drug use and a nervous breakdown, lives alone at a windswept beach cottage. Fashion photographer turned director Aaron Reinhardt (Barry Primus, Boxcar Bertha) visits the former model and records their conversations, planning to develop her story, a life of delusion and lies, into a film. The stellar cast includes Roy Scheider (Jaws), Viveca Lindfors (Moonfleet) and Barry Morse (The Changeling).

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New on Blu-ray: JAWS 3-MOVIE COLLECTION (Jaws 2 / Jaws 3D / Jaws: The Revenge)

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Product Description: Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…all 3 sequels from one of the most successful blockbusters of all time are featured in the Jaws 3-Movie Collection. Years after being terrorized by a great white shark, the vacationers on Amity Island begin disappearing again in an all-too-familiar fashion and seek the help of Police Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) in Jaws 2. In Jaws 3, tourists marvel at the new "Undersea Kingdom", a maze of underwater glass tunnels that allow visitors to get up closer to marine life than ever before, until they get an unexpected visit from a very angry shark. Finally, in Jaws: The Revenge, Brody's wife seeks refuge in the Bahamas only to find herself reliving the horrors of her past and decides to take matters into her own hands. This time, it's personal!

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New on Blu-ray: ALL THAT JAZZ (1979) - Criterion Collection

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Product Description: The preternaturally gifted director and choreographer Bob Fosse turned the camera on his own life for this madly imaginative, self-excoriating musical masterpiece. Roy Scheider gives the performance of his career as Joe Gideon, whose exhausting work schedule—mounting a Broadway production by day and editing his latest movie at night—and routine of amphetamines, booze, and sex are putting his health at serious risk. Fosse burrows into Gideon’s (and his own) mind, rendering his interior world as phantasmagoric spectacle. Assembled with visionary editing that makes dance come alive on-screen as never before, and overflowing with sublime footwork by the likes of Ben Vereen, Leland Palmer, and the awesomely leggy Ann Reinking, All That Jazz pushes the musical genre to personal depths and virtuosic aesthetic heights.

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DVD & Blu-Ray: William Friedkin's SORCERER Starring Roy Scheider

Product Description: A group of outcasts from different backgrounds and nationalities are forced by misfortune to work in an oil-drilling operation in South America. When fire breaks out of control, four of the outcasts are given the opportunity to earn enough money to get out by transporting six crates of unstable dynamite through miles of jungle in two ancient trucks.

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New on Blu-Ray : JAWS (Universal's 100th Anniversary)

Synopsis: Directed by Academy Award® winner Steven Spielberg, Jaws set the standard for edge-of-your-seat suspense quickly becoming a cultural phenomenon and forever changing the movie industry. When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town’s chief of police (Roy Scheider), a young marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a grizzled shark hunter (Robert Shaw) embark on a desperate quest to destroy the beast before it strikes again. Featuring an unforgettable score that evokes pure terror, Jaws remains one of the most influential and gripping adventures in motion picture history.

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Genre: Thriller

Run Time : 124 Min.

Distributor : Universal Studios

Release Date: August 14, 2012

Rated : PG

Blu-Ray Special Features:

• Digital Copy and Ultraviolet
• The Shark is Still Working
• The Making of Jaws
• Jaws: The Restoration
• Deleted Scenes and Outtakes From the Set
• Marketing Jaws
• Jaws Phenomenon
• Original Theatrical Trailer

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     OTHER DVD/Blu-Ray Releases :

• BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY (1989) - Universal's 100th Anniversary
• Blu-Ray Classics : TOTAL RECALL - Mind-Bending Edition and FOREVER MARILYN - 7 Movie Collection
• SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952) - 60th Anniversary
• CHARIOTS OF FIRE (1981)
• TREASURE PLANET (2002) - 10th Anniversary Edition

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