Los Angeles, CA (October 13, 2011) – Another round of MGM must-see fan favorites comes to Blu-ray November 1st from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Three classics make this month’s new-to-Blu-ray releases some of the most exciting yet.
THE BIG COUNTRY SYNOPSIS:
One of Hollywood’s greatest directors teams with a cast of incredible screen legends for this bold, sweeping tale of a ship’s captain who ventures west to find a hotbed of jealousy, hatred and dangerous rivalries. As the reluctant hero is thrust into the maelstrom, he must summon all of his resolve to save not only his own life, but also the life of the woman he loves.
Four-time Academy Award® Winner William Wyler directs this action-packed adventure that triumphs as “a work of art” (Motion Picture Herald). Starring Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Charlton Heston, Chuck Connors, and Burl Ives (in an Oscar®-Winning performance), this magnificently entertaining epic will take your breath away with unbridled suspense, exhilarating excitement and explosive drama on a grand scale.
QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER SYNOPSIS:
Tom Selleck gives the boldest performance of his career in this “new style, revisionist Western with the panoramic scope of a movie epic” (Los Angeles Times). Fierce gunfights, forbidding landscapes, breakneck chases – all hallmarks of the classic Western – are reinvented in this hard-pounding actioner that “revitalizes the genre” and comes out “a sure winner” (The Hollywood Reporter).
Arriving in Australia with nothing more than a saddle and his prized six-foot Sharps rifle, American sharpshooter Matthew Quigley thinks he’s been hired to kill off wild dogs. But when he realizes, instead, that his mission is murder – to “eliminate” the Aborigines from a wealthy cattle baron’s land – Quigley refuses and quickly turns from hunter to hunted. Forced to wage a savage war against his former employer, Quigley proves that no one gets the best of a steely-eyed American gunfighter – no one, that is, except the mysterious beauty (Laura San Giacomo, sex, lies, and videotape) who rides by his side and captures his heart.
THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE SYNOPSIS:
Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, and Martin Balsam lead an all-star cast in this “gripping and exciting” (The Hollywood Reporter) suspense film based on the sizzling best seller by John Godey.
A gang of thugs who have hijacked a subway train near New York’s Pelham Station threaten to kill one hostage per minute. Forced to stall the assailants until a ransom is delivered or a rescue made, transit chief Lt. Garber (Matthau) must somehow ad-lib, con and outmaneuver one of the craftiest, cruelest villains (Shaw) ever. It’s a race against time, and no one knows whether things will end heroically or tragically in this pulse-pounding thrill ride!