The film, which stars Patrick O'Neal as a novice American operative caught up in a battle between master spies in Soviet Russia, has become the first release of a new company, Twilight Time, that will be issuing limited editions of frequently requested titles from 20th Century Fox, through Amazon and the company's Web site, screenarchives.com.
"Swamp Water" has been issued in a limited-edition Blu-ray by Twilight Time, a boutique label (sold through screenarchives.com) that mostly specializes in color films of the widescreen era licensed from Fox and Columbia.
I was no longer a young mother but a 46-year-old aging parent, lost in that twilight time between pushing a stroller and driving a motorized scooter.
As presented in the new restoration prepared by Sony Pictures and offered as a limited-edition Blu-ray from Twilight Time, Ann-Margret's rendition of "Bye Bye Birdie" stops the show before it has even begun.
Released in the fall of 1975, and appearing this month as a limited edition Blu-ray from Twilight Time, "Hard Times" was the first film directed by Walter Hill, who was then making a name for himself as an author of unusually literate screenplays (among them the scripts that became "The Getaway," from Sam Peckinpah, and "The Mackintosh Man," from John Huston).
And Kyu Sakamoto's "Sukiyaki" was matched with "Twilight Time" from The Platters – a song I've never heard of, but is unquestionably similar.
Though it has occasionally surfaced on television, Douglas's "Stagecoach" has remained elusive on home video until now, as it arrives in a limited edition DVD from the boutique label Twilight Time.
Twilight Time has recently released it in a Blu-ray edition that includes both the 122-minute cut originally seen in American theaters and the 136-minute extended version that surfaced in 2005.
"Twilight Time" and "Only You" were, without a doubt, two of the best slow-dance songs of the 20th century.
Lang's most resonant treatment of the theme was perhaps his 1953 film noir "The Big Heat," which has now been issued as a superb, limited-edition Blu-ray by the boutique label Twilight Time (available through Screen Archives Entertainment, at screenarchives.com).
