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Mike Clark
December 3, 2018
Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure
Available via Warner Archive
Warner, Drama, $21.99 Blu-ray, NR.
Stars Gordon Scott, Sara Shane, Anthony Quayle, Sean Connery.
1959. Tarzan joins the hunt for some nefarious jewel thieves in this robustly spun yarn.
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The Ice Harvest
Kino Lorber, Drama, $29.95 Blu-ray, ‘R’ for violence, language and sexuality/nudity.
Stars John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Platt.
2005. Even by noir standards, Harvest is uncommonly brutal in language, graphic bodily harm and, well, life attitude. Especially for a movie with recognizable stars and filmmakers.
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