At Last! The Video Rental Blockbuster of 1983 arrives on DVD,
newly remastered from original vault elements and packed with
extras! Unbeknown to the passengers on board a cruise ship in the
Caribbean, a mysterious vessel is approaching - on a collision
course! Despite the attempts of the crew to avert disaster, the
liner is lost with all hands down, except for seven survivors.
They are saved when they clamber aboard a ghostly freighter,
where they discover an even worse e. They are now prisoners on
a former wartime vessel. As this ship speeds towards an unknown
destination, they realise that something is intent on destroying
each one of them in a grusesome and terrifying way... It's not a
ship, it's a killing machine! From an original story by Hollywood
legend Jack Hill (COFFY, FOXY BROWN, SWITCHBLADE SISTERS) and
starring none other than George Kennedy (COOL HAND LUKE, THE
DIRTY DOZEN) and Richard Crenna (RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD) comes the
long-awaited UK DVD premiere of DEATH SHIP. Unseen in the UK
since 1983, this deranged horror film is now widely regarded as a
must-see cult classic! DVD Features & Bonus Extras: * Newly
Created Widescreen (1.85:1) Presentation Enhanced for 16x9 TVs *
English 2.0 (original PCM Mono) * Optional Hard of Hearing
Subtitles * Audio Commentary with Director Alvin Rakoff,
moderated by English Gothic author Jonathan Rigby * "From Blood
Star to Death Ship" - An All-New Featurette with Director Alvin
Rakoff, Writer Jack Hill and actors George Kennedy and Nick
Mancuso * Theatrical Trailer (x 3) * The *uncensored" Bloody
Shower Scene - darkened down in other releases * Picture Gallery
(s, Stills, Press Books, Video Art) * Nucleus Promo Reel
(at start of disc) * Trailers for 5 other Nucleus Films releases
* RSDL dual layer high bit rate encode for optimum picture
quality Synopsis Unbeknown to the passengers on board a cruise
ship in the Caribbean, a mysterious vessel is approaching on a
collision course. Despite the attempts of the crew to avert
disaster, the liner is lost with all hands down, except for seven
survivors. They are saved when they clamber aboard a ghostly
freighter where they discover an even worse e. They are now
prisoners on a former wartime vessel. As this ship speeds towards
an unknown destination, they realise that something is intent on
destroying each one of them in a gruesome and terrifying way.
From an original story by Hollywood legend Jack Hill (COFFY, FOXY
BROWN, SWITCHBLADE SISTERS) and starring none other than George
Kennedy (COOL HAND LUKE, THE DIRTY DOZEN) and Richard Crenna
(FIRST BLOOD) comes the long-awaited UK DVD premiere of DEATH
SHIP. Unseen in the UK since 1983, this deranged horror film is
now widely regarded as a must-see cult classic!
From the Contributor
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Alvin Rakoff (Director): Alvin Rakoff, former President of the
Director's Guild of Great Britain, has directed more than 100
television dramas as well as a dozen feature films. Among other
awards and nominations he twice won the coveted International
Emmy Television Award. His work in theatre ranges from HAMLET at
Bristol Old Vic, to a star-studded - Richard Briers, Wayne ,
Penelope Keith - charity performance before HM the Queen at Royal
Albert Hall, and he is the first director to work with a very
yound Sean Connery.
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About the Actor
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George Kennedy (as Ashland): WWII veteran, sandy haired, stocky
actor who at one stage cornered the market at playing tough
no-nonsense characters that were either quite crooked or
possessed hearts of gold. Kennedy has notched up an impressive
200+ appearances in both TV & film productions, and is well
respected within the Hollywood community. Started out in TV
westerns in the late 1950s & early 1960s (Have Will Travel,
Rawhide, Maverick, Colt .45 etc ) before scoring minor roles in
films including Lonely Are the Brave (1962), The Sons of Katie
Elder (1965) and The Flight of the Phoenix (1965). The late 1960s
was then a very busy period for Kennedy, and he was strongly in
favor with casting agents appearing in Hurry Sundown (1967), The
Dirty Dozen (1967) and scoring an O win as Best Supporting
Actor for his performance in Cool Hand Luke (1967). The disaster
film boom of the 1970s was kind to Kennedy too, and his talents
were in demand for Airport (1970) and the three subsequent
sequels, as a grizzled cop in Earthquake (1974), plus the
buddy/road film Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) as vicious bank
robber, Red Leary.
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