Mill Creek Entertainment offers drama fans four very acclaimed and intresting dramatic features for folks looking to save money. Sydney Pollack directs the 1977 film “Bobby Deerfield,” a film starring Al Pacino as a race car driver who finds himself falling for a mysterious and terminally ill young woman. Through the woman’s final days alive does Pacino’s daredevil character learn more about life. There’s also the 1965 “Baby, The Rain Must Fall” directed by Robert Mulligan starring theg reat Steve NcQuen. McQueen plays Henry Thomas, a young man who loves to sing in his band and is pressured by his mother to go back to school and get his educaiton.
When Thomas’ Wife and daughter come back in to town looking for a home, Thomas gets a new sense of priority. Though McQueen is far fetched as a rockabilly singer in a band, he has a good chemistry with co-star Lee Remick. Marlon Brando stars in the 1966 Arthur Penn directed “The Chase.” In it, Brando a sheriff named Calder known for being something of a puppet who finds a new mission when a local begins having an affair with a gangster Charlie “Bubber” Reeves’ wife.
When “Bubber”, previously jailed, escapes from prison, Sheriff Calder must now protect the local from “Bubber” and hope to help him retreat to safety to before a war breaks out and blood is shed. “The Chase” features a huge cast of noted performers including Brando, Robert Redford, Jane Fond, Angi Dickenson, and E.G. Marshall, to name a few. Finally, there’s “Ship Of Fools” the 1965 Stanley Kramer directed war drama starring Lee Marin. In it, Marvin plays Tenny, leading a massive all star cast in one of the many lost souls traveling dramas in the vein of “Stage Coach” where a group of passengers on board an ocean liner in 1933 saling from Mexico to Germany, all of whom begin to intersect and find life, love, and purpose within one another as Hitler begins to take power over Germany. Kramer directs the likes of Jose Ferrer, Oskar Werner, Vivien Leigh, respectively, in the Oscar nominated epic. This is a great quad feature that fans shouldn’t pass up.