Available 01/21/2025 from Well Go USA
An archeologist and his team go looking for a legend.
Escape (aka Talju) (2024)
Now available from Well Go USA
A North Korean army sergeant is pursued as he attempts to defect to South Korea.
Man with No Past (2025)
The Bootleg Files: The Frederick Douglass Afro Sheen Commercial
BOOTLEG FILES 894: “The Frederick Douglass Afro Sheen Commercial” (1979 television commercial featuring an unlikely historic figure promoting haircare products).
LAST SEEN: On YouTube.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: There has been no home entertainment anthology for the television commercials for this Afro Sheen product line.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Not likely.
It is not uncommon for historical figures to be used in television commercials, usually for comic effect. Leonardo Da Vinci was incorporated into a Red Bull advertisement, Abraham Lincoln hawked Geico’s insurance products, and several of the Founding Fathers turned up pitching a variety of goods. But for pure undiluted strangeness, nothing beats a 1979 television commercial where the 19th century abolitionist Frederick Douglass is called up to sell the Afro Sheen line of haircare products aimed at Black Americans. And while the concept is more than a little bizarre, the result is delightfully effective.
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Laws of Man (2025)
A pair of US Marshalls got to a small town in Nevada where a family seems to be controlling everything by murdering whoever they see fit.
Underworld Beauty (aka Ankokugai no bijo) (1958) [Radiance Films]
Just released from prison, a gangster finds himself involved with the fellow yakuza and a diamond plot.
Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Oily Hare (1952)
Oily Hare (1952)
Directed by Robert McKimson
Story by Tedd Pierce
Animation by Charles McKimson, Phil De Lara, Rod Scribner, Herman Cohen, Keith Darling
Music by Carl Stalling (uncredited)
“Oily Hare” takes place amid the Texas oil boom, along a stretch of road identified by a sign as “Hi-Way $101.00” just outside of “DOLLAR$ (FORMERLY DALLA$”) TEXA$.” A stretch limousine is cruising down the road, and it is quite a stretch – the vehicle is so long that its midsection is occupied by a switchboard operator connecting a long-distance call from the passenger to the driver.
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