The Bootleg Files: Pardon My Terror

Posted on June 5, 2026 by Phil Hall

BOOTLEG FILES 940: “Pardon My Terror” (1946 short comedy starring Gus Schilling and Richard Lane).

LAST SEEN: On YouTube.

AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.

REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: It fell through the cracks.

CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Maybe if someone does a DVD anthology of Schilling and Lane comedies.

Unless you are a truly dedicated scholar of the comedy films of the Golden Age of Hollywood, there is an excellent chance that you never heard of the team of Gus Schilling and Richard Lane. From 1945 to 1950, this pair of character actors were teamed for 11 short comedies produced at Columbia Pictures.
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Masters of the Universe [2026]

Posted on June 3, 2026 by Bob Foster

He-Man and friends defend Eternia from the evil Skeletor in the wonderfully cheesy, helluva lot of fun Masters of the Universe, from director Travis Knight.

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Marlowe [1969] [Arrow Blu-Ray LE]

Posted on June 2, 2026 by Bob Foster

Raymond Chander’s signature detective, played by James Garner, looks for a missing man and uncovers a conspiracy in Paul Bogart’s MARLOWE, coming soon to Blu-ray via Arrow Video.

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Film Noir Classics, Vol 1: D.O.A. & Borderline [1949/1950] [VCI Entertainment Blu-ray & DVD]

Posted on June 1, 2026 by Bob Foster

Two film noirs: 1949’s D.O.A (Rudolph Mate) and 1950’s Borderline (William A. Seiter) come to Blu-ray and DVD under the Film Noir Classics Vol. 1 Sub-label of VCI Entertainment.

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The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters (1954)

Posted on June 1, 2026 by Phil Hall

Comedy and horror inevitably overlap in films where funnymen find themselves in haunted houses occupied with a surplus number of ghouls, mad scientists and ectoplasmic mayhem. The Bowery Boys had already run amok in such creepy settings during the 1940s with “Spooks Run Wild” and “Ghosts on the Loose,” back when they were under the East Side Kids banner. But this 1954 offering takes the old haunted house comedy into a wild, almost Dadaist environment.
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Hi, Mom! [1970] [Radiance 4KUHD & Blu-Ray]

Posted on May 30, 2026 by Bob Foster

A Vietnam vet becomes involved in voyeurism, avant-garde theatre, and terrorism in Brian De Palma’s pointed satire Hi, Mom! Now on 4k & Blu-ray from Radiance Films.