SEVERIN ANNOUNCES WORLDWIDE UHD/BLU-RAY PREMIERES OF RUSS MEYER’S CHERRY, HARRY & RAQUEL, COMMON-LAW CABIN ANDBLACKSNAKE!
The Next 3 Seminal Films in Landmark Partnership with The Russ Meyer Trust
Also Includes Exclusive Online Auction of Meyer Memorabilia
In partnership with The Russ Meyer Trust, Severin Filmstoday announced the UHD/Blu-ray world premieres of CHERRY, HARRY & RAQUEL, COMMON-LAW CABIN and BLACKSNAKE! from the filmmaker hailed by The Washington Post as “practically an American institution”. Each film will be released separately in 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD editions and come complete with bountiful Severin-curated bonus materials that shine a spotlight on each film’s historic critical and commercial success, nationwide censorship battles and notoriety as landmark independent films.
In addition, Severin Films and The Russ Meyer Trust have announced an exclusive online auction of plaques from Meyer’s home office featuring trade ads, foreign posters, repertory cinema calendars, original photos, VHS wraps, press books and much more.
Pre-orders and auction info are now live at www.SeverinFilms.com
“★★★★★
ONE OF RUSS MEYER’S VERY BEST FILMS…
A Meyer montage of wild action and Bosomania, it’s an important final step towards his pop masterpiece, BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS.”
Cinema Blend
THE WORLDWIDE UHD PREMIERE
WITH2+ HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES
Between VIXEN and BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, Russ Meyer unleashed this 1969 classic that took his trademark themes of American immorality and unbridled Bosomania to eye-popping extremes, it’s now presented in UHD for the first time ever: In a corrupt southwestern border town, Sheriff Harry Thompson (Charles Napier of SUPERVIXENS and THE BLUES BROTHERS) is caught between the passions of bisexual prostitute Raquel (Larissa Ely), adventurous nurse Cherry (Linda Ashton) and his double-crossing role in a deadly marijuana smuggling ring. Frank Bolger (MUDHONEY, COMMON-LAW CABIN) and adult entertainment legend Uschi Digard (BENEATH THE VALLEY OF THE ULTRAVIXENS, THE SCAVENGERS) co-star in Meyer’s’ “lots of fun” (Los Angeles Times) landmark,scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with over 2 hours of Special Features that include an all-new/ultra-rare interview with Ms. Digard.
“ONE OF RUSS MEYER’S BEST MOVIES…
COMMON-LAW CABINis essential Meyer,
a lurid and sweaty action-melodrama in stunning bright colors.”
Images Journal
THE WORLDWIDE UHD PREMIERE
RESTORED UNCUTWITHALL-NEW SPECIAL FEATURES
One year before VIXEN was released, Russ Meyer triggered an international censorship firestorm – including a two-decade UK ban by the BBFC – with this razor-sharp melodrama “every bit as bombastic and entertaining as FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL!”(Xploitation Reviews), now in UHD for the first time ever: At rundown Colorado River tourist trap ‘Hoople’s Haven’, susceptible travelers are seduced into an explosive maelstrom of immoral impulses, amoral violence and precisely how much loving a normal couple needs. Co-screenwriter Jack Moran (former child star and co-writer of FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL!), Babette Bardot (MONDO TOPLESS), Frank Bolger (CHERRY, HARRY & RAQUEL), Alaina Capri (GOOD MORNING…AND GOOBYE!), John Furlong (MUDHONEY) and Ken Swofford(ANNIE) star in this criminally underseen favorite of Meyer fans, scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with new Special Features produced by Severin Films in collaboration with The Russ Meyer Trust.
“THE THOUGHT ALONE OF RUSS MEYER
MAKING A PERIOD PIECE IS PERVERSE…
Meyer sensationalizes the whip and maniacal slaveowners
in this screwy vision of a colonial plantation circa 1835.”
Film Threat
THE WORLDWIDE UHD PREMIERE
AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 15+ YEARS
RESTORED UNCUT WITH 2+ HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES
After the termination of his deal with 20th Century Fox, Russ Meyer returned to independent filmmaking with perhaps his most wildly ambitious work – combining elements of blaxploitation, period epic and sexual melodrama – now presented in UHD for the first time ever: In 1835 colonial West Indies, cruel plantation owner Lady Susan Walker (future British aristocrat Anouska Hempel, who would successfully block the film’s UK release) rules her slaves with racist brutality and a black bullwhip. But will the arrival of a studly nobleman (David Warbeck of THE BEYOND) trigger an island inferno of lust, violence and vengeance? Percy Herbert (THE WILD GEESE), Thomas Baptiste (AMIN: THE RISE AND FALL) and Dave Prowse (STAR WARS, THE HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN) co-star in the film Russ himself called “hellishly entertaining” – also known as SWEET SUZY, THE DUCHESS OF DOOM and RUSS MEYER’S SLAVES – shot on location in Barbados, newly scanned in 4K from the original camera negative and seething with over 2 hours of all-new Special Features.
