42nd Street Forever, Vol. 1
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Actor: n/aDirector: n/a
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); French (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Original recording remastered
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 127 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-15
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Synapse Films
Movie Reviews of 42nd Street Forever, Vol. 1
Movie Review: A cornucopia of sleaze...
Summary: 5 Stars
During the golden age of films, prior to television, massive, palatial, ornately decorated theaters were constructed as going to the movies was often an event. After television came about, many of these theaters (which subsequently suffered from neglect as audiences dwindled), particularly those in the inner cities, began catering to different audiences, becoming what was known as grindhouse theaters, with those located on New York's 42nd Street probably being the most relatable examples. Grindhouses would specialize in showing the stuff you probably wouldn't take your mother to see, as the films were often extremely graphic, sleazy, contemptible, and schlocky in nature from both foreign and domestic distributors...blaxploitaion, sexploitation (hard and soft core), hixploitation, nunsploitation, violent chop socky features, Japanese monster films, European horror sleaze, gore, giallo (Italian thrillers), `mondo' style films, nudie cuties...these were many of the various genres popular prior to the subsequent disappearance of the grindhouse venues by the mid to late 1980s, as the areas these theaters were located in were populated by what was generally considered the underbelly of society, and became easy targets as city leaders sought to garner favor with their constituents by sweeping clean the `scum', so to speak...but I digress...
In this DVD release of 42nd Street Forever Volume 1, Synapse Films provides an excellent representation of the diversity of the material popular over the years in these palaces of sleaze, in the form of 47 trailers, which were often better, by the way, than the actual features. Here's a listing of the trailers you get for the price of admission;
The Undertaker and His Pals (1966)
The Flesh and Blood Show (1972)
Women and Bloody Terror (1969)/Night of Bloody Horror (1969)
Blood Spatter Bride (1972)/I Dismember Mama (1974)
Corruption (1967)
The Butcher of Binbrook aka Graveyard of Horror (1971)
Ginger (1971)
Italian Stallone (1970), a porno flick featuring a young Sylvester Stallone!
Creampuffs (1981)
The 3 Dimensions of Greta (1972)
Hard Candy (1976)
The Centerfold Girls (1974)
Panorama Blue (1974)
Wicked Wicked (1973)
Teenage Mother (1967)
Charlie and the Hooker (1976)
Mantango (1963)
The Green Slime (1968)
Destroy All Monsters (1968)
The Crippled Master (1981)
Werewolves on Wheels (1971)
The Pink Angels (1971)
The Depraved (1974)
They Call Her One Eye (1974)
Maid in Sweden (1971)
Behind Covenant Walls (1977)
Secret Africa (1969)
Shocking Asia (1974)
Chappaqua (1966)
Welcome Home, Brother Charles (1975)
The Legend of N***er Charlie (1972)
Boss N***er (1975)
The Bullet Machine (1975)
Death Drive (1977)
The Raiders of Atlantis (1983)
Star Crash (1979)
Confessions of a Summer Camp Counselor (1977)
Sunset Cove (1978)
Super Fuzz (1980)
Death Will Have Your Eyes (1974)
Death Has Blue Eyes (1976)
A Black Veil for Lisa (1968)
Ironmaster (1983)
The Rape of the Sabines (1962)
The Deadly Spawn (1983)
Devil's Nightmare (1971)
There's just over two hours of material on this DVD, presented in 1.78:1 letterboxed, enhanced for 16X9 TVs, with obviously formatted from different aspect ratios. The Audio is Dolby Digital 2.0 mono. Both the picture and audio quality vary from trailer to trailer, but most are quite good.
Cookieman108
Summary of 42nd Street Forever, Vol. 1
Sit back, grab some friends, and re-live those wonderful days when New York City's 42nd Street was a haven for some of the most violent, disturbing, erotic and mind-numbing films ever made. There was an art to advertising some of these low-budget wonders and, most of the time, the trailer advertisements were better than the actual movies! Relive some of the glory days of exploitative cinema with this DVD.- Format: Color, Dolby, Original recording remastered, NTSC
- Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Rating:
- Studio: Synapse Video
- DVD Release Date: November 15, 2005
- Run Time: 128 minutes
- Size: 7 1/2" x 5 1/4" x 1/2"
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