'WWE' will be in a 4-film TCM sci-fi compilation due 2/2/10
Warner Home Video, which has been recycling already-released films in four-film sets under the TCM label, will be doing a second such sci-fi set of four to be released on Feb. 2, 2010.
The four films are World Without End, Satellite in the Sky, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms and Them!. The first two were of course released on the two-film disc now available. The second pair have been released both as singles and on a previous joint DVD. Since none of these movies is new to disc, the only reason to get this set would be to have all four at a good price, $19.95 SRP, and obviously cheaper when you look around.
All this is fine, and this is a good set, but it would be nice if Warner would devote its resources to issuing still-unreleased films on regular DVD instead of recycling the same things over and over...though this hardly makes them unique in the film world.
And incidentally...I saw a copy of the cover for this set, with small illustrations of all four movies, and the one for World Without End is weird: it appears to show Hugh Marlowe and a couple of the women confronting a beefy, bare-chested man in a black hood, wielding an ax or something, like a medieval executioner -- but most definitely nobody seen anywhere in World Without End, that's for sure! (It's absolutely not a mutate.) Who draws this stuff anyway? Updated 2/7/10: Okay, my mistake. I finally saw the DVD at a store today and upon close examination the illustration for WWE does in fact show a mutate (apparently Naga) wielding a stone ax at Borden, Garnet and Deena (a paste-up scene obviously not in the actual film). He's only shown from behind, with just a big shaggy head of hair that looks from a distance (or if reproduced only in a tiny picture) like the hood covering for the medieval executioner I mistook the guy for. (Even the ax doesn't look right.) So in terms of the film, while it's not a great illustration, it's reasonably accurate to the picture. As Mories said when his plot was discovered and he was running away to the safety of the great outdoors, Never mind.