Home Video Report: Science Fiction, History, and Drama
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Some familiar names make this week's video list.
There's the legendary Conan The Barbarian, which has has survived and evolved for nearly eight decades in the public imagination, working its way from pulp magazines to the big screen. The latest release sees it reborn, we're told, with "75 percent more gore."
Then there's a sixth season, 14 episodes, of "Doctor Who," the well-worn British science fiction television series.
Kristin Scott Thomas (photo) plays an American journalist in Sarah's Key, a movie set in 1942 France, where she discovers a disturbing connection to the deporting of Jews during the German occupation.
From 1957 comes a new release of 12 Angry Men, Sidney Lumet's explosive courtroom masterpiece capturing the tense, race-fueled deliberations of a dozen men on a jury, Henry Fonda among them.
Reported by Bob Nelson, KYW Newsradio 1060
