Six New Features from Simply Media

Simply Media has announced the release of six hard-to-see features from the Universal Pictures/Hollywood Classics stable starring screen legends Joel McCrea, Rock Hudson and Kenneth Branagh. The Lone Hand, Masquerade in Mexico, Melvin and Howard, Never Say Goodbye, One Desire and The Proposition come to DVD for the very first time in the UK on 4 July 2016.  The Lone Hand (1953) is a western starring Joel McCrea (Foreign Correspondent) as widowed farmer Zachary Hallock, who joins a group of outlaws as a solution to his money problems. Tangled in a web of violence, betrayal and deceit, he must choose between what is right and what is necessary. In Masquerade in Mexcio, American singer Angel O’Reilly (Dorothy Lamour – Road to Singapore) finds herself stranded in Mexico, soon she lands a job as a nightclub singer after duping the owner into believing she’s a Spanish countess. But when honest banker Tom Grant (Patric Knowles – The Wolf Man) shows up with his estranged wife and a Mexican bullfighter on her arm, comedy ensues.  Melvin and Howard features a star-studded cast including two-time Academy Award winner Jason Robards (All The President’s Men), Golden Globe winner Paul Le Mat (American History X) and Academy Award winner Mary Steenburgen (Back to the Future Part III), Melvin and Howard (1979) tells the delightful, laugh-out-loud story of down on his luck Melvin whose brush with billionaire Howard Hughes changes his life forever. Inspired by a true story, the film won two Oscars for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.