Title from container. All credits from accompanying materials.
Originally released as motion pictures 1951-1984.
Newly remastered presentations.
Untamed mistress, If footmen tire you what will horses do?, The burning hell, The grim reaper, The believer's heaven, 39 stripes, It's about the second coming, The sacred symbol: full screen (1.37:1). Please don't touch me, White lightnin' road, Forty acre feud, Girl from Tobacco Row, The exotic ones: wide screen (1.66:1).
From the early 1950s, the Nashville-based Ormond family independently produced a wild bunch of movies, from westerns to stripper-gore musicals, and later made several shocking, surreal 'warning' pictures for Mississippi Baptist preacher Estus Pirkle.
Special features (disc 1): audio commentary with author and Ormond biographer Jimmy McDonough on 'Please don't touch me'; 'Edge of tomorrow' (ca. 1961, 50 min.), June and Ron Ormond's lost portrait of UFO huckster Reinhold O Schmidt; 'White lightnin' road' theatrical trailer; 'White lightnin' road' radio spots.
Special features (disc 2): audio commentary with actress, exotic dancer, fire eater, and carny queen Georgette Dante and biographer Jimmy McDonough on 'The exotic ones'; radio spots.
Special features (disc 3): audio commentary with Greg Pirkle, son of Baptist minister and Ormond collaborator Estus Pirkle, and documentarian Prian Rosenquist on 'If footmen tire you what will horses do?'; audio commentary with actor-director Tim Ormond, author Jimmy McDonough, and film restorationist Peter Conheim on 'The burning hell'; "Estus Pirkle sermon" (1970, 64 min.), rare and previously unreleased archival audio recording; 'The grim reaper' radio spots.
Special features (disc 4): audio commentary with filmmaker Tim Ormond and author Jimmy McDonough on 'It's about the second coming'; "A tribute to Houdini' (1987, 60 min.), directed by Tim Ormond, and featuring John Calvert performing an array of tricks inspired by celebrated escape artist and magician Harry Houdini; 'Lash LaRue: a man and his memories' (1982, 71 min.), rarely seen documentary, directed by Tim Ormond, in which the beloved western star reflects upon his life and work; 'June Carr: the virtual vaudevillian' (1997, 31 min.), Tim Ormond's loving portrait of his mother and collaborator, June Carr Ormond; 'Forgotten memories' (1997, 20 min.), short drama, directed by Tim Ormond and starring June Ormond, in which two women meet under extraordinary circumstances; 'Forgotten memories' production footage (15 min.); '39 stripes' radio spots.
Accompanying booklet, Nicolas Winding Refn presents From Hollywood to Heaven: the lost and saved films of the Ormond Family: There is no pain to the black sabong: the decidedly off-centre entertainments of the Ormond Organization / by Jimmy McDonough (Part one: The vaudeville/wester/exploitation years ; Part two: The religious films (and beyond)) -- The films (The exploitation films ; The Christian films ; The later video works) -- Lost and saved / by Peter Conheim.
Blu-ray; 1080p High Definition; all regions; LPCM mono audio; requires Blu-ray player.
In English.
English subtitles for the hearing-impaired (SDH).
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