Timeless Media has set May 26th as the release date for The Saint - The Complete Series and May 19th for the lastest Gene Autry movie collection, Gene Autry Collection, Volume 10.
This 33-disc set, currently only available for purchase, marks the first time the entire 1962 series starring Roger Moore as Simon Templar a.k.a. The Saint has been available as a complete series. It is hoped that Timeless will release individual seasons in the near future which will allow ClassicFlix to carry them as rentals.
Much like past Gene Autry installments, Volume 10 is a 2-disc set featuring four fully-restored films, all of which are making their DVD debut. Details below.
Also set for rerelease alongside the Gene Autry Collection, on the same date, is Day of the Outlaw (1959). The Robert Ryan film was originally put out by MGM in 2008.
The Singin' Vagabond (1935, 56 min.)
In 1860, Lettie Morgan runs away, humiliated by her aunt. Mixing with a group of showgirls, she is mistaken for the leading lady and goes to California. The troupe misses the main wagon train and are attacked just as they cross the California boundary, but are rescued by Captain Tex Autry.
Lettie believes that Tex has been insolent in condemning the troupe and reports him to Colonel Seward at Fort Henry. Horses are stolen from Fort Henry that night and when Tex goes in pursuit, he is believed a traitor, captured, and condemned to death. Judge Lane is asked by Lettie to intercede, but he double-crosses her.
Aided by his pals, Frog Buffalo and the Idaho Kid, Tex escapes from prison and rides out after the wagon train with which Lettie and the troupe have gone. Attacked by renegades and Indians, Tex arrives to join what seems a hopeless fight, but his own band of fighting men arrive in time to turn the tide.
Oh, Susanna! (1936, 59 min.)
Killer Wolf Benson escapes from a sheriff's posse by getting on a passenger train as it enters a tunnel. Realizing that the train will be searched at the next stop, he enters the stateroom of radio star Gene Autry, knocks him unconscious, changes clothes with him, and then hurls Gene's limp form out the window.
Benson escapes with Gene's luggage while Gene is picked up by roving troubadour actors Frog Millhouse and Professor Daniels. When Gene, in the garb of Benson, tries to explain to authorities, he is jailed and ordered to be hanged the next day. Frog and the Professor obtain his release through trickery with a Gene Autry recording. Meanwhile, Benson, guided by a telegram he found in Gene's belongings, arrives at Jefferson Lee's dude ranch passing as Gene, an old friend. When Lee sees through the ruse, he is promptly killed and robbed of several thousand dollars.
The family, including Lee's daughter Mary Ann, in charge of ranch entertainment, offer a 'Dead or Alive' reward for Gene Autry. The real Gene finally arrives at the ranch and, with Frog, the Professor, and the Light Crust Doughboys, entertains guests. At the same time he does a bit of sleuthing, tracking down Benson, and clearing his own name.
Rootn' Tootin' Rhythm (1937, 60 min.)
Gene Autry is co-owner of a ranch where, during a party one evening, rustlers strike, taking a large herd of cattle to the Mexican Border. Gene and his pal Frog Millhouse take off after the rustlers and become mixed up in a comedy of errors when they don the clothes of two dead outlaws, only to learn that the outlaws are really dead sheriffs, dressed in outlaw's clothes. The real outlaws, Jim and the Apache Kid, are very much alive and roaming the countryside at large under the protection of the Sheriffs' clothes.
The cattlemen mistake Gene and Frog for bandits, and mistake the bandits, of course, for sheriffs. One of the head cattlemen, Stafford, is in league with the bandits, and helps Gene and Frog 'escape,' thereby establishing himself as the guilty party in the cattle thefts that have been taking place throughout the region.
Stafford directs them to his own home, where his niece and stepdaughter mistake Gene and Frog for the outlaws and attempt to deliver them to the Sheriff. Stafford orders Frog and Gene to take the stolen cattle over the border. A storm breaks out and Gene, Frog, and the girls are forced to take refuge in a shack. While Frog and Gene sleep, the girls disarm, bind and gag them. Meanwhile, the real villains appear, complicating matters.
Western Jamboree (1938, 57 min.)
Ranch foreman Gene Autry, with the help of Frog Millhouse, turns the deserted Circle J Ranch into a dude ranch to help an old friend fool his daughter and her rich fiance into believing he is a wealthy rancher.
The discovery of helium gas on the range adds to the complications, but things really get interesting with the arrival of both the ranch's real owner and shifty helium gas bandits!