Cinema Cellar

Solomon King Blu-Ray

$39.18
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Collection: Vinegar Syndrome
Format: Blu-ray
Year: 1974
Director: Sal Watts/Jack Bomay
Genre: Exploitation
Cast: Sal Watts, "Little" Jamie Watts, Samaki Bennet, Claudia Russo, Felice Kinchelow, Louis Zito, Tanya Boyd (uncredited)
Runtime: 84
Language: English
Release Date: 2023-01-31
Description

In the vein of SHAFT and DOLEMITE, SOLOMON KING stars Sal Watts as an ex-CIA operative / ex-Green Beret / nightclub owner seeking violent revenge for the murder of his girlfriend by hitmen working for an oil-obsessed Middle Eastern ruler. * New restoration by Deaf Crocodile from the only known complete 35mm print
* New commentary track by film critic and historian Walter Chaw (Film Freak Central, A Walter Hill Film - MZS Press)
* New commentary track by author, journalist, and documentary film producer Steve Ryfle (Ishiro Honda - Wesleyan University Press)
* New three-part video interview with Belinda Burton-Watts (widow of director/star Sal Watts)
* New booklet essay by Josiah Howard (Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide - FAB Press)
* July 18, 1976 episode of THE JAY PAYTON show (executive produced by Sal Watts)
* Reproduction of the original SOLOMON KING pressbook
* Restoration demo video featuring the original faded print and the newly restored feature
* Blu-ray mastering and authoring by David Mackenzie/Fidelity in Motion