Video

Rip It Up, Issue 92, 1 March 1985, Page 28

Video

RCA/Columbia has just released a new batch of music videos, the list headed by Rock 7 T Roll, the Early Years, which features footage of Elvis, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Fats Domino and Bill Haley r taken from TV shows of the time, etc. There’s also the 30min Reckless video from Bryan Adams, Joan Armatrading’s restrospective Track Record and Styx Live. CBS/Fox heads its releases with Unfaithfully Yours, starring Dudley Moore and Natassja Kinski. There are also two comedies in Mel Brooks’ To Be Or Not To Be and Pamela Stephenson in the oddball Private Collection. The Cine range offers the original classic SF film Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Joan Crawford and Sterling Hayden in Johnny Guitar and John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara in Rio Grande. Palace offers the charming SF movie Android, a hit at last year’s film festivals which stars Klaus Kinski a long way from home. There’s also the second Charles Chaplin re-release, Modern Times and Robert Altman’s Streamers. Warner video has the somewhat looney Steve Martin in The Man With Two Brains and Tom Cruise in one of last year's comedy hits on the big screen, Risky Business. MGM has the Hitchcock classic North By Northwest, starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint, and Logan’s Run. Other releases include Roadshow with the quirky Valley Girl: Media with the silly but enjoyable sexy spoof Flesh Gordon ; 7 Keys with Jack Lemmon in The Entertainer: and VCL with Louis Gossett Jnr in He Who Stands Alone.