
Such Good Friends and Hurry Sundown (Olive Films), two rare Otto Preminger movies never released on DVD, are now available. Such Good Friends is a 1971 dark comedy based on a novel by Lois Gould with a screenplay by Elaine May (under the pseudonym Esther Dale). It stars a lively Dyan Cannon as Julie, a married, well-heeled Manhattanite, whose successful husband (Laurence Luckinbill) goes to the hospital for a simple operation to remove a mole and after complications lapses into a coma. While friends and family gather, Julie uncovers her husband's secret infidelities. This strange black comedy costars James Coco, Ken Howard and Jennifer O'Neill. Hurry Sundown is a 1967 potboiler about racial tensions in 1946 Georgia and stars Michael Caine, Jane Fonda and Faye Dunaway. It's about a parcel of land owned by a black sharecropper that is in dispute over a development deal. While Otto's heart is in the right place it's so overheated it's often laughable. A scene with Jane Fonda erotically playing a saxophone is memorably riotous.

