Gordon Douglas' Lady in Cement (1968) is the second and slightly better-known of Frank Sinatra's two outings as Miami-based private detective Tony Rome, mostly due to the co-starring presence of Raquel Welch, though it has a lot more to recommend it than that. The movie did show up on laserdisc in the late '80s, but the DVD offers a lot more -- for starters, there's a transfer that is infinitely cleaner, brighter, and sharper than the laser, so that the latter now looks like a VHS tape by comparison. The interior shots are all mastered so beautifully on this disc that they're like a massage to the eye, and that's before Raquel Welch appears in the picture. The letterboxed image (2.35:1) is a delight, and the audio is mastered at a decent volume level, with appropriate clarity. The 93-minute movie has been given an incredibly generous 28 chapters, and comes with a nice array of vintage promotional materials -- the original trailer, in English and in Spanish, plus the complete and edited versions of the television promotional spot for the movie, and trailers for a handful of other Welch-starring vehicles. There are optional French- and Spanish-language tracks, and English and Spanish subtitles.

Charles Bronson gets an elephant gun and goes out for a Fudgesicle after a gang of street punks take over his neighborhood in this, the third film in the Death Wish series, which gets a straightforward release on DVD. Death Wish 3 has been given a pan-and-scan transfer to disc in the full-frame aspect ratio of 1.33:1, while the audio has been mastered in Dolby Digital Mono. The dialogue is in English, with optional subtitles in English, Spanish, and French. The film's original theatrical trailer appears as a bonus.