Rocketing to icon status as a conniving and scheming villain of nighttime soap opera fame, award-winner Joan Collins has an expansive resume that includes more than 60 films, dozens of television programs and stage plays, as well as several best-selling books.  Looking back at the beginning of a truly scintillating career, Fox Home Entertainment presents a sampling of the renowned actress €™ early works in the Joan Collins Superstar Collection, arriving as a five-disc DVD set on July 10th.    

Showcasing the sultry sex appeal for which Joan Collins became famous, the collection also highlights her range as an actress with comedic as well as dramatic performances, including Girl In The Red Velvet Swing (1955), in which Oscar winner Ray Milland (Best Actor, "The Lost Weekend") joins Collins for the lurid tale of obsession and murder; Rally €˜Round The Flag, Boys! (1958), based of the novel of the same name, which features Academy Award ® winners Paul Newman (Best Actor, The Color of Money) and Joanne Woodward (Best Actress, The Three Faces of Eve) in a comedic tale about a racy young woman attempting to seduce a married government official; the wartime drama Sea Wife (1957), co-starring screen legend Richard Burton (Whose Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?) as an army officer protecting a nun; the crime drama Seven Thieves (1960), teaming Collins with Rod Steiger (In the Heat of the Night) and Eli Wallach (The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly), as con-artists on a mission to pull off a heist from a casino; and the romantic drama Stopover Tokyo (1957), which co-stars Robert Wagner (The Pink Panther) as an American Intelligence agent on a mission in Japan.    

The Joan Collins: Superstar Collection is loaded with bonus features such as audio commentaries, still galleries, restoration comparisons and theatrical trailers, a 10-page booklet about the films and each DVD contains lobby cards of key scenes. The entire DVD collection is available for the suggested retail price of $49.98 U.S. / $69.98 Canada, plus each title is also available individually for $19.98 U.S. / $25.98 Canada.

RALLY 'ROUND  THE FLAG, BOYS!

Stars Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Joan Collins, Jack Carson, Dwayne Hickman Directors: Leo McCarey

Theatrical Release Date: February 1959

Genres: Comedy

Synopsis When a suburban house wife (Joanne Woodward) leads a protest movement against a secret plan by the Army to set up a missile base in their community her husband (Paul Newman) somehow gets involved and into mischief. Joan Collins plays a femme that can't be ignored.

Bonus Features:

Audio Commentary with Film Noir Historian Aubrey Solomon

Restoration Comparison

Interactive Pressbook

Theatrical Trailer

Animated Photo Gallery

THE GIRL IN THE RED VELVET SWING

Stars: Ray Milland, Joan Collins, Farley Granger, Luther Adler, Cornelia Otis Skinner Directors: Richard Fleischer

Theatrical Release Date: October 1, 1955

Genres: Drama, Crime

Synopsis: Collins is a standout in this tale of murder, scandal and forbidden love, supposedly based a true story.

Bonus Features:

SEVEN THIEVES

Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Joan Collins, Eli Wallach, Alexander Scourby

Directors: Henry Hathaway

Genres: Crime, Drama

Synopsis It's an intense caper when a veteran thief teams up with a less than stellar professor to rob the casino vault in Monte Carlo.

Bonus Features:

Audio Commentary with Film Noir Historian Aubrey Solomon

Restoration Comparison

Animated Photo Gallery

Theatrical Trailer

Vintage Press Release

SEA WIFE  

Stars: Richard Burton, Joan Collins, Basil Sydney, Cy Grant, Ronald Squire

Directors: Bob McNaught

Theatrical Release Date: October 16, 1957

Genres: Drama

Synopsis: After a cargo ship full of British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub, a few survivors manage to cling to life in a small lifeboat. The loan woman, unknown to most of the men as nun, has her hands full trying to handle them.

Bonus Features:

Audio Commentary with Film Noir Historian Aubrey Solomon

Restoration Comparison

Theatrical Trailer

Animated Photo Gallery

Interactive Pressbook

STOPOVER TOKYO

Stars: Robert Wagner, Joan Collins, Edmond O'Brien, Ken Scott, Reiko Oyama

Directors: Richard L. Breen

Genres: Drama

Synopsis:  An American intelligence agent is sent to Tokyo to track down a Communist spy ring. This intense melodrama,  where nothing is as it seems, is based on detective writer John P. Marquand, novel of the same name.

Bonus Features:

Audio Commentary with Film Noir Historian Aubrey Solomon

Restoration Comparison

Animated Photo Gallery

Magazine Cover Gallery

Theatrical Trailer

Vintage Press Release