Optimum have announced three films from years past spanning three decades for no-frills DVD releases in January, the 1941 Man Hunt, the 1958 The Long Hot Summer and the 1968 Deadfall.

Man Hunt is a tense American thriller directed by Fritz Lang and starring Walter Pidgeon and Joan Bennett. Capt. Alan Thorndike (Walter Pidgeon) is caught near Berchtesgaden just as he has his gun aimed on Adolf Hitler. He is beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents and aided by a young woman.

In The Long Hot Summer, director Martin Ritt combines two of William Faulkner's Southern stories into an immensely entertaining drama starring Paul Newman as Ben Quick, a wandering handyman who arrives in Frenchman's Bend, Mississippi where menacing rumors about his past are circulating. The self-made town despot, Will Varner (Orson Welles), quickly warms to the drifter and, seeing a bit of himself in Ben Quick, Varner takes him under his wing and gives him a job at his store. Disappointed with his own son's lazy demeanor, and fearing that his grandchildren will be the same, Varner tells Quick that he'd like him to marry his daughter Clara (Woodward), a tough-minded schoolteacher.

Deadfall is a suspenseful, controversial British thriller directed by Bryan Forbes and starring Michael Caine, Eric Portman, and Giovanna Ralli. Cat burglar Henry Clarke (Caine) accompanies a mysterious woman, Fe Moreau (Ralli), to her mansion, and discovers a strange situation: The woman wants to become intimately involved with Clarke instead of her husband Richard (Portman), who is apparently gay. The situation becomes even more outrageous when the home's occupants decide to undertake a huge jewelry heist.

All three films will be released individually on UK DVD by Optimum Home Entertainment at the RRP yet to be confirmed. The only extra on each of the discs is a trailer. No cover artwork is available as yet.