Overview: Two legends of the silver screen, Helen Mirren and Goldie Hawn, in their breakout debut roles in one High-Def Double Feature!

First Time either film has been available in HIGH DEFINITION!

Blu-ray Verdict: First up is 'Age of Consent' (1969). In this tale, disillusioned with his shallow New York lifestyle, an aging artist moves to a remote Australian island where he seeks fresh inspiration.

He finds it in vivacious, young Cora Ryan who agrees to pose for him. So begins their most unusual relationship, punctuated by the intervention of the island's rich assortment of quirky inhabitants.

'Age of Consent', from the novel of the same name by Norman Lindsay, is essentially a middle-aged man's fantasy; but a sweet and likable one, nonetheless.

James Mason plays Bradley Morahan, a successful New York painter who has become tired of turning out the same old commercial tripe. He longs for home (Queensland, Australia) and the chance to experience life first hand, again. He rents a shack on a small island off the Great Barrier Reef and moves in with his dog Godfrey, stocking it with food, drink and oil paints.

The island is a tropical paradise, inhabited by fruit bats and several other characters content to have left the world behind. The granddaughter of one of the residents is a young girl named Cora, played by Helen Mirren.

She supports her alcoholic grandmother by selling crayfish and oysters to the store on the mainland and dreams of getting away and becoming a hairdresser.

Morahan is charmed by her and agrees to help her see her dream come true by paying her to model for him. She proves to be just the inspiration he needed and he begins to paint - and live - with renewed energy.

The film is easy-paced, amusing, and despite a few upsets along the way, leads to a fantasy conclusion. If you want to spend a pleasant couple of hours getting away from it all, I recommend seeing this film.

The other movie is 'Cactus Flower' (1969), where Ingrid Bergman, playing dentist Walter Matthau's faithful receptionist (who harbors a little crush on her boss), is absolutely wonderful in this film!

She handles the witty repartee in the script with aplomb and steals a terrific scene where she and Goldie Hawn talk in a record booth (Ingrid's monologue is a front, but her face tells you she believes in it with all her heart).

Matthau is an odd choice for the leading man (he's too old for Goldie Hawn and too unrefined for Bergman, not to mention too unfocused to be a dentist), but I liked the way he tries hard to please Goldie and stumbles around trying to free himself from a lie.

Hawn (who won a Supporting Oscar) is just as fresh and bubbly as she is today. This bedroom farce isn't terribly sophisticated (and faintly reminds one of 'Any Wednesday' besides), but it's a welcome relief from the noisy, teen-oriented comedies churned out of present-day Hollywood. This is a Widescreen Presentation (1.85:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs.