Critic’s Pick: Kenneth Turan’s DVD Pick of the Week: Neglected gems

With so many films for viewers to choose from, it’s inevitable that some wonderfully entertaining films get neglected. So it’s especially satisfying that Kino Lorber has started a Studio Classics line of DVDs to showcase some of these gems.

From 1970 is “Cotton Comes to Harlem,” an entertaining and exciting crime drama based on the novel by the great Chester Himes and starring Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St. Jacques as police detectives so effective they’re known as “Gravedigger” and “Coffin Ed.”

Filmmaker Richard Lester is known for the films he did with the Beatles, but 1974’s “Juggernaut” proved he could direct a terrific thriller (about terrorists on an ocean liner) with the best of them.

Most recent of the three is 1985’s “Desperately Seeking Susan,” written by Leora Barish and directed by Susan Seidelman, which is a droll story of mistaken identity starring Rosanna Arquette, Aidan Quinn and Madonna.