Blu-rays
4K Master from the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s 35mm restoration. One of the most renowned World War II films relates the timeless saga of the American G.I. as no other movie has before or since. The dilemma of the common soldier trudging to an unknown fate under a blazing Italian sun is captured by the different thoughts and personalities of a disparate group of men under arduous stress.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Commentary by Alan K. Rode
Zanuck Goes to War: The WWII Films of Fox
The Battle of San Pietro – Un-cut version from the Academy Film Archive preservation negative
WWII Fox Movietone Newsreels
4K Master from the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s 35mm restoration. One of the most renowned World War II films relates the timeless saga of the American G.I. as no other movie has before or since. The dilemma of the common soldier trudging to an unknown fate under a blazing Italian sun is captured by the different thoughts and personalities of a disparate group of men under arduous stress.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Commentary by Alan K. Rode
Zanuck Goes to War: The WWII Films of Fox
The Battle of San Pietro – Un-cut version from the Academy Film Archive preservation negative
WWII Fox Movietone Newsreels
STAN AND OLLIE LOOK AND SOUND BETTER THAN EVER! In new 2K and 4K digital restorations from original 35mm nitrate sources, Laurel and Hardy’s classic comedies are here in the best quality since their first release! Bonus Extras: 2,500 rare photos, posters and studio files • Commentaries by Randy Skretvedt and Richard W. Bann • Film and audio interviews with L&H co-workers • Alternate soundtracks, music tracks, trailers • Almost 9 hours of EXCLUSIVE rarities!
STAN AND OLLIE LOOK AND SOUND BETTER THAN EVER! In new 2K and 4K digital restorations from original 35mm nitrate sources, Laurel and Hardy’s classic comedies are here in the best quality since their first release! Bonus Extras: 2,500 rare photos, posters and studio files • Commentaries by Randy Skretvedt and Richard W. Bann • Film and audio interviews with L&H co-workers • Alternate soundtracks, music tracks, trailers • Almost 9 hours of EXCLUSIVE rarities!
War
4K Master from the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s 35mm restoration. One of the most renowned World War II films relates the timeless saga of the American G.I. as no other movie has before or since. The dilemma of the common soldier trudging to an unknown fate under a blazing Italian sun is captured by the different thoughts and personalities of a disparate group of men under arduous stress.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Commentary by Alan K. Rode
Zanuck Goes to War: The WWII Films of Fox
The Battle of San Pietro – Un-cut version from the Academy Film Archive preservation negative
WWII Fox Movietone Newsreels
4K Master from the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s 35mm restoration. One of the most renowned World War II films relates the timeless saga of the American G.I. as no other movie has before or since. The dilemma of the common soldier trudging to an unknown fate under a blazing Italian sun is captured by the different thoughts and personalities of a disparate group of men under arduous stress.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Commentary by Alan K. Rode
Zanuck Goes to War: The WWII Films of Fox
The Battle of San Pietro – Un-cut version from the Academy Film Archive preservation negative
WWII Fox Movietone Newsreels
Crime & Thrillers
Stylish, Dark, Cynical! The Crimson Kimono (1959), The Lineup (1958), The Shadow in the Window (1956), The Long Haul (1957), Pickup Alley (1957), The Tijuana Story (1957), She Played with Fire (1957), The Case Against Brooklyn (1958), Man on a String (1960) –
Stalwart “noir” directors and casts highlight these hard to find features: Address Unknown (1944), Escape in the Fog (1945), The Guilt of Janet Ames (1947), The Black Book (The Reign of Terror) (1949), Johnny Allegro (1949), 711 Ocean Drive (1950), The Killer That Stalked New York (1950), Assignment Paris (1952), The Miami Story (1954)
It’s time once again for film noir fans rejoice with 9 additional major studio film noirs, this time from the period 1954-1956: “Bait” (1954), “The Crooked Web” (1955), “The Night Holds Terror” (1955), “Footsteps in the Fog” (1955), “Cell 2455, Death Row” (1955), “5 Against the House” (1955), “New Orleans Uncensored”(1955), “Spin a Dark Web” (1955), “Rumble on the Docks” (1956)
Crime & Thrillers
A fugitive enters England illegally following the disappearance of several noted atomic scientists and is drafted to work as a Military Intelligence operative.
Film Noir
Stylish, Dark, Cynical! The Crimson Kimono (1959), The Lineup (1958), The Shadow in the Window (1956), The Long Haul (1957), Pickup Alley (1957), The Tijuana Story (1957), She Played with Fire (1957), The Case Against Brooklyn (1958), Man on a String (1960) –
Stalwart “noir” directors and casts highlight these hard to find features: Address Unknown (1944), Escape in the Fog (1945), The Guilt of Janet Ames (1947), The Black Book (The Reign of Terror) (1949), Johnny Allegro (1949), 711 Ocean Drive (1950), The Killer That Stalked New York (1950), Assignment Paris (1952), The Miami Story (1954)
It’s time once again for film noir fans rejoice with 9 additional major studio film noirs, this time from the period 1954-1956: “Bait” (1954), “The Crooked Web” (1955), “The Night Holds Terror” (1955), “Footsteps in the Fog” (1955), “Cell 2455, Death Row” (1955), “5 Against the House” (1955), “New Orleans Uncensored”(1955), “Spin a Dark Web” (1955), “Rumble on the Docks” (1956)
Crime & Thrillers
A fugitive enters England illegally following the disappearance of several noted atomic scientists and is drafted to work as a Military Intelligence operative.
Horror
The Crawling Hand: A manned rocket returning from the Moon is invaded by an alien life force that possesses the astronaut, maintains control of his disembodied hand after a California beach crash-landing, and then imposes its will on a local medical student.
The Slime People: “Golden Turkey” fans, attention! It’s a veritable voyage to the bottom of the sci-fi barrel as prehistoric “Slime People” emerge from the sewers of Los Angeles! The atom-age U.S. army is no match for this small band of spear-toting boogeymen and the city is evacuated.
Monster From the Ocean Floor: Hollywood’s legendary maverick Roger Corman made his monster-movie debut as producer of this ultra-low-budget, eerie fright flick. “A well-done quickie”–Variety
Serpent Island: The jungles are echoing with the sound of voodoo drums, the locals are licking their native chops and there are ‘snakes on a plane’-o-plenty! Packed with flubs, stock footage–and Sonny Tufts. If laughter were food, this would be a full-course meal for Worst Films connoisseurs!
The Bride and the Beast – is a supernatural drama of terror and scientific fiction produced and directed by Adrian Weiss. The script was written by none other than Edward D. Wood Jr. It’s revealed through hypnosis that a woman was Queen of the Gorillas in a previous incarnation.
WHITE GORILLA – A white gorilla is snubbed by black gorillas because he is the wrong color. Cut off from his tribe he becomes lonely and angry. After troubling hunters and natives, the white gorilla fights the king of the black gorillas while we are told by a narrator that the fate of Africa hangs in the balance.
Lots of Added Special Features
DELINQUENT SCHOOLGIRLS: Our protagonists in this K-Mart budgeted cult film are escapees from an insane asylum! One is an ex-baseball player turned rapist, another is gay, and the ringleader is a low-rent impressionist. When they stumble upon an all-girls school, antisocial behavior with these siliconed “students” ensues, but with a twist — the busty babes know karate!
DREAM NO EVIL: A deranged young woman searches for her non-existent father, when “Daddy” comes to life on a morgue galley he scalpels his mortician to death!
Psychotronica
| Jungle Girl and the Slaver: Liane, a legendary white girl, lives in the jungle (a female Tarzan wannabe with conch shell-covered breasts) who somehow is the key to bringing “primitive” tribes together in a united front against slave traders.
Wild Women of Wongo: The island of Wongo is inhabited by beautiful women, but the men are ugly brutes! On the island of Goona, it’s just the opposite – the men handsome and the women are hags! When the two islands meet – the Wongo women are ready to go capture some mates!
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The Crawling Hand: A manned rocket returning from the Moon is invaded by an alien life force that possesses the astronaut, maintains control of his disembodied hand after a California beach crash-landing, and then imposes its will on a local medical student.
The Slime People: “Golden Turkey” fans, attention! It’s a veritable voyage to the bottom of the sci-fi barrel as prehistoric “Slime People” emerge from the sewers of Los Angeles! The atom-age U.S. army is no match for this small band of spear-toting boogeymen and the city is evacuated.
Monster From the Ocean Floor: Hollywood’s legendary maverick Roger Corman made his monster-movie debut as producer of this ultra-low-budget, eerie fright flick. “A well-done quickie”–Variety
Serpent Island: The jungles are echoing with the sound of voodoo drums, the locals are licking their native chops and there are ‘snakes on a plane’-o-plenty! Packed with flubs, stock footage–and Sonny Tufts. If laughter were food, this would be a full-course meal for Worst Films connoisseurs!
The Bride and the Beast – is a supernatural drama of terror and scientific fiction produced and directed by Adrian Weiss. The script was written by none other than Edward D. Wood Jr. It’s revealed through hypnosis that a woman was Queen of the Gorillas in a previous incarnation.
WHITE GORILLA – A white gorilla is snubbed by black gorillas because he is the wrong color. Cut off from his tribe he becomes lonely and angry. After troubling hunters and natives, the white gorilla fights the king of the black gorillas while we are told by a narrator that the fate of Africa hangs in the balance.
Lots of Added Special Features
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Crawling Hand: A manned rocket returning from the Moon is invaded by an alien life force that possesses the astronaut, maintains control of his disembodied hand after a California beach crash-landing, and then imposes its will on a local medical student.
The Slime People: “Golden Turkey” fans, attention! It’s a veritable voyage to the bottom of the sci-fi barrel as prehistoric “Slime People” emerge from the sewers of Los Angeles! The atom-age U.S. army is no match for this small band of spear-toting boogeymen and the city is evacuated.
Monster From the Ocean Floor: Hollywood’s legendary maverick Roger Corman made his monster-movie debut as producer of this ultra-low-budget, eerie fright flick. “A well-done quickie”–Variety
Serpent Island: The jungles are echoing with the sound of voodoo drums, the locals are licking their native chops and there are ‘snakes on a plane’-o-plenty! Packed with flubs, stock footage–and Sonny Tufts. If laughter were food, this would be a full-course meal for Worst Films connoisseurs!
The Bride and the Beast – is a supernatural drama of terror and scientific fiction produced and directed by Adrian Weiss. The script was written by none other than Edward D. Wood Jr. It’s revealed through hypnosis that a woman was Queen of the Gorillas in a previous incarnation.
WHITE GORILLA – A white gorilla is snubbed by black gorillas because he is the wrong color. Cut off from his tribe he becomes lonely and angry. After troubling hunters and natives, the white gorilla fights the king of the black gorillas while we are told by a narrator that the fate of Africa hangs in the balance.
Lots of Added Special Features
Psychotronica
Mermaids of Tiburon – Director’s Cut: Fantasy about mermaids (bare-chested Gaby Martone, Diane Webber, among others) who assist…and distract…a young scientist in his quest for sunken treasure, complete with Timothy Carey at his menacing best.
Yambaó: Supernatural thriller about a beautiful witch’s arrival at a Mexican village that unfortunately coincides with a plague.
Action/Adventure
B-movie and action-movie aficionados know that a double feature (The Black Pirates & Tales of Robin Hood) produced by two Robert L. Lippert’s (Sr. and Jr.), and the top of the bill is in color, and features Lon Chaney Jr. as a priest…it’s going to be a double, double-decker of Saturday matinee fun!
Action/Adventure
Based on the story Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne, this epic action adventure follows a courageous courier of Tsar Alexander II as he struggles to deliver vital information to Russian troops fighting a losing battle against invading Tartar hordes in Siberia. It’s a straight ahead action film, adventurous, swiftly paced and blood-thirstily satisfying. This serial-like adventures of Strogoff and his friends battling a Tartar rebellion has captivated Verne fans for decades.
Action/Adventure
An action-packed 1928 Silent 10 Chapter serial remastered in Hi-Definition from the only surviving 35mm tinted print
An inventor adds new innovations to an air company’s planes, prompting the owners of a rival company to set out to steal them. The stakes are sky-high as an airman and an aviatrix find themselves in constant peril, both on earth and above the clouds. Written by famed mystery novelist Arthur B. Reeve.
Action/Adventure
Jungle Patrol: Machine-gun action and suspense are the backdrop of a love story in this tense tale of eight young USAF flyers stationed in World War II New Guinea.
The Silent Raiders: Their assignment amounted to “kill or be killed”: During World War II, just prior to D-Day, a seven-man unit arrives on the French coast with orders to help wipe out a German communications center three miles inland.
Plus Feature-Length Combat Film Compilation
Animation
Animation
A comprehensive 2 DVD collection of Max Fleischer cartoon masterpieces presents over 30 rarely seen Technicolor animated shorts, produced during the golden age of animation.
Plus, great special features from animation historian, Jerry Beck.
Early in his career, between 1923 and 1927, Walt Disney produced the ‘Alice’ series of cartoons. These delightful cartoons owed their success to both a clever use of special effects – cartoon characters interacting with a live young girl cleverly superimposed within the frame – and breezy humor. Plus bonus cartoons and special features.
Comedy
Unseen for 90 years, it is in these six surviving shorts that Charley meets his greatest leading lady, lovely Thelma Todd, and gets himself into some very pre-code situations including spending the night with a cabin loaded with a bevy of beautiful girls, evading passes by his girlfriend’s mother, and doing interesting things with a mule! Who can resist Thelma Todd in a skimpy leopard Danskin?
3-Disc Set: Charley Chase returns with Volume Three, featuring his last three years of comedies for the Lot of Fun and some of the best sound shorts he made for Hal Roach. Charley at his most surrealistic in films like “Another Wild Idea,” “Public Ghost No. 1,” and “Life Hesitates at 40,” great gag comedies like “It Happened One Day,” and “Fate’s Fathead,” and we even have him cloned in multiples for “Four Parts.”
STAN AND OLLIE LOOK AND SOUND BETTER THAN EVER! In new 2K and 4K digital restorations from original 35mm nitrate sources, Laurel and Hardy’s classic comedies are here in the best quality since their first release! Bonus Extras: 2,500 rare photos, posters and studio files • Commentaries by Randy Skretvedt and Richard W. Bann • Film and audio interviews with L&H co-workers • Alternate soundtracks, music tracks, trailers • Almost 9 hours of EXCLUSIVE rarities!
STAN AND OLLIE LOOK AND SOUND BETTER THAN EVER! In new 2K and 4K digital restorations from original 35mm nitrate sources, Laurel and Hardy’s classic comedies are here in the best quality since their first release! Bonus Extras: 2,500 rare photos, posters and studio files • Commentaries by Randy Skretvedt and Richard W. Bann • Film and audio interviews with L&H co-workers • Alternate soundtracks, music tracks, trailers • Almost 9 hours of EXCLUSIVE rarities!
Documentary
Documentary
A Navajo boy stoically endures hardship, hunger and the death of his family. He is taken away to attend a white man boarding school and escapes but is pursued to the ancient Navajo caves. Filmed at majestic Canyon de Chelly and Nominated for two Academy Awards®.
Documentary
This special 3 disc collector’s edition compiles the best of Universal Newsreels, short subjects and movie trailers, which magically captures the essence of the decade of spins, fins and late night drive-ins. Over 8 hours of viewing!
After Six Days (1922): Touted at the time as a “$3,000,000 Entertainment for the Hundred Millions,” this 1920 Old Testament spectacle delivered what it promised…”from the creation of Adam and Eve to the parting of the Red Sea.”
Yesterday and Today: Veteran funnyman George Jessel is our host and narrator for this light-hearted look-back at the early and often humorously primitive days of motion pictures circa pre-1910. The majority of film sequences benefit from not having much exposure, if any, since their original release, and most are featured in longer excerpts unlike the usual compilations of this type.
The hilarious true story of Hollywood’s underbelly…the exploitation films, as told in rare film clips and interviews with the original purveyors of passion! It’s all about the wages of sin and the folks who earned them! With footage from these naughty classics: “Forbidden Daughters,” “They Wear No Clothes!,” “Reefer Madness,” “Child Bride,” plus “Mom and Dad” and more.
Drama
Documentary
A Navajo boy stoically endures hardship, hunger and the death of his family. He is taken away to attend a white man boarding school and escapes but is pursued to the ancient Navajo caves. Filmed at majestic Canyon de Chelly and Nominated for two Academy Awards®.
Action/Adventure
Based on the story Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne, this epic action adventure follows a courageous courier of Tsar Alexander II as he struggles to deliver vital information to Russian troops fighting a losing battle against invading Tartar hordes in Siberia. It’s a straight ahead action film, adventurous, swiftly paced and blood-thirstily satisfying. This serial-like adventures of Strogoff and his friends battling a Tartar rebellion has captivated Verne fans for decades.
Crime & Thrillers
The Slasher (Cosh Boy): A swift moving, no punches pulled exposé set in London’s tenement district, with a ruthless teenager (James Kenney, reprising his stage role) blackjacking an old woman to get her purse, and “graduating” to gang leader whose young cutthroats spread terror over the entire city.
Twilight Women (Women of Twilight, Another Chance): Originating on the London stage, this hard-hitting tale is set at a boarding house-haven for unmarried mothers, owned by a woman whose outward show of upstanding character hides her true personality: a fiend who abuses the women and farms out their babies!
Unwed Mother: Betty (Norma Moore) moves from a farming community to Los Angeles. She falls into the clutches of a super-cad (Robert Vaughn) and ends up abandoned and pregnant. After visiting a drunken abortionist, she decides to give the baby up for adoption…but has a change of heart.
Too Soon to Love: Two teenage lovers from dysfunctional families go “all the way.” She becomes in the family way, flees from a wicked abortionist and later attempts suicide. He steals money to retain a “real” doctor!
Musicals
Blu-rays
Josephine Baker captivated audiences through stage, recordings and motion pictures, and you’ll see why in “The French Way,” a farcical romantic-comedy set in contemporary WWII France, about young lovers forbidden to marry by their respective families. Baker, as “Zazu,” the owner of a nightclub, inherits a job restoring harmony between the two families and allowing the young lovers to se marier. A lost film – exquisitely restored!
Kentucky Jubilee: A wild potpourri of hillbilly singers, dancers and specialty acts (including the Y-Knot Twirlers!); strung together by a crazy plot that involves a pop-eyed emcee (funnyman Jerry Colonna).
The Kid From Gower Gulch: Spade Cooley plays a singing-western movie star who can neither sing nor ride, but a rancher believing that Spade is the real deal, bets 500 cattle that he can win a rodeo contest!
Hollywood Varieties: The advent of television brings back vaudeville, as emceed by Robert Alda (who also sings “Be There My Love”). Acts like the Hoosier Hot Shots, Sandy and His Seals, Hector and His Pals, The Four Dandies and Twirl, Whirl and a Girl resurrect that great entertainment medium of the past.
Holiday Rhythem: It’s the top-tappin’ fun-time of a lifetime when singer-dancer David Street bumps his head and dreams that he’s on a trip around the world, and seeing great variety acts at each port. A Dixieland band, a mambo orchestra, a “Rhythm on Ice” show and
Yes Sir, Mr. Bones! – Songs (including “Is Your Rent Paid Up in Heaven?”), buck-and-wing and softshoe are all part of the nostalgic fun. Cotton & Chick Watts, Ches Davis, F.E. Miller, Billy Green and the Hobnobbers.
Square Dance Jubilee: New York television talent scouts (Don “Red” Barry and Wally Vernon) head west to look for musical talent for Spade Cooley’s TV show and find plenty–and even help round up some cattle rustlers! With a whopping 21 songs.
Serials
Action/Adventure
An action-packed 1928 Silent 10 Chapter serial remastered in Hi-Definition from the only surviving 35mm tinted print
An inventor adds new innovations to an air company’s planes, prompting the owners of a rival company to set out to steal them. The stakes are sky-high as an airman and an aviatrix find themselves in constant peril, both on earth and above the clouds. Written by famed mystery novelist Arthur B. Reeve.
Sports
The story of Elroy “Crazylegs” Hirsch, from his high school days, into the Universities of Wisconsin and Michigan, followed by what was thought to be a career-ending fractured skull. Defying the odds, he went on to play for the Los Angeles Rams, becoming one of the acknowledged great athletes of his day. Football sequences are skillfully edited from the actual college, All-Star and Rams games. Starring Elroy “Crazylegs” Hirsch, as himself, Lloyd Nolan and Joan Vohs. Loaded with Special Features!
Action/Adventure
Attention NASCAR fans –
A legendary stock car racer is fast on the track and faster with the women in his life, leading to action on and off the speedway. A high-octane drama, shot on location at stock car racing’s cathedral, Darlington, South Carolina, and including historic footage of the actual Labor Day 1959 “Southern 500.”
A four-hour collection of 12 classic no holds barred matches from the 30 episode action packed syndicated TV series, “Wrestling Spectacular,” produced by promoter Paul Boesch. Enjoy an excellent variety of styles, names and types of matches, with the emphasis on action and mayhem.
Comedy
The charismatic, colorful, Minnesota Fats boasted he was “the greatest pool shooter of all time,” and here is your chance to see “Mr. Fats” in top form…having a great time playing with his quick witted show business pals —
- Groucho Marx vs. Minnesota Fats (9 Ball),
- The Smothers Brothers vs. Minnesota Fats (Last Ball)
- Milton Berle vs. Minnesota Fats (3 Cushion)
Westerns
Documentary
A Navajo boy stoically endures hardship, hunger and the death of his family. He is taken away to attend a white man boarding school and escapes but is pursued to the ancient Navajo caves. Filmed at majestic Canyon de Chelly and Nominated for two Academy Awards®.
Westerns
6 movies/2 DVDs
- Massacre
- Shotgun
- Four Fast Guns
- Three Desperate Men
- Outlaw Women
- Deputy Marshal
The Great Jesse James Raid: Jesse James, retired and living under a different name in St. Joseph, Missouri, agrees over the protests of his wife to join Bob Ford and Sam Wells in a Colorado gold raid.
Renegade Girl: Jean Shelby (Ann Savage), is a member of a family of Confederate sympathizers in Missouri during the Civil War. The family has been providing valuable information about the Union Army to Confederate Raiders, so the Union is trying to capture the Shelby Family, with the help of an outcast Indian who has his own grudge against the Shelby’s.
Little Big Horn is the story of a Cavalry patrol that discovers a horde of Indians ready to ambush Custer’s 7th Cavalry. They set out to warn Gen. Custer that he is about to embark on a mission of virtual suicide. Gritty and extremely well-acted character studies set this version apart from the familiar telling of a tragedy from U.S. history.
Rimfire: The western setting is incidental in this unglamorous, well-written, tale of mystery and suspense. The story involves the death by hanging of The Abilene Kid, who is innocent of all charges. After death “the Kid” returns to kill off all of those who sentenced him to be hanged.
Wrestling
Wrestling
The complete original 9 1/2 hour Wrestling Gold Series on 5 DVDs with Shoot Commentaries by Jim Cornette and Dave Meltzer
- Busted Open
- The Maim Event
- We Like To Hurt People
- No More Mr. Nice Guy
- Beat Me If You Can
A four-hour collection of 12 classic no holds barred matches from the 30 episode action packed syndicated TV series, “Wrestling Spectacular,” produced by promoter Paul Boesch. Enjoy an excellent variety of styles, names and types of matches, with the emphasis on action and mayhem.