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Alice. An over-30 housewife in a dusty Oklahoma town. Intelligent, pretty, yet out of touch with the unfulfilled promise of her life - until suddenly she's left a widow, with no money, no job, and a 12-year-old son to raise.

But Alice (Ellen Burstyn) has one great resource: her spirit. She sells her possessions and sets out across country, chasing the echo of a talent for singing she left behind in her youth, bound for the half-remembered haven of Monterey, California, where she spent her childhood. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore tells the tale of what happens on her journey.

Director Martin Scorsese here creates a subtle masterpiece of a film that transforms one ordinary woman's struggle into a memorable symbol of liberation and courage.

Director Leo McCarey won an Oscar and star Irene Dunne was nominated (one of her five Best Actress nominations) for The Awful Truth, one of the most captivating screwball comedies ever made.

A comic battlefield presided over by two superbly matched sparring partners, The Awful Truth also stars Cary Grant as the other half of a couple facing divorce - and fighting over custody of their beloved dog, Mr. Smith.

Somewhere before the final divorce decree, however, Jerry decides he wants Lucy back, only to learn that she's marrying a country bumpkin (hilariously played by Ralph Bellamy).

Jerry counters with an engagement to the aristocratic Molly Lamont, sparking a sexy, sophisticated battle of wits that ranks among the wackiest comedies in screen history.

"Bogart's Boldest Adventure"! A

terrifically offbeat film that spoofs all the films of the intrigue genre. Bogie as the movie's hero winds up becoming involved with his "business associates" in a big uranium swindle in British East Africa. Very Funny. Delightful tongue-in-cheek spoof of caper movies in the vein of "The Maltese Falcon" and "Key Largo" about a bunch of misfits scrambling after some uranium. Cobbled on location in Italy, this delightful comedy has become a cult favorite.

Written by Truman Capote. Directed by John Huston. Also starring Jennifer Jones.

Black and White. 1954. 100 minutes. Excellent in SP mode VHS NTSC. 4:3 aspect ratio. This movie is in the Public Domain. Out of Print. Comes in collector's box. VHS or DVD $14.99

A rare "live" television performance by James Dean! Armstrong Circle Theatre was one of the major dramatic anthology series of TV's golden age and ran for thirteen years. One of James Dean's early television appearances was on this program. Dean is a young man struggling to make a meager living for his wife and sick child. He gets a lucky break with a lucky buck. Also starring Gene Lockhart, Vaughn Taylor and Tige Andrews.

30 minutes. Black and White. Out of print. 4:3 aspect ratio. DVD or VHS $14.99.

Ninety minutes of Spike's own brand of eccentric humor in this fast-moving video containing highlights from the infamous "Q" television series in England.

Spike's talented supporting cast join him in a mixed mad bag of typical Milligoonery that includes such wacky sketches as:

Spike appears in an assortment of weird disguises such as various policemen, judges, vagrants, the Lone Ranger, a Dalek, Marlene Dietrich and Adolf Hitler.

Direction and Production by Ian MacNaughton, Douglas Argent and Ray Butt.

1986. COLOR. 87 minutes. 4:3 aspect ratio. Never released in the US. Out of Print.

In prewar Japan, a Japanese group plots to conquer the world. An American newspaperman in Tokyo who exposes the scheme is then threatened by the ruling warlords who try to silence him.

An exciting hard-hitting action film combining suspense, intrigue, and plenty of Cagney Action.

Ray Bradbury is the author of a compilation of some 500 short stories, plays, poems and novels. He has honed his talents writing for Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone.

The Crowd Starring Nick Mancuso, R.H. Thomson. Directed by Ralph L. Thomas.

In the early hours of the morning, an artist leaving a party is involved in a near-fatal car accident. Semi-conscious, he sees a peculiar group of onlookers quickly gather over him. Whispering and watching. Moments later, the ambulance arrives... they are gone.

Marrionettes, Inc. Starring James Coco, Leslie Nielsen, Jayne Eastwood. Directed by Paul Lynch.

A Computer Salesman trapped in his predictably routine, suburban lifestyle and smothered by a motherly, over-affectionate wife is approached by another electronics company manufacturing a highly-specialized product and offering the opportunity of a lifetime.

An overly-protective father, harboring the ill-effects of a terrifying childhood experience, denies his son the fun of visits to the local playground. It's a cheerful, busy, noise-filled place until Charlie Underhill get there.

After casting the vote that sends a young woman to her death in the electric chair for a murder she committed, a jury foreman is persecuted by the press but steadfastly insists he would do it again, even if a loved one were involved. He then has his beliefs tested when his daughter has committed murder under similar circumstances.

Black and White. 1934. 73 minutes. 4:3 aspect ratio. This movie is in the Public Domain. Out of Print. DVD or VHS $14.99

The Caretakers Joan Crawford and Robert Stack are Caretakers warring over the proper care and treatment

of a mentally ill patient in this "flawlessly directed film building to moments of chilling suspense". When Lorna Melford (Polly Bergen) is committed to an institution for the mentally insane, she becomes the unwitting pawn between a crusading psychiatrist (Stack) who believes in kindness and group therapy, and an old-fashioned head nurse (Crawford) whose idea of care includes straitjackets and padded cells. Caught in the middle, Lorna is subjected to an unending series of therapies and procedures from which The Caretakers will determine her ultimate fate - eventual release or permanent incarceration.

Featuring Oscar-nominated cinematography and a provocative musical score by Elmer Bernstein, The Caretakers is a "searing, emotionally charged motion picture of unusual quality and striking impact". Also starring Janis Paige, Diane McBain, Herbert Marshall, Barbara Barrie, Robert Vaughn. Directed by Hall Bartlett.

1963. Black & White. 97 minutes. This classic is available on the Internet or at your favorite movie store.

A desperate young woman named Lily (Anne Baxter) pickpockets her way into involvement with a carnival to the point that she marries one of its stars and

gets into a love triangle.

What she hoped would be a happy life keeps turning sour. Will she learn that nice girls cannot survive the carnival life before it's too late?

Starring Anne Baxter, Steve Cochran, George Nader, Jay C. Flippen, Lyle Bettger.

1954. COLOR. 94 minutes. This movie is in the Public Domain. DVD or VHS $14.99

Filmed in "Schizophrenoscope" (the new split screen!) Sellers and Milligan earned prominence and great popularity during the 1950s as two of the three resident madmen on BBC radio's riotously funny, long-running "The Goon Show."

They appear in this zany, free-form featurette that adequately reflects the show's inspired nuttiness.

The centerpiece of the scenario - which, we are told, is "straight from the files of Scotland Yard" - is a mukkinese battle horn, a 9th Century relic, that is stolen from a museum.

Sellers is great in a role in which he should be all-too familiar: the bumbling, incompetent police inspector and self-described raving idiot in charge of the investigation. There are sight gags and double entendres, mysterious blondes and guys in drag, characters who speak to the camera and jabs at London's infamous smog, Scotland Yard procedure, and the stiff-upper-lip manner of the British.

The inspiration for the "Pink Panther" comedies of later years as Peter Sellers tries to solve this fiendishly difficult case!

1956 - England. Black and White. 27 minutes. Out of Print. $14.99 DVD or VHS.

This sophisticated comedy-mystery in the style of Alfred Hitchcock teams Cary Grant and Audrey

Hepburn together with an exceptional screenplay by Peter Stone and delightful direction by Stanley Donen.

Hepburn portrays Reggie Lambert, who meets Grant on a skiing trip in the Alps. When she return home to Paris, she finds her apartment ransacked, her husband dead and a group of crooks searching for a fortune her husband had and they're convinced she's hiding it.

As Hepburn avoids the sinister group, she becomes fond of Grant who comes to her aid. but, one by one, each gang member is murdered, making it more difficult for Hepburn to distinguish the good guys from the bad ones.

Filmed in Paris with a score by Henry Mancini, Charade also features a terrific supporting cast: James Coburn, George Kennedy and Walter Matthau. Also Featuring Ned Glass, Dominique Minot, Jacques Marin, Paul Bonitas, Thomas Chelmsky.

COLOR. 113 minutes. 1963. 4:3 aspect ratio. This movie is in the Public Domain. Out of Print. DVD or VHS $14.99

Francis Ford Coppola's provoking mystery-drama explores the morality of privacy and stars Gene Hackman as Harry Caul, expert surveillance man.

A routine wire-tapping job turns into a modern nightmare as Harry hears something disturbing in his recording of a young couple in a park. He begins to worry about what the tape may be used for and becomes involved in a maze of secrecy and murder.

Set in San Francisco, the film also features Cindy Williams, Harrison Ford and Frederic Forrest. Music by David Shire.

In "Cops" Buster Keaton's cinematic attractions are grounded within the conventions of the chase film.

Here, Keaton's downtrodden everyman must become a success in business or else his girlfriend won't marry

him. With that as his goal, Keaton, in a series of coincidences and unfortunate circumstances becomes linked to an anarchist bombing and a series of robberies.

Chased through the streets, Keaton avoids the police, by climbing a ladder straddled over a fence. As the cops yank on one end, Keaton daringly flips to the other side of the ladder, creating a see-saw effect. Eventually he's flung from the ladder, and again takes to the streets, sliding head first under a burly cop's spread-eagled stance.

Keaton avoids capture and winds up in the police precinct. The doors close, there's a momentary pause, and Keaton, now a triumphant trickster figure, emerges dressed in a copy uniform. His girl sees him, and unimpressed by his new found "success" rejects him. Keaton, with a quiet dignity and resignation, turns and re-enters the precinct, where the police mob seizes and beats him.

Written and Directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline. Starring Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox. Great musical score.

1922. Black and White. 18 minutes. 4:3 aspect ratio. This movie is in the Public Domain. Out of Print. DVD or VHS $14.99

Bonnie Jordan (Joan Crawford) swings from socialite to reporter to "a cheap moll in the underworld" without missing a beat. When her rich father dies penniless after the stock market crash, she and her

brother Rodney must find work. Bonnie becomes a reporter, while Rodney takes to selling bootleg booze and gets involved with Chicago underworld giant Jake Luva (Clark Gable). The story shifts into high gear as Bonnie - working undercover to solve a murder - is hired as a dancer at Jake's nightclub. Soon, she and Jake are dancing cheek to cheek.

Harry Beaumont, whose Our Dancing Daughters made Joan Crawford a star, directs this hard-hitting melodrama based on sensational gangland killings of the day. Crawford is superb as she does the "high kick and tap, in brief costume" (Variety) that brings her to Gable's attention. This was the first pairing of the stars, who would do seven more films together. In the full bloom of their youth, they're a joy to watch. Or, as Variety said, Gable's "gang chieftain is vivid and authentic" and Crawford "is sock appeal from toes to headlights." Directed by Harry Beaumont.

4 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture!

Baby Face Martin (Humphrey Bogart) and Dave Connell (Joel McCrea) don't know it, but they're on a collision course. Martin is a flashy, notorious hoodlum who's returned to his East Side ghetto roots to visit old haunts, lie low from the cops, and perhaps even pull off a few jobs. Connell is an aspiring architect who dreams of rebuilding the slums. But first, he has a different problem to confront: Martin. One way or another, Connell must rid the neighborhood of the infamous felon before Martin's influence rubs off on the area's hero-worshipping kids.

TRIVIA: Bogart won the coveted role of Martin after George Raft declined it. In 1941, history repeated itself when Raft refused two roles: High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon... In 1946 Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall and other Dead End Kids became the Bowery Boys, the comedy team that appeared in 48 movies in 12 years... The start of filming was delayed three months after a mishap inside a beauty salon gave co-star Sylvia Sidney a broken nose.

Directed by William Wyler (Ben-Hur) and scripted by Lillian Hellman (The Little Foxes), this multiple Oscar-nominated film is powerful, entertaining and a true landmark in moviemaking. Also starring Wendy Barrie, Claire Trevor, Allen Jenkins.

Death In Venice Dirk Bogarde, Bjorn Andresen, Mark Burns, Silvana Mangano

Gustav Aschenbach is a distinguished man, a world-famous composer and conductor who embodies all the civilized virtues of the European culture he represents. Yet on a solitary rest holiday in Venice, he spies an innocent

young boy - and abandons himself to a secret passion that carries him to his doom.

Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice is the celebrated story of a man obsessed by ideal beauty - and the realization of a life-long dream for its distinguished director, one of the giants of Italian cinema. For years Visconti planned his adaptation of Thomas Mann's classic tale. Finally, after the overwhelming success of his powerful study of pre-war Nazi Germany, The Damned, he was able to start on his ambitions project.

Visconti chose Dirk Bogarde to portray his haunted central character Gustav Aschenbach. In a Venice hotel, Aschenbach's obsession begins innocently enough: he sees a Polish family mingling with the other guests and picks out a boy of 15, Tadzio, as a figure of rare grace and charm. Amused, he watches Tadzio through the sultry and oppressive days of his rest. When the weather grows unbearable, he decides he must move on. Then his luggage is missent, and a startling joy invades him at the thought that he will remain near Tadzio a little longer.

But Venice in this holiday season has become a death trap. An epidemic of Asian cholera is sweeping the city. Aschenbach learns the truth, but his passion blinds him to the danger - and suddenly, it is too late.

Critics hailed Death In Venice as a masterpiece, one of the few occasions when a literary classic finds perfect visual expression in a film of equal stature. Capping Visconti's triumph, Death In Venice was voted the Grand Prize winner at the 25th Anniversary Cannes Film Festival.

A lavishly exciting production will capture your attention throughout as the heroine tries to clear her

father's name and develops a romance with the hero.

David Niven has his first starring role in this murder mystery about the death of a French banker. The daughter of the banker (Annabella) seeks to clear the family name. The dashing Niven is only too happy to be of assistance. With Paul Lukas and Romney Brent.

Starring Annabella, Paul Lukas, David Niven, Romney Brent, Stewart Rome, Francis L. Sullivan.

A fascinating story of decadence and deception, "The Divine Nymph" depicts the erotic adventures of Manuela, the beautiful and sensuous object of two cousins' lust, affection and obsession.

Seduced by them both, Manuela becomes the sexual and romantic center of a tragic love triangle.

A provocative script and brilliant performances by Laura Antonelli, Marcello Mastroianni, and Terence Stamp make this compelling and erotic feature a must see. Also featuring Michele Placido, Duilio Del Prete, Ettore Manni. Directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi.

The Divorce of Lady X Lawrence Olivier ~ Ralph Richardson ~ Merle Oberon

Unable to go home because of fog, Miss Oberon and other guests of a hotel ball are forced to spend the night.

Since there are no available rooms Miss Oberon sneaks into the suite of divorce lawyer Lawrence Olivier and convinces him to sleep on the floor in the sitting room while she sleeps on the bed then leaves early the next morning without a word.

When Ralph Richardson asks him to handle his divorce due to his wife having spent the evening with another man in the hotel, Olivier belies that it is Miss Oberon and himself that he is talking about. Is he?

COLOR. 1938. 92 minutes. Very Good in SP mode VHS NTSC. 4:3 aspect ratio. This movie is in the Public Domain. Out of Print. DVD or VHS $14.99

The key to unlocking their hiding place can be found in the coded tunes from three music boxes manufactured in Dartmoor Prison.

Hand on to the edge of your seat as Sherlock attempts to out-sleuth his opponents to crack the secret codes and return the priceless plates to their rightful owners.

Starring Basis Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morrison, Edmond Breen, Patricia Cameron.

1946. Black and White. 72 minutes. 4:3 aspect ratio. Out of Print. This movie is in the Public Domain. DVD or VHS $14.99

Armed with a killer's confession, a score of missing persons and a mob undertaker working full-time, he knows he's onto something. Relentless and determined, he tracks down a notorious murder for profit ring, headed by a killer named Mendoza. With Mendoza in jail, Bogart's work has just begun. His single eyewitness, a henchman turned stool pigeon, plunges to his death in a desperate attempt to avoid testifying on the night before the trial. He has twelve hours and one last chance to bring this killer to justice... and Bogart's going to take it!

Also starring Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia, Roy Roberts, Everett Sloane. Written by Martin Rackin. Directed by Bretaigne Windust.

ESCAPES Hosted by Vincent Price. Join Vincent Price on a suspense-filled Journey to the Supernatural! Five original stories in the tradition of Amazing Stories, The Twilight zone and Alfred Hitchco

Presents... where the difference between fantasy and reality is a very fine line! 1986. Visual Perceptions Productions. Out of Print. COLOR. 4:3 aspect ratio. 72 minutes. Not Rated. Excellent in SP mode VHS NTSC. Comes in collector's box.

Something's Fishy - A fisherman feels what it's like to be at the other end of the rod!

Coffee Break - A brash, young delivery driver learns to relax by being given the longest coffee break of his life!

Who's There? - A lazy Sunday runner literally finds himself running for his life when he is joined by an alien species!

Jonah's Dream - One eerie night an old widow living on a desolate mountain top has a strange encounter that brings alive her husband's lifelong dream!

Think Twice - A street vagrant with magical abilities and a cold blooded thief collide deep in the alleys of a big city!

Hot Hollywood stars Mike Myers

(Austin Powers, Wayne's World), Neve Campbell (Wild Things, Scream) and Salma Hayek (Fools Rush In) give must-see performances in this provocative look behind the bright lights of the hottest nightclub ever! When Steve Rubell (Myers), the mastermind behind New York's infamous Studio 54 disco, plucks young Shane O'Shea (Ryan Phillippe) from the sea of faces clamoring to get inside his club, Shane not only gets his foot in the door... but lands a coveted job behind the bar.

By following Shane's rapid rise from naive busboy to the notorious nightspot's sexy main attraction, you're allowed an unforgettable look at the spectacular rise and fall of Steve Rubell's decadent empire. An entertaining hit that pulses with the best dance music of the era, 54 is not just your ticket inside this legendary place... it places you at the very epicenter of the greatest party on earth!

Laurence Olivier stars in this excellent British production as a bold courtier serving Queen Elizabeth I as the Spanish Armada threatens in the 1500s.

Against this historical background is played out the intriguing romance of Olivier with a young lady of the court (Vivien Leigh).

Adapted from A.E.W. Mason's novel, the film convincingly conveys the colorful history and atmosphere of the era, marked by cloak-and-sword action, sumptuous staging and the brilliant yet subtle characterization of Queen Elizabeth by Flora Robson.

Also starring Raymond Massey, Leslie Banks, Morton Selten. Directed by William K. Howard.

1937. Black and White. 93 minutes. 4:3 aspect ratio. Out of Print. DVD or VHS. $19.99

The Flight In a rare TV appearance on the popular series "Suspense", Audie Murphy stars as an

ex-Navy flyer hired to transport a mysterious passenger. Thrills and surprises about in this TV suspenser that also features Jack Warden, Everett Sloane and Susan Kohner. First aired September 30, 1957. Alfred Hitchcock produced several of the the "Suspense" episodes, but this was not one of them!

1957. Black & White. 60 minutes, 4:3 aspect ratio. Out of Print. Quality is good considering source - kinescope. SP mode VHS NTSC. DVD or VHS $14.99.

Ranked among the greatest films ever made, Buster Keaton's The General is so brilliantly conceived and executed that it continues to inspire awe and laughter with every viewing.

Rejected by the Confederate army as unfit and taken for a coward by his beloved Annabelle Lee, young Johnnie Gray (Keaton) sets out to single-handedly win the war with the help of his cherished locomotive, The General. What follows is, without exaggeration, probably the most cleverly choreographed comedy ever recorded on film.

Johnnie wages a one-man war against hijackers, an errant cannon and the unpredictable hand of fate while roaring along the iron rails - exploiting to the fullest the dramatic and comedic potential of Keaton's favorite filmic prop: the train.

Insisting on accuracy in every detail, Keaton created a remarkably authentic historical epic, replete with hundreds of costumed extras, full-scale sets and the breathtaking plunge of an actual locomotive from burning bridge into a placid river.

Written and Directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman. Starring Buster Keaton, Marian Mack. Adapted from "The Great Locomotive Chase" by William Pittenger. Marvelous musical score.

Black & White / Color tinted. 1926. 105 minutes. Excellent in SP mode VHS NTSC. 4:3 aspect ratio. This movie is in the Public Domain. Out of Print. DVD or VHS $14.99.

It's a rollicking romp through royal romance when an impoverished British Earl opens his home to the public... and an American oilman invades the private wing of the mansion to meet and fall in love with the Lady of the house.

Her next trip to the hairdresser in London turns into an intimate night on the town with the millionaire, and she arrives at her best friend's apartment just before dawn with a new mink coat.

Having shared her own intimacies with the Earl, the best friend promptly telephones him and lets the mink out of the bag. They all wind up back at the family mansion for a madcap weekend... and a pistol duel to determine who gets whom!

Music and Lyrics by Noel Coward. Screenplay by Hugh and Margaret Williams. Produced and Directed by Stanley Donen.

COLOR. 1960. 105 minutes. Remastered from the original film negative. This classic is available on the Internet or at your favorite movie store.

The monsoons drench them. The sun scorches them. Still, the allies fight doggedly through Burma in 1945. But for easygoing Yank (Ronald Reagan) and hard-headed Lachie (Richard Todd), the road to victory ends at a remote jungle hospital. Their war is suddenly over. Now, with the help of a devoted nurse (Patricia Neal), they face a new battle called recovery.

The Hasty Heart is based on a play by John Patrick, who drew from his own wartime service in a British ambulance unit. Vincent Sherman (The Hard Way, Mr. Skeffington) directs this sensitive adaptation sparked by the performance that ranks, along with his work in Kings Row, as Reagan's best. The future President's portrayal wasn't the only one to draw accolades. Todd won a 1949 Best Actor Oscar nomination as the valorous, wounded Scotsman who doesn't know that his new fight is his last.

Black and White. 1949. 102 minutes. This classic is available on the Internet or at your favorite movie store.

Set against the gritty world of small-time boxing, Heart packs a powerful dramatic punch. Brad Davis

(Midnight Express) stars as Eddie Brennan, a down-and-out fighter with nowhere to go but up... and with just the right combination of guts and spirit to become a winner.

Once a contender, Brennan is now a washed-up has-been living in a fantasy world halfway between the dreams of his glory days and the dreams of a comeback. And when a set-up fight disguised as a legitimate bout comes his way, he jumps at the chance.

No one thinks Eddie can win... least of all his trainer. No one wants Eddie to win... especially the crooked promoters. But Eddie's got something to prove to them all... and to himself. And he'll do anything to show that he's got the Heart it takes to be a winner.

Also starring Jesse Doran, Sam Gray, Robinson Frank Adu, Steve Buscemi, Bill Costello, Frances Fisher.

Peter O'Toole heads a star-studded cast in this lavish adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's highly entertaining drams.

Trouble is brewing at Blandings Castle, home of the Earl of Emsworth, where scandal looms in the form of an unsuitable marriage between the Earl's nephew and a chorus girl. Galahad Threepwood, the Earl's brother, is about to publish his 'kiss and tell' book which will ruin the family name.

Lady Constance, the Earl's sister, wants to stop both the marriage and the book and yet the Earl seems only to be concerned about his prize pig 'The Empress of Blandings'.

This is a wonderful tale of the elegant yet eccentric bygone world of the British aristocracy.

Starring Peter O'Toole, Richard Briers, Judy Parfitt, Richard Johnson, Sarah Badel, Roy Hudd, and David Bamber. Directed by Jack Gold.

COLOR. 95 minutes. 1995. 4:3 aspect ratio. Out of Print. Never released in the US. DVD or VHS $24.99.

This hilarious re-working of The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur sees Cary Grant as the savage editor and, in a switch, the reporter played by a scheming Rosalind Russell.

This version adds the twin lures of sex and romance. The film moves at whirlwind speed, as director Howard Hawks instructed his actors to overlap their lines, so much so that at times everyone seems to be talking at once.

Hawks also had his cast move at twice the normal speed so the screen looks frantic from scene to scene, thus conveying th urgency of the news world he was depicting.

It's undoubtedly Cary Grant's greatest comedic role, proving once again the amazing versatility of this Hollywood legend.

Starring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell. Featuring Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Helen Mack, Porter Hall, Ernest Truex, Cliff Edwards, Clarence Kolb, Roscoe Karns, Frank Jenks, Regis Toomey.

Black & White. 92 minutes. 1940. 4:3 aspect ratio. This movie is in the Public Domain. Out of Print. DVD or VHS 14.99

"There's Death in his Upraised Thumb!" screamed posters for Ida Lupino's The Hitch-Hiker (1953), often referred to as the only film noir to be directed by a woman.

But The Hitch-Hiker doesn't need an historic footnote to be interesting. It's an expertly-directed suspense film by any standards.

Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy play family men on a fishing trip who make the near-fatal mistake of picking up mad-dog killer William Talman. Talman, known for playing the DA in the Perry Mason TV series, is pure evil here; he even sleeps with one eye open!

The Hitchhiker (TV Series) (Vol. I) Harry Hamlin ~ Gary Busey ~ Karen Black

If you love The Twilight Zone, you'll die for The Hitchhiker - a shadowy presence with tales to tell on long rides through dark country. Featuring superb

casts, these haunting stories of the supernatural are destined to become the cult hit of the year. The three chilling installments included here are guaranteed to run an icy finger over your soul.
Give The Hitchhiker a lift. It's a ride you'll never forget.

WGOD Talk Radio Gary Busey and Academy Award winner Geraldine Page star in this timely tale of a radio preacher with a past that's quite literally buried.

Hired Help Karen Black plays a tough businesswoman who gets more than she bargained for when the handsome young man she's hired becomes an avenger from hell in her arms.

The Curse Harry Hamlin plays an amoral yuppie who learns a hard lesson from a beautiful girl and a mysterious tattoo of a snake that's crawling toward his neck.

The Hitchhiker (TV Series) (Vol. 4) Robert Vaughn ~ Sybil Danning ~ Michael O'Keefe

Video Date A video dating service lothario (Greg Henry) at last finds the perfect woman (Shannon Tweed)... or so he things. In the end, he unknowingly finds himself ensnared in a video art piece that costs him more than he expected.

Face to Face Following a corrupt night of cocaine and lust, an egocentric plastic surgeon (Robert Vaughn) botches an important cosmetic operation. He later finds himself lured by a beautiful face only to discover that sometimes beauty and beast are one. Also starring Sybil Danning and Sonja Smitts.

Man's Best Friend When a lonely and mysterious man (Michael O'Keefe) befriends a stray dog, he soon discovers his enemies are being violently torn to shreds.

80 minutes. 1984 - 1985. Color. 4:3 aspect ratio. Out of Print. $14.99 DVD or VHS.

Considered one of Joan Crawford's finest performances, Humoresque is the heartbreaking story of a glamorous socialite's doomed affair with an ambitious musician. Twice

divorced and trapped in a loveless marriage to an older man, Helen Wright (Crawford) buries her loneliness in biting humor and stiff drinks. But when she agrees to underwrite the debut performance of Paul Boray (John Garfield), a talented young violinist, her life is forever changed. Irresistibly drawn to the tempestuous Boray, Helen finds herself reluctantly falling in love with him. Together, the two share a glorious but brief moment of happiness before Helen's alcoholism and self-doubt come between them.

A soaring score (with violinist Isaac Stern's stirring performance highlighting the soundtrack) and a superb supporting cast, including pianist Oscar Levant as Boray's cynical best friend, combine to make Humoresque "one of the most potent love stories of the American cinema" - Los Angeles Reader. Beautifully acted and achingly romantic, Humoresque is a classic. Also starring J. Carrol Naish. Directed by Jean Negulesco. Screenplay by Clifford Odets and Zachary Gold.

Black and White. 1947. 126 minutes. 4:3 aspect ratio. This classic is available on the Internet or at your favorite movie store.

Jackie Gleason and Art Carney are an hilarious team again, this time as out-of-work vaudeville actors turned prohibition agents. Gleason plays Isadore Einstein and Carney is Morris Smith, two unorthodox federal agents who are highly publicized and very creative Roaring Twenties crimestoppers.

Gleason's Einstein believes, "serious jobs can be done with a little style and humor." And with a little style, a lot of humor and a penchant for outrageous disguises, Gleason and Carney bust speakeasies in their own madcap manner

When their wily ways pit them against machine-gun-toting gangsters, the laughs fly as fast as the bullets. guns, Feds and gangsters provide fast-paced excitement in "Izzy and Moe" as Gleason and Carney display the magic that has made them legendary laughmakers.

Film Noir: Means "black film," a reference to the often low, black and white visual style of the films themselves, and to the alienation and morally-compromised obsessions of the protagonists of these ofen crime-based stories.

"The Killers, a relentless search through the back alleys of a dead man's past, is a brilliant movie." - Liberty Magazine.

It opens with an Ernest Hemingway short story in which Burt Lancaster, making his film debut, plays Swede, a broken-down ex-fighter waiting in a sleazy room to be assassinated.

He does not resist when two men empty their guns into him. It becomes the job of insurance investigator Edmond O'Brien to discover why Swede had given up. He pieces together an elaborate look at a man who became the fall guy for gangsters and a seductive, unscrupulous woman (Ava Gardner). Also featuring Albert Dekker, Sam Levene.

A taut Miklos Rozsa score (with a these later used in Dragnet), an Anthony Veiller screenplay (with, uncredited, John Huston), and the brilliant artistry of director Robert Siodmak make this a stunning tale of cross and double-cross. "there is not a dull moment... nothing but menacing action managed with supreme competence." - Life Magazine.

Black and White. 1946. 103 minutes. This classic is available on the Internet or at your favorite movie store.

Frank Pierson's energetic and ambitious film is a fascinating saga of three generations of a violent gypsy family.

Eric Roberts makes an impressive screen debut as Dave, grandson of the aging King Zharko, who is chosen by him to lead the gypsy clan at his death.

Dave's only inclination is to join the American mainstream, but he knows that the mantle of gypsy power cannot be taken lightly or denied.

Based on the best-selling non-fiction book by Peter Maas (author of The Valachi Papers and Serpico), King Of The Gypsies is a compelling and realistic depiction of life inside the mysterious gypsy culture.

Also starring Judd Hirsch, Brooke Shields, Annette O'Toole, Annie Potts, Susan Sarandon. Written for the screen and Directed by Peter Maas.

COLOR. 111 minutes. 4:3 aspect ratio. Out of Print. DVD or VHS $19.99.

Barbara Stanwyck brings her acting and dancing talents to the murder mystery based on Gypsy Rose Lee's bestseller, "The G-String Murders."

Stanwyck stars as Dixie Daisy, the latest stripping sensation. She manages to stay clear of backstage bickering and hold off the advances of fellow performer Biff Brannigan (Michael O'Shea) until a fellow stripper is found strangled by her own g-string.

When a second victim is found strangled, Dixie looks like a suspect, and must join together with Brannigan to find the real killer.

Arthur Lange's music score received an Academy Award nomination. One of the film's highlights is Stanwyck's rendition of "Take It Off The E-String" - complete with bumps and grinds!

Also featuring J. Edward Bromberg, Iris Adrian, Gloria Dickson, Charles Dingle, Pinky Lee. Directed by William A. Wellman.

Black and White. 1943. This movie is in the Public Domain. 91 minutes. 4:3 aspect ratio. Out of Print. DVD or VHS $14.99.

Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited," this classic film favorite is an emotional story of a lost generation and its beautiful people.

Elizabeth Taylor and Van Johnson star in this touching classic, two restless lovers trying to find some kind of meaning in the turbulent world of post-war Paris. Donna Reed, Walter Pidgeon, Roger Moore and Eva Gabor complete the timeless cast of Fitzgerald characters.

Screenplay by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein and Richard Brooks. Based on the Novel "Babylon Revisited" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Directed by Richard Brooks.

Black and White. 1954. This movie is in the Public Domain. 116 minutes. 4:3 aspect ratio. Out of Print. DVD or VHS $14.99.

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery and William Powell sparkle in this

scintillating comedy of most delicious scandal. Lovely larcenist Fay Cheyney (Crawford) gets herself invited to a stately British home, intending to filch the family jewels. But she's soon forced to choose between loyalty to her "butler" - partner-in-crime Powell - and two sovereign suitors: the licentious but charming Lord Dilling (Montgomery) or proper Lord Kelton (Frank Morgan). Fay quickly masters the real distance between the low life and the high... for, after all, what's a little thieving amongst the right sort of people?

This witty gem features Powell's (The Thin Man) impeccable style, Montgomery's martini-pouring elan, a touching performance from Frank Morgan (The Wizard of Oz) as a fiftyish Lord suffering an unseemly first love - and the young Joan Crawford at her most incandescent. Also starring Nigel Bruce, Jessie Ralph. Directed by Richard Boleslawski.

Alan Arkin made his stunning directorial debut with this outrageous black comedy that aims straight for the heart of satire.

Meet the Newquist family... They live in a typical American city where riots, muggings and sniper attacks are a way of life. All this violence is great for Patsy Newquist's (Marcia Rodd) love life. She meets Alfred (Elliott Gould), the man of her dreams, while he is being mugged outside her apartment. Now she and Alfred are trying to make it on their own. Not even the city's 345 unsolved murders can put a damper on their love... or so they think!

Donald Sutherland and Vincent Gardenia round out the all-star cast in this biting contemporary classic from Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer (Carnal Knowledge).

Also starring Lou Jacobi, Marcia Rodd. Screenplay by Jules Feiffer, based on his play.

1971. COLOR. 107 minutes. 4:3 aspect ratio. Out of Print. DVD or VHS $19.99

Two people, each engaged to someone else, meet aboard a ship and instantly fall in love.

To test their true love for each other they make arrangements to meet again in six months, but heart-breaking complications occur altering their plans.

"Love Affair" moves at a quick pace with a touch of comedy, great dialogue and sweet romance.

Starring Charles Boyer, Irene Dunne, Astrid Allwyn, Maurice Moscovich, Lee Bowman, Maria Ospenskaya.

Black and White. 1939. 89 minutes. This movie is in the Public Domain. 4:3 aspect ratio. Out of Print. DVD or VHS $14.99.

Winner: New York Film Critics, National Society Film Critics, National Board of Review.

"Ten Best Movies Of The Year": New York Daily News, Robert Osborne, Peter Travers.

"The film Marlene is a triumph for director Maximilian Schell who has overcome difficult circumstances and a recalcitrant star to create a moving, hypnotic, totally original movie..." - Michael Medved, At The Movies

Robert Osborne, film critic, says of Marlene, "Movies don't come any better... a riveting, sometimes dangerous ride info the persona - and thoughts - of one of the world's most fascinating women... It also unfolds in a way no movie has ever quite done before. Moviegoers will be talking about this one for years to come..."

This is a voyeuristic journey into the mystique of a woman, Marlene Dietrich, who set an unparalleled standard for erotic beauty, and is by turns intimate, revealing and exquisitely humorous.

An ambitious newspaper woman saves her job by inventing an imaginary victim who has pledged to kill himself. She persuades a broken down ball player to pretend to be the imaginary "John Doe" but a greedy politician tries to use the image of "John Doe" love and faith to his own advantage only to be defeated by faith on a desperate vigil in the Empire State Building by faithful believers in the message that we must love our neighbors if we are to find happiness.

Director Frank Capra's wonderful, message-laden populist melodramatic tale about the common man. The screenplay, written by Robert Riskin was derived from a 1939 film treatment titled The Life and Death of John Doe. With all-time persuasive performances by both Stanwyck and Cooper, this sobering film remains an important social commentary. Cooper won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Sergeant York in the same year. Stanwyck's role was originally considered by both Ann Sherican and Olivia de Havilland.

Starring Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Spring Byington, James Gleason, Gene Lockhart, Regis Toomey, Ann Doran. Directed by Frank Capra.

Black and White. 1941. 126 minutes. This movie is in the Public Domain. 4:3 aspect ratio. Out of Print. DVD or VHS $14.99

It's 1941 and Cary Grant is Joe Adams, co-owner of a gambling ship, soon to set sail for Havana. However, Joe receives his draft notice which could spoil all his plans. He dodges the draft by taking the identity of recently deceased crew member Joseph Bascopolous - not knowing that Bascopolous is an ex-convict with 3 convictions, one more and he goes to prison for life. Although unscrupulous, Joe lives by the rule "Never give a sucker an even break, but don't cheat a friend."

Joe meets up with charity fund raiser Dorothy (Laraine Day) and gets the idea of a gambling concession at the forthcoming charity ball. Unfortunately, the ladies of the War Relief Office take some persuading, particularly Dorothy, and it is only by using his particular 'skills' to their advantage that they finally give in. Once Dorothy is on his side she even helps him to evade the police, under the impression that he is an ex-con.

Joe's intention is to con the ladies and take all the money from the gambling concession. However, he has a change of heart when a priest translates a letter from Bascopolous' mother. Despite an attempt by his ex-partner, Zepp, to double-cross him, he ensures that the charity receives all the money. Dorothy finds out just in time that his ship is due to set sail, not as a gambling ship, but instead loaded with medical supplies, and hurries to the docks. She tells him she loves him but he leaves. On the return trip, his ship is sunk and Dorothy waits, night after night, at the dock side. Is he dead or is he alive?

Great supporting cast features Charles Bickford, Gladys Cooper, Alan Carney, Henry Stephenson. Directed by H. C. Potter. This movie was later adapted into a successful TV series by the same name starring John Vivyan.

Mr. Lucky (John Vivyan) is the handsome owner of the yacht Fortuna II, an elegant supper and gambling club that attracts the jet set of the world. As host to this glittering clientele, Mr. Lucky is drawn into both the glamour and danger of high society - beautiful women, ruthless criminals, deadly secrets.

Ross Martin co-stars as Mr. Lucky's friend and sidekick; Pippa Scott plays his beautiful girlfriend.

Guest appearances by television and film stars highlight each episode. There was a total of 34 shows. Included here are ten episodes on three videos in Very Good SP quality:

Series created by Blake Edwards, based on the 1943 movie "Mr. Lucky", starring Humphrey Bogart. Music composed by Henry Mancini.

"A tightly written, terrifically tense and gripping drama of a pathological murderer gone haywire" - Cue Magazine.

A headless corpus delicti, a weird forest at night and a woman's head in a locked leather hat box under the bed. Add to this a neurotic English girl, a doddering hypochondriac and a charming but cold-blooded killer. The result? One of the most unusual and daring thrillers to come out of Hollywood in the '30s... Night Must Fall.

Frustrated with being constantly cast as a leading man in light romantic comedies, Robert Montgomery saw the role of the psychopathic page boy as a way to break out of the mold. Though MGM chiefs Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg were convinced it could only damage his career, Montgomery insisted upon the part. Both the resulting film and Montgomery's performance are remarkable.

Equally effective are Rosalind Russell and Dame May Whitty as two women seduced by his boyish but deadly charm.

Notable in its time for using a murder story not as mystery but as a study in psychotic behavior, this highly entertaining film has taken its place in film history as a "gripping and distinguished study in homicide" - New York Herald Tribune.