Brad Harris, Tony Kendall. A really sleazy exploitaion film about a bunch of sleazy guys who run a sleazy white slavery operation somewhere in a sleazy part of the Orient. Harris and Kenall are the agents sent in to break things up. Pretty good, actually. Rated "R." Color, from 35mm.
Pretty young heiress Phyllis Leighton is kidnapped while on vacation in Bangkok. The authorities are baffled. The girl's wealthy mother asks world-famous private detective Joe Walker (a.k.a. "Kommissar X") to investigate. Once in Bangkok, Walker is attacked by assassins with poison gas and flamethrowers. Each assailant bears a tattoo of three golden serpents entwined on his wrist. They lead the private eye to a remote island where Leighton and other girls are being sold as slaves to the...
An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.
Take three of the funniest, cleverest actors in the movies plop them on a gorgeous, real-life Greek isle and add a feverish plot that involves an ingenious scam, big money, lighthearted romance and a lisping gangster and you have Island of Love. On the lam from the mob boss he fleeced, a conman (Robert Preston in a flim-flam mode recalling his triumph in The Music Man) and his sardonic pal (Tony Randall) end up on Paradeisos. The two Americans promptly hoodwink the world into believing the...
On a remote island off the coast of Ireland a farmer goes missing and his wife contacts the local authorities. The constable finds the farmer dead in a cave without a single bone in his body and contacts the local physician, who is unable to determine what happened. When a group of scientists are brought in from the mainland it becomes clear that 'test animals' are killing their victims by injecting a bone-dissolving enzyme into their bodies. The creatures prove incredibly difficult to kill....
Mitchell is the evil Baron von Weser, who has a grim collection of carnivorous plants. When a group of people vacation on his island, they soon they find themselves having to deal with his monstrosities. Watch out for his blood-drinking tree, which soon becomes acquainted with several unfortunate guests. This is a fast-moving piece of Euro-schlock. Mitchell is great as he underplays his evil role. This film has had some awful video releases in the past, but this is probably the best video copy...
Inhabitants of a fishing island off the coast of Maine find themselves mysteriously cut off from the outside world after the ferry suddenly stops coming. All the phones have gone dead and every boat sent to the mainland fails to return. When dead bodies turn up along the water's edge, the hardy band of survivors must find out who, or what, is killing them.
This is a magical journey through the mythic and historical landscape of Ireland, filmed entirely from the air. Flying above the land and across the centuries, we see how Water, Earth and Stone have shaped the history and formed the character of THE ISLAND. Many of these dramatic locations have never been seen before on television or video. Here are tombs more ancient than the pyramids, startling medieval castles and mysterious 5,000 year-old stone circles. We soar like an eagle over majestic...
Beautiful aviatrix Virginia Allerton crash-lands her plane on an isolated Pacific Island, bringing her around-the-world flight to an abrupt end. She has been lured to the island by nefarious gun-runner Barton, who plans to use the girl as bait in an illicit arms deal. His jealous native wife, Inda, is stalking Virginia with poison darts. Marine pilot "Stripes" Thornton rushes to the rescue from the nearby base at Palo Pango in a desperate mission to free the captive girl.B-movie all-stars...
Merrill Hammond falls hard for Diana Bryce, the gorgeous blonde he meets on a South Seas voyage. He invites her to stay for a week at Caruba, the remote island where he is warden of a penal colony. Fleeing her mysterious past, Diana accepts. With thoughts of romance dancing in his head, Hammond sets her up in a lovely bungalow. What he does not realize is that Diana is the former lover of Dan Curtis, one of his most hard-boiled prisoners. She has deliberately seduced the warden with the sole...
Ten years ago, an Army research post on a remote tropical island was decimated by a strange new virus. Now, a team of SEALs on a recon mission has gone missing on the island. When a Strike team arrives to rescue them, they must deal with an onslaught of zombies. As they fight their way to the old lab facility, they realize that the Colonel in charge of the research station is still alive and still experimenting -- the zombies are his creations, and every new wave the team faces is more vicious...
Once you visit the Isle of the Dead, there's no hope of returning to the land of the living. A small island off the coast of Greece holds a secret so dreadful that once you step onto its soil you must remain there forever. General Pherides (master of horror Boris Karloff) is one such a visitor. Going to the island to honor the grave of his late wife, Pherides discovers that it's held in the grip of a terrifying plague -- a sickness that enters the victim's mind and drives them insane! Pherides...
The most celebrated star in the history of screen horror headlines these two atmospheric works filled with producer Val Lewton's trademark mix of mood, madness and premeditated dread. Boris Karloff shares a quarantined house with other strangers on a plague-infested -- perhaps spirit-haunted -- Isle of the Dead. St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum in 1761 London is the setting for Bedlam. Karloff gives an uncanny performance as the doomed overseer who fawns on high-society benefactors, while ruling...
Isle of the Snake People - Digitally Remastered. The inhabitants of a small, remote island have been practicing voodoo rites and worshipping an evil priest named Damballah for years, but the local law officials generally turn a blind eye to this death cult's bizarre activities. Captain Labesch (Rafael Bertrand) arrives from the mainland, determined to crack down on the island's lawlessness and clean up the ineffectual, hard-drinking police force. He appeals for assistance from wealthy...
Set in 1846 on a remote island off the west coast of Scotland, a heavy storm causes a merchant ship to sink. The film opens with its three survivors rowing through a think early morning mist, lost and disorientated. The fog begins to clear and The Isle appears before them. Abandoned except for four sole residents, an old harbor man, a farmer, his niece and a young mad woman, the isle is anything but welcoming. These people clearly haven't seen anyone from the outside world for some time and...
Made on location in Germany during the period of the Great Inflation, Isn't Life Wonderful is a tender ode to the resilience of the human spirit and the all-conquering power of love. Carol Dempster delivers her most moving performance as Inga, a Polish war orphan who struggles to provide for the family that has taken her in, while accumulating a meager dowry from the rubble of a depression-stricken Berlin so that she can marry Paul (Neil Hamilton). Returning to his family, weakened by the...
This film is a new look at Israel and its rapid population growth to over 7,000,000 people. Scripture says God chose Israel so that one day it would be a blessing to the entire world. Israel, My Home is a preview of what could be the fulfillment of that covenant.
Israel declared its sovereignty on May 14, 1948. One day later, armies from Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan, Egypt, and Iraq invaded. With only 600,000 people in the infant nation, the odds seemed overwhelming. Yet they not only survived, they triumphed, and by 1949 armistice negotiations began that would ensure the existence of the Jewish State. Sir Martin Gilbert, author of over sixty books and the host of A&E 's JERUSALEM, hosts this gripping account of Israel's difficult first years....
"ISTIKHAARA, NEW YORK features Reza, an artist and Brooklyn transplant, Babbu, a recent immigrant and revolutionary from Delhi, and Rahul, an aspiring Imam and crony capitalist, finding themselves in an America where they are ever the more important but feeling even more looked over. With his dreams of becoming a broadway actor falling further out of reach and a paycut threatening to displace him, Reza, a young Muslim food delivery courier, must looks within his community and ultimately...
Shopgirl Betty Lou has designs on Cyrus Waltham, the handsome owner of the department store where she works. In hopes of attracting Waltham's attention, she accepts a date with his best friend. The romance gets even more complicated when a newspaper reporter mistakenly writes a story depicting Betty Lou as an unwed mother.
The story of a shopgirl who uses her sex appeal to flummox the rich and wealthy. All the girls at Waltham's Department Store are obsessed with a story in Cosmopolitan about "IT" - an undefinable quality that makes one irresistible to the opposite sex. They all agree curvy, big-eyed redhead Betty Lou has "IT" - a hypothesis that is proven true when the boss, Cyrus Waltham, asks her out to dinner. Betty's manic, pixie-ish ways (which include taking a pair of scissors to her dress during dinner)...
Comedy legends Bud Abbott and Lou Costello gallop their way to the racetrack in It Ain't Hay - a rare, early film based on a short story by Damon Runyon. When a taxi driver (Costello) unwittingly kills a carriage driver's elderly horse, he and his pal (Abbott) attempt to replace it by "borrowing" the famous racehorse Tea Biscuit. A reward for the stolen animal is announced, shifty Broadway locals, such as Umbrella Sam and Chauncey the Eye get involved, and the duo trots from one hilarious...
In the U.S. Virgin Islands, green iguanas are dramatically increasing in number and spreading. The situation has left most humans and iguanas scratching their heads about how to get by in the fast-changing island environment. The film engages in a lively debate about when and where animals are welcome, and if it is possible to create environments where it is easier for humans and all species to co-exist. Of great concern is how to protect local agricultural production and at the same time...