Alpha Video

The "Alpha Video Rewind Series" is an ever-growing collection of specially-selected films from our vast library on DVD, now in collectible retro-style packaging inspired by VHS cover art from that format's heyday! Every Alpha Video Rewind Series title also includes a free collectible postcard.A phantom draped in a long black cloak, riding atop a stallion and carrying a bloody severed head, haunts the grounds of Callahan Ranch. A young couple, Mark and Brenda, inherit the isolated ranch under...

Modest housewife Caroline Knollys discovers that she is pregnant. Rushing to tell her husband Hubert, she finds him in the arms of a younger woman. Determined to one day have revenge, she escapes to Europe. Despite having the baby, she transforms herself from housewife to vamp, becoming the most-talked about woman in Venice. Returning to America, she uses the child to blackmail her husband and his mistress. But Caroline finds that her love for Hubert was not as dormant as she thought, and...

Cecily Stoughton's widowed mother is intent on marrying off her only daughter into an aristocratic family, but Cecily has her heart firmly set on Ted, the country doctor. More interested in her own gain than in her daughter's happiness, Mrs. Stoughton puts a comical yet devious plan into action to get Cecily to change her mind.Originally a Sennett Bathing Beauty, Vera Reynolds starred in a number of short films before appearing in features like Prodigal Daughters (1923), directed by Sam Wood,...

The dead return to speak to the living! At least, that's what vulnerable and gullible mourners are led to believe when they visit the temple of the Great La Gagge, a charlatan psychic who stages rigged seances with his greedy henchman in order to fleece unsuspecting believers out of their hard-earned (or inherited) cash. La Gagge leads his latest potential victims, two wealthy widows utterly smitten by the Master, on a wild ghost chase across the Atlantic to the base of the Sphinx and the...

Walt Underwood is dealt a tremendous double blow when he learns that his wife is dead, killed in an adulterous tryst. In her secret letters, he is shocked to discover that his beloved son Jimmy, is not his own. Stripped of all he once held dear, Walt begins a downward spiral of alcoholism, self-loathing and despair. It will take the desperate intervention of a loving friend, to prevent Walt's rush to self-destruction.Conrad Nagel's long film career began in the silent era (Little Women, 1918),...

The Unknown Ranger (1920, B&W, Silent): Cowboy Buck Manning becomes suspicious of a gang of strangers who suddenly appear in the quiet Devil's River area near the Mexican border. He discovers that they are actually running a dangerous opium smuggling ring and will eliminate anyone who interferes with their nefarious trade. Rex Ray was a perfect star for The Unknown Ranger. Nothing is known about him other than in 1920 he starred in this and another western both made for independent studio...

Fading matinee idol Alvin Merle is mysteriously murdered in his dressing room after a performance. It seems that everyone on the Great White Way has a motive for killing the philandering actor. Eager to stop the endless speculation from the press, the NYPD strong-arms its way through the murder investigation, trying to frame Merle's cranky old stage manager. Ace reporter Jim Ryan from "The Chronicle" smells a rat. At his editor's request, Ryan starts poking around and soon realizes that the...

Douglas Fairbanks, "The King of Hollywood", stars in the silent adventure masterpieces that made him a legend: "The Mark of Zorro" (1920), "Robin Hood" (1922), "The Thief of Bagdad" (1924), "Don Q, Son of Zorro" (1925) and "The Black Pirate" (1926).

Classic short silent comedies from early in the film career of Oklahoma's Favorite Son, Will Rogers.

One of the greatest horror thrillers of all time, this classic silent film features the original restored color sequence. The majestic Paris Opera House rises high above the catacombs, the long forgotten dungeons and torture chambers of the city of Paris. Lon Chaney gives his greatest performance as the Phantom, the vengeful composer who wears a mask to hide his hideous deformed face. His love for a young prima donna takes a sinister turn when he abducts her and carries her away to his lair in...

Baseball legend Babe Ruth stars as himself in this unique early attempt at a motion picture biopic.

Silent comedy legend Hal Roach had a unique method for discovering and nurturing performers. He created a series of shorts called The Hal Roach All-Star Comedies to gauge the popularity of the comedians in his stable. Some of those featured became stars, while others found a lasting place playing sidekicks or villains. These six entries dating from 1924 to 1926 showcase the wide variety of talent that came out of Roach's "Lot of Fun."Short Kilts (1924): Two feuding Scottish clans decide to...