Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Gerald Whitley is a frustrated writer married to former party girl Dorothy Myers, who still enjoys the company of other men. The unhappy author is envious of his brother George, a painter who beds every model who disrobes for him in his artist's loft. Their sibling rivalry comes to a head when Gerald falls in love with George's newest muse, socialite Joan Channing. Unbeknownst to both men, Dorothy has discovered her husband's affair with the pretty young heiress and plans to use it as grounds...

Racketeer Weston Dore has stolen the late Professor Daniel Sturgess's Atomic Energy Engine, which harnesses the power of the atom. Aided by his wife, flapper-turned-muscle woman Carrie, the gangster has declared himself "The Power God". The only people who stand in his way are Sturgess's daughter and her fiance Jim, who know the secret of disabling the potentially deadly device. Though Dore has thwarted all their efforts to retrieve the invention, help comes from an unexpected quarter when...

The Prince of Pep (1925): Dr. James Leland is a wealthy physician engaged to nurse Marion Nord. Working late at the hospital, he catches his assistant, Hugh Powell, stealing a supply of cocaine. The thief knocks James unconscious and dumps his body in the river. The doctor survives, but is stricken with amnesia. He takes on the identity of 'The Black X', a masked vigilante who comes to aid of the poor and suffering. His altruistic activities bring him to the attention of Powell, who has become...

The miracle of Fatima is portrayed on screen for the first time in this rare film, presented as part of the long-running religious TV anthologyFamily Theatre! In the small village of Fatima, Portugal, three shepherd children observe an apparition of the Virgin Mary. Their faith causes doubt and unrest among the villagers, but an even greater miracle is about to occur...Family Theatre began as a radio show on the Mutual Broadcasting System in 1947. Its host, Father Patrick Peyton, was founder...

Jimmy Kane is the star of a circus high-diving act. His wife, Betty, is always there to encourage him. But when the carnival closes, Betty is forced to get a job as a nightclub singer to support her now-destitute husband. The girl's good looks attracts the advances of John Hammond, a womanizing playboy. After catching the two of them in an embrace, Jimmy goes mad with jealousy. He concocts a risky stunt to get back his old job...and his wife. But Jimmy is not the man he once was, and his...

Animals can talk -- and a whole lot more -- in these hilarious shorts combining live-action and animation from the mind of master cartoonist Tex Avery! In 1941, Avery left Warner Brothers after a falling out with studio exec Leon Schlesinger. He then approached his old friend Jerry Fairbanks, producer of Paramount's Unusual Occupations and Popular Mechanics shorts, with a proposal Schlesinger had long ago rejected called Speaking of Animals. Its conceit was superimposing animated mouths onto...

Short-tempered Jimmy Case is out of work because every job he takes seems to end with him...punching someone. After his girlfriend Eleanor leaves him for her lawyer boss, Herbert Oakley, Case decides it's finally time to change his ways. He curbs his temper and takes a job as a process server for the city. As part of a crackdown on graft, Case is asked to serve papers to the town's top gangster. He is shocked when he learns that the mobster is actually Oakley, the man who stole his girl from...

A young man about to executed for his Christian beliefs awaits his fate. He shares his prison cell with Peter the Apostle, who tells him the inspiring story of Jesus Christ's Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Ascension to the right hand of God. The Power of the Resurrection stars Richard Kiley, the actor who originated the role of Don Quixote in the Broadway musical Man of La Mancha (1965). Later he would be a multiple Emmy-award winner for the TV mini-series The Thorn Birds (1983) and A Year in...

WOLFHEART'S REVENGE (1925): Ranch owner Richard Bronson sends his shifty foreman Blackie Blake to buy some land from a sheep herder. Blake, desperate to look good in Bronson's eyes, becomes infuriated when the deal goes south. In a fit of anger, he shoots the sheep herder. Panicking, Blake frames a newly-hired ranch hand, Jack Stanley, for the murder. He does not suspect that Jack's faithful dog, Wolfheart, witnessed what really happened. The brave canine must prove his master's innocence...

For years, film historian John K. Carpenter ('The Movie Man') has been one of the most dedicated supporters of the art of silent comedy. Now he presents more rarities from his archives. "Like an Indiana Jones of film history, I started hunting for 16mm prints when I was still in short pants. That's why so many of the films on these DVDs can't be seen anywhere else. These shorts demonstrate how many of Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd and Langdon's contemporaries are just as funny as those icons on "The...

Three ex-Navy frogmen -- bank clerk Bill Webb, nightclub pianist Pru Lawson, and drifter Dave Newton -- are pulled from their dreary lives by former commander Nick Rawlings. He needs their help to recover a cache of Nazi gold hidden by notorious SS kommandant Heinrich Von Kreisling. Even split four ways, this lost fortune would allow the ex-comrades to live comfortably for the rest of their lives. In Cherbourg, they ally themselves with Helene Bretton, a sexy French spy seeking revenge on...

A masked, Robin Hood-like hero and his courageous band of mounted followers stand between a wealthy madman and his plan to make himself supreme dictator of the American West. In 1844 California, then a province of Mexico, megalomaniac General Jason Burr learns that there is gold beneath land owned by wealthy ranchero Senor Loring. On Burr's orders, Loring and his son are killed, and the murderous general begins secretly mining the gold and plotting to become dictator of California under the...