Clues. Suspects. Heart pounding suspense. Spectacular stunt sequences. They're all part of the explosive mix in Switchback, the double- and triple-twist thriller directed by Jeb Stuart (co-writer of Die Hard and The Fugitive) and starring Dennis Quaid and Danny Glover. A serial killer is on the loose. And he's kidnapped the son of the FBI agent pursuing him. But who is the killer? Where is the child hidden? With powerful performances by Quaid and Glover, Switchback zigzags through sensational...
Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's "The Front Page" gets a 1980s update from the print newsroom to broadcast television, complete with era-appropriate heartthrobs Burt Reynolds, Christopher Reeve, and Kathleen Turner. The world of broadcast anchor and journalist Christy Colleran (Turner) is a hectic and often humiliating place, especially under the thumb of ex-husband and producer John "Sully" Sullivan (Reynolds). So when she takes a much needed vacation and meets handsome, wealthy, and...
A 5-DVD bundle pack of seven action-packed adventure movies.
A wonderful Russian fantasy about a legendary warrior who fights to save his people from an assortment of horrible monsters including a dragon, a wind demon, and other legendary creatures. There are many great scenes and the special effects, for the time, were very well done. The scenes involving the wind demon and the "mountain of living men" are particularly memorable. A great epic film that we highly recommend. This special two-disc edition contains the original foreign language widescreen...
Wounded and bleeding, Sir Lancelot delivers a death-blow to Sir Dorjak, winning the trial-by-combat for Arthur, his noble king. Arthur's prize is the hand of the beautiful princess Guinevere. Lancelot escorts the fair maiden back to Camelot for her wedding and, despite their best efforts to halt their forbidden feelings, the two fall in love. Arthur and Guinevere are wed and all of Camelot rejoices. But the secret love simmering between the Queen and Lancelot bursts into flames, with tragic...
In a devious plot to steal the Count Of Monte Cristo's wealth, scoundrels trap his mischievous son, Dantes (Robert Clarke), in a compromising position romancing a married woman. Caught in the act, he kills her jealous husband and is imprisoned. He is offered his release if he marries the now-widowed Claire (Catherine McLeod) and signs away his inheritance. The conspirators are unaware that Claire and Dantes have fallen in love. He fakes his own death in prison and escapes. Daring duels,...
GOLIATH AND THE SINS OF BABYLON (1963): Every year the village of Nefer is forced to sacrifice 24 innocent virgins to Pergaso, the tyrannical ruler of Babylon. Some of the courageous villagers decide to go against the royal decree and travel to Babylon to free their women. On their journey they meet the legendary hero Goliath, who joins them in their quest. But even Goliath's mighty strength may not be enough to overcome all the hordes of Babylon...THE REBEL GLADIATOR (1962): After the Roman...
THOR AND THE AMAZON WOMEN (1963): Tamar, merciless queen of the Amazons, rules the far-off land of Aprisia. The men, deemed inferior, are forced to work in the mines, while the women entertain the Queen by competing in savage contests of strength at the colosseum. An ancient prophecy speaks of a mighty hero who will lead the slaves in revolt against their wicked ruler. That man is Thor, the Viking warrior from Earth's prehistoric past. Thor must inspire the men to break their shackles and rise...
Stewart Granger keeps his sword in hand and tongue in cheek in this swashbuckling romp costarring Sylva Koscina (Hercules) and co-written by Academy Award nominees Fay and Michael Kanin (Teacher's Pet, 1958). With a smile on his lips and a twinkle in his eye, dashing English soldier of fortune Thomas Stanwood (Granger) sells his sword to the highest bidder. So when Siena's cruel Spanish overlord Don Carlos (Riccardo Garrone) hires him to protect his fiancee, the beautiful Tuscan noblewoman...
Recently returned from school in England, the scion of one feuding Scottish clan, Alexander MacArden (Larry Parks, The Jolson Story), happens upon the beautiful niece of the rival Clan Glowan, Lady Barbara (a very young Ellen Drew). Of course, they fall deeply in love, despite their families' generations-long hatred, which only strengthens young MacArden's resolve to bring an end to the barbaric warring of the clans. But MacArden's charms and arguments are wasted against the savage hostility...
This film is inspired by the true story of sixteen year-old Sybil Ludington, who courageously rode over 40 miles through a stormy night to save New York during the Revolutionary Wary. Sybil is historically known as the "female Paul Revere" and is a wonderful example of courage and faith. Through this film we find the story of her family, neighbors, and friends, as they face the dynamics of the Revolution and lived their lives with courage, faith, and determination. This inspiriting story...
In a college comedy that puts a modern-day twist on an age-old story, Sydney White tells the tale of a tomboy freshman who ditches her conniving sorority sisters and finds a new home with a group of very dorky outcasts. Fed up with the way they've all been treated, she's off to war against the reigning campus royalty.
The first of three films teaming Academy Award -winners* Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and ably directed by famed director George Cukor (The Philadelphia Story), Sylvia Scarlett tells the story of a young woman disguised as a man to evade the law, and all the romantic complications her disguise brings. When Sylvia Scarlett (Hepburn) and her father (Edmund Gwenn) must flee France one step ahead of the authorities, she cuts her hair, dons men's clothes and passes herself as Sylvester...
Symphony for Our World combines stunning natural history footage with a symphony of original music by Austin Fray and Andrew Christie for Bleeding Fingers Music -- and featuring the band X Ambassadors -- in celebration of the beauty of our wild world. Revel in the majesty of nature revealed in this intimate portrait of boundless life.
Virtuoso Adolph Greig is badly injured in a car accident and told by his doctor that he will never play the violin again. His ungrateful children, who have been provided every luxury growing up, see their meal-ticket gone and abandon the old man. Unable to support himself, Adolph finds himself homeless, wandering the streets. A decade passes and two orchestra members find a street person lying unconscious in a frozen alley, and are shocked to discover it that is their old friend, Adolph. They...
Fannie Hurst was one of the most popular authors of the first half of the 20th century, producing a stream of romantic tales rich with heartbreak and sacrifice -- elements that transferred splendidly to the screen. Hollywood turned her works into the three-hanky hits Back Street, Imitation of Life, Humoresque and this tender melodrama, notable for its fine cast and vibrant depiction of immigrant life in New York's teeming Lower East Side. Symphony of Six Million follows a young Jewish doctor...
This dazzling wildlife spectacle propels us into the very private world of some of Earth's most endearing critters. Set across a global stage, a parade of four-legged talents struts its stuff against the backdrop of great classical works. This live-action 'Fantasia' depicts breaching mighty whales, charging elephants, roaring big cats, and a slew of other favorites performing in tandem with a symphony orchestra. A highly-original event that will thrill audiences of every age, particularly...
Discover and enjoy, in a new way, the unsurpassed beauty of America's natural wonders. The world's greatest composers, including Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Wagner, and Tchaikovsky serenade us as the world's towering mountains, vast canyons, magical caves, enchanting mesas, pastel-colored deserts, brooding forests, thundering waterfalls, and majestic rivers evoke a spectrum of indescribable emotions.
This hard-hitting, fact-based drama was filmed on location in the actual Synanon House in Santa Monica. Academy Award winner Edmond O'Brien (Best Supporting Actor, 1954, The Barefoot Contessa) stars as a reformed alcoholic who began the facility to help other addicts of all kinds, and who coined the famous phrase "today is the first day of the rest of your life." An outstanding cast Chuck Connors, Stella Stevens, Richard Conte, Alex Cord, Eartha Kitt, Barbara Luna, Alejandro Rey, Larry Kert...
A husband-and-wife song-and-dance team are torn apart by the vagaries of success in this rare pre-Code classic, the first movie to be released by RKO Radio Pictures.
In 1943 the occupying Nazis invaded the Jewish Ghetto in Rome and started rounding up Jews. Many sought refuge at Fatebenefratelli hospital. Syndrome K tells the story of three courageous Roman Catholic doctors who saved Jews by convincing Nazis that these Jews were infected with a highly contagious fake disease called "Syndrome K", the only horrible "disease" in history that saved lives.
After a frightened teenager is cut down by police bullets during a botched heist, a reporter investigates. The story leads him to prominent businessman John E. Merrick (Frank Lovejoy), the secret boss of the gambling ring that had the youth ensnared in a web of wrong-way bets. And now Merrick's carefully constructed world of family, upscale neighborhoods, country clubs and community respect begins to crumble around him. In this canny thriller, Lovejoy, the granite-jawed leading man in such...
A young punk trying to avenge the murder of his father joins the street gang that killed him, only to be set up and busted by the police during an armed robbery. In a deal with the cops, the kid agrees to infiltrate the T-Bird Gang and faces the fight of his life when his cover is blown. Written by lead actors John Brinkley and Tony Miller, this violent teen epic from Filmgroup also features Roger Corman regulars Ed Nelson and Beach Dickerson and a sensational jazz score by Shelly Manne & His...
Two US Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring.