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 psychotic, sword-wielding killer impales victims one by one at the remote Fontaine mansion. Living there in the darkened rooms and hallways are emotionally disturbed Leslie and her reclusive and abusive...
These low-budget movies were meant to scare teenagers about the "marijuana menace" but were really just an excuse for filmmakers to flout the Production Code and show some good ol' sex and debauchery.
These rare "social guidance" films tackle the epidemic of drug use running rampant in post-war high schools and college campuses. The illegal drug parties depicted always include pretty young girls, and the wild goings on often appear much more attractive than the staid conformity teens are implored to adhere to.KEEP OFF THE GRASS: While cleaning his room, mother is horrified to discover Tommy's marijuana stash. Dad has a talk with the boy to educate him about the risks of drug use....
Six AM: that's when society vamp Valerie Parks rolls home after a glamorous night out. Six AM: that's when Pvt. Valerie Parks gets up to hut two three four in olive drab and sensible shoes. Lana Turner stars in a breezy comedy about an heiress who must prove her maturity to gain her inheritance, so she hatches an immature plan: join the WACs, fake some gravitas and quit as soon as she gets her manicured hands on the dough. Happily, Uncle Sam and World War II combine to help a spoiled little...
American icon Robert Forrest is dead. As the nation mourns, reporters converge on his hometown. Among them is a journalist who discovers that Forrest's widow could have saved her husband. Did she prevent a fate beyond the country's worst imaginings? After Woman of the Year, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn next teamed in this suspenseful tale of wartime topicality about Fascist wolves in sheep's clothing that in many ways -- including music, camerawork and Xanadu-like settings -- is...
Would you hug a killer whale? Or feed a lion its lunch by hand? It's all in a day's work for these wildlife specialists and the creatures that count on them for their survival. You'll visit a rhinoceros sanctuary in Kenya and see how an orphaned baby rhino found a new, human family. Take a walk in the Toronto snow with a herd of elephants that was saved when their circus careers ended. And find out how a mistreated Hollywood orangutan was rescued when he was too old for the movies. You'll...
A fateful chain of events begins to unravel after two brash insurance salesmen go knocking on the wrong door and find themselves trapped inside of a serial killer's basement, putting their lives and their jobs on the line.
All Charlotte wants from life is to be cut a slice of the media agency she has devoted herself to building. When Charlotte's life disintegrates, we follow her on a heart-racing journey of self-discovery, atonement and danger.
Harsh elements, disease and dilemmas mark a Massachusetts family's move to uncharted Maine and a better life in 1768. |
Dr. Marston, the inventor of a sophisticated bombing apparatus, is worried that enemy agents will steal his newly perfected weapon. The inventor's worst fears are realized when the plans are stolen during an attack on his laboratory. Government agent Ted Kelly is assigned to the case, and the investigation leads to a spooky old mansion honeycombed with secret passages... and dark secrets.After serving an apprenticeship supervising B-Westerns for independent producer A. W. Hackel, Sam Katzman...
A wealthy, eccentric chemical company owner sends his woman to get an American writer to take a mind control drug, Kemek, to verify its potential. She accomplishes her mission, but falls totally in love with the writer. The chemical magnate, satisfied with the results of the test, rewards her with murder, just as she is about to flee to Naples with her new lover. Her ex-husband and a private detective track the killer behind it all to a remote hideaway to unravel the solution.
Ken Leishman: The Flying Bandit tells the remarkable story of the life of Canadian bank robber, prison escape artist and folk hero Ken Leishman. Earning his nickname "The Flying Bandit", by using his plane as a getaway vehicle. Leishman masterminded several stylish yet completely non-violent bank robberies throughout Canada during the 1960's and 1970's including the biggest gold heist in Canadian history.
Ken Maynard and his faithful horse Tarzan ride into action in five classic Westerns: 'Range Law' (1931), 'Sunset Trail' (1932), 'The Lone Avenger' (1933), 'Boots of Destiny' (1937), and 'Trailin' Trouble' (1937).
A double feature of films starring Ken Maynard:Hell-Fire Austin (1932, B&W): Ex-rodeo rider Ken "Hell-Fire" Austin and his pal Bouncer have just returned from serving in the US Cavalry when they land a 60 day stretch on a chain gang as punishment for an unpaid lunch tab. Ken and Bouncer think they have an ally in Mark Edmunds, a local rancher, who is secretly conspiring to cheat young Judy Brooks out of her prize steed, Tarzan, the fastest horse in the county. This plot doesn't sit well with...
Pocatello Kid (1937, B&W): Ken Maynard plays a dual role as twins Ken and Jim Bledsoe. Jim is a cruel and crooked sheriff who takes his orders from cattle rustler Pete Larkin. Ken, also known as "The Pocatello Kid," has just escaped from prison and is shot by a posse trailing him. The Kid rides wounded into town to get help from his brother, but before Ken can find him, Jim is shot dead in a gambling dispute. Seeing a timely opportunity, Larkin blackmails Ken into assuming the murdered...
Renowned circus and rodeo rider, Ken Maynard is one of a host of underappreciated cowboys in the western genre. Rising through the ranks of the Hollywood studio system, Ken contracted with Universal in the late twenties. Throughout his career, Maynard maintained a consistent level of popularity among western fans, while his trick riding and horsemanship rivaled any to be found in Hollywood.Whirlwind Horseman (1938, B&W): The town of Sageville is under siege by a mysterious band of outlaws, and...
A 5-DVD bundle pack containing five classic westerns starring Ken Maynard
Ken Maynard and his faithful horse Tarzan ride into action in five classic Westerns.
Beth, a quiet and vulnerable misfit, is the only female employee in the shipping and receiving department of a local sausage company. She lives at home where she takes care of her ailing mother who never leaves the couch and refuses to watch anything but Julia Roberts movies. The house is also shared by Beth's older brother Robbie, an outsider artist who is still trying to put the pieces back together after a failed engagement 11 years prior.
May 1939, 3 months before the outbreak of WWII, the future US President, John F. Kennedy, visits Tallinn, Estonia. There his path crosses with two very different girls -- a call girl, willing to abandon everything and a sweet girl, who is in desperate need of money. Now he must figure out who is the spy when learns one is working for the Nazis!
Roy Kenner arrives in Bombay hot on the heels of dope smuggler Tom Jordan, the man who murdered his partner. Combing the city for clues to Jordan's whereabouts, Kenner crosses paths with 9-year-old Saji. Saji soon helps save Kenner from the lethal drug dealers, and takes Kenner to his home. Love soon blossoms between Kenner and Anasuya, Saji's mother, and Saji comes to see him as a father. But Kenner's obsession with vengeance threatens to engulf this accidental family in tragedy. Shot on...
Kenneth's life is a mess. Fired from his job for raging apathy, he's being tormented by a strange creature only he can see.
According to Snake Hunter and Herpetologist Zoltan Takacs "There isn't another country in the world where snakes and humans get so close as in Vietnam" and he and Environmental Anthropologist and Cave Diver Kenny Broad are out to prove it.