Screen legend Cary Grant stars in Ladies Should Listen, a romantic comedy about a frolicking bachelor's complicated escapade in Paris. A meddling switchboard operator (Frances Drake) falls in love with Julian de Lussac (Grant), a tenant in the building who has a deceiving girlfriend. Armed with the truth, she decides to win over Julian's love and affections by formulating a plan to interfere and expose her conniving scheme. Fighting the good fight in the name of love has never been funnier!
In most prison films, the convicted man is rehabilitated by the love of a woman. In Ladies They Talk About, Barbara Stanwyck plays a woman who becomes rehabilitated by the love of the man who sent her to prison. Stanwyck is Nan Taylor, a bank robber who gets sent to prison for her role in a bank heist. David Slade (Preston S. Foster) is the reformer who has fallen in love with her. When her two "partners" are killed in a jailbreak attempt in which she, too, is involved, Nan thinks David is the...
A husband-and-wife songwriting team (Robert Young and Ann Sothern) sure know how to turn out the hits, from "Lady Be Good" to "The Last Time I Saw Paris." But when it comes to marriage, they can't seem to hit anything but sour notes. Red Skelton, Eleanor Powell and Lionel Barrymore join the two stars in this lavish musical loosely based on the Fred and Adele Astaire stage smash. Lady Be Good overflows with grand tunes from start to finish (including two by the Gershwins, which explains why the...
On a drunken Mardi Gras binge, Clarice Kendall marries millionaire Stephen Cormack. The only trouble is that she is already married. Paula Kendall devises a plan to keep her sister out of jail by taking her place. Perceiving Paula as a gold digger, Cormack's two kids devise a plan to get rid of their new "mom."Sally Eilers had risen from "B" pictures and had a big hit in Fox's Bad Girl in 1931. By 1937 she was back to "B" films. Leading man Neil Hamilton was always popular. He's best...
From a Latinx LGBTQ activist to a Black Catholic school principal, six small businesswomen hit California's newly legal cannabis trade. But as aggressive regulations bogart the market, can they each keep their green American dream alight?
Alabam Lee (Carole Lombard, To Be or Not to Be) is a fan dancer whose show is considered too racy, causing her to be convicted of a morals code charge. Alabam's publicist, in order to improve her image, comes up with the plan of adopting a woman to portray her mother, and Alabam chooses Patsy (May Robson, Bringing Up Baby), a vociferous drunk with a shady past. Patsy's lawyer, Johnny (Roger Pryor, Sitting on the Moon), meets Alabam and falls in love, but the judge who charged Alabam thinks...
Lady Cocoa has a mobster boyfriend, and she's going to bring him down! With a cast that includes Lola Falana and NFL star "Mean" Joe Greene, director Matt Cimber (The Black 6; Butterfly) creates a stirring piece of street action for lovers of the Blaxploitation era.
Beautiful Vicki McGuire (Mary Beth Hughes) plans to marry Larry Craig (Hugh Beaumont) until she gets a horrific warning one night from Norma, his long-lost wife. Norma refuses to divorce her husband, despite the fact that she no longer loves him. Shortly thereafter, Norma is brutally murdered, and menacing police officer Captain Brown considers Vicki and Larry to be the prime suspects. Vicki decides to take matters into her own hands and she soon finds herself in a world filled with shady...
A female detective who enjoys kung fu travels through the badlands of ancient China and brings criminals to justice.
When Dr. Frankenstein is killed by a monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant Marshall continue his experiments. The two fall in love and attempt to transplant Marshall's brain in to the muscular body of a retarded servant Stephen, in order to prolong the aging Marshall's life. Meanwhile, the first monster seeks revenge on the grave robbers who sold the body parts used in its creation to Dr. Frankenstein. Soon it comes after Marshall and the doctor's daughter.
Joseph Cotten is Baron Frankenstein, whose latest stitched-together monster goes on a murderous rampage that begins with his creator. The Baron's sultry daughter Tania (Sara Bay), a recent graduate of medical school herself, returns to the family's castle and begins work on a creature of her own, using the brain of her father's brilliant assistant and the good-looking body of the village idiot. Her resulting creation is capable of destroying the monster that killed her father and also...
When Dr. Frankenstein is killed by a monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant Marshall continue his experiments. The two fall in love and attempt to transplant Marshall's brain in to the muscular body of a retarded servant Stephen, in order to prolong the aging Marshall's life. Meanwhile, the first monster seeks revenge on the grave robbers who sold the body parts used in its creation to Dr. Frankenstein. Soon it comes after Marshall and the doctor's daughter
When Dr. Frankenstein is killed by a monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant Marshall continue his experiments. The two fall in love and attempt to transplant Marshall's brain in to the muscular body of a retarded servant Stephen, in order to prolong the aging Marshall's life. Meanwhile, the first monster seeks revenge on the grave robbers who sold the body parts used in its creation to Dr. Frankenstein. Soon it comes after Marshall and the doctor's daughter. This product is...
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.Joseph Cotten is Baron Frankenstein, whose latest stitched-together monster goes on a murderous rampage that begins with his creator. The Baron's sultry daughter Tania (Sara Bay), a recent graduate of...
At the height of World War II, Kwan Mei, a beautiful Chinese aristocrat, is forced to work in the rice paddies as a slave. She and the rest of her village are subject to the brutal whims of their Japanese captors, whose sadism is matched only by their greed. When the Japanese general is bewitched by Kwan Mei's beauty, she sees her chance for vengeance. Endangering her life and inviting the mistrust of her comrades, Kwan Mei becomes the general's lover in hopes of gathering information that...
A young woman (Anna May Wong, the first Chinese-American movie star) leads a revolt against the occupying troops when the Japanese invade China during World War II. She'll do anything to win; she'll even assume the identity of an aristocrat to woo a Japanese general if she thinks it will help the cause. This Poverty Row drama also stars Harold Huber, Mae Clark, and Rick Vallin, with direction by William Nigh (Black Dragons, Doomed to Die).
Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, 1941) wrote, directed and starred in this treacherous tale of a sailor (Welles) hired to help a beautiful woman (Rita Hayworth) and her disabled lawyer husband (Everett Sloane) sail their private yacht from New York to San Francisco via the Panama Canal. On board, he is bribed to "fake" the murder of the lawyer's partner (Glenn Anders), only to find himself trapped in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Welles created a scandal, and lots of publicity, by having his wife...
This candid profile of pop icon Lady Gaga takes an inside look at the artist's creative life and career. It begins with her childhood and her interest in playing the piano, discusses her efforts to secure a record deal and concludes with her ascent to fame as one of the most popular performers and international sensations ever to grace the stage Blu-ray comes with English subtitles for the deaf and hearing-impaired.
A tough-talking beauty gets mixed up in a bank robbery and lands in prison. Before she is jailed, she steals the loot from her partners-in-crime and hides it. While in jail, she is befriended by an influential newspaper man, Kenneth Phillips. The lady gangster attempts to earn her release by turning over the money, but a series of double-crossings by her former henchmen stand in the way. Faye Emerson stars in this Warner Brothers' noir classic, with a supporting cast that includes a young...
The beautiful Maureen O'Hara stars as Lady Godiva of Coventry in a splendid Technicolor rendering of the famous eleventh century Saxon-Norman conflict. When Saxon nobleman Leofric (George Nader) takes Godiva (O'Hara) as his bride, he thwarts a plan for him to marry a Norman woman. This leads the scheming Normans to attempt to increase their hold over King Edward. In the meantime, Earl Godwin (Torin Thatcher) resists the Norman influence and succeeds in getting his son appointed heir to the...
Two-time Academy Award -winner Olivia de Havilland*stars in a suspenseful shocker that also features future Oscar -nominee James Caan** in his first major film role. Alone in her residence over a sweltering holiday weekend, a widow (de Havilland) is accidentally trapped in her home elevator during a power failure. Her meticulous, wellorganized world is shattered as the elevator, stalled nine feet above the floor, becomes a claustrophobic torture chamber -- a cage. Unable to escape, her...
Lady in a Jam is a classic screwball comedy starring Irene Dunne as Jane, a young lady who is suspected of insanity after she squanders her entire inheritance yet refuses to accept her poor financial state. Dr. Enright (Patric Knowles) is the handsome doctor assigned to her case, unbeknownst to Jane. Posing as her chauffeur, he drives her out west to her rich grandmother, from whom Jane hopes to recoup her fortune. Refusing to give Jane a dime, instead her grandmother allows her to work the...
Andre Morestan (Brian Aherne, Juarez) is the owner of a bicycle shop in Paris, serving jury duty for the first time. When Natalie Roguin (Rita Hayworth, Gilda), a homeless girl accused of murder, is found innocent, Andre feels sorry and invites her into his home. Andre's son, Pierre (Glenn Ford, 3:10 to Yuma, 1957), immediately becomes smitten with Natalie and starts committing small crimes to aid in the couple's engagement, causing Andre to wonder if Natalie isn't all that innocent in the...