After discovering a dead body in the trunk of their car, three young men are faced with fear. They struggle with the dilemma of either concealing a crime they did not commit, or reporting it to the police with the possibility of becoming suspects themselves. All three men choose different paths, and see their lives fall in a downward spiral.
Mollie Ryder is blackmailed into running off with Maurice Windermere for a romantic tryst. When Windermere's body is found in a trunk, Mollie's husband, John, is targeted by Scotland yard as the prime suspect. Enter famed sleuth. Lord Peter Wimsey, who insists on John's innocence. Using John as bait, Wimsey hatches a brilliant scheme to draw the real killer out into the open.Lord Peter Wimsey, who solves crimes for his own amusement, was the subject of a popular series of books in Great...
Chuck Norris, six-time World Karate Champion, stars in his first suspense film as the tough, street-fighting sheriff of a small Texas town terrorized by a psychotic killer. Sheriff Stevens (Norris) is faced with the dilemma of stopping the invincible murderer, made virtually indestructible through genetic engineering. A young group of researchers are responsible for developing the genetically altering serum, and the head of the research institute is determined to continue the experiments,...
Silent comedy stars Harold Lloyd, Bobby Ray, and even Laurel & Hardy are featured in these four rare shorts.
Silent comedy legends Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase, and Mabel Normand star in these four rare shorts.
Silent comedy stars Ben Turpin, Snub Pollard and Paul Parrott are featured in these four rare comedy shorts, along with spectacular automotive and aerial stunts.Air Pockets (1924): A wacky inventor tries to recruit investors for his folding flivver - the world's first compact car. Starring Lige Conley, Earl Montgomery, Sunshine Hart and Olive Borden; Directed by Fred Hibbard.Don't Butt In! (1926): A laborer must defeat a huge, dim-witted bully in order to win the hand of the boss's pretty...
A wild Scottish island provides the backdrop for this tense drama of a stormy marriage between an authoritarian minister and his mysterious wife whose lives are shaken by the unexpected arrival of a delinquent into their home.
Big-screen hero Dolph Lundgren (Johnny Mnemonic, Universal Soldier) is back and ready for action in this explosive action thriller! Waxman (Lundgren) is a former Special Forces commando, now working as a highly trained, heavily armed assassin for a covert government organization known only as The Agency. But when a top-secret mission goes horribly wrong, Waxman and his beautiful but lethal accomplice Clegg (Gina Bellman) suddenly find out they are The Agency's prime targets! From Highlander 1...
A 3-DVD set containing three silent classics starring Rudolph Valentino
Bonnie Jackson, a pregnant woman in a violent marriage, attempts suicide which results in miscarriage. Her husband, furious that Bonnie never told him of her pregnancy, is contacted by activists who convince him to sue his wife. When an ambitious district attorney moves to charge Bonnie with an illegal abortion, media vultures, as well as people on both sides of the issue, turn Bonnie's private torment into a public circus.
In an effort to get his top fighter back into shape, beleaguered boxing manager Barney Taggart takes Jim "The Wildcat" Eddy out west to train. Arriving at a ranch, Jim accidentally uncovers a parcel of stolen jewels. Pete Hawkins, the shifty ranch foreman, has been desperately trying to retrieve the package, and the Wildcat must use more than just his fists if he wants to stop Hawkins and his murderous cronies. The Wildcat is the only surviving entry in a six-film series about...
Heroes with white hats contend with desperadoes who stay one jump ahead of the law as the Old West comes to life in two exciting and unusual Westerns from the silent era.Border Sheriff (1926, B&W): There's action from sea to shining sea when Arizona lawman Sheriff Jack Collins is summoned to Washington, D.C. by the Secret Service and assigned to smash a U.S. - Mexico smuggling ring. The trail leads Collins to a notorious dive in San Francisco's Chinatown, "The Orient of America," and then back...
CALL OF THE DESERT (1930): Rex Carson claims the gold mine left to him by his father. He is attacked by crooked Todd Walker, who makes off with the deed to the mine. Rex is discovered by pretty cowgirl Jean, who nurses him back to health. The new lovebirds are interrupted by the return of Jean's uncle -- none other than Walker himself, who isn't happy to find the man he left for dead in his home. Now ownership of the Carson gold mine must be decided in a final showdown. After driving a chariot...
JUS' TRAVLIN' (1925): Drifting cowboy Bob Speed comes across pretty Peggy Rankin being accosted by outlaw Jean Le Roque. Bob sends the wily fiend back home with a black eye, but Peggy explains that he won't give up that easily. Peggy's father recently discovered a gold mine, and La Roque thinks that by marrying her he'll be entitled to the deed. Bob decides to stick around the gold mine to make sure La Roque doesn't cause any more trouble...and the fact that Peggy's easy on the eyes doesn't...
The discovery of gold draws men from all over the country to California. One old prospector makes the mistake of bringing his beautiful daughter, Salomy Jane, with him. Lusted after by the lonely miners, she is soon attacked by the deranged Red Pete. Salomy is saved by the mysterious Jack Dart, who kills her assailant in the struggle. Dart is captured by the authorities and sentenced to be lynched for Pete's murder. But Salomy will risk everything to prevent him from being hanged, for she has...
THE GOLDEN STALLION (1927): On his deathbed, John Forsythe asks his daughter Joan to uncover the meaning of the engraving on a wampum belt given to him years ago by Indian chieftain Black Eagle. Locating the old medicine man in the border town of Cache D'Orr, Joan learns that the inscription can be deciphered using the key branded on the neck of the mysterious 'Golden Stallion'. Once translated, it will lead to a gold mine lost for countless generations. Ruthless fur trapper Ewart Garth...
The Grey Vulture (1926, B&W, 49 minutes): Bart Miller is a day-dreaming cowboy. His thoughts take him back three hundred years to his desire to be a medieval knight. In his reveries he is able to save Lady Beatrice and her father, the owners of Castle Crannycrook from total ruination. Bart gets to enact his fantasy in the present day west when villains try to force Betty and her father, the owners of the Flying B Ranch, off their land. Starring Ken Maynard, Hazel Dean; Directed by Forrest K....
The Lady Of The Dug-Out (BW, 1918, SILENT): Real-life outlaw Al Jennings stars in this rare silent western! A lawyer who turned to crime, Jennings was sentenced to life in prison after a daring train robbery. He was pardoned by Theodore Roosevelt in 1907 (the President mistakenly believing he had been a Rough Rider.) The former bandit then entered the burgeoning motion picture industry as an actor. Hollywood capitalized on his notoriety, and usually portrayed Jennings as a bandit with a heart...
THE NIGHT RIDERS (1920): John Tresler is investigating "The Night Riders", a gang of plunderers terrorizing the people of the Forks Settlement in the Rocky Mountains. Their leader is a hooded madman known only as "The Red Mask." Wounded during an encounter with the Riders, Tresler is nursed back to health by the beautiful Diana Marbolt, who lives on the "Bar T" ranch with her blind father. Tresler suspects the ranch's mean-spirited foreman, Jake Harnach, of being the Red Mask, but the masked...
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...
The Ruse (1915, B&W): After he abandons gunfighting for prospecting, Bat Peters believes his hard work has finally paid off when Chicago businessman John Folsom expresses an interest in his mine. Bat's trip to the Windy City takes a nasty turn when his supposedly generous patron is revealed as a swindler. But when the big-city crooks kidnap Bat's sweetheart, pretty stenographer May Dawson, the retired gunman straps on his six-guns determined to bring western justice to town. The Ruse, filmed...
From the early race to build gliders to the D-Day invasion at Normandy and Nazi Germany's final surrender, Silent Wings - The American Glider Pilots of WWII narrated by Hal Holbrook, reveals the critical role gliders played in World War II offensives. Through rare archival footage and photographs, the film places the audience right at the center of the action in the dangerous world of the American glider pilot. During WWII, 6000 young Americans volunteered to fly large unarmed cargo gliders...
Dr Nikki Alexander and the team at the Lyell Centre investigate more intriguing cases.
Britain's longest-running crime series currently on TV. Airing in the UK for 25 years, this hugely popular series has maintained a loyal following and still regularly draws in audiences of over 8 million. Emilia Fox returns as Dr Nikki Alexander. Still reeling from the sudden death of Dr Thomas Chamberlain and the shock departure of colleague Clarissa Mullery, Nikki and colleague Jack Hodgson return to the Lyell Centre. A case at a high security prison stirs disturbing memories for Nikki. New...