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A team of astronauts is stranded after crash landing on Venus. The mysterious planet holds many perils for the crew, who are assaulted by prehistoric creatures and bewitching alien women. The Venusian sirens are enraged when the astronauts kill their god, a terrible flying beast, and vow to destroy the invaders. Turning their fury against the explorers, the beautiful aliens call upon the deadly powers of their ancient gods. As the planet is engulfed in lava and assaulted by storms, the...

Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan breaks his arm during a bout, and the injury ends his career. Trying to restart his life, he takes a job as a bouncer at Jerry Filmore's nightclub. The club's star attraction, beautiful dancer Adele Landon, catches Jimmy's eye immediately, and the feeling is mutual. Their budding romance is cut short when jealous Filmore frames Jimmy for stealing $500. After serving six months in prison for a crime he didn't commit, Jimmy is more than ready to settle some old scores....

Join "America's Favorite Family," the Nelsons, as they celebrate Christmas in 8 hilarious episodes of the show that entertained America for 14 seasons.Boy's Christmas Money: Dave and Ricky take jobs in the city in an attempt to raise cash for Christmas presents.Day After Christmas: Dave and Ricky are busy with their girlfriends and Ozzie reminisces about the old days when the family spent the day after Christmas together.Girl In The Emporium: Ricky launches an all-out attempt to date a pretty...

The dead return to speak to the living! At least, that's what vulnerable and gullible mourners are led to believe when they visit the temple of the Great La Gagge, a charlatan psychic who stages rigged seances with his greedy henchman in order to fleece unsuspecting believers out of their hard-earned (or inherited) cash. La Gagge leads his latest potential victims, two wealthy widows utterly smitten by the Master, on a wild ghost chase across the Atlantic to the base of the Sphinx and the...

Postal investigator Tom Whitlock (Tom Tyler) arrives in Deadwood County posing as "The Hawk," an escaped convict who is trying to retrieve a fortune in stolen government bonds he buried years before. Deadwood is the hideout for a ruthless gang of outlaws led by the notorious Butch Cassidy (Slim Whittaker), who is also determined to get his hands on the hidden loot. Meanwhile, the real escaped convict heads for Deadwood and the race to grab the booty becomes infinitely more dangerous.

Handsome and popular football star Red Grange is poised to lead Clay College to a victorious season. This goes against the plans of George Elton, the leader of a gambling ring who will stop at nothing to ensure Clay's defeat. Elton frames Grange for cheating and has him expelled from school, but Red is determined to prove his innocence. As Grange gets closer to finding out who set him up, his friends are violently attacked. The football player turns vigilante hero, left with nothing but his...

In 1969, exploitation producer/director Harry Kerwin -- the man behind such films as Strange Rampage (1967), My Third Wife, George (1968), God's Bloody Acre (1975) and Barracuda (1978) -- was inspired by the success of Easy Rider to make his own biker movie. Without even the relatively small budget Dennis Hopper had to make Easy Rider, Kerwin eschewed actors, instead choosing to follow around New Jersey biker gang "The Aliens" with his camera. A heavy-handed narration (written by Thomas Casey,...

Rainbow Over Broadway (1933, B&W): Ex-vaudeville singer Trixie Valleron thinks "modern" music is trash. When her adult step-children, aspiring songwriters Judy and her brother, Bob, audition their work for big-time producer Don Hayes, she upstages them and sings her own old-fashioned tunes. Hayes offers Trixie star billing at a famous New York City club, and the entire family packs up and moves to the Big Apple, hoping for riches and fame. When Trixie learns that the music she'll be performing...

A wealthy importer is murdered in an apparent jewel theft gone bad. Henry Courtney's bullet-riddled corpse is discovered in his office soon after his partner, Jim O'Brien, is seen leaving the premises following a heated dispute over a debt. In addition, the priceless DeNormand necklace is missing. The murder weapon is planted in Jim's luggage, and two men, Rand and Hobbs, falsely testify against him. After a speedy trial, he finds himself in a cell facing execution. Assuming that O'Brien knows...

Clyde Beatty, the world's most fearless wild animal trainer, leads safaris into Africa's darkest jungles. Traveling with his partner, Grant Cunningham, he specializes in capturing exotic species for circuses and zoos around the globe. His already dangerous job is made even more difficult when Gorman, an unscrupulous hunter, attempts to cut in on Beatty's lucrative enterprise. Whether capturing wild gorillas or journeying deep into hostile native territory, Beatty must always keep one eye over...

Tough street kid Tommy McGrath and his dim-witted pal Fats Moody, on the run after a botched robbery attempt, seek refuge in a Civilian Conservation Corps work camp. Contemptuous of authority and convinced his fellow corpsmen are suckers, Tommy is a major disruption until he falls for pretty Joan Martin, daughter of the local sheriff. His true character is put to the test, when a raging forest fire threatens the lives of Joan and his co-workers.Largely filmed on location at an actual CCC camp...

Charlie Chaplin was so popular in the dawning days of his movie career that lookalikes began imitating him on stages and movie screens worldwide. This compilation brings together several of these penguin-walking pretenders, plus a look at the genuine article (Chaplin himself) in one of his rarest shorts.Triple Trouble (1918): Charlie Chaplin gets a job as a janitor in the Nutt house, home of a scientist whose new explosive is sought by foreign agents.Don't Park Here (1920): A pretty girl is...