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The Great Stone Face of Comedy stars in this extremely rare compilation of his television series Life with Buster Keaton. In each segment, Keaton pursues a different "get rich quick" scheme, including opening a sporting goods store and running his own theatre company. Disaster inevitably ensues. Along the way, Buster recreates some of the most beloved moments from his films The Butcher Boy (1917), The Cameraman (1928) and Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928). Keaton worked with his longtime colleague...

Range Defender (1937, B&W): Stony's brother George is wanted for a murder he didn't commit, and turns to the Mesquiteers for help. Crooked Sheriff Gray is orchestrating a range war, and the Mesquiteers learn that George is just a patsy in his scheme. Intent on getting his brother a fair trial, Stony decides to run for sheriff and level the playing field.Starring Bob Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune; Directed by Mack V. Wright.Wild Horse Rodeo (1937, B&W): In need of some quick cash, Stony...

THE SPIRIT OF 1976 (1935): In the far-flung future of 1976, work is outlawed and people have numbers instead of names. A group of stodgy old codgers -- nostalgic for the days of 9 to 5 -- stage a revolt. This parody of a socialist utopia stars a pre-stardom Betty Grable and Walter Woolf King (from the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera.) Directed by Leigh Jason. MELODY IN MAY (1936): Frank Coghlan, Jr. becomes the laughing stock of his high school after he tells everyone he's got a date with...

A decapitated head arrives at the sanitarium of Dr. Von Ee and his daughter-in-law collapses in a spasm of terror. The woman is driven insane with fear by haunting memories and villainous strangers. A ghastly green mask materializes in the windows of the manor and a hypnotist (Bela Lugosi) arrives with his sadistic henchman, a mute dwarf. The doctor and his family fall victim to violent attacks and the household is rocked by a shocking and bizarre revelation that is both surreal and...

Loretta Young, the vivacious Oscar-winning actress who was a star on both TV and film, displays her considerable charms in three movies from her long career: "Beau Ideal" (1931), "The Stranger" (1946), "Cause For Alarm" (1951).

Saddle Aces (1935, B&W): Shackled together in irons, convicts Steve Brandt and "Montana" Nick leap from a speeding train in a desperate flight to freedom. The fugitives find refuge at a ranch owned by beautiful June Langton. Unfortunately, they have also arrived smack-dab in the middle of a range war - crooked cattle baron Pete Sutton is trying to swindle away June's land. Steve and Montana's outlaw credentials quickly gain them employment with Sutton's gang. But secretly, Steve has an old...

Marian Ramsay realizes that her wealthy husband Michael has lost interest in her on their 19th wedding anniversary together. Still craving romance, she takes up with "Mr. Jaromir", a mysterious young man who is really the deposed king of the tiny Balkan country of Morania. Their grown daughter Tillie discovers what is going on with her parents and flirts with Jaromir to throw a spanner into the works of her mother's affair. This has the unintended consequence of ruining her relationship with...

Orphan Pollyanna Whittier is sent to live with her grim Aunt Polly in her dark, joyless mansion. The child is able to find something positive in any bad situation, and is soon spreading ripples of happiness, through the dreary circle of people who surround her. But when Pollyanna is left crippled in a traffic accident, she is forced to face her greatest challenge.Eleanor H. Porter's classic children's novel, Pollyanna, is brought to life in this beautifully produced Mary Pickford production....

Steve Reeves is Hadji Murad, the legendary 19th century Avar/Chechen warrior chieftain who battles his peoples' Tsarist oppressors in this sweeping spectacle loaded with swashbuckling violence, forbidden desire and betrayal.Filmed in Technicolor by acclaimed genre director Mario Bava and brimming with first-rate action sequences, this tale is a frank and even-handed depiction of the effects of the atrocities of war on the peasant class.The source for The White Warrior was Leo Tolstoy's novel...

Four DVDs of episodes from the classic "Bonanza" television series.

Messiah of Evil (1973, Color): 100 years ago, a demonic priest from Hell passed through a seaside town, carrying a blood-crazed contagion that reduced all the good citizens to mindless, cannibal zombies. Following a frenzied, flesh-eating orgy, the dark priest walked straight into the sea, promising to return a century later to lead a new zombie apocalypse. This time around, the vile contagion precedes him. As spaced-out followers gather on the beach, awaiting their master's return, the town...

Ken (Ken Maynard), a well-to-do coal miner, takes Mort Clark (Paul Fix), a misguided bandit under his wing. Ken recognizes Mort as the brother of his dream girl, Helen Dayton (Helen Mack), and he becomes determined to set Mort's life straight. But Mort's judgement remains clouded, and after a few bad hands of poker he's framed into robbing a coach full of gold. With the law hot on his trail, Ken must act fast to uncover who's really behind the caper, before Mort's name is tarnished for...