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This collection includes four of Bela Lugosi's best mysteries: 'The Death Kiss' (1933), 'The Mysterious Mr. Wong' (1934), 'Murder By Television' (1935), and 'The Postal Inspector' (1936).

Harold is a spineless coward who spends most of his time afraid of his own shadow. When the town jewelry store is robbed, he is deputized along with every other able-bodied man to capture the culprit. Petrified by his new responsibility, Harold is given a good luck charm by his grandmother. According to her, it brought the boy's grandfather great success during the Civil War. Emboldened, Harold heads out to nab the robber - not realizing the "good luck charm" is just the handle from an old...

In four action-packed episodes of the popular wild-west adventure series, thrilling sagas of legendary sharpshooter Annie Oakley (Gail Davis) unfold in the dusty town of Diablo. Chasing outlaws from the saddle of her trusty horse, Target, Annie keeps law and order with Deputy Sheriff Lofty Craig (Brad Johnson) at her side. Helping them is Annie's younger brother Tagg, always eager to solve the town's exciting mysteries of suspense. A fictional account of the life of the famous star of Buffalo...

Join host John Newland, your guide into the world of the unknown, in this classic TV series that aired in 1959. Based on unexplained real life stories, we are taken beyond the five senses through dramatizations of supernatural happenings to everyday people. Encounter: Just after sighting and photographing a UFO, a pilot radios in a distress call to his base mere moments before he and his plane disappear.The Clown: A sweet old circus clown befriends a young bride who is on the run from her...

Ripped from the case files of police forces across the country, "Racket Squad" sought to expose the devious machinations of the con man. Running from 1951-1953, Racket Squad was one of the first series to portray the gritty reality of criminal investigation and was twice nominated for an Emmy award.Home Wreckers: A phony divorce lawyer preys on troubled couples.Romance Unlimited: A sexpot "marries" a string of soldiers leaving for combat, cashing in their pay and widow's benefits.Salted Mine:...

This action-packed TV series stars John Bromfield as law enforcer Frank Morgan, whose Old West tactics are put to rugged use in modern day Arizona. Beginning in 1956, this tough and engrossing crime drama was filmed mostly on location in the Tucson area with first seasons episodes titled "The Man From Cochise" and "The Sheriff Of Cochise." Hoping to broaden the show's appeal, studio head Desi Arnaz, Sr. would change "The Sheriff Of Cochise" to "U.S. Marshal" in 1958 and allow Frank Morgan to...

As Hollywood productions become more and more sanitized, movie parlors that featured coin-operated "peep" machines catered increasingly to customers looking for something they couldn't see at their local theater. By the 1950s, the "peep show" traded exclusively in erotic films. For the cost of the spare change, patrons could view short "loops" Starring beautiful women in a variety of situations in which they inevitably ended up nude. Made cheaply and anonymously, the stars of the films remain...

Edgar Kennedy (1890-1948) was one of the funniest movie comedians of his era and the master of "the slow burn": playing characters who struggle to keep their composure up to, including and beyond the boiling point - but then all yell breaks loose!Bald and stocky, the former boxer honed the comedy of exasperation in silent days, opposite such greats as Laurel & Hardy and Charley Chase. In the sound era, he made scores of RKO shorts playing an "Average Man" for whom marriage is a three-ring...

Frankie and Nanette hit the beach seeking hot summer kicks in the surf! Their scavenger hunt attracts the paranoid attentions of the Wellington Cosmetic Company, run by Big Daddy Wellington (Brian Donlevy) and voluptuous daughter Junior (Jayne Mansfield). At war with Camille Salamander's (Phyllis Diller) rival company, Big Daddy dispatches his top corporate spies - portly twins Irving and Herman (Jack E. Leonard in two humungous roles) to snoop on the kids and stymie the competition.Filmed in...

Lynn Claymore (Francis X. Bushman, Jr.) has inherited a large gothic estate, surrounded by thick swampland that can only be reached by boat. Claymore arrives at the house with his assistant, Trohelius Snapp, and the executor to the estate, attorney Richard Mason. Claymore notices a strange figure crawling into a window, but Mason assures him that the property is unoccupied. As they tour the home, however, a bizarre and supernatural presence begins to haunt them. The three men are relieved when...