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The most acclaimed and shocking films ever to emerge from the Philadelphia underground!Award-winning creative artist and filmmaker Ted Knighton has produced a series of extremely disturbing short films that transform the commonplace into indelible images of horror. Knighton's productions have shaken up underground filmmaking in Philadelphia for over 30 years. Finally available, these films unsettle the viewer, and throw a dark twist into the perception of reality.IN (2009): A woman is obsessed...

Every small business must pay protection to Chili Scarpelli's mob or face swift and violent retribution. District Attorney Martin Werth's best efforts have failed to curtail the gangsters. Mob war explodes when a rival gang headed by Johnny Melinas comes to town. But when Melinas emerges from a secret meeting with the D. A. wearing a police uniform, both mobsters and lawmen are puzzled. With the motto, "Get out or get shot!" Martin places Johnny at the head of his Police Department, assigned...

A courageous Cheyenne warrior protects his tribe from hostile invaders in this long-lost Western series! Brave Eagle made history as the first TV program to feature an American Indian as the lead character. In addition, stories focused on the plight of Native Americans, a rarity on television at the time. Though star Keith Larsen was in fact of Norwegian descent, both the actors playing his girlfriend Morning Star (Kim Winona) and adopted son Keena (Anthony Numkena, using the stage name Keena...

A beautiful woman is the catalyst for catastrophe, when rival wartime black market gangs battle for dominance in the deserts of the Southwest. Restless young Julie Bronson drops out of college and returns to her father's run-down diner with hopes of settling down with her boyfriend, Army Lt. Bob Lord. She quickly realizes that the family business has been dragged into corruption by gangsters. A local nightclub owner and mob boss known as "The Ghost" has blackmailed Julie's father into stashing...

Hailed by contemporary critics as Gene Autry's best western, The Big Show offers not only outstanding musical entertainment but also exciting behind-the-scenes views of the filming of death-defying stunts. It even features Gene in two roles!Movie cowboy Tom Ford owes mobster Rico $10,000 in gambling debt, and the crook expects payment in full. But after the egocentric silver screen icon skips Hollywood for a vacation, look-alike performer Gene Autry is dispatched by Mammoth Studios to fill in...

From 1952-1956, David Niven joined fellow Hollywood luminaries Ida Lupino, Charles Boyer and Dick Powell in Four Star Playhouse (also known as Star Performance), an anthology series in which each actor took the lead role on a weekly basis. The series, which ran on CBS, earned 14 Emmy nominations during its run, including one for Boyer in 1956 for Best Continuing Performance by an Actor in a Dramatic Series.NIGHT RIDE (1953): Paranoia turns to mob violence when passengers on a subway car feat...

A 2-DVD bundle pack with eight classic episodes featuring Champion, the wild stallion.

A mom-and-pop band of pickpockets makes a fat haul in New York City and decide that a change of scenery is due. After a long road trip across the country, they reach the Los Angeles city limits, where they interfere with a drunk-driving arrest just long enough to lift the driver's wallet. While there's no cash in it, there is a letter of introduction to a local bank. Gang member Billy assumes the arrested driver's identity and cons the bank president into taking him on as manager. Quickly...

Buster Keaton stars as Professor Post, a shy, clumsy scatterbrain who sees his chance for a new life when he inherits $750,000. In search of adventure and companionship, he meets "The Midnight Maids" theater company on an outbound train. Enamored with the troupe's lead dancer and duped by the shady piano player (Jimmy Durante), the Professor uses his inheritance to become the benefactor of the show. Convinced of their talent, he leads them to Broadway, where he is certain their "classic drama"...

Rex Allen stars as mild-mannered Doc Baxter in this dramatic TV series of the early twentieth century American west. The bustling town of Rising Springs, Arizona is at the crossroads of an army outpost, vast cattle ranges and the railroad. When not tending to the illnesses and injuries suffered by homesteaders on the rugged frontier, Doc Baxter's life is complicated by crime and murder in the last days of the wild west. A general practitioner's world was never more dangerous than it was for a...

True stories from the casebooks of police departments and courtrooms across America are brought to life in this gritty crime anthology from the early 1950s, considered the golden age of television drama. Hosted by veteran Hollywood character actor and triple Oscar nominee, Charles Bickford, these four episodes deliver hard-boiled sagas of real criminals and the dedicated men in uniform who work tirelessly to bring them to justice.The Case of Operation Sabotage: Conspirators plot to sabotage a...

The untamed wilderness of colonial America hides dark mysteries and dangerous secrets. Valiant woodsman Deerslayer and his fiercely loyal friend, Chingachgook (a bare-chested Bela Lugosi), struggle frantically to keep an uneasy peace between white settlers and the native tribes. The heroic scouts - and those close to them - are caught between the settlers' guns and the Indians' deadly arrows. When Chingachgook's true love is kidnapped by a renegade brave, he and Deerslayer embark on a perilous...