Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Alpha Video Retrograde is an ever-growing collection of specially-selected films from our vast library on DVD, now in collectible retro-style packaging inspired by VHS cover art from that format's heyday! Every Alpha Video Retrograde title also includes a free collectible postcard.After a nuclear holocaust wipes out most of mankind, a handful of survivors converge on an isolated villa where Captain John Ramsey and his daughter Joanna are holed up. As supplies dwindle and violent pent-up...

Vic Donovan is a star athlete, champion boxer and all-American boy. When he lays eyes on alluring Janet Wallace, he's instantly smitten - much to the consternation of her boyfriend Stuart, a cadet at West Point. To impress Janet, Vic also enrolls at the military academy. His cocky attitude enrages Stuart. When a training exercise with live ammo goes wrong, Vic has a chance to demonstrate his true courage and valor.William Boyd (1895-1972) will forever be remembered as the heroic cowboy...

The flavor, the music and the FUN of the West are all captured in this quintet of vintage short subjects.CALGARY COWBOY STAMPEDE: Thrilling footage shot at this yearly Canadian event, publicized as The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth. Highlights include Brahma bull riding, calf-roping, a chuckwagon race and even Slim Pickens as a death-defying rodeo clown.ON THE TRAIL: Tenderfoot tourists enjoy the simple pleasures of the frontier - and an exciting wildcat hunt.RANCHO LIFE: Watch as a vast...

BRIEF FOR INVASION: Produced by the Army Pictorial Service especially for American workers, this film begins with the D-Day invasion of Normandy, as the Allies begin to dislodge Hitler's grip on Europe. The vital contribution of industry, to keep the enormous streams of ships, planes, tanks, munitions and supplies flowing unbroken, "like a heartbeat" to our valiant troops is demonstrated to be absolutely essential to victory. General Marshall warns the American labor force, "The losses in...

COUNTERFEIT (1955): A GI stationed in Occupied Germany investigates a counterfeiting ring and finds the temptation of easy money irresistible. He blackmails the counterfeiters into giving him money to marry his fiance, but his guilt and desire to escape lead to desperate measures. Starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Robert Beatty, Linda Caroll, Rolf von Nauckhoff, Ernst Fritz Furbringer, Klaus W. Krause, Hans Hinrich; Directed by Roy Rich.SHIP DAY (1956): A ship's doctor goes ashore to assist in...

The Flying Fool (1925, B&W, Silent): Dare-devil aviator Donald Daring, "The Flying Fool," is late for church and misses his own wedding. In his absence, his best man Jack Bryan makes off with his fiance, Wanda, and a diamond necklace stolen from her family. He whisks her and the stolen gems aboard his yacht and speeds out toward the open sea. Donald is Wanda's last hope for rescue. Undaunted, he takes to the air and flies out in hot pursuit! Beautifully photographed on location with...

Yakima Canutt "created the profession of stuntman as it exists today," according to Charlton Heston as he presented him with a special Oscar in 1967. But before Canutt's days of stunt-doubling for top stars and second-unit directing filmdom's greatest action scenes, the rodeo world champion was a movie cowboy hero himself, as seen in these two Westerns from his silent-era prime.Bad Men's Money (1929, B&W, Silent): Landgrabbers are using every dirty trick in the book to force Helen Saunders'...

Tomboy "Tommy" Smith works feverishly to run her boarding house while her idle father dreams up his next exotic invention. Tommy fears that her dad may be the notorious bootlegger who is drawing government revenue agents to Oakville like flies. A handsome stranger from the city, Aldon Farwell, rents a room at the house and romantic sparks fly between him and Tommy. The young girl finds love and happiness for the first time till a jealous suitor tells Tommy about a shocking discovery. Aldon is...

Return to the violent years of the Prohibition Era in these true stories of New York's notorious gangland bootleggers, bookmakers, thugs and killers -- straight from the man who arrested them all. Based on the memoirs of Detective Barney Ruditsky, commanding officer of the city's famed Gangster Squad, "The Lawless Years" focuses on organized crime and high-profile gangsters, as did "The Untouchables," which debuted the very same year.ARTIE MOON: A small time hit-man who has made millions after...

Janet Holman is a spoiled society girl attracted to trouble. Hoping to reform the girl, her Uncle George, an esteemed judge, allows her to sit in while he's hearing cases. She takes particular interest in handsome defendant Nick Jarrod. Janet and Nick fall in love, but his violent past threatens to tear them apart.Leading lady Sally Blane (1910-'97) was the sister of actresses Loretta Young and Polly Ann Young. She appeared in over 70 films before marrying actor-director Norman foster and...

Lily Durrell has risen from her roots in an orphanage to establish herself as a major singing star on the radio. As she reflects back on her climb to stardom, she must weigh the marriage proposals of three suitors, each of whom had a powerful influence on her past, and decide what path holds the key to lasting happiness in the future.Mary Beth Hughes is best remembered for her roles in The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), The Great Flamarion (1945) and most especially the camp classic I Accuse My...

The Good Bad Man (1933): No sooner have Broadway headliners Rosebud and Doolittle arrived to perform at a saloon south of the border than they encounter burly bandito Pancho and his rowdy band of revolutionaries. Starring Tom Patricola and Charles Judels.Morning Becomes Electric (1932): Funnyman Ben Blue showcases his expertise in physical pantomime as he strolls down a country road with top hat and cane, whistling with the birds, dancing with a scarecrow, and even a little bullfighting --...