James Dunn stars as Nick Trayne, a retired detective, hired to look for missing banker Walter Craig. During the investigation Craig shows up in a zombie-like state and murders his brother-in-law. But is the banker the killer or is someone controlling him? The trail leads Nick to the real culprit, a mad scientist, who has been conducting experiments on Craig.

The past and the future close in on a reformed gunslinger. Like Alan Ladd in SHANE, Gregory Peck in THE GUNFIGHTER and Clint Eastwood in UNFORGIVEN, Jack Palance's Jacob Wade in THE LONELY MAN belongs to that saddlebag full of Westerns about a gunslinger to coming to terms with his infamous past and uncertain future. He's a notorious outlaw trying to ride the trail of respectability. But where Wade goes, his reputation follows. And so does trouble. Fearful citizens are quick to turn him out of...

Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer. A woman stands by her husband when he's accuse of murdering his mistress. Can he be saved from his impending execution?

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz live slaphappily ever after as newlyweds honeymooning in,breezily directed by Vincente Minnelli. If you like the Trailer, you're going to love the movie!

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz live slaphappily ever after as newlyweds honeymooning in The Long, Long Trailer, breezily directed by Vincente Minnelli. They quickly find that the interior of a moving trailer is ideal for tossing a Caesar salad -- and everything else. That backing up their 40-foot, three-ton home is only a little more difficult than threading a needle wearing boxing gloves. And that trailer-park folks are neighborly sorts who turn the lovebirds' rig into the wrong, wrong trailer...

Dixie Evans, of the infamous Mowbray Gang, is on the lam after a post office robbery. In her desperate attempt to cross a nearby river in a canoe, she capsizes and is rescued by Dean Richardson, a wealthy doctor. The two fall in love and Dean proposes. Dixie requests that Dean never grill her about her past. However, Pete Mowbray has no intention of letting Dixie "go straight," an blackmails her. It doesn't take long for Dean to realize something's wrong with his new wife, and he sets out to...

Beatty is devastated when he discovers too late, that Ruth has left with her father. In the meantime, a heartbroken Beatty then tries to preoccupy himself with procuring new exciting and dangerous acts for the circus. When he learns that the schooner Ruth and her father had taken was shipwrecked on the Lost Island of Kamor, he sets off on a rescue mission to find them. Along the way, he must contend with Sharkey, a jealous rival, find and then rescue Ruth from a lion attack and then save the...

"Our creature animation in the Jurassic Park films basically descends from The Lost World of 1925. Willis O'Brien is our great pioneer, and this superb restoration inspires new awe for his imagination and craftsmanship." - Stan Winston Newly restored with 50% more footage than any version generally available for seventy years, here is the model for King Kong , Jurassic Park and Godzilla : a story of living dinosaurs from the Jurassic Age written by the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur...

Arthur Conan Doyle's epic tale comes to life in this classic from the silent era. Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, and Wallace Beery star as explorers who learn that dinosaurs still exist in South America. Of course, the expedition can't end without them trying to bring a prehistoric creature back to London, which results in catastrophe. This was the first full-length feature film to utilize stop-motion animation. The painstaking process perfectly enables us to see the mighty prehistoric monsters...

D.W. Griffith directed this dramatic tale of a man who escapes to the South Pacific with his daughter after murdering his wife's lover. The film stars Carol Dempster, Richard Barthelmess, and George MacQuarrie, and was made at great peril: Griffith and his crew experienced a hazardous voyage from Miami to the Bahamas during the film's production, with two men going overboard and no food for three days.The Love Flowerremains one of his lesser known films, but still boasts Griffith's vaunted...

Screen legend Mary Pickford stars in this touching wartime drama. Written and directed by two time Oscar winner Francis Marion (The Champ, The Big House), this tale involves a young woman who learns that her beloved is a German spy. The film was produced by Pickford's company at the height of its fame, and also stars Evelyn Dumo, Raymond Bloomer, and Fred Thomson. It's an emotional story about a woman whose loyalties are put to the test.

A young woman is believed to be the reincarnation of an egyptian maiden driven to suicide in this drama from the silent era. Gloria Swanson (Sunset Boulevard) is Sunya, a young singing student torn between two lovers. With the aid of a mystic who helps her see into the future, she makes her decision. The great cast includes John Boles, Pauline Garon, and Ivan Lebedoff, with direction by Albert Parker (The Black Pirate, Eyes of Youth).

The funeral business gets a giant raspberry in this wickedly wacky, resplendently ridiculous farce based on Evelyn Waugh's macabre comic masterpiece and directed with inspired verve by Tony Richardson (Tom Jones). But the American way of death isn't the film's only target: sex, greed, religion and mother love are also in the crosshairs of its satirical shots. Robert Morse plays a bemused would-be poet who gets entangled with an unctuous cemetery entrepreneur (Jonathan Winters), a mom-obsessed...

A glimpse into the life of writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe, his unhappy childhood, the women who loved him, and his driving ambition to write.

A young Texan and an old rancher strike it rich with a gold mine.

When Dr. Benson's experiments in suspended animation result in a man's death, he is forced to flee San Francisco with the police in hot pursuit. He boards a luxury liner to Australia but a shipwreck lands him and a handful of survivors on a remote tropical island. The island natives are NOT very welcoming until Dr. Benson demonstrates his godlike powers by reviving the comatose wife of the island chief. Now worshipped as a deity, the doctor's ego rages out of control as he begins to focus on...

John Barrymore stars as a sadistic impresario who will stop at nothing to achieve his ambitions in this wild and wicked pre-Code drama directed by Oscar winner Michael Curtiz (Casablanca, 1943). Crippled in mind and body, half-crazed puppeteer Ivan Tsarakov (Barrymore) fulfills his dream of becoming a ballet dancer through Fedor Ivanoff (Donald Cook), whom he trains to become the world's greatest danseur. Jealous of his pupil's success and fearing love will thwart Fedor's career, Tsarakov has...

A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge.

Prolific B-movie master Sam Newfield (The Terror of Tiny Town, Dead Men Walk) helmed this tale of a scientist who turns his simple-minded handyman into a raving wolf creature. Why would he do such a thing? To turn the beast on his enemies, of course. Horror icons George Zucco and Glenn Strange star, along with Johnny Downs, Anne Nagel, and Mae Busch. It's yet another low budget gem from Hollywood's Poverty Row. Enjoy!

The Jazz Age has struck hard in the Herrington mansion. Three o'clock every afternoon is "starting time" when about a hundred of scion Jack's Herrington's closest friends descend upon the estate and the bootleg gin, debauchery and casual sex flow in abundance until the following morning. Jack's wastrel life is disturbed when Cathleen Gillis returns home from college and he falls hard for the beautiful working-class girl. He is faced with a impossible choice - give up booze and parties or lose...

A princess who has been kidnapped and who is about to be fed to a dragon is championed by a brave son of a sorceress with the help of magic knights . It is all complicated by seven curses which have to be overcome.

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.Driven by vengeance, an evil sorcerer (Basil Rathbone) kidnaps a princess vowing to feed the girl to a hideous fire-breathing dragon. The desperate king enlists the bravest knights in the land to free his daughter,...

While her husband is serving in the military during World War II, a young wife starts her own advertising business. She's a success, but a hitch develops when her husband returns and expects her to become a housewife again. Director Albert Rogell(In Old Oklahoma, Hit Parade of 1943) spins an amusing tale that was quite timely in its day, with help from a strong cast that includes Lynne Roberts, Warren Douglas, and Gerald Mohr, plus cinematography by Hollywood ace John Alton.

Disgraced London doctor David Yorke is drinking himself into oblivion in a South Seas bar when he is called to the bedside of socialite Diana St. Claire who has been badly injured in a riding mishap. Smitten by Diana's beauty and kindness, David swears off the bottle, as he nurses her back to health. He returns to London, where he rises to prominence once again. Here he crosses paths with his beloved Diana, and is shocked to find her married to wealthy Gordon St. Claire, a notorious womanizer....