Wrongly accused of a holdup, infamous gunslinger Billy the Kid daringly escapes the law in search of the man who framed him. He meets up with his pal Fuzzy Jones in the troubled town of Sundown, where crime is on the rise and the sheriff is secretly controlled by the devious and money-hungry Mort Slade. When the Sundown National Bank refuses to sell Slade a mortgage, he and his brothers rob the bank forcing it to close. Risking everything to bring Slade to justice, Billy and Fuzzy confront the...

A modern Cinderella, sassy teenager Joan Hollingsworth lives in the shadow of her spoiled older sister, Ethel. Ethel hates Joan and does everything she can to make her life miserable. The girls' dotty, wealthy mother puts all her attention into finding a suitable marriage for her elder daughter and Joan is banished to the sidelines - a virtual servant in her own home. As a prank, Joan dresses as the parlor maid at a party for Ethel's suitors. When her jest turns sour, Joan flees the house and...

Sailing to a remote and deserted island, Captain Thorne Sherman (James Best) delivers supplies to scientist Dr. Craigis (Baruch Lumet), who is anxious to have his daughter, Ann (Ingrid Goude), join the skipper on his return voyage. And for good reason: Dr. Craigis and his assistants have accidentally wreaked biological havoc by spawning mutant shrews that are starving for food - especially humans! Sherman must fight for survival while fending off these savage creatures. Surrounded by the...

The "Alpha Video Rewind Series" 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 Rewind Series title also includes a free collectible postcard.Sailing to a remote and deserted island, Captain Thorne Sherman delivers supplies to scientist Dr. Craigis, who is anxious to have his daughter, Ann, join the skipper on his return voyage. And for good...

Maybe they're just dogs wearing fake snouts and tails, in a low budget movie filmed in Texas by the same group that gave us The Giant Gila Monster. But suspend your disbelief, and they'll become mutant, killer shrews, created by a mad scientist. Starring James Best (TV's The Dukes of Hazzard), this howler has some good things going for it, namely a creepy musical score by Harry Bluestone and Emil Cadkin, and some solid direction by Ray Kellogg. If nothing else, this slice of schlock heaven may...

This offbeat western finds escaped desperado Gable holed up in a desert ghost town, inhabited only by four beautiful young widows and their flinty, gun-totin' mother-in-law (Jo Van Fleet). Oozing an endless supply of charm and masculine virility, Gable sets his sights on this shapely harem and the $100,000 in stolen gold hidden somewhere close by!

Comedy legend Groucho Marx paired up with his friend, the great screenwriter Norman Krasna (Bachelor Mother, Mr. and Mrs. Smith), to pen this fairy-tale romance that is full to the brim with both cynical quips and unabashed romance. Even though he's young and rich, exiled King Alfred Bruger VII (Fernand Gravey, aka Fernand Gravet) is capital "B" bored with his life. His two remaining subjects, Count Humbert (Edward Everett Horton) and Duchess Anna of Elberfield (Mary Nash), try to draw him out...

Rex, the Wonder Horse was one of the first animal stars of the silent era. A Morgan black stallion, he was discovered by Jack "Swede" Lindell, a former rodeo cowboy who made a name for himself in Hollywood as an animal trainer. While scouting for a lead for a new horse-centric picture from Hal Roach, he heard rumors of a wild stallion who was condemned to a detention center in Colorado after accidentally killing a man. Lindell was impressed by the horse's beauty and spirit, and petitioned for...

Starring Nancy Carroll, Frank Morgan, Paul Lukas and Gloria Stuart, The Kiss Before the Mirror is a riveting Pre-Code thriller from acclaimed director James Whale (Frankenstein). When Walter Bernsdorf (Lukas) kills his wife (Stuart) for having an affair, lawyer Paul Held (Morgan) takes on the case. Suggesting that Walter could be acquitted by means of temporary insanity, Paul not only realizes that this defense may work but that also some of the behavioral patterns Walter's wife showed in...

Place all the gold under lock and key. All the beautiful senoritas, too. The Kissing Bandit rides again -- if he can somehow manage to stay on horseback! Frank Sinatra plays the kissing (and singing!) title role. Kathryn Grayson is lovely, coloratura-voiced Teresa -- and who'd guess she would steal his heart before he could steal his first kiss? Sintara brings infectious charm to the role of timid Ricardo, haplessly continuing his father's bandito tradition. Ann Miller, Cyd Charisse and...

A young woman on the run from the police breaks into the hotel room of private investigator John Conroy. The detective, on the trail of a counterfeit money ring, is so entranced by the girl's beauty that he hides her from the authorities. The next morning, Conroy is startled to find the pretty stranger gone without a trace. The elusive female soon begins appearing wherever the private eye goes, and before long a romance blossoms between the two. Little does Conroy realize that this femme...

Barbara Stanwyck stars as a once respectable and vibrant wife who has become a desperately out-of-control high roller in The Lady Gambles. A chance visit into a Las Vegas casino introduces Joan Booth (Stanwyck) to the seductive allure of poker and the craps table. All too soon, she ignores her devoted husband (Robert Preston) and older sister (Edith Barrett) as she compulsively chases after hard-hearted Lady Luck.

John, aka Lord Teylesmore (Ralph Forbes), thinks he's found a way to get popular London stage actress Elsie Hilary (Ruth Chatterton) to marry him after she's turned down his daily proposals for a year -- he'll announce their engagement in all the papers! Shocked and dismayed, John's staid, blue-blood family attempts to get Elsie to break off the "engagement" with a 5,000 bribe. Infuriated, she becomes determined to wed the young aristocrat. An emergency family council is called at the...

Sir Walter Scott's classic poem is brought to life in this lavish 1925 Gainsborough Pictures production. Exiled from the court by King James V of Scotland, James Douglas flees to the Highlands and protection of the rebellious chieftain Roderick Dhu. Douglas' beautiful daughter, Ellen, becomes known as "The Lady Of The Lake." A noble hunter, James FitzJames, is lost in the rebel's territory and Ellen saves his life by protecting him from the bloodthirsty Roderick. The outlaw leader intends to...

Girlish June (Betty Compson), a sweetly wonton lady of London, is solicited by weatlhy aristocrat Sir Gerald Courney (Gilbert Emmry) to lure his ne'er-do-well son Russell (John Darrow) away from floozy flappers and expensive liquor. While inspiring Russell to the heights of self-discipline and great accomplishments, June falls for "Sir Gerry" and he for her. At the moment their implausible May-December union seems possible, June and Gerry find themselves in a triangle of confused emotions when...

This Pre- Code comedy stars Betty Compson as a young woman hired to distract a London playboy from marrying a gold digger. Problems arise when the playboy's father, who hired June (Compson) in the first place, starts to fall for her! Starring John Darrow, Gilbert Emery, and Margaret Livingston, this forgotten jewel from RKO Radio Pictures was directed by George Archainbaud (The Lost Squadron, Murder on the Blackboard) and puts yet another spin on the complexities of love...

When a feminist author (Joan Caulfield) writes a fiery best-seller ripping into men, a debonair yet chauvinistic photographer (David Niven) arrives to do a feature on her for LIFE Magazine. But he has a hidden agenda: To prove her wrong and demonstrate that the male is still the superior sex! Sparks fly, but they eventually lead to romance in this charming, and very 1950s, comedy.

Charming photographer Bill Shelby (David Niven) is attracted to bestselling author Dorinda Hatch the minute he walks through her front door to shoot her for the cover of a national magazine. Shocked to find such a young and beautiful female behind her cynical book about the "dangers" of men, Bill is not sure how to pursue her.Exhausting all of his masculine tricks to soften Dorinda's unromantic ways, he finally gives up and turns to another woman. The tables are turned for Dorinda when Bill...

The Lady Vanishes is a British mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave. English tourist Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood) and her friends Blanche (Googie Withers) and Julie (Sally Stewart) are returning home from a trip abroad as Iris is getting married, but an avalanche has blocked the railway line. The passengers are forced to spend the night at a hotel along with another stranded passenger, Miss Froy (May Witty), a governess and...

Called "one of the greatest comedies ever made" by Entertainment Weekly, THE LADYKILLERS showcases Alec Guinness in one of his most unforgettable performances as Professor Marcus, mastermind of a gang of vicious bank robbers who rent a room from an elderly widow. But when the dear old woman begins to meddle in their "perfect crime," the crooks decide that she might pose the biggest threat of all. Co-starring Peter Sellers in his first major screen role.

Director Howard Hawks, who worked brilliantly in virtually every genre, shows his mastery of the large-scale epic with this gigantic production filmed on location in Egypt. Thousands of extras (9,787 in one scene alone!), magnificently detailed sets (including the pyramid's inner labyrinth, booby-trapped so no one can learn its secrets and live) and vast desert vistas fill the screen and astonish the eye. There are also human-scaled stories. Of the Pharoah (Jack Hawkins) who orders the pyramid...

Featuring unbelievable special effects, The Land Unknown is a frightening adventure from the Golden Age of Science Fiction. A Navy expedition led by Commander Hal Roberts (Jock Mahoney) is sent to explore a mysterious warm-water region shrouded in the ice of Antarctica. When a fierce storm drives them into a cloud bank, their helicopter is disabled and they encounter a hot, tropical landscape of prehistoric terror! Untouched by the Ice Age, a 20th-century Mesozoic era awaits them, complete...

Autumn, 1943. Two prisoners of war, the Englishman Lt. John Halliday and the American Sgt. James Braddock, escape in the confusion when their transport train is strafed by Allied bombers in Italy. Determined to cross the frontier into Switzerland and freedom, the two men are sheltered by peasants and discover a nation at war with itself. Although Mussolini is still in power, the Fascist government is rapidly crumbling while the Italian resistance is growing in number and power. Halliday and...

Based on the Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel. Set in the shadows of Mt. Vesuvius just before its famous eruption, the film begins with Glaucus, a Roman legionnaire, returning to his home from far-off wars. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that his father has been murdered by a gang of black-hooded looting bandits. Glaucus vows revenge against the killers, but just how high up are those involved?