After preventing down-on-her-luck writer Nona Gould from committing suicide, editor James Manning offers her a job at his newspaper. He assigns Nona to investigate the sudden increase of immigrant workers in San Francisco. Journeying to Chinatown, she discovers that gang leader Wu Sin is smuggling cheap labor into the city. Fearing exposure, the Oriental mastermind orders Manning murdered before his paper can publish the truth. Nona must act quickly to stop the sinister Wu Sin from killing the...

Billie Dove, the "American Beauty" of the silent era, stars as an out-of-control flapper seeking salvation in this rare feature from groundbreaking female director Lois Weber!"Egypt" Hagen is a hedonistic party girl whose main concern is the pursuit of her own pleasure. While engaging in her daily sunbathing ritual, she meets Norman Lodge, a man of the cloth unimpressed by her daring swimming attire. Entranced by his sanctity, Egypt falls for the noble reverend, despite his pending engagement....

Boxing Wednesdays. Wrestling on Fridays. Stoker Thompson is on Paradise City's Wednesday card, fighting after the main event. He's been 20 years in the game and is sure he's just one punch away from big paydays. But there's one thing Stoker doesn't yet know: his manager wants him to take a dive tonight. The Set-Up comes out swinging as one of the great films about the so-called sweet science. Robert Wise directs, shaping real-time events into an acclaimed and unsparing film-noir look at the...

What a gritty, sleazy drive-in B-classic this is it's sooo enjoyable. A man (Kidd) and his oh-so-seductive girlfriend (Statten) have a car accident. He wanders away from the accident, now suffering from amnesia, leaving another driver and his girlfriend unconscious. He falls in with a traveling preacher and takes up a new life as a reverend. Trouble rears its ugly head, though, when his former sexpot girlfriend (now an ex-con) and her crooked boyfriend come looking for blackmail. The wedding...

An explosion kills a prestigious banker during an attempted robbery. Lamont Cranston (a.k.a. The Shadow) suggests that it was murder and not just the work of notorious safecracker Honest John. When The Shadow pursues a false tip-off to the robbery, he stumbles upon an international banking scam with ties to murder. Based on the popular 1930s radio show, "The Shadow," this fast-paced mystery is the second in the series produced by Grand National Pictures.

The legendary mind-clouding man of mystery is back in this film noir tale set in New Orleans, where nothing is ever as it seems. Exiled Spanish leader Pablo Ramirez is hiding out on Bourbon Street as plans are laid to overthrow the oppressive dictatorship that currently exists in his country. A fascist generalissimo has planted assassins in the city to dispose of Ramirez and thwart his impending coup d'etat. Lamont Cranston (Richard Derr) -- aka the Shadow -- is summoned to protect Ramirez and...

A rich man is killed in the process of writing his will. The phantom crime-fighter, Lamont Cranston (a.k.a. the Shadow), finds numerous suspects - each with their own motive for committing murder. The trail of clues leads him to a underground gambling ring linked to the killer. The police, suspicious of The Shadow's motives, interfere with the investigation in an effort to discover his true identity. The master of disguise is able to keep the detectives at bay long enough to unmask the real...

A shadowy figure murders a guard while robbing $100,000 from a bank, then kills his reluctant accomplice and keeps all the loot for himself. Ambitious reporter Robin Dale, eager to crack the case, persuades bank secretary Ruth Hackett to help him obtain a list of serial numbers of the stolen bills. She comes to regret cooperating with Dale after her brother George falls under suspicion. Ruth is unaware that the real criminal believes she knows more about the crime than she has told and is...

John "Silk" Lennox (Lon Chaney Jr.) rules the underworld from behind the cover of the Arabian Club, a decadent nightspot where patrons come to revel and rub elbows with the criminal set. Nicknamed "Silk" for being a smooth operator, Lennox struggles to stay one step ahead of the law and his back-stabbing associates who plan to take over his organized mob kingdom. A $50,000.00 bank heist that Silk cunningly engineered goes wrong when one of the gangsters, The Deacon, double crosses him and...

Seeking revenge against the owners of an airplane factory who stole his top secret invention, a mysterious pilot known only as The Eagle begins a campaign of death and destruction. His attacks are always foreshadowed by ominous threats delivered in the form of skywriting. Prime suspect, carnival owner Nathan Gregory enlists the help of stunt pilot Craig McCoy in hunting down the aerial terrorist before he can strike again.Before Stagecoach made him an A-list star in 1939, John Wayne honed his...

Lamond Cranston appears to be a suave man about town, but he is "The Shadow" fighting crime. Here, he is on the trail of a murderer amongst a long list of suspects.

Knotts stars as Jesse W. Heywood, a timid Pennsylvania dentist who leaves the comfort of the East to bring modern dentistry to the West. The misadventures begin when Jesse is duped into marrying a statuesque redhead (and reformed stagecoach bandit) who has agreed to finger the men responsible for selling whiskey to the Indians. Soon, Jesse and his bride are involved in a series of shootouts against renegade Indians and the town bad guy, and the desperate dentist is forced to switch from gums...

Manhattan's Lower East Side is a melting pot in the 1920s, but sometimes the pot boils over. In an era when ethnic groups do not mix, Hot Dog Kelly's storefront adjoins Ice Cream Cohen's. The only mixing Mr. Kelly does with Mr. Cohen is to try to punch him in the nose. A tenuous truce exists as the Jewish and Irish merchants attempt to operate their businesses until a world-shaking discovery is made. Mr. Cohen's pride and joy, his beautiful daughter Rose, has fallen in love with Kelly's son,...

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.A blood-thirsty Transylvanian witch returns from her grave to destroy the descendants of the townsfolk who executed her. For two hundred years her corpse lies in wait at the bottom of a river. A...

The first feature by England's Michael Reeves (then 21) stars Barbara Steele as a tourist in Transylvania possessed by a vengeful ugly witch. Ian Ogilvy is her husband. Lots of odd gags about Communists in modern Eastern Europe make this a unique thriller. With John Karlson and Mel Welles (as the innkeeper). **, Corel All Movie Guide

A blood-thirsty Transylvanian witch returns from her grave to destroy the descendants of the townsfolk who executed her. For two hundred years her corpse lies in wait at the bottom of a river. A honeymooning English couple crashes their car into the water triggering the resurrection of the witch who launches into a murderous rampage, viciously attacking her prey with whatever implements are close at hand. As the grief-stricken husband searches for his missing bride, a resident of the town...

If there's one word in Powder Valley's cattle country that makes the locals' jaws clench and trigger-fingers twitch, here it is: sheep. But easygoing Jason Sweet won a trainload of sheep in a poker game and he aims to graze them. And rolling, green Powder Valley looks like the perfect place. In the year he was named the top male box-office draw, Glenn Ford strapped on his sidearm and his sense of humor to portray Jason. George Marshall, who showed how the West was fun in Destry Rides Again,...

The Great Lover of the Silver Screen, Rudolph Valentino rose to super stardom with his role as The Sheik. Despite Paramount's modest expectations and tepid reviews, female reaction to this film overwhelmingly propelled it to enormous box office success and legendary status. Some of his other classic performances include The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse (1921), Blood And Sand (1922), and The Eagle (1925). Following his untimely death at age 31 the following year, over 80,000 adoring fans...

Ramon Navarro, the original "Ben-Hur" and one of the biggest movie stars of the 1920s and 30s, spoofs his long-time rival Rudolph Valentino in this lost comedy gem. Spoiled New York socialite Phyllis Murdock travels to Arabia to buy a horse from the enigmatic Sheik Ahmed. After she mistakes the Sheik for a peasant tour guide, Ahmed kidnaps the pretty heiress to teach her a lesson. But when the mismatched pair are captured for real by a band of bloodthirsty zealots, Phyllis discovers the...

John Wayne stars as the young hillbilly moonshiner Matt Mathews in The Shepherd of the Hills. Burdened from boyhood by a family tragedy, his life is driven by the need to avenge his mother's abandonment by an uncaring father. The stern family matriarch Granny Becky (Marjorie Main) in the absence of both parents, has taken over the leadership duties for the extended family of moonshiners. The arrival of a stranger (Harry Carey) is cause for alarm in this small community whose main source of...

When Joan Crawford saw The Shining Hour on the Broadway stage, she pleaded with M-G-M executives to let her spread her acting wings in the film version. Ms. Crawford got her way, playing a New York siren who marries a prosperous farmer (Melvyn Douglas) and moves to Wisconsin. There she is drawn to his handsome brother (Robert Young), even as she befriends the brother's selfless wife (Margaret Sullavan, Crawford's choice for the role). The passionate triangle plays out in the best tradition of...

Lon Chaney plays Wilse Dilling, a crippled brute living in the savage streets of Chinatown, ruled by the crime lord Queen Ann. Her blackmail scheme sends Wilse undercover to a nearby small town, where he meets people who are willing to look past his deformity and he desperately tries to reinvent his life. While he falls in love with the banker's only daughter, his underworld ties begin pulling him back to his old ways. As his lurid past and his new dreams collide, Wilse fights his way to a...

Years ago, eccentric explorer John Farnum purchased two small ancient metal chains while on an expedition. Amazingly, the chains have the power to transform plain sand into rare jewels. Farnum had no idea they were stolen from a religious cult who worship them as sacred relics. The secret of the chains has been discovered by the crooked Clyde Winslow and his crime syndicate. He tasks his organization with obtaining them from Farnum and his daughter Ruth at any cost. At the same time, the...

David Tolliver is a railroad signalman, happy with his job and beautiful wife Sally. Generous to a fault, he offers room and board to a mysterious co-worker, Joe Standish. David is unaware that his new tenant is a former convict until he tries to rape his wife. Throwing the madman out of his house, David tries to resume a life of normalcy with Sally. Standish hides nearby, biding his time until he can attack the shaken young woman again. While trying to prevent two passenger trains from...