The Silent Code (1935, B&W): The Northwest Mounted Police send Corporal Jerry Hale to investigate criminal corruption in a remote Canadian district. Hale has established a close relationship with the locals, especially beautiful Helen Brent, who works at the trading post partly owned by her prospector father, Nathan Brent. When Nathan announces that he's found a fortune in gold, his partner at the trading post, Peter Barkley, kills him and steals the treasure, framing Corporal Hale for the...

Enemy agents, led by the sinister Benedict Hisston, plan to destroy the Panama Canal and wreck the U.S. Atlantic Fleet in the process. Richard Decatur, a high-ranking Navy official, is the only man who knows the Canal's weak spots. Hisston hires seductress Peg Williams to get the information from him by any means necessary. To his colleagues' shock, Decatur resigns his commission and elopes with the sexy young vamp. Little do they realize that the heroic navy man has learned of the saboteurs'...

This WWII action drama is set in the Mediterranean during 1941 after two British battleships, the Valiant and Queen Elizabeth, were sunk in Alexandria harbour by explosives placed under their hull. The torpedoes were carried on underwater 'chariots' operated by frogmen of the Italian 10th. flotilla. Gibraltar, the gateway to the Mediterranean, was their next target. Lieutenant Crabbe (Laurence Harvey) is assigned to deal with the new threat and protect the ships of the convoy at anchor in the...

Filmed on location in northern Canada and cast with actual Ojibwe tribe members, this stirring motion picture offers a historical glimpse into the daily trials and tribulations faced by the great Native American peoples at the dawn of the 20th century, capturing their vanishing way of life on celluloid for all time. As winter bears down on the hungry Ojibwe Indian nation, aging Chief Chetoga must intercede between two warring factions within his tribe. Baluk, a great hunter, believes that...

John Loder, Donald Wolfitt. A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer? Definitely recommended for all mystery fans. 16mm.

A trainload of silk puts Neil Hamilton on the fast track to murder in this full-throttle thrill-ride costarring Sheila Terry and Guy Kibbee. As the demand for raw silk goes sky high, crooked businessman Wallace Myton (Arthur Hohl) corners the market with plans to drive up the price. Determined to fulfill his contracts, manufacturer Donald Kilgore (Hamilton) imports $3 million worth of silk to Seattle and accompanies it by special train to New York. But when his secretary is found murdered,...

Two-fisted prospector Tom Henderson is appointed sheriff of the outlaw-plagued town of Chico after routing bandits who attempt to intimidate general-store owner Nora Kane. Her elderly father, the town's courageous blind mayor, hopes he lives long enough to find and confront the fiend whose bullets killed Nora's mother and robbed him of sight years before. In the end, a single silver bullet will determine whether good or evil triumphs.The seventh of eighteen "B" Westerns that cowboy star Tom...

He looks like Marlon Brando, some reviewers said of this movie's 29-year-old star, but those comparisons would soon end. Soon to impress with his own intense brilliance, Paul Newman made his movie debut in this Biblical saga in the mode of Quo Vadis and The Robe. Set in Rome during the early Christian era, if focuses on an ill-fated sculptor sold into slavery and torn between his adoring wife (Pier Angeli) and a wily temptress (Virginia Mayo) - and threatened in his work by a power-mad...

Young, handsome and rugged Boyd Emerson (Joel McCrea) is a washed-up gold miner, dogsledding aimlessly through Alaska with scant luck and little hope for the future until he meets Cherry Mallotte (Evelyn Brent). Cherry is an attractive woman with enough worldly knowledge and business contacts to help the young man succeed in business. She is also a woman with a dubious past, much of it kept secret. Soon, young Emerson finds himself torn between two women: Cherry, his Alaskan mentor and...

Following the death of her beloved grandfather, orphaned teenager Lena Rivers goes with her grandmother to live in the Kentucky home of her Uncle John, whose family believes the girl illegitimate. Lena meets Durrie Belmont, the ward of her wealthy next-door neighbor, and romance blossoms. But bitterness and jealousy from members of both families plaque the young couple, and ugly rumors about Lena's parentage lead to a shocking revelation that irrevocably alters her life.Based on a popular...

The Sin of Nora Moran is returning to screens with a limited edition Blu-ray and DVD release as stunning to audiences as it was in 1933! Zita Johann takes on the title role of Nora Moran, a young woman sentenced to death for a murder she did not commit. Awaiting her sentence, Nora explores the patterns of her life in a dream-like haze, including the dark secret that could change not only her own fate - but the fate of those she holds most dear! The intrigue surrounding The Sin of Nora Moran is...

The Sin of Nora Moran is returning to screens with a limited edition Blu-ray and DVD release as stunning to audiences as it was in 1933! Zita Johann takes on the title role of Nora Moran, a young woman sentenced to death for a murder she did not commit. Awaiting her sentence, Nora explores the patterns of her life in a dream-like haze, including the dark secret that could change not only her own fate - but the fate of those she holds most dear! The intrigue surrounding The Sin of Nora Moran is...

Beautiful 21 year old Nora Moran waits on death row, hours away from her execution for a crime she did not commit. Sedated by sympathetic prison matrons, she dreamily recalls her tragic past. Orphaned at birth, she longs for a life in the theater, but as a teen is only able to find work in the circus as an assistant to Paulino, the lion tamer. Eventually, she runs away to escape brutal sexual abuse at the hands of her employer. Fleeing to another town, she finds love for the first time as the...

Yankel is a handsome, uneducated blacksmith who spends his days hammering away at his forge and his nights drinking and carousing with women. He never questions this lifestyle until he meets Tamara, a progressive girl of rare sensitivity. Yankel resolves to leave his old ways behind, and the two are married. Their happy union is threatened when they rent a room to Rivke, a lascivious woman who has just left her husband. Her lustful nature stirs long-buried feelings inside Yankel, and when she...

Crooked lawyer John Tolen discovers gold on the Harkins Ranch. His henchmen murder Tom Harkins and his daughter and then gun down six-year old Billy Harkins. Good samaritan Dorothy Hendricks rescues the orphan boy and nurses him back to health. She suspects that Tolen is responsible for the shootings and must expose the killer and bring him to justice.Dorothy Page was a former model with a successful singing career on radio in 1935 when Universal Pictures featured her in Manhattan Blue and...

Karin Dor, Siegfried Lowitz, Harald Leipnitz, Ilse Steppat. The setting is a girls' school where a hooded killer, "the Monk," lashes his victims to death with a whip. Scotland Yard tries to track him down, but more slayings occur before they can find the killer. One of the last black-and-white Wallace chillers. From a top 16mm print.

An idealistic young minister is driven from the tiny backwoods settlement of Swan Creek by the cowpokes who are the hard drinking godless heathens that populate the remote borough. He wins the respect of ranch foreman Bill Hendricks, who gets the "sky pilot" a job as a cowpuncher. The reverend proves himself a tough and able range rider, but when he chances upon a rustling operation, his discovery threatens to get both him and and his new pal killed.Honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk Of...

Drug pushing and gambling set the stage for murder in The Sleeping City, a hardboiled film noir thriller shot on the streets of New York. When a doctor is shot dead outside Bellevue Hospital, detective Fred Rowen (Richard Conte) is assigned to find the killer. Posing as an intern, Rowen is befriended by the hospital's elevator operator (Richard Taber) and a ward nurse (Coleen Gray) he begins to date. As his investigation continues and potential witnesses wind up dead, Rowen finds himself next...

THE SLOWEST GUN IN THE WEST (1960): The town of Primrose, Arizona is overrun by outlaws. Every sheriff hired to protect the townsfolk is promptly murdered by the criminal population. The mayor finally turns to Fletcher Bissell III, aka "The Silver Dollar KId", a lawman so lily-livered, no gunslinger wants to ruin their reputation by shooting him. The ploy works, and peace is restored to Primrose. The crooks realize the only way to get rid of Bissell is to hire a gunman just as cowardly as he...

The U.S. Navy emerged from World War II as the most powerful blue water force ever to sail the globe. Yet, when America entered into the Vietnam conflict, naval planners realized that the massive ships of the fleet were not well suited for some of the missions that the Navy would need to undertake in the country. South Vietnam not only possessed a long and vulnerable coastline, but it also had countless miles of inland waterways. In response to these challenges, the military launched Operation...

Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert light up the screen in this charming musical comedy The Smiling Lieutenant directed by Ernst Lubitsch. While on patrol, Lieutenant Nikolaus "Niki" von Preyn (Chevalier) winks at his beautiful love interest, Franzi (Colbert). However, a frumpy princess named Anna (Miriam Hopkins) mistakenly believes he is flirting with her. Niki soon finds himself walking down the aisle at his own royal wedding and being whisked away to a neighboring kingdom. When Franzi...

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!Legends of a prehistoric creature, the link between man and beast, send American scientists on an expedition through the Himalayas. Their search for the Yeti leads them on a treacherous path through the mountains as the creature sets brutal traps to halt their pursuit. During a tense showdown...

The Snows of Kilimanjaro is a 1952 American film based on the short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The film stars Gregory Peck as Harry and Susan Hayward as Helen and was nominated for two Oscars. The story begins with Gregory Peck (Harry Street) on safari in Africa. Harry has a severely infected wound as he lies outside his tent awaiting a slow death. In a delirious state, Harry reflects upon a relationship he had with Cynthia Green (Ava Gardner), whom he met in Paris. Harry and...

Ernest Hemingway's classic tale gets the Hollywood treatment in this 1952 adventure from Twentieth Century Fox. Gregory Peck stars as Harry Street, a hunter reflecting on his life as he lies dying while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro. The movie, which also starred Ava Gardner and Susan Hayward, received Oscar nominations for cinematography and art direction, and was listed as one of the top ten films of the year by the National Board of Review. Thanks to a star-studded cast and...