Rare feature-length versions of two classic serials -- for the first time on DVD! The Green Archer (BW, 1940): The ghost of the legendary Green Archer once again prowls the corridors of Garr Castle! Ace detective Spike Holland has been hired to investigate the disappearance of the beautiful Elaine. His search leads him to Garr Castle, where the sinister Abel Bellamy has turned the gothic fortress into the headquarters for a gang of crooks. As Holland tries to free Elaine from Bellamy's...

An American G.I. and a nefarious art dealer face off in a quest to find a ancient relic. Tortured by a need to atone for the past, Lieutenant Mike Blake (Glenn Ford) returns to France in search of the Green Glove, a priceless artifact stolen during the Allied Invasion. But Count Paul Rona (George Macready) is also after the gauntlet and is convinced that Blake has had it all along. Blake finds himself framed for murder and must evade the police and the Count's henchmen in order to track down...

Walter Brennan stars as the stubborn patriarch of the Matthews family, a widower starting life over on a new farm, while struggling to raise his four children, in this poignant family drama.Old man Matthews rules with an iron fist and a closed mind, refusing outside help and modern technology, and in the process, slowly tears his weary family apart. When eldest daughter Deborah (Marguerite Chapman) finds a boyfriend and the youngest, Susan (Natalie Wood), joins the local 4-H Club, their...

A stubborn farmer stuck in the past rules his farm and his family with an iron fist. But his unwillingness to move with the times almost causes him to lose everything in this 1940's dustbowl drama. As the story takes an unexpected turn, he is forced to relent and give in to his daughters' wishes to introduce new farming methods and join the local 4-H club. The film is an intriguing study of the country's values during the time. It also features a remarkable performance by an adolescent Natalie...

After a perilous mission to a huge asteroid, a crew returns to its space station, unaware that a bit of ooze from the asteroid clings to a crewman's uniform. The green goop grows -- into murderous, tentacled monsters. And as station members fight to live, gunk from the monsters' wounds turns into more monsters! That's the story. Now enjoy as our heroes fight to preserve Earth and, unintentionally, our own senses of humor with a movie that Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called "one of...

Western star Wild Ben Castle isn't half the man he portrays in his films - he can't sing, doesn't like horses, and worst of all is a womanizing scoundrel and hopeless gambler. When he loses $60,000 in a game of dice with Vegas mogul Harry Callan, he retains the services of attorney Abigail Jane Fernival to get him off the hook. Fernival is a gifted negotiator, but Wild Ben chose her for a different reason - her father was an old friend of Callan's. Callan forgives the debt when Castle charms...

Gunslinger Rory Calhoun dispenses his own brand of justice in this action-packed Western adventure costarring Rod Cameron and Ruta Lee. It's been three years since gunfighter Blaine Madden (Calhoun) visited his hometown. So when he warns the Sully brothers to stop harassing the town drunk, they shoot the old man dead, not realizing he's Madden's father. Killing them both, Madden is badly wounded by the sheriff (Cameron) but escapes to an outlaw haven where the law fears to tread and prepares...

Hank Smith's great strength and childlike nature makes him perfect for the job of chief coal stoker on a mighty ocean liner. He never doubts his role as a common laborer until he is called "a hairy ape" by Mildred Douglas, a spoiled heiress making a transatlantic trip. Docking in New York, Smith walks the city streets in a daze, questioning his formerly unexamined life. His twisted thoughts soon turn to a desire for revenge upon the unsuspecting Mildred, who has returned to her posh Fifth...

During the 1940s, social class conflict is depicted when a spoiled socialite, traveling on a freighter, calls the ship's head stoker a hairy ape, provoking him into stalking the rich woman once ashore in New York.

"Get away from me. Don't touch me, you ape. You hairy ape!" So says wealthy society girl Mildred Douglas (Susan Hayward) when she boards a freighter and encounters Hank Smith (William Bendix), a stoker with a brutal disposition. Her callous comment sends Smith on a journey of self examination. Based loosely on the play by Eugene O'Neil, this was one of the last movies directed by Alfred Santell, a Hollywood journeyman who began his career in the silent era on the Mack Sennett lot. The film...

Flim-flamming carny barker Jimmy Bates (Lee Tracy) vows to turn a hooch dancer into a Broadway sensation. Since the hooch dancer is played by incendiary Lupe Velez, the screen's Mexican Spitfire, it's a good bet she's going to see her name in lights! To start, Jimmy passes off his protege as a Turkish princess and goes straight to the Imperial Suite at a posh Manhattan hotel. Now all he needs to generate a blitz of ballyhoo is a lion and 30 pounds of raw meat ordered from room service -- and...

Joseph H. Lewis directed this intense Western about a young man's (Joseph Cotten) disillusionment with his father (Ward Bond), a corrupt sheriff. When his dad turns away from the lynching of his sister's lover, the boy rebels and his father declares him an "outlaw."

Past war atrocities return to haunt three veterans, inspiring scandal, bloodshed and murder. Scotland Yard is baffled by a series of murders where the victims are found with their hands amputated. When one of the suspects is said to be missing a hand as well, the detectives begin to uncover the sordid history of the mutilated participants. As soldiers in Burma, the three men were captured and tortured until one gave in to their captor's demands. For years a vengeful grudge has grown in the...

Many stars saddled up and rode into Technicolor sunsets during the great Western revival of the 1950s, but only a few would be forever associated with the rugged individualists of the West. Among them are John Wayne, Randolph Scott and the star of The Hanging Tree, Gary Cooper. The story takes place in Skull Creek, an 1870s Montana gold camp. Dr. Joseph Frail (Cooper) arrives, setting out his shingle near the camp's boom-or-bust hubbub of adventurers, ladies of fortune, mountain men and just...

The Haunted Castle (1921, B&W): The sinister Count Oetsch scandalizes the aristocratic social gathering at Castle Vogelod as he announces his intention to "crash" the festivities. Baroness Safferstatt is expected shortly, and the guests are well-aware of the rumors that Count Oetsch murdered the baroness' late husband. Oetsch refuses to leave, vowing that he will reveal the identity of the real killer. Before the weekend is through, the Count and Baroness will reveal secrets too shocking to be...

The Haunted House of Horror is a British horror film starring Frankie Avalon and Jill Haworth. The film's tagline read 'Behind its forbidden doors an evil secret hides!'

A sea captain's discovery of water on a plantation leads to planting of pineapples on the island.

Average singing western, starring Eddie Dean as a U. S. marshal on a secret mission. "While the story formula remains basically similar to other films in this series, there's a slight switch in that Jennifer Holt is the leader of the outlaws. Her underlings kill her uncle who was on the verge of exposing her. She also plots to rub out her cousin... but the scheme is nipped by Dean. Usual chase sequences, fisticuffs and shooting sprinkle the reels." (Variety, March 3, 1948)

A scientist's procedure for keeping body parts functioning is turned against him when a demented assistant decapitates him and keeps his head alive in the laboratory. The scientist's brain is preserved in order to assist in a far more demonic experiment - the attachment of his hunchbacked nurse's head to the body of a voluptuous stripper. Descending into the world of The Head is a similar experience to that of a nightmare, where the landscape is composed of dead trees, dark passageways and...

Sweeping epic scope and recreation of pastoral country life interrupted by warfare sprawls across the screen in vivid neo-realist fashion in the rare historical cinematic treasure, The Heart Of A Nation (Utel Pere et Fils).Three times in under one-hundred years, Paris has been seized by enemy forces. The Heart Of A Nation chronicles the spirit of revolution by juxtaposing the 1940 invasion by the Nazis with the 1871 siege of the City of Lights.The Heart Of A Nation spans 69 years, episodically...

This heartfelt paean dedicated to the inhabitants of New York's Lower East Side serves up laughter and tears along with the chicken soup. Mendel Marantz (George Sidney) may be a lackluster plumber, but he's a first-rate inventor -- at least in secret! Forbidden from tinkering by his wife, Zelda (Anna Appel), Mendel works on a dishwashing machine in his tenement's cellar with help from janitor Bessie (Aline MacMahon) and funds meant for the rent. Mendel is on the cusp of success when the...

Helen Morgan has beauty, talent, success. Yet they mean nothing to her without the love of Larry Maddux, the bootlegger who leads Helen on and drops her so often she finally hits bottom. Set in the roaring '20s, The Helen Morgan Story is also Maddux's story. In his fifth film, Paul Newman plays the mobster with slick assuredness. In her final movie, Ann Blyth portrays the troubled songstress (and Show Boat original cast member), with Gogi Grant performing vocals on signature Morgan tunes....

This explosive war drama stars Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris as resistance fighters who thwart the Nazis' endeavor to create the atomic bomb.

Robert Newton, Sally Gray. Spine tingling suspense in this chiller about a madman who keeps his rival locked in a cellar with plans of murdering him. An A-1 production from start to finish. From 16mm.