An executive worries he's about to be downsized in this satirical look at corporate life starring Jose Ferrer and Gena Rowlands in her screen debut. Things are looking up for Jim Fry (Ferrer). First, his company has just been acquired by a huge conglomerate, which would mean a promotion. And only this morning, his wife of nine years (Rowlands) announced she is finally pregnant. Arriving at work to share his good news, Jim learns of an important luncheon the new owners are throwing to which...

The Hitch-Hiker is a film noir inspired by the crime spree of the psychopathic murderer Billy Cook (1928-1952). The film was regarded as the first American mainstream film directed by a woman and was selected in 1998 as being 'culturally, historically or aesthetically significant'.

A fishing trip turns into a journey through hell when two men pick up a homicidal maniac by the side of the road. The hitch-hiker has left a bloody trail of death across the countryside. His latest victims are forced to drive him through the desolate wilds of Mexico as he tries to make a getaway. Knowing that they may be killed at any time, the two men desperately struggle to escape. Their captor psychologically tortures them, destroying any hope of survival. As their sanity unravels, the...

Johnny Hardwick grew up at the racetrack and knows that his horse Honeyblossom, is unbeatable. At an after-race party, Johnny comes to the aid of a woman who is being molested by a brute and in the ensuing fight breaks a bottle over the man's head. Wanted by the law, he flees to the tiny backwater town of Madison Springs where he falls in love with pretty Margaret Warren and lands a job in her dad's grocery store. When Margaret tells Johnny that her father is about to wager his life savings on...

Vincent Lubeck, a violent thug just released from prison, is poised to make his mark on the city. He gathers a team of ruthless accomplices to plan an armored car heist that will make him a millionaire. His family attempts to place him on the straight and narrow, but instead Vincent betrays their love and uses them as pawns in his diabolical scheme. When his brother stumbles onto the plot, the criminal brutally attacks his own flesh and blood, leaving him for dead. Driven mad with his...

William Powell makes a rare return to the shady characters he played prior to Philo Vance and Nick Charles in this powerful drama set during the Roaring Twenties. Coming home from the Great War without a job or prospects, reporter Terry O'Neill (Powell) crashes a wedding where socialite Kay Lorrison (Esther Williams) lands him a job on her uncle's paper. Running a campaign against an unethical tycoon, O'Neill decides to switch sides and leaves Kay behind to join him. Making a fortune on Wall...

Kirk Douglas must choose between orders and conscience in this intense psychological drama costarring Nick Adams and Robert Walker, jr. in his screen debut. As the Korean War winds down, Sgt. Briscoe (Douglas) and his men (Adams and Walker, jr.) capture an enemy pilot (Enrique Magalona) who's just bombed a hospital and school. Ordered to execute the soldier, the three Americans come into conflict over the difference between killing a man in combat and shooting an unarmed prisoner of war. Based...

In the chaotic days following the American Civil War, a strong-minded ex-Union soldier, Ralph Hartsook (Norman Foster), sets out to become a school teacher in a dusty Indiana town. Even though bitterness against the "Yankees" still runs deep, he gets the job - mainly because none of the townspeople thinks he'll last very long. Facing a hostile classroom, Ralph slowly wins over his pupils, especially class bully Bud Larkin (Fred Kohler, Jr.).Trouble ensues when the schoolmaster falls for the...

Forever one of comedy's reigning kings, the immortal Jack Benny trades in his royal scepter for a heavenly trumpet in this brilliant in this 1945 comedic fantasy about an innocent angel faced with the dubious task of destroying an all-to-indulgent Earth. Since persecution and hatred have soared out of control, Heaven's "front office" sends Athanael (Benny), a trumpet player in Heaven's orchestra, to Earth to play the first four notes of the "Judgment Day Overture." The notes must be played...

Masters of the musical Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart contribute three songs to this lighthearted reverse-Cinderella romance. High atop a skeletal skyscraper under construction, riveters Bill Dugan (Tom Dugan) and Hap Harrigan (Ben Lyon) cry "Got ya!" while catching red-hot rivets and singing "Nobody Loves a Riveter (But His Mother)" when a sleeping beauty in a neighboring penthouse catches Hap's eye. Enraptured, Hap misses his "Got ya!" and a rivet crashes through the boudoir window, causing...

Michael Gough, Ronald Howard, Patricia Roc. Gough plays an author who moves into a small country house to write a good murder mystery. There he finds evidence of an actural murder. What secret does the dark forest hold? His life is soon threatened by a psychopath. Nice. chiller. 16mm.

Jealousy, loyalty, and a family feud between two brothers are all at play in The House of the Seven Gables, based on the classic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The sudden death of Jaffrey (George Sanders) and Clifford (Vincent Price) Pyncheon's father provides the vengeful and vindictive Jaffrey with the perfect opportunity to get his brother out of the way and seize the family fortune. Framed for murder and forced to leave his fiancee (Margaret Lindsay) behind, Clifford is sent off to prison,...

Set sail for a thrilling mystery-adventure filled with tantalizing twists and gripping suspense! Robert Taylor stars as John Nordley, an opportunistic charter boat captain who's always willing to skirt the rules if the price is right. When Nordley's passenger dies on a clandestine voyage from England to Holland, the Dutch police want answers as well as the cryptic map the dead man was carrying. Now, to clear his name, Nordley must team up with the man's daughter, Constanta (Nicole Maurey), and...

Vintage, classic horror from William Castle, the master of budget B-movies. Five strangers are invited to stay the night at a haunted house with each receiving $10,000 if they can live through the night. This 1950's horror movie stars Vincent Price as Frederick Loren, Carol Ohmart as Annabelle Loren (Loren's wife), Alan Marshal as Dr. Trent, Richard Long as Lance and Carolyn Craig as Nora. The five strangers are brought to Haunted Hill in funeral cars, a foreboding of things to come. With...

Lilli Palmer, John Moulder-Brown, Cristina Galbo, Mary Maude. This creepy Euro-thriller is centered in a French boarding school for wayward young women. Palmer is the over-the-top head mistress who runs the joint. Sexual escapades abound within its walls. Then the girls start vanishing one by one. A mysterious killer is loose within the manorOs dark corridors. Very intense for its time, this cult favorite is one you wonOt want to miss. Rated R. Color, scope, 16mm.

Legendary Dracula star Bela Lugosi has one of his more sadistic and horrific roles as a fraudulent insurance broker in this eerie British thriller. The Human Monster is based on a story by Edgar Wallace, the renowned mystery writer. Scotland Yard detective Lieutenant Holt (Hugh Williams) is charged with investigating the mysterious drownings of five people. Lugosi plays Doctor Orloff who has written the insurance policies on all of the victims. Holt's investigation leads him to a home for the...

In fifteenth century Paris, the brother of the archdeacon plots with the gypsy king to foment a peasant revolt. Meanwhile, a freakish hunchback falls in love with the gypsy queen.

In The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), the brother of the archdeacon plots with the gypsy king to foment a peasant revolt. Meanwhile, a freakish hunchback falls in love with the gypsy queen. In The Phantom of the Opera (1925), a mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.

Laura Mead (played by celebrated ice-skating queen-turned-actress Belita) insists she didn't do the crime. But she did the time, swearing she would murder the incompetent attorney who represented her at her jewel-theft trial. Not long after her release from prison, the attorney's gunned-down body is found. Laura flees. Tracking her is a detective Laura had also threatened with death: johnny Saxon (Preston Foster), who years back had arrested her for the jewel theft and who once loved - perhaps...

A mad saboteur known only as "The Wrecker" is out to destroy the L&R Railroad! Airline pilot Larry Baker wants swift revenge when his father, a train engineer, is killed in one of the terrorist's attacks. Baker's task won't be easy, though - there is a long list of suspects who hold a grudge against L&R, and the cunning Wrecker has the uncanny ability to disguise himself as any one of them. Hot on the trail, Baker must survive breakneck car chases, violent train crashes and attacks from...

Thomas De Quincey, the head of a large lumber company, considers his son Jack to be a good-for-nothing wastrel. To make a man out of him, he sends Jack to investigate reports of strange goings-on at his lumber camp up north. There Jack discovers that the loggers are running an elaborate bootlegging operation. Before he can report it to the police, the spring thaw causes an ice flood that engulfs the camp. Now Jack and the crooks must work side-by-side if they are to survive...Shot at a lumber...

On a remote island in the South Seas, the natives are torn between two opposing groups of white colonizers: the missionaries who wish to convert them to Christianity, and the slave traders who want to condemn them to eternal servitude. Unsure of her place among any of them is "White Almond Flower," a beautiful young white girl who was raised to believe she is one of the islanders. She is lusted after by Dan McGuire, a drunkard, and Walter Kincaid, the cowardly nephew of the head missionary....

Rod Steiger plays the tattoo-covered title role in this fascinating vision of doom and danger based on the classic short story collection by futurist Ray Bradbury. Robert Drivas portrays a good-natured drifter who can't tear his eyes away from Steiger's freakish illustrations. And Claire Bloom is the mysterious seductress who created the "art" that curses its bearer -- and comes to life in a nightmarish trio of tales. Two spoiled children turn playtime into slay time (from The Veldt)....

Trapped at the bottom of hostile waters, explorers discover their only chance for survival is a labyrinth of undersea caves. The caverns provide oxygen and shelter for the survivors, but lack an escape route to the surface. When they come across a human who has lived in the tunnels for fourteen years, their hopes for a passage out are dashed. Facing an eternity spent in the caverns of the deep, the four explorers' relationships deteriorate. As their confidence fades, their seaside leader...