Tyrone Power plays a high stakes game for love and money in the Technicolor adventure The Mississippi Gambler. Mark Fallon (Power), a riverboat gambler on his way to New Orleans, meets Angelique Dureau (Piper Laurie), a Southern belle who spurns his charm and advances. Using his winnings to build a casino, Fallon's card skills makes him a fortune, while his pursuit of the fiery Angelique leads to knife fights, suicides, family feuds and duels over personal honor.

Knocked unconscious in a savage desert battle, Captain St. Avit of the French Foreign Legion, is astounded when he awakens in the fabled lost city of Atlantis. Now an immense maze of tunnels and chambers hidden below the Sahara, the vast populace worships and serves their goddess, Queen Antinea. St. Avit is summoned to the Queen's chambers where he is challenged to a chess game with extremely high stakes. If he wins he is free to go, if he loses he will be put to death. Nevertheless, St. Avit...

Horror crawls from the depths of the Earth in the classic sci-fi thriller The Mole People. When three archaeologists come upon a strange albino race of beings living deep underground, the scientists are treated like gods because of their "magical cylinders of light." Worship soon turns to wrath when the scientists try to liberate the tyrannical albinos' oppressed slaves, the mutant mole people. The humans are now in a race against time to escape this strange underground world before its...

A secret society of militant coal miners battled their exploitation by the mine owners with violence and intimidation. This gripping, true story follows a detective on undercover assignment for the owners, fighting his own conscience, while attempting to gain the trust of the tough and suspicious leader of the Mollies.

A secret society of militant coal miners battled their exploitation by the mine owners with violence and intimidation. This gripping, true story follows a detective on undercover assignment for the owners, fighting his own conscience, while attempting to gain the trust of the tough and suspicious leader of the Mollies.

Paul Meurisse, Marcel Dallo, Barbara Steele. Barbara plays a sexy villainess in this rare, French spy/comedy thriller. From 16mm.

The sleepy town of San Angelo is in danger after a giant meteor crashes nearby in the classic sci-fi thriller The Monolith Monsters. Strange black rocks from the event litter the town and nearby geologists are unable to identify the unusual specimens. When the alien monoliths interact with water, they grow to terrifying, gargantuan dimensions and petrify anyone in their path. It is up to one of the geologists and a dedicated professor to stop their path of destruction before they plow...

Scot Webster tries to save his sister Susan from the clutches of gangster W.S. Bruhl. When Scot comes to Bruhl's rented room, one of the gangster's henchmen collapses into his hands, killed by a gunman. The murderer tosses his gun to Scot and disappears. Since all the evidence points at him, Scot is arrested, tried and sentenced to death. A mad scientist uses his brain to transplant it into a gorilla. After the operation Scot wakes up in the body of a gorilla, eager to get his revenge.

Mad scientist injects his enemies with acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed.

A doctor, who keeps an ape for medical studies, dies and his daughter inherits his estate. Her uncle, a paralytic, working through his natural son by the housekeeper, plans her death, and the ape may or may not be involved. However, the plan does have a problem or two in its execution.

A wealthy scientist dies and his heirs are called to his gloomy mansion for the reading of the will. As thunder explodes and lightning flashes, a murderer runs loose in the dark hallways and hidden passages. It is a night of terror for the house guests as they face death at the hand of an unseen killer. A vintage old house thriller, The Monster Walks was directed by Frank Strayer, known for many independent features including The Vampire Bat, Condemned to Live and The Ghost Walks, as well as...

Based on a John Steinbeck novel, the film is the story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II.

U.S. Revenue Agent Frank Long knows that good ol' boy Son Martin has brewed up barrels and barrels of premium corn liquor, and Long also knows precisely what he needs to do: get those barrels of booze for himself so that he can make a fat Depression-era profit. Long's crooked gambit sets in motion the exploitation-pic guilty pleasures and vicious death dealing of The Moonshine War, scripted by Elmore Leonard (Get Shorty) from his novel. Alan Alda (M *A *5 *H) plays easy-going Son, who has a...

Fiendish, blood-thirsty Count Zaroff (Leslie Banks) hunts Man instead of animals on his secluded island. When world-renowned big game hunter Robert Rainsford (Joel McCrea) is washed ashore after a shipwreck and refuses the Count's invitation to join in the hunt, he becomes the hunted. If the Count cannot track down Rainsford between midnight and sunrise, he is free. If caught, his head ends up on the Count's wall of trophies. Fay Wray is the Count's reluctant prize maiden and becomes part of...

After their luxury cabin cruiser crashes on a reef, Bob Rainsford finds himself washed ashore on a remote island. He finds a fortress-like house and the owner, Count Zaroff, seems to be quite welcoming. Apart from Zaroff's servant Ivan, the only other people present are Eve Trowbridge and her brother Martin, also survivors of their own shipwreck. Other survivors are missing however and Rainsford soon learns why. Zaroff releases them into his jungle island and then hunts them down in his grisly...

Not content with wild game, the psychotic Count Zaroff prefers to hunt human beings in this classic horror thriller. Hapless boaters are intentionally ship-wrecked on the Count's creepy private island, where dogs are unleashed and the breathless hunt begins. The wicked storyline would be oft-repeated (most notably in the 1995 John Woo film "Hard Target") but never bettered. This version will be of particular interest to fans of "King Kong": Not only does it employ the same director and much of...

An eccentric hunter causes a ship to be wrecked on an island where he can indulge in his favorite sport: the hunting of humans! Leslie Banks stars as Zaroff, the hunter, while the rest of the cast includes Joel McCrea, Robert Armstrong, and Hollywood's greatest screamer, Fay Wray. The film was released before the Hays Code started dictating what actors could wear, so Wray and McCrea are shown running around the jungle in some surprisingly skimpy outfits. The jungle sets, incidentally, would be...

A hot tip leads police to a wild party where partially-clad society playgirl, Diane Wyman, entertains revelers with a wantonly seductive dance. A news photographer takes a snapshot of her, drunk, half-naked,and under arrest. The photo makes the front page, and the resultant public scandal costs Diane an inheritance due to a morals clause in her daddy's will. Broke and with nothing to lose, she boards a train bound for New Orleans, hoping to escape her troubles at the Mardi Gras. She befriends...

For years, film historian John K. Carpenter ('The Movie Man') has been one of the most dedicated supporters of the art of silent comedy. Now he presents more rarities from his archives. "Like an Indiana Jones of film history, I started hunting for 16mm prints when I was still in short pants. That's why so many of the films on these DVDs can't be seen anywhere else. These shorts demonstrate how many of Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd and Langdon's contemporaries are just as funny as those icons on "The...

For years, film historian John K. Carpenter ('The Movie Man') has been one of the most dedicated devotees of the art of silent comedy. Now he presents even more rarities from his archives. "The reason why I have spent decades collecting these rare silent comedies is the same reason you have been buying these one-of-a-kind DVDs -- because there was such an abundance of creative effort during the silent era. I am devoted to making available the work of even the most forgotten comedians, who once...

Film historian John K. Carpenter ('The Movie Man') is one of the most dedicated devotees of the art of silent comedy, with a collection unsurpassed by few in its breadth and rarity. Now he presents even more gems from his archives. "There is mystery and history lying within films from the silent era. So many thousands were produced, yet today less than half are known to exist. For decades, I sought out the oddest shorts because I felt they would further my understanding of the art of silent...

For years, film historian John K. Carpenter ('The Movie Man') has been one of the most dedicated preservationists of the art of silent comedy. Now he presents a new collection of rarities from his archives. "So many of the silent comedies I have spent my life collecting illustrate the tremendous diversity and creativity that existed during the golden age of filmmaking. No one comic was in any way the same. The highly creative talents that star in these shorts are for the most part unknown...

Film historian John K. Carpenter ('The Movie Man') is considered one of the most dedicated preservationists of silent comedy. Now he presents a new collection of rare comedy shorts from the early days of sound! "In the years since I became known as "The Movie Man", I have found that the period of transition from silent to sound is the most interesting, as there was an overwhelming need for actors known for their vocal skills! This meant radio acts, vaudeville performers and nightclub...

For years, film historian John K. Carpenter ('The Movie Man') has been one of the most dedicated supporters of the art of silent comedy. Now he presents this collection of the rarest of the rare from his archives. "I have compiled from my 16mm film prints an assortment of shorts that are not only rare, but unseen for decades! All the big studios were trying to outdo each other back then when it came to comedy. The unbridled creativity on display in these films makes them seem just as new as...