Circus owner Sarah Post is having trouble making ends meet, but her dedicated staff won't let her throw in the towel. Things go from bad to worse when Sarah's pretty young niece, Penny, accidentally burns the circus tent to the ground. The girl more than makes up for her mistake when she grows up to be a big box-office draw as a trapeze superstar. The circus now thrives, but Penny chafes under her aunt's strict rules and runs off with her aerial partners, Ricardo and Pablo. When Sarah falls...

Set in France in the 17th century a duelist ignores the new laws against dueling and is sentenced to death. He is promised by Cardinal Richelieu that he will be lenient on certain conditions.

In 17th century France, master swordsman Gil de Berault is accused of illegally dueling within the Paris city limits and is sentenced to hang on the gallows. Moments before being fitted for a noose, de Berault's life is spared by powerful Cardinal Richelieu, who has a secret mission for him. Richelieu and King Louis XIII are worried about the rising rebelliousness of the Huguenots, and they task the swordsman with capturing Duke Edmond, the leader of the rebels. Gil is certain the job will be...

"This is a tale of the limitless sea and of the limitless courage of man, challenging the secrets the oceans have guarded from the beginning of time..."World-famous diver and marine biologist Dr. Hans Hass uncovers the mysteries of the Red Sea in this breathtaking documentary. A forerunner of Jacques Cousteau, Hass pioneered underwater photography in the 1940's, becoming the first to capture sharks and people in the same frame on film. His rugged he-man looks also granted him teen idol status...

In this lusty comedy, Jack Lemmon is a love-hungry landlord who pursues tenant Carol Lynley, who is already engaged to Dean Jones.

Newly-elected Congressman Roy Rogers desperately seeks relief for the thousands whose farms are being decimated in the "Great Dust Bowl." Nature's harsh hand is being aided by the Great Western Water & Power Company, who have built an enormous dam and are charging farmers exorbitant rates for water. But, new to Capitol Hill, Roy's attempts to bring attention to the plight of his constituents go unheeded. A beautiful lobbyist, Eleanor Fairbanks, helps Roy with a winning strategy. He holds a...

Newly minted postal inspector William Trent inadvertently violates his department's strict regulations and receives a three-month suspension. While on leave, he becomes suspicious of a popular sweepstakes being run by a bookie named Bartel. Trent tips off his supervisor, who recommends that the suspended agent go undercover and monitor the operation. William develops a personal interest in the phony gambling venture. His fiancee's cash-strapped father is under Bartel's thumb, and clamping down...

Bank teller Bob Hunter is branded a coward when he fails to thwart an armed holdup. Even his girlfriend, Betty Winton, gives up on him when he is fired and his reputation in the tough town of Highland is ruined. He joins the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in an attempt to redeem himself. Bob is elated when he is assigned to Highland to crack the same gang of bank robbers that destroyed his life. All seems lost when he is kicked off the force for brawling with a fellow officer. Worse still, the...

Newlywed Ann Garroway (Katharine Hepburn) is blinded by happiness. Maybe her sudden entry into the Washington elite makes her unable to see the true nature of her husband (Robert Taylor). She overlooks the menace that creeps into his words and pays no mind when domestic animals seem fearful in his presence. And she trusts him when he says his mysterious, long-unseen brother (Robert Mitchum) is a psychopath. Shadows flicker, Brahms' Symphony No. 3 sets a brooding tone, and Ann's marriage...

Young Henry Tate and his dog, Hobo, must prove themselves on the mean streets of the city, where youth gangs and police trouble lurk beyond the backyard fence. His father, John Tate, is finally offered work as a night watchman by a shady character named Frank Krager, who takes a suspicious interest in the activities of defense workers who frequent the bar where John usually spends his nights. Soon father, son and trusty dog all find themselves at the center of a plot by Nazi saboteurs to blow...

An American intelligence agent attempts to kidnap a top Nazi general.

The complete "The Undersea Kingdom" serial on two DVDs.

Join the mighty Crash Corrigan as he explores the wondrous lost continent of Atlantis! Voyaging deep below the surface in a rocket-fueled submarine, Crash and his nautical crew become entangled in the turbulent forces of Unga Khan (Monte Blue), the sinister ruler of Atlantis, who is determined to conquer the world. Crash must contend with brutal, chariot-riding soldiers and the deadly robotic Volkites in his mission to foil Khan's quest for total domination.

An undertaker and his two friends, who are restaurant owners, drum up business by going out on the town and killing people; the restaurant owners use parts of the bodies for their menu, and the undertaker gets paid by the families to bury the remainder. Their racket goes awry when 2 detectives suspect that something isn't quite kosher

Best remembered as the director and creative promoted of such campy horror films as The House on Haunted Hill (1959) and The Tingler (1959), William Castle was a multi-talented director, producer, screenwriter and actor who helmed many competent small-budget films for Columbia Pictures, including four titles in The Whistler franchise. UNDERTOW (1949) stars B Western and TV regulars Scott Brady and John Russell as old friends who reunite and discover they have more in common than either would...

Treasure hunters face the dangers of the deep in Underwater!, RKO's romantic action-adventure set in the exotic undersea world of the Caribbean. Hollywood beauty Jane Russell is Theresa, girlfriend of ship operator Johnny, who teams up with perennial rainbow chaser Dominic. They hunt for fabled treasure lost in an old Spanish galleon off the Cuban coast. Amid the threat of rapacious sharks and the hazards of underwater salvaging, the adventurers work against time. They must raise the gold from...

Treasure hunters face the dangers of the deep in Underwater!, RKO's romantic action-adventure set in the exotic undersea world of the Caribbean. Hollywood beauty Jane Russell is Theresa, girlfriend of ship operator Johnny, who teams up with perennial rainbow chaser Dominic. They hunt for fabled treasure lost in an old Spanish galleon off the Cuban coast. Amid the threat of rapacious sharks and the hazards of underwater salvaging, the adventurers work against time. They must raise the gold from...

A group of tough teens face prison when a burglary attempt is foiled by the police. Instead, the boys are paroled into the custody of crusading newspaper editor, Steve Wilson. Wilson's paper, The Daily Press, leads a campaign to provide a healthy outlet for the delinquents and a youth recreation center is set up. While most of the gang become busily engaged in their winning basketball team, tough punk Tommy Malone cannot resist the lure of easy cash. Malone allows gangsters to store their...

Crime reporter Mike Reese (Dan Duryea) has a nose for news and an eager hand under the table in return for spinning the truth in favor of moneyed perps. But after he tries to cash in on a story involving a maid accused of a society murder, Reese ultimately finds the courage to reveal the truth and make amends for his tainted past. One of this noirish film's lines of dialogue refers to ancestral witch burnings. Intentionally or not, the line underscores the imminent blacklisting of The...

Mysterious Seton Mansley (Charles Coburn) is a man of leisure, idly whiling away the hours in Palm Beach, Florida. Prompted to play uncle to young lingerie clerk Kathleen Brown (Anne Shirley) -- who was unfairly fired after millionaire playboy Johnny Kerrigan (James Craig) flirted with her in the store -- Seton coerces her manager (an uncredited Hans Conried) into rehiring her by impersonating a member of the store's board. "Uncle" Seton then chaperones Kathleen through her budding romance...

The wages of sin are deceit, heartbreak and possibly murder in The Unfaithful, a thriller about a wife who has an affair while her GI husband is off fighting in the Pacific. Then, after the war and happily reunited with her husband, she stabs the castoff lover in what may or may not be a case of self-defense. Ann Sheridan gives one of her finest performances -- variously calculating, terrified and remorseful -- as a woman desperate to keep her past a secret and her marriage whole. As her...

Young Meg Merlin, who hero-worships a dancer at her elite ballet school, is heartbroken when prima ballerina La Darina arrives to rival her idol. So Meg devises a plan. One little tug on a light switch while La Darina dances Swan Lake will ruin the performance. But Meg pulls the wrong switch -- the one that opens a stage trapdoor -- and sends the prima ballerina into a career-ending plunge to the floor below. Margaret O'Brien and Cyd Charisse play two generations of dancers in this lavish...

A $10,000 prize for the person who establishes the true identity of notorious fugitive safecracker, Jimmy Valentine, turns a pleasant suburban town into a madhouse, as reporters, treasure-hunters and glory-seekers descend. Eager to collect the reward, ad-man Mike Jason arrives with his old flame Cleo Arden. But the light-hearted quest turns into a terrifying nightmare when dead bodies start turning up. Someone is determined to derail the search for Jimmy Valentine and prevent the shocking...

In his last film -- and only Talkie -- Lon Chaney recreates one of his famed Silent roles: the scheming ventriloquist Prof. Echo. Disguised as Grandma O'Grady, Echo heads a robbery ring that includes a feeble-minded strongman and a cigar-chomping little person, the latter masquerading as Grandma's grandbaby. Known as the Man of a Thousand Faces, Chaney here displays a different kind of virtuosity as well, creating five different voices to portray Echo, Grandma, a parrot, a girl and Echo's...