Stories of the journeys of a wagon train as it leaves post-Civil War Missouri on its way to California through the plains, deserts and Rocky Mountains. The first treks were led by gruff, but good-at-heart Major Seth Adams, backed up by his competent frontier scout, Flint McCullough. After Adams and McCullough, the wagon train was led by the avuncular Christopher Hale along with new scouts Duke Shannon and Cooper Smith. Many stories featured the trustworthy assistant wagonmaster Bill Hawks,...

A group of post Civil War settlers make their way through the American landscape towards California, finding peril, heartbreak and redemption in the untamed frontier. Beginning in 1957, "Wagon Train" aired for eight seasons, with each episode focusing on a particular character. The three episodes on this disc are taken from the fifth and sixth seasons (1959-60).Episode 1 - Alias Bill Hawks:Assistant wagon master Bill Hawks makes an excursion to a desert town in search of an old friend. Upon...

Stories of the journeys of a wagon train as it leaves post-Civil War Missouri on its way to California through the plains, deserts and Rocky Mountains. The first treks were led by gruff, but good-at-heart Major Seth Adams, backed up by his competent frontier scout, Flint McCullough.

Randolph Scott (Ride the High Country) stars as Clint Belmet, the leader of a wagon train on the way to Oregon. Along the route he and his crew deal with various hardships, including Indian attacks and a fellow named Murdock (Monte Blue) who is out to stop them at any cost. With a cast that includes the likes of Gail Patrick and Billy Lee, this adventure saga was based on a novel by the western master, Zane Grey (Riders of the Purple Sage, Fighting Caravans). Trivia note: The film's original...

The tents are leaky. The troupers are weary. The carnival limps into town and sets up for another show. To the public, the carnival means exciting performers. To Nick Coster, those performers are "mugs and grifters and riffraff -- all under one tent." Nick should know. He puts the show together. Humphrey Bogart plays Nick, bringing crisp authority to a movie whose midway atmosphere is so alive you can almost taste the caramel corn. Sylvia Sidney, Eddie Albert and Joan Leslie join Bogart in...

Bing Crosby stars as press agent Tony Marvin whose job at a pineapple company is to turn Hawaii into pure paradise in the musical comedy Waikiki Wedding. Tony is tasked with escorting a beauty contest winner (Shirley Ross) and her friend (Martha Raye) on a tour of the islands. When "Miss Pineapple" finds herself bored, Tony must go to outrageous lengths to convince her to stay in Hawaii or else risk a public relations nightmare. Co-starring Bob Burns and Anthony Quinn, Waikiki Wedding features...

A small-town barber's personal tragedies are compensated for by the presence of his adoring granddaughter Nellie.

Now two are left: Susy, recently blinded and still learning how to live in a sighted world, and Roat, a psychopathic killer. Roat wants a heroin-stuffed doll he thinks Susy has. All Susy wants is to survive. Dim the lights, check the door's chain lock, and brace yourself for a chiller as polished as the steel of Roat's blade. Audrey Hepburn earned her fifth Academy Award nomination as Susy. Alan Arkin is pure evil as Roat, master of disguise and accents. Jack Weston and Richard Crenna costar...

World War II Vet Gus Brubaker, redrafted through a clerical error, arrives on a dead-end Japanese island and decides to liven things up by building a hotel and using the island girls as the staff. Don Knotts appears as Sgt. Percy Warren.

When Jeff Cairn (John Payne) joins the Navy, he sends his sister Nella (Connie Marshall) to a boarding house, under the supervision of his relatives Sara, Henry, and his sweetheart Jenny. However, when Jeff goes missing in action Nella wants to venture in search of her brother. Directed by Lloyd Bacon with June Haver and Charlotte Greenswood.

As Walter Winchell feuds with bandleader Ben Bernie, a young singer in Ben's band falls in love.

Dove Linkhorn (Laurence Harvey, The Manchurian Candidate) shows up in New Orleans with drifter Kitty Twist (Jane Fonda, Barbarella) looking for his old flame, Hallie (Capucine, The Pink Panther). When Dove finds out that Hallie works at the Doll House, a bordello run by Jo (Barbara Stanwyck, Double Indemnity), Dove looks to take her away. But Jo and her cohorts have no intention of letting their star employee go without a fight. Directed by Edward Dmytryk (The Caine Mutiny) and featuring title...

A stranger with a mysterious past arrives in a small, quiet Ohio town and forever changes the lives he touches. Joseph Cotten stars as Chris Hale, the enigmatic drifter who comes to the town to assume an ordinary life: he takes a room at a boarding house and finds a job at the local shoe factory. Hale also takes a liking to his boss's daughter, Elaine (Alida Valli), who is permanently confined to a wheelchair due to a skiing accident. Elaine is deeply embittered by her disability, but she...

When Ed Carter and his gang violently raids a Shoshone village, killing their women and children, Captain Ed Trask finds himself trying to calm the Shoshone, who are ready to declare war on the white men. Trask finally captures Carter, but his troubles are only just beginning. Carter's compatriots are trying to get the drop on Trask, the town is overflowing with poisonous snakes, and a local young lady's hatred of the Shoshone isn't helping to calm racial tensions any. But Trask ultimately...

Dan Lawton returns home from the Korean War and visits Frank Garrick, the surviving brother of a soldier in his unit who had been killed in combat. With a large cash stake, Frank lures Dan into a bizarre game, in which the two men hunt for each other in the city, their rifles armed with "camera" bullets. Dan has no idea that Frank blames him for his brother's death, has loaded live ammo into his weapon, and intends to murder the unsuspecting ex-GI.Chuck Connors played professional basketball...

Real-life war hero Audie Murphy stars in the riveting Western Walk the Proud Land about one of the most interesting stories of the American frontier. Appointed as an Indian agent in 1874 by the Department of the Interior at the age of twenty-three John Clum (Murphy) is sent to an Apache reservation in San Carlos, Arizona to take over the army's position. After trying to empower and teach self-governing principles to the Apaches, he is faced with opposition not only from some of the Indians but...

In a story set during the Hundred Years War, a student who has abandoned his studies in Paris, pairs with a young noblewoman (Anjelica Huston) with whom he has fallen in love.

Smoke Thatcher intends to borrow his dad's car and enjoy a night out with his girl Patsy. But Dad learns that Smoke is behind in his schoolwork and angrily puts his parental foot down. Smoke steals a neighbor's car only to find himself in a demolition derby "car fight" with a drunken romantic rival. Needing fast money for repairs, Smoke takes a job as driver for Beaut Thibaut - unaware that Beaut is a wanted fugitive planning to use Smoke as a pawn in his next bank heist.A story of reckless...

Quiet and shy, ashamed of her leg withered by polio, Deborah Dainton takes refuge in her work as a trusted employee of a posh London auction house. Within weeks, she is a criminal, the linchpin in a jewel heist. How she got there forms the twisted heart of this psychological crime thriller. The answer, of course, is a man: Leigh Hartley, a painter whose real talent may be his ability to manipulate a lonely young woman. He courts Deborah, making her feel whole and desirable. Now he has one...

And they're off! The pulse-pounding, big-time, big-money world of horse racing forms the backdrop for Wall of Noise. Suzanne Pleshette (The Bob Newhart Show), Ty Hardin (Bronco) and Dorothy Provine (It's a Mad, Mad. Mad. Mad World) make up three sides of a romantic triangle about a horse trainer and the two women - one predatory, one loyal - who love him. The story is steamy, but it's the you-are-there scenes on the track, filmed at Hollywood Park that make Wall of Noise sizzle. The film...

Tough times have left Roy Rogers behind on the mortgage and he is in danger of losing his Circle R Ranch. Greedy banker Niles wants to call the loan, leaving Roy six weeks to raise $26,000. Just when all seems lost, his partner, Gabby, finds some rock samples that seem rich in gold. Roy and Gabby head to New York City hoping that tycoon Roger Hammond will finance a mine that will not only save the ranch, but make them all rich. Roy does not know that a crooked Wall Street syndicate has also...

Wallaby Jim and the loyal crew of the schooner Kestrel roam the reefs around the islands in search of pearls, and they've just found the oyster bed of their dreams. But the seas get choppy when a cut-throat band of rival pearl hunters, led by evil Adolph Richter, muscles in on Jim's territory. With a crew of forced laborers, Richter and his men race to get to the undersea gems before the Kestrel reaches the site. Never one to pass on a good fight, Wallaby Jim sails his rig straight into a...

Joyce Reynolds and Janis Paige play feuding and friendly stepsister romantic rivals in this riotous romantic comedy adapted from a hit Broadway play. All is status quo at the Linnett household: The boys come calling on Joy (Paige), Jackie (Reynolds) tends to her studies, and each parent (Barbara Brown and Edward Arnold) frets about their biological child. The sand in the oil arrives in the form of an old acquaintance, Warren James (Robert Hutton), who has matured somewhat since the stepsisters...

"Kit Carson" (not the famed American frontiersman) plays a prizefighter who uses his boxing skills to clean up rustlers on his father's ranch in this rare silent Western, never before on DVD.