Happy-go-lucky power pole linemen Torchy, Slim and Eddie maintain the city's electrical system despite rain, heat and gloom of night - but it's on the ground, when a girl enters the picture, that sparks start to fly. The linemen's boss Pop Foster is killed in a explosion, so they invite his daughter Ann to move into their home as their housekeeper. The 19-year-old is lovely, the linemen who once thought of her like a sister are smitten, and there are complications. When power lines need repair...

Mickey's Derby Day (1933, B&W): Mickey vows to get a horse and compete with spoiled rich boy Stinky. in the big race at the Toonerville fair. This classic Mickey McGuire short was originally released as "Mickey's Race." Starring Mickey Rooney; Directed by J.A. Duffy.Play! Girls (1936, B&W): A surprise musical review awaits an audition weary producer when he accepts a dinner invitation at a director's home. With Joe May & June Earle, The Five Ames Sisters, The Three Graces, Winnie & Bobbie...

A minor classic, Creature From The Haunted Sea is unlike any other American film of the period. This monster film parody takes swipes at every manner of movie convention - subtitles, musical interludes, etc. In Castro's Cuba, a ragtag group of loyalists hire an American gangster to smuggle out the nation's treasury. Their boat cruise becomes a nightmare when an undersea monster begins picking them off one by one. This comedy of errors has an intriguing cast of weird characters. Secret agent...

A captain blames the death of his crew on a make believe sea creature. Little did he know there was a real sea monster that later shows up.

Here's another Roger Corman classic from the golden age of Drive-In schlock! In this spoof of horror and spy thrillers, American gangster Renzo Capetto (Anthony Carbone) decides to kill members of his bungling crew and blame their deaths on a legendary sea creature. What he doesn't know is that the creature is actually out there!

Two men have already died. How many more may be lost? From filmmakers John and Roy Boulting (Brighton Rock, Lucky Jim) comes this suspenseful tale of Royal Navy sailors risking their lives in a dangerous mission to engineer a top-secret torpedo. When a test of the torpedo turns fatal, the Admiralty sends in a team from the U.S. Navy, including Lieutenant "Brad" Bradville (Gene Kelly), the new director of the program. But the tight-knit Brits don't exactly welcome the Yank interlopers,...

Discover the charming Christmas tale of a toymaker and daughter in the original holiday special, Cricket on the Hearth! Caleb, a poor toymaker, discovers a cricket on his fireplace which he hopes will bring good luck to him and his daughter, Bertha. A series of unfortunate events proves trying for everyone with the only hope being a Christmas miracle. Based on a story by Charles Dickens, the Rankin/Bass production of Cricket on the Hearth features unforgettable animation and is sung and told...

Discover the charming Christmas tale of a toymaker and daughter in the original holiday special, Cricket on the Hearth! Caleb, a poor toymaker, discovers a cricket on his fireplace which he hopes will bring good luck to him and his daughter, Bertha. A series of unfortunate events proves trying for everyone with the only hope being a Christmas miracle. Based on a story by Charles Dickens, the Rankin/Bass production of Cricket on the Hearth features unforgettable animation and is sung and told...

An innocent man is accused of murdering a cabaret singer. His loyal classmates, although suspicious of his guilt, provide him with false alibis. When the man investigates, to really clear his name he encounters a real threat to his life from those classmates.

It says a lot about George Hamilton's acting skills that his first credited performance was this starring -- and very demanding -- role. He shines as Robert Cole, a troubled young man with a troubling belief: Exceptional people shouldn't have to pay for their crimes. After blacking out near the scene of a murder, Cole captures the attention of the police and proceeds to play a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a tenacious cop, a beautiful stranger and a family foe. 1950s Southern California is as...

His judgment weakened by hunger and deprivation, destitute student Raskolnikov decides to murder Aliona - the old pawnbroker who has hastened his own economic ruin. In his warped mind he has deduced that killing a person, who is a toxic detriment to society, is not a crime. But when the old hag's sister stops by for a visit, Raskolnikov is obliged to murder her as well. Wracked with guilt over the double homicide, he can find no peace, even as the noose of the law draws ever tighter around...

Out of the frying pan into the inferno for Frankie, Squirt, Goofy, Spike and the rest of their pals. They've been grabbed off slum streets and sent to reform school. There, they'll be changed. Brutally changed into hardened criminals unless a compassionate defender stands up for them. One year after his corrosive influence on slum kids as Baby Face Martin in Dead End, Humphrey Bogart portrays a champion of wayward boys in this social-conscience movie. Playing the boys: Dead End's Leo Gorcey,...

This disc contains episodes of some of the most beloved crime series of the 1950s such as The Lawless years staring James Gregory and Dangerous Assignment starring Brian Donlevy as US special Agent Steve Mitchell.

This disc contains episodes of some of the most beloved crime series of the 1950s such as The Lawless years staring James Gregory and Dangerous Assignment starring Brian Donlevy as US special Agent Steve Mitchell.

A hard-boiled cop a double-dealing dame: two cold-blooded classics! Sterling Hayden wears a badge and a scowl in Crime Wave. He's sure parolee Gene Nelson won't go straight. Will events prove him right? Andre de Toth directs and Charles Bronson (as Charles Buchinsky) joins the cast of this stylish hunt for a cop killer on L.A.'s mean streets. Decoy is another crisp thwack to the jaw, a showcase of how film noir can do so much with so little. Tragically short-lived Jean Gillie stars as one of...

Two mobsters are gunned down in a hail of bullets. A young reporter, Jim Riley, is called in by the police to do some snooping on the side. Jim has ties to racketeer Bugs Kelly and discovers that it was Bugs' men who were killed. The hits were retaliation from a notorious syndicate, Crime, Inc. Bugs plans to get revenge, taking Jim into his confidence and promising the eager reporter an exclusive story in exchange for his assistance. When Crime, Inc. plans a direct hit on Bugs, the racketeer...

Based on Wilkie Collins' gothic suspense story, "The Woman in White," this chiller stars Tod Slaughter as an evil type who kills a man in another country, assumes his identity, returns to England and then keeps on killing to hide his secret. Pure melodrama with lines such as "After 20 years in the wilds, I feel the need of a wife's comfort and companionship."

Percival Glyde is murdered in his sleep with a wooden spike that is hammered into his skull. His killer (Tod Slaughter) steals his identity and moves into Glyde's London mansion. The family lawyer, who has not seen the real Percival since he was a boy, informs the madman of Glyde's arranged marriage to the beautiful heiress Laurie Fairlie. Greed and perversion drive this lunatic to the brutal killing of anyone who attempts to unravel his secret identity.Crimes at the Dark House is one of many...

Rudolph Klein Rogge, Oskar Beregi, Camilla Spira, Theodor Loos. Directed by Fritz Lang. Another horror classic. Truly one of the best 'mad doctor' movies ever made. This is the supernatural fantasy about the evil Dr. Mabuse, who terrorizes a German city. Not to be missed. From 16mm.

Director Robert Wise "calls forth a favorable verdict from [the] jury" (The New York Times) in this noirish courtroom drama starring Tom "The Falcon" Conway and Martha O'Driscoll. When Steve Barnes (Conway) accidentally kills a crooked nightclub owner (Robert Armstrong), the slick attorney believes hie's in the clear until his girlfriend (O'Driscoll) is accused of the crime. Determined to save his girl and career, Barnes must prove her innocence without taking the rap if he's to get away with...

Army scientist Professor Carroll is mysteriously killed before he can give the details of his new discovery to the government. He was working on a top-secret project to develop a formula for a powerful explosive. One by one, the men who worked with the professor are murdered. Military intelligence is called in to investigate and track down the elusive assassin. What they uncover points to a conspiracy of insiders who are dedicated to destroying the U.S. military by any means necessary.

The Great War rages in Europe as America sits neutrally by, but its corrosive effects are felt across the Atlantic in the form of fear, distrust and prejudice. Anti-German hysteria in the United States leads to the firing and blacklisting of immigrant Fred von Bergen, a talented pilot. Unable to get work, he decides to return to his homeland to enlist in the Kaiser's Air Corps. His best friend from America, Bob Wilson, impulsively tags along and soon the two are flying missions over France and...

Eugene Ferguson pledged to help people when he became a doctor, but will he perform a life-saving surgery on a South American tyrant (Jose Ferrer) who's taken him captive? Yes, if Ferguson hopes to leave the troubled land. No, if he heeds the threats made by revolutionaries determined to overthrow the despot. Cary Grant plays Ferguson, a physician navigating the unexpected terrain between a rock and a hard place in this political thriller that's the directorial debut of Richard Brooks (Elmer...