"Marlene Dietrich purrs through sexy songs, and Jimmy Stewart succumbs to her sultry, androgynous ways in Destry Rides Again a seminal Western with more than a touch of comedy. He plays your average nice guy who turns out to have something special up his sleeve when confronted by a gang of bad guys. He tames the banditos and wins dance-hall girl Dietrich's heart with his non-violent ways. You may think you have seen this before, and most ..."
"America's Sweetheart, Mary Pickford, stars as Annie, a tough girl from the bad part of town who calls on her gang of fellow hoodrats to help find out who shot her policeman father. Annie's brother Tim (Gordon Griffith) suspects it was her boyfriend (William Haines), so now she must endeavor to find the real killer to prove his innocence. Another gem from one of the silver screen's most popular stars of all time!"
"The Original Universal Studios Classic Monster Collection includes 8 films featuring the most iconic monsters in motion picture history. Starring some of the most legendary actors including Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains and Elsa Lanchester in the roles that they made famous, these films set the standard for a new horror genre with revolutionary makeup, mood-altering cinematography and groundbreaking special ef ..."
"Das Schicksal meint es nicht gut mit dem sensiblen und sehr schüchternen Musiker Claudin: Sein Lebenswerk, ein romantisches Konzertstück nach einem alten Volkslied, hat man ihm, wie er glaubt, gestohlen. Bei einem Streit darüber verliert der verzweifelte Komponist sämtliche Beherrschung und tötet seinen Widersacher. Durch Säure wird Claudins Gesicht schrecklich entstellt. Verwundet und als Mörder gejagt, kann er in die Katakomben unter ..."
"An angry young Marlon Brando scorches the screen as THE WILD ONE in this powerful '50s cult classic. Brando plays Johnny, the leader of a vicious biker gang which invades a small, sleepy California town. What's Johnny rebelling against? What have you got? - he sneers. The leather-jacketed young biker seems hell-bent for destruction until he falls for Kathie (Mary Murphy), a good girl whose father(Robert Keith) happens to be a cop. Unfor ..."
"Plot: An publisher insinuates himself into the mouldering mansion of the centenarian lover of a renowned but long-dead poet in order to find his lost love letters."
"The Member of the Wedding (1952) boasts hefty credentials--direction by Fred Zinnemann (the same year he did High Noon for producer Stanley Kramer), a Carson McCullers novel and play as source material, the original Broadway cast re-creating their roles--but it's mostly an endurance test. Julie Harris had triumphed on stage as Frankie, the nervy, garrulous 12-year-old whose world in the Deep South of the 1940s has pretty much shrunk to ..."
"Mary Pickford produced and stars in this absorbing melodrama, as Mama Molly, tomboy guardian to a tribe of abused orphans on a "baby farm" in a Gothic southern swamp. "The Devil's share in the world's creation," the swamp is a truly frightening place, with bottomless bog holes that suck up anything thrown into them in a matter of moments. The baby farm's proprietor, Grimes (Gustave von Seyffertitz), is the embodiment of evil, so mean he ..."
"Mary Pickford is the cinema's true Peter Pan. She played spunky waifs and adolescent spitfires well into adulthood and remains best remembered as the crusading orphan raging against ruthless villains and natural disasters with pluck, courage, and hope. Sparrows is quintessential Pickford, the tale of a ragtag collection of orphans made virtual slaves by a gnarled, swamp-dwelling Simon Legree. As the big sister/mother hen of the grimy br ..."
"As a teenager, Tolly Devlin sees several hoodlums beat his father to death in an alley. Some 20 years later, the killers have risen to the top of the underworld rackets, and Devlin, bent on revenge, sets out to kill each one of them. What could be a fairly routine crime/revenge drama is given the full Sam Fuller treatment. As Tolly, Cliff Robertson is one of Fuller's most shabby antiheroes, a cold, brutal automaton consumed with a singl ..."
""Gangway for de Lawd God Jehovah!" Despite racial stereotypes and a naive, backward vision of "Negro Heaven," The Green Pastures remains an important, controversial, and still-entertaining milestone in African American popular culture. Because this 1936 spiritual musical embraces all of the black stereotypes that were prevalent in its time, Warner Home Video has appropriately included a disclaimer regarding the political incorrectness o ..."