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DVD - 13 West Street (1962)

13 West Street (1962)

Directed by Philip Leacock , starring Alan Ladd and Rod Steiger.

Aerospace engineer Walt Sherill (Alan Ladd) is accosted and severely beaten by a group of young punks. The victimized man decides to hunt down the thugs on his own, at first just for curiosity and then increasingly for vengeance. His actions spark retaliatory measures, and before the credits roll, the body count is elevated by a few more victims in what amounts to nothing more than a blood feud. In the end, justice of the legal and politically correct sort makes a token appearance.

Price: $19.95

DVD - Abdul the Damned (1935)

Abdul The Damned (1935)

Directed by Karl Grune , starring Fritz Kortner and Nils Asthern.

1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the leader of the Young Turks, to return from exile and form the country's first constitutional government. With tensions still growing, chief of police Kadar Pasha assassinates Hassan Bey, the leader of the Old Turk party, and makes it look as if a Young Turk committed the crime, in order to give Abdul an excuse for arresting the Young Turk leaders. Meanwhile, Abdul becomes infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer. When she rejects his advances, she endangers both herself and her fiancé, a Turkish officer who also knows who really shot Hassan Bey.

Price: $19.95

DVD - Affair In Havana (1957)

Affair In Havana (1957)

Directed by Laslo Benedek, starring John Cassavetes and Raymond Burr.

The wife (Sara Shane) of a crippled millionaire (Raymond Burr) expedites her inheritance in pre-Castro Cuba to be with her lover (John Cassavetes).



Price: $18.95

DVD - Alibi (1942)

Alibi (1942)

Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, starring James Mason and Margaret Lockwood.

Raymond Lovell steps into the old Erich Von Stroheim role as Professor Winkler, a phony mystic playing to capacity crowds in Paris. Confronting a man who'd previously exposed him as a fraud in the US, Winkler kills the man. He then establishes an alibi by paying nightclub hostess Helene (Margaret Lockwood) to tell the police that she was in his company at the time of the murder. The upshot of this is that Helene herself is accused of the crime. Hoping to get to the truth of the matter, Inspector Calas (Hugh Sinclair) asks his deputy Andre Laurent (James Mason) to pretend to be in love with Helene. The plot thickens when Laurent genuinely falls for the distressed damsel.


Price: $19.95

DVD - The Angry Hills (1959)

The Angry Hills (1959)

Directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Robert Mitchum and Stanley Baker.

American war correspondent Mike Morrison (Robert Mitchum), who has come into the possession of a list of 16 Greek underground leaders that he agrees to deliver to British intelligence in London for a $20,000 fee. Trying to keep him from getting there is the local Gestapo chief Conrad Heisler (Stanley Baker) and fifth columnist Tassos (Theodore Bikel). Morrison also becomes involved with a group of Greek freedom fighters -- particularly the beautiful Eleftheria (Gia Scala). But then Morrison comes down from the mountains and back to Athens, where he finds himself trailed, not only by the Nazis, but by charming widow Lisa Kyriakides (Elisabeth Muller)
Price: $19.95

DVD - Baby Face Nelson (1957)

Baby Face Nelson (1957)

Directed by Don Siegel , starring Mickey Rooney, Carolyn Jones,and Cedric Hardwicke.

George "Babyface" Nelson becomes one of the most important gangsters of 1920s Chicago by making brutal robberies. In order to compete with Al Capone he allies himself with John Dillinger...

 


Price: $19.95

DVD - A Bullet For Pretty Boy (1970)

A Bullet For Pretty Boy (1970)

Directed by Larry Buchanan, starring Fabian Forte, and Jocelyn Lane.

This film tells the biography of the gangster Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd who started his career young aged when he saw his father die and seeked out revenge by killing his murderer during a fight.

 


Price: $24.95

DVD - The House Of Rothschild (1934)

The House of Rothschild (1934)

Directed by Alfred L. Werker, starring George Arliss, Boris Karloff, and Loretta Young.

The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayor Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings the business grows and helps to finance the war against Napolean...



Price: $24.95

DVD - The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1952) The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1952)

Directed by Joseph M. Newman, starring Anne Baxter and Dale Robertson.

 

 

Price: $18.95

DVD - The Scapegoat (1959)

The Scapegoat (1959)

Directed by Robert Hamer, starring Alec Guiness and Bette Davis

On a vacation in France from his nondescript job and life, John Barratt encounters a titled but impoverished French nobleman who looks exactly like him. The nobleman gets John drunk, and switches places with him to get a breather from his failing business and too-complicated life.

Price: $24.95

DVD - The Scoundrel (1935)

The Scoundrel (1935)

Directed by Ben Hecht, starring Noel Coward, Julie Haydon, and Stanley Ridges.

A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, and his ghost must wander restlessly unless someone sheds a tear for him.

 



Price: $24.95

DVD - The Wrath Of God (1972)

The Wrath of God (1972)

Directed by Ralph Nelson, starring Robert Mitchum, Frank Langella, and Rita Hayworth.

Irish adventurer Emmett Keogh finds himself partnered with a hard-drinking priest named Van Horne in revolutionary Central America. Tricked into delivering guns by smuggler/con man Jennings, the three end up joining forces against despot Tomas de la Plata, who treats his subjects ruthlessly and who has a special hatred for priests. Van Horne, who seems to be a priest in costume only, decides to stand up to de la Plata and lead a revolt against him.

Price: $24.95

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