(1955) Myron Healy, Don C. Harvey. Don't confuse this with the earlier Universal serial. An interesting prison-life drama focusing on a breakout attempt inspired by the famous radio series. From 16mm.

(1949, Upgraded 8/26/21) Brian Donlevy, Ella Rains, Charles Coburn, Anna May Wong, Helen Walker.  Previously on VHS only, this film noir gem is now on our DVD list for the first time—from a beautiful 35mm print.  Donlevy is a big time businessman, but his wife and her lover are plotting to kill him...

(1939, Upgraded 11/16/21) Marius Goring, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Helen Haye, Felix Aylmer, George Merritt, Ronald Shiner.  This is a fine old dark house thriller with all the usual elements:  The head of an old English family seems to have some dread secret.  His servants even seem furtive in nature.  Then there's the doctor whose...

(1952, Upgraded 10/25/22) John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster, Lee Van Cleef, Neville Brand, Jack Elam. Terrific action drama about an ex-con who's nailed for an armored car robbery he didn't commit. He sets out to find the mastermind of the crime, which leads him...

(1949, Upgraded 12/14/21) Richard Todd, Valerie Hobson, Christine Norden, Tom Walls, Ralph Truman, Alexander Gauge. The dashing Richard Todd plays an up and coming author who absconds with his beautiful blonde mistress (the wife of his publisher) on an outbound train.  Soonafter the train leaves the station he has second thoughts and, much to the chagrin of everyone else on board, pulls the emergency cord and...

(1948, Upgraded 12/30/20) Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Whit Bissell, James Cardwell, Jack Webb.  Basehart portrays one of the most brutal, ingenious killers ever put on the screen in this story of the LA police and their hunt for him.  The opening drive-up scene is very memorable and will jolt you right out of your seat...

(1945, Upgraded 3/3/21) Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan. A film noir classic. Neal plays a down on his luck musician who thumbs a ride that leads him into an unbelievable series of circumstances that finds him implicated in murder. Savage is priceless as the female psycho who...

(1933, Warners, Upgraded 11/11/21) William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette, Ralph Morgan, Robert McWade, Robert Barrat, Paul Cavanough. There's no doubt that William Powell was one of the best screen detectives in the history of film, and here's a fine example. Powell is Philo Vance trying to solve a murder centered around seven suspects and a dead...

(1930, Upgraded 4/3/21) Eric Von Stroheim, Betty Compson, Don Douglas. Strange drama about a crazed ventriloquist and ;his dummy, "Otto," which exudes a strange hold over him. Von Stroheim is SUCH an SOB. Lots of big staged musicical numbers that reek of nostalgia...

(1952, Upgraded 11/8/21) Bela Lugosi, Duke Mitchell, Sammy Petrillo, Charlita, Muriel Sanders. Bela looks pretty bad, and was probably at the height of his drug addiction as he portrays a mad scientist who injects an American crooner with a serum that transforms him into an ape. Still great to see Bela stalking...

(1952, Upgraded 11/3/21) Bela Lugosi, Arthur Lucan, Maria Mercedes. Bela went abroad for this wacky British horror comedy and it was the last time he was seen on screen in his Dracula cape.  There's a bit of an espionage plot, which results in the kidnapping of Mercedes at the film's beginning.  However, the real star of the show here isn't Lucan as Mother Riley, but Lugosi as a maniac who...

(1947, Updated 11/8/21) Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Nat Pendleton, Molly Lamont, Douglas Fowley, Angelo Rossito. One of the more novel concepts in the history of horror films, the entire story is told by the spirit of a dead lady who's body is lying on a cold slab in the morgue.  A creepy old mansion is the scene where a girl is literally scared to death...

(1943, Upgraded 11/11/21) Bela Lugosi, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Ava Gardner, Rick Vallin, Bobby Jordan, Wheeler Oakman, Frank Moran. The East Side Kids find themselves taking on a Nazi spy ring (headed by Bela) inside the cozy confines of a "haunted house."  Bela's spy headquarters are in the cellar.  Little do the neighbors suspect that there is a Nazi propaganda unit inside—they just think the house is haunted...

(1943, Monogram, Upgraded 12/12/21) Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Henry Hall, Louise Currie, Minerva Urecal. During a series of bizarre experiments, mad scientist Belai literally goes ape--turning into a half man/half ape monstrosity that needs Human spinal fluid to return to any semblance of normalcy.  His quest for it leads him and his pet ape on a terrifying...

(1942, Monogram, Upgraded 10/28/21) Bela Lugosi, Wanda McKay, Tom Neal, Dave O'Brien, Wheeler Oakman. This was definitely better than most of Bela's Monogram quickies. Zombies and murder highlight this story about a mad professor who uses a bowery mission as the front fro his criminal activities. Check out who's living, (or maybe we should say, 'not living') in the basement...

(1942, Upgraded 10/14/21) Bela Lugosi, Clayton Moore, Joan Barclay, Robert Frazer. A series of grisly murders is committed by a crazed, Nazi plastic surgeon who seeks revenge against a Jap spy ring...

(1942, Upgraded 4/3/21) Bela Lugosi, Tris Coffin, Luana Walters, Elizabeth Russell, Angelo Rossito, Frank Moran. A slick horror opus about a crazed doctor's attempt to rejuvenate his aging, sickly wife. He kidnaps young brides for his experiments...

(1941, Upgraded 4/7/21) Bela Lugosi, Dave O'Brien, Suzanne Kaaren, Guy Usher. Bela's giant murderous bats are on the loose, attacking and killing everone wearing a strange shaving lotion concocted by Bela himself. This is one of those...